The scoreline rather says it all.
A seriously unimpressed match report will follow, once we’ve gathered our thoughts and calmed down a little. That may take some time…
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March 8, 2010
March 6, 2010
PREVIEW: Everton v City
A trip to Everton is a tricky prospect at the best of times. Without a win away from home in a year, travelling to a side who’ve recent scalps at home have included Manchester United and Chelsea, it’s hard not to feel a sense of foreboding about this.
Not that a trip to Everton is necessarily mission impossible. They’ve had an iffy season so far, lying tenth in the Premier League and nowhere near the top four that must have been their ultimate aim this time out. They’ll also be disappointed with how their UEFA Cup campaign ended recently, a 3-0 defeat at Sporting Lisbon ensuring that this will be a trophyless season for David Moyes’ men. All that remains is the chance to put together a late run in order to qualify once again for Europe.
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March 5, 2010
NEWS: Gardner out for six weeks
It’s bad, but it could have been worse: City have confirmed that Anthony Gardner will be out of action for at least six weeks after ligament damage was confirmed as the ankle injury he sustained at West Ham.
Ever the optimist, Phil Brown has suggested the player could still be involved at the end of the season, though his lengthy and unfortunate history of injuries may mean we’ve seen the last of him for the 2009/10 campaign. Nonetheless, given his stricken deameanour when being stretchered off at Upton Park thirteen days ago, perhaps we should be thankful that his absence is being measured in weeks rather than months.
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March 1, 2010
Hero – Raich Carter
Horatio Stratton Carter. The past couple of years may have skewed things slightly, but even after our first ever promotion to the top flight, after Okocha, Windass, Barmby, Turner, Geo and Bullard, after 60 subsequent years of good and bad, Raich is still talked about in hallowed terms by football fans in Hull. And Derby. And Sunderland.
Raich would walk into the greatest XIs of any of the three teams he graced in England at inside left or inside right. Had the war not punctuated his career when he was at his most productive, he’d have more than a few supporters for a role in an all-time England XI too.
Born in Hendon, a ship-building area of Sunderland (his ‘posh’ Christian name was from his grandfather, Stratton his mother’s maiden name), in 1913, Carter was a prodigious youth sportsman. It was football, however, that had Raich marked out as a star from an early age, following in the footsteps of his father, who had played for Port Vale, Fulham and Southampton. An England schoolboy international, despite his slender build, Carter was fast-tracked into the Sunderland first team aged 18, and didn’t look back… (more…)
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February 27, 2010
The Soul of Hull City – Recap
Our Soul of Hull City series has reached the halfway mark, with 50 of the 100 supporter nominated entries documented for posterity. We’ll be working on parts 6-10 soon, but for those who’ve missed some or all of parts 1-5, here’s a look back at those 50 entries as we set out to define what it is that makes Hull City unique, different from every other club in the land. The first 5 parts are linked below…
The Soul of Hull City part one
Waggy & Chillo
Leigh Jenkinson in the Rumbelow’s Sprint Challenge
Andy Payton v. Brighton
Tennis ball protest at Bolton
The Well
1990-1991 relegation season
Phil Brown’s shoes
John Hawley signs amateur terms
Terry Neill
Pub quiz questions
The Soul of Hull City part two
Securing promotion at Yeovil
Reverend Ballbag’s Yuletide carols
Jon Parkin’s fall from grace
Post war sky blue kits
Simon Dakin’s lift shaft tumble
Signing Jay-Jay Okocha
Fer Ark signage
Ian McKechnie and the oranges
Sheffield Wednesday 2 Hull City 4
Billy Whitehurst graffiti
The Soul of Hull City part three
Ian Ashbee
HDM nickname City ‘The Tigers’
Dave Bamber’s own goal at Brighton
’The Tigers Are Back’ record
Billy Whitehurst
Premier Club bell
Robinson and Horton with some turkeys
Hinchliffe crest
Boothferry Halt
Mark Hateley
The Soul of Hull City part four
Peter Taylor
1965-66 promotion season
Six free-standing floodlight pylons
Andy Davidson
Jeff Radcliffe’s hat
Hednesford cup defeat
The Reggae Boyz
Pearson Takeover
Caleb Folan arrives for a million
Martin Fish
The Soul of Hull City part five
Payton & Swan
Halftime v. Liverpool (1989)
Associate Members Cup Final – Not at Wembley
Billy Bly
Mauled by the Tigers
City blow chance of top flight promotion, 1910
KC Stadium move
Best Stand dust showers
A kick in the Balkans documentary (1990)
Michael Turner
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February 26, 2010
NEWS: Portsmouth enter administration
City are effectively seeking to avoid just two relegation places now, as bottom club Portsmouth have today entered administration. This carries an automatic deduction of nine points from their already meagre total – their new tally will be just seven points, leaving them seventeen adrift of 17th-placed City and certain to be relegated.
Sad new for Portsmouth fans, though it does at least keep the club alive in the short term. From a City perspective, it’s hard to avoid the fact that one of the relegation places already settled is no bad thing. Portsmouth travel to Burnley tomorrow, a match most of the bottom clubs will suddenly be keen for them to win.
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February 24, 2010
The Soul of Hull City – Part five
For some people, Hull City didn’t exist until May 2008, when the club joined the upper echelons and entered the national consciousness. For long time City fans though, the Tigers are far more than a single match or season, they are the sum of childhood memories of standing on Boothferry Park’s ‘well’, of recollections of Simon Gray coach trips to away games, even of events not witnessed first hand but passed down from a previous generation of Tiger Nationals. Hull City is a rich tapestry comprised of many individual and overlapping threads.
Some threads are more important than others though, and we set out to define what it is that makes Hull City unique, different from every other club in the land. What are the 100 key events, people, sights and sounds that combine to form the soul of Hull City? Not every entry has to be of monumental historic importance, but it has to be quintessentially Hull City… (more…)
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February 22, 2010
NEWS: Gardner’s leg not bust
Hull City has confirmed that skipper Anthony Gardner did not break his leg during Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at West Ham United.
However, they have yet to receive the results of an MRI scan which is expected to reveal ligament damage.
Gardner, who has been injury-prone all his career but had managed to play 21 times in the Tigers defence this season, fell awkwardly after challenging Matthew Upson for a header during the horror show at the Boleyn Ground. He was stretchered off in agony, with the whole stadium applauding him, and left City with just nine men on the pitch as all three substitutes had been deployed and Craig Fagan had been sent off.
Phil Brown expressed worries about tibia and fibula damage in the post-match press rounds, but that initial fear has been allayed. News of the actual damage should emerge later today or tomorrow, although it seems certain that the ex-England defender won’t be fit when City return to action at Everton on March 7th.
Gardner’s absence would smooth a path back into the back four for the popular Kamil Zayatte, while the captain’s armband is likely to go to midfielder George Boateng.
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February 21, 2010
MATCH REPORT – West Ham 3 Tigers 0
Groan.
For all of City’s magnificence against Chelsea and Manchester City, such results against top six teams aren’t what keep you in the Premier League, it’s results that deny points to the teams around you at the bottom that keep you off the last three rungs of the top flight ladder. When it comes to the so-called six pointers, we fail miserably more often that not, with this defeat in East London another example. (more…)
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February 20, 2010
RESULT: West Ham 3 City 0
A dismal display from the Tigers gave fellow relegation strugglers West Ham United a straightforward win at the Boleyn Ground and prolonged the search for an away victory.
A meagre two minutes had elapsed when Andy Dawson and Tom Cairney combined to lose possession, allowing Valon Behrami to exchange passes with Guille Franco and shoot past an exposed Boaz Myhill.
It remained this way until early in the second half when, as City were putting promising pressure on their hosts, Craig Fagan committed an imbecilic foul and received his second yellow card, rendering him very much absent for the rest of the game. The Tigers couldn’t regroup as ten men and Carlton Cole slipped a low shot under Myhill for 2-0 to make it safe.
Anthony Gardner was stretchered off with a worrying-looking leg injury after City had used all three subs, meaning that just nine men – or eight when you consider Dawson was hobbling for the last 20 minutes – had to prevent an onslaught. The impressive Julien Faubert thumped in a conclusive third deep into time added on.
Not good, not disciplined and not undeserved. Match report later, if heart and stomach permits.
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Anthony Gardner6.8
Stephen Hunt6.8
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Kamil Zayatte6.8
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Dean Marney5.8
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