The Premier League – Saturday 16th May 2009

Football fans like omens. There’s solace in superstition. And so we scour the past for comfort, even if its crumb sized. It helps during difficult times. Well, this is a difficult time.

Not in the great scheme of things, obviously – we’ve known worse, the kind that would have Newcastle and their media friends reaching for the whiskey and a revolver. But we must now stew for seven days awaiting the final act of this heart-stopping Premier League debut, and it’s going to drag horribly. (more…)

The Premier League – Saturday 9th May 2009

Described by football commentators as in freefall since January, this was City’s best chance, given the late season fixture list, to deploy the parachute, instead we fell further groundward, nearer to Premier League death. Now, defeat at this point is hard enough to take, but the really galling aspect is that we don’t appear to be even trying to pull the ripcord, our players seem to have accepted that bitter fate. (more…)

The Premier League – Monday 4th May 2009

Hull City’s inaugural season in the Premier League seems to have transmogrified into a mini-series. Irrespective of whether we end up sinking or afloat, we are playing game after game which sums us up as a whole.

Good attitude, good endeavour, low quality, inevitable defeat. (more…)