Here’s a good one. Saturday’s destruction of Birmingham was the 35th time City have scored six or more goals in a league game. From the first one in 1909 to this latest one at the weekend, there have been gaps of nine, ten and eleven years between victories of six and more. But by contrast, […]
Former City striker Les Mutrie has died at the age of 66 after a long battle with cancer. Mutrie played professional football for Carlisle United briefly at the age of 26 but otherwise was a non-league centre forward in his native north east throughout the 70s, playing for Gateshead and most famously, Blyth Spartans, for […]
Inspired by Crystal Palace’s woes, and because we’re a sucker for a City sob story right now, let’s “enjoy” the Tigers’ top five winless runs in the league at the start of a season… 1: 16 games — 1989/90 It’s the club record for winless starts and by a street too, and yet somehow did […]
There are currently four ex-City players in the Reading squad, so it feels as opportune a moment as any to remind ourselves of a random quintet of other players who featured for both the Tigers and the Royals… 1: Stephen Hunt Probably Reading’s most notorious player of the modern era simply for one challenge on […]
If ever you want to know what makes a touchline different from a goal line, or what materials football pitches have to be made of, then read Law 1 of the rules of association football. It’s not racy, nor is it unputdownable, and there are nopictures, but it’s handy. Especially if you’ve just watched a […]
Friday night’s debacle at Derby was the 22nd 5-0 defeat in league football suffered by City. As we can’t resist a spot of black humour, let’s look at numbers 21 down to 17… 1: Wigan Athletic (h) 2008/09 Ooorgh, bit too fresh in the memory, this. Afterwards it was cast by the ever-reserved tabloid media […]
A fair number of players have been on the books of both Hull City and Derby County, and given that two of our most important players of the last few seasons are going to be trying to do us over this weekend, it felt pertinent to pick a random quintet. The stories of people like […]
There are only two types of Hull City player to have won caps for the full England team — those who did so before joining City, and those who did so after leaving City. Taking a break for a moment from sticking pins in a knitted effigy of Gareth “as soon as Jake and Harry […]
Phil Parkinson witnessed his Bolton team take a real shoeing at the hands of the Tigers at the weekend, but amazingly it was the first time he’d faced us as an opposing manager in more than ten years since he was given his marching orders by Adam Pearson after a rotten start to 2006/07. Here […]
A difficult week for City, and difficult weeks are meat and drink to podcasts. We could have gone on forever about the performances on the pitch and the sagas off it. But we stuck (roughly) to our planned duration and had Hull City Supporters Trust chair Geoff Bielby on to join in. And…click. https://soundcloud.com/amber_nectar/podcast-149-two-defeats-takeover-rumours-and-coventry-ten-years-ago
Re 5: Think you're a bit generous to Stroud! Other aspects...October 16, 2017 - 16:45 by gjhdurhamEvidence suggests the ref was a Norwich man. Meyler sent...October 16, 2017 - 16:31 by gjhdurham
Campbell is looking like a sick note. His body is too knackered...October 15, 2017 - 18:53 by Ambertigerfan
