Former Hull City winger Charlie Crickmore, the footballing fireman, has died at the age of 76. Crickmore came through the ranks at City and made his debut under Bob Brocklebank in 1959. Despite being highly-rated, he was surprisingly sold to Bournemouth in 1962, and went on to play for Rotherham, Norwich, Notts County and Gillingham […]
Goal-line technology has been such a welcome innovation added to the English game of late. Not only does it guarantee correct decisions, and as we saw at the World Cup, being correct wins every time (!), but it has consequences pleasing on the eye — the eighth-of-an-inch graphics we see on our TV screens, the […]
The current incarnation of Hull City is desperate for nourishment in this January transfer window, something that in times of feast rather than famine we have happily gorged upon since the restrictions were imposed on clubs outside the Premier League in 2005/06. But, of course, transfer windows are as much about acquiring good money for […]
Although the January transfer window is 15 years old this month, that’s only in the Premier League. Mere mortals who existed outside the elite in 2003 managed to struggle on for another three years before the restrictions on when to buy and sell players was extended to further down the football pyramid, and as such, […]
“Urgent — order some updated headed notepaper. Stuff trifling matters like festive bin collections or pothole repairs. The stationery is out of date! And while we’re at it, those auto-responses on email need updating too. Three letters need adding. An important three letters! “And once you’ve done it, you ought to write on my behalf […]
A sizeable number of ex-City footballers down the years have been less than choosy regarding the company they keep when making other career decisions, hence why they have ended up at Leeds United. Still, the usual interest in the trip to Elland Road on Saturday cajoles us into reminding you of some of them. You’ll […]
City may not be in the FA Cup first round, but most of us can remember a time when we were always in it — and more pertinently, seldom got any further. As this weekend heralds media over-use of the word ‘proper’, we though we’d have a proper (ahem) hark back to days when City […]
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 […]
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