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
There has never been much love in recent times between QPR and Hull City. Think the kneecapping of Mark Lynch, McGregor’s penalty save, punishing the timewasters of 2007, John Gregory scampering down the touchline like a six year old, the Snodgrass knee injury, Taarabt’s tantrum, Myhill’s red card, Charlie Austin’s ill-advised chutzpah, the premature pitch […]
City play Burton Albion this weekend, a fixture that has never occurred before in the league (or indeed, any other competition). Until the trapdoor system was introduced 30 years ago, brand new fixtures between teams in the four divisions were very rare indeed. Here we look at the last five ‘new’ opponents City faced in […]
If Fraizer Campbell plays for Hull City in August, it will represent a gap of nine years and nine months since he last pulled on City colours. Who else has featured for us in two spells with a yawning passage of time in between? 1: Dean Windass, 11 years 1 month The most famous comeback […]
Look, you weren’t expecting us to write about anything else, were you? It might be painful for those of you who witnessed any or all of the campaigns detailed below, but at least it reminds us that there were times when relegation from the top flight (which we’ve now managed three times in less than […]
Ah, Damien Delaney. Not many players go unappreciated quite like he does. It happened during most of his long Hull City career, which racked up 224 league appearances in three divisions and yet saw him leave in January 2008 for big money with little more than a casual wave. Yet once Peter Taylor realised that […]
We’re a bit late with this, but after City got over Oumar Niasse’s recent (unjust) red card by winning the match, we look back at five other occasions City have gone on to win or clinch all the points while a man down… 1: Chesterfield, 2004/05 This was especially impressive, as Chesterfield (or Cheatersfield, as […]
To prove we’re not just sneery, negative misanthropes when it comes to professional footballers, we’re following up our Failed Loanees piece with one that celebrates five temporary acquisitions who proved nothing but a success for City. We sought the opinions of 12 other City fans of our acquaintance before picking, mainly at random, five from […]
Mark Noble is apparently the answer to all of England’s midfield problems, if you believe the improbable number of supporters he has in the media. However, we remember him as a bored, slow, entirely unmotivated midfielder during a wretched loan spell with the Tigers more than a decade ago. Whatever (little) he has achieved as […]
So, Sam Clucas has scored in six straight seasons in six different divisions, climbing a division each time. It’s a brilliantly geeky footballing feat, as well as a fine tribute to the persistence of a stellar player to make it as a top professional, and we should be proud of him even if we only […]
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