A very occasional blog about a football club, Hull City AFC.
I remember being initially disappointed when we appointed Steve Bruce. Partly tinged with diminishing anger from the way Barmby had been treated (an initial insight into the future impetuosity of our owners), but also recalling that he didn’t stay manager long at clubs, particularly early in his career – and also not trusting him after … Continued
It’s now 9 days since the end of Euro 2016 and my thoughts are turning to the upcoming Premiserable League season. In theory it’s a bloody hard start with the champions, Mourinho, our bogey-team, bloody Arsenal again, the less shit Scouse team and the other London scumbags as 6 of the 7 first games. It … Continued
So a few days after my country proves to be more unpleasantly xenophobic than I had imagined, my country’s football team proved to be even more shit than I realised. Don’t get me wrong – last night was not the shock that voting out of the EU was. I was actually going to back Iceland … Continued
Holy crap we might make the play-offs. We’re going up as fucking champions. We are actually going to make the play-offs. We might only make the play-offs. Gosh we might actually get automatic promotion. Gosh we might actually finish 7th. Wow. Amazing. Play-offs. I cannot believe it. Meh. Play-offs. Should have done better. I think … Continued
Yes, you read, do we really want to win the play-off final? I’m not talking about questioning the effort and efficacy of the team as was appropriate in the months after January. I’m not talking about my dislike for the plastic-fan endurance season of losing miserably as a “small club” that has accidentally stumbled its … Continued
Did any of you take notice of my 2-0 to Derby County tip yesterday? I hope so. Guess which dickhead wrote about it and then forgot to place the bet? Or at least I didn’t realise that he hadn’t done so until after the match…I started to have that sinking feeling as the match went … Continued
I awoke on Saturday with a hangover. After just 4 beers. Thankfully the players were seemingly not suffering a similar scenario. I suspect one or two supporters may have been on Sunday. I was still drunk on Sunday. Enough about me. Something about the game. I was immensely pessimistic a few weeks ago about playing … Continued
Expectations are massive. In life. As a thing. I’ve talked about it before but when you go out for a massive night that you’ve been looking forward to for months, you can sometimes end up a bit deflated when it isn’t as good as you’d hoped. Other times, you go out for a pint, and … Continued
Well, winning last night really didn’t help our play-off hopes. I found myself in the bizarre position of trying not to cheer a great goal from Robertson, whilst willing on Sheffield Wednesday to find a winner. We now need to lose all 4 games and hope Sheffield Wednesday win two of their last three games, … Continued
I’m feeling a certain sense of antipathy at the moment. When Huddersfield scored on Saturday, such was my nonchalance I thought I had been reborn a Parisian. I didn’t even remember that City were playing Derby the Tuesday before until 10pm that night (occasionally fate is kind). Before the season started, my aim was for … Continued