Hull City AFC Match Reports
ou forget, don’t you, that a gulf in class between City and an opponent can work in our favour too. For all of its gaudy glitz, a season in the Premier League can be demoralising as the weekly assignments against the significantly wealthier continue without cessation. Back in the calmer waters of the Championship, with …
Steve Bruce’s Aston Villa 1 Hull City 1 Let us go back in time, thirty-five years ago. A young boy takes a walk across the rolling slopes of the Ural Mountains, lost in thought, deep in his dreams. He is sports-mad, and it is football that most of all grabs his youthful enthusiasm, but not …
The game’s astonishingly poor… The pattern resumes. Poor, poor, poor. Rotten first touches, worse second ones. Tiger Chat’s Steve Weatherill reports…
The game’s astonishingly poor… The pattern resumes. Poor, poor, poor. Rotten first touches, worse second ones. Tiger Chat’s Steve Weatherill reports…
Steve Bruce seems to be a manager who picks the player over the pattern, and Meyler’s inclusion meant that we carded three ex-Black Cats – a fact that was to prove not without significance in the match’s progress…
“Good result for you guys at the weekend, you’re doing well, you were even above United earlier this season”
“ We still are, Dave, we still are…”
So far so very good in our Premier League return season – it might lack those feelings of starry-eyed glamour and incredulous novelty that we experienced in season 2008-09’s first few months, but it all feels a lot more solid and well constructed this time round.
On the whole, the City back line proved a formidable foe to these Newcastle attacks, giving the home team plenty of possession, but adopting a ‘thou shall not pass’ attitude once they reached the edge of the Tigers area.
OK, it’s fair to say that, on the balance of play and chances created, yesterday might arguably have been a case of two points dropped
It’s not often you come away feeling optimistic after a 0-2 setback but this was one of those times.