When a team only wins 2 games out of 18, you’d fully expect them to be propping up the Premiership table, already planning for life in the Championship the following season. Thankfully for Hull City, their fantastic start to the season has kept them out of the bottom 3, hanging on by their fingernails to [...]
This is the second in a series of relegation assessments. For a similar look at Bolton Wanderers. Check here.
Hull City surprised everyone at the start of the season, winning six of their first nine, knocking off an over-confident Arsenal. The club lost composure. Phil Brown lost his sweet goatee, and perhaps his sanity. Hull won [...]
Why doesn’t Roy Hodgson get the credit he deserves in the United Kingdom? As I’ve mentioned before, In Scandinavia and Italy, he’s held in high regard, in Britain people point to his sacking at Blackburn Rovers back in1997. With 33 points gained so far this season, Fulham are one win away from emulating their points [...]
by Michael Timbury on February 24, 2009 · 8 comments
Can anyone remember the last time Hull City won a Premier League game? December 6th at home to Middlesbrough was the last time. Since then, they have been very much in freefall. When Hull first arrived in the Premiership, they were tipped to go straight back down but decided to tear up the script and [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 20, 2009 · 1 comment
Sorry Drogba, but I have to call BS on this one.
After spending this season doing more sulking than any professional football player should be allowed to do by law, and in a week where Marseille’s president has said he wants Drogba back, Didier Drogba has attempted to shut people up by saying he wants to [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 18, 2009 · 11 comments
Now that Eduardo is back, I was expecting this one. Last year when the injury happened, we got headlines galore about no apology being made. Tonight, that same headline is back.
Of course there is two sides to every story, and Martin Taylor certainly has his. He claims to have done everything to apologize after Eduardo [...]
by Johnathan Starling on February 4, 2009 · 0 comments
Well we know the Andrei Arshavin deal according to the Premier League is complete, but how much trouble was there in completing this deal?
It seems that lawyers had to be called in to make sure everything was in order as this deal was finally competed almost twenty-four hours after the deadline. What’s making this deal [...]