Hull City News Archives


Features news coverage of Hull City and its players, including match reports, transfer rumours and general football news.

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Nov
15
2008

Arsenal v Manchester United: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

It was Benjamin Disraeli, the former British Prime Minister, who was credited with saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

The statement refers to the persuasive power of numbers, the use of statistics...

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Nov
13
2008

The Arsenal Love-in, Tottenham and CL, Chelsea’s problems, Lucy Pinder and more

Today’s Soccerlens Daily is brought to you by the lovely Lucy Pinder:

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Nov
13
2008

Wigan striker headbutts Hull City’s senior citizen

Hull City strikers Marlon King and Dean Windass reportedly brawled in a casino last night when around 3am, a drunk Windass made fun of an even more drunk Marlon King, which ticked the younger (well, 39 beats 28) striker off to the extent that he (King)...

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Nov
12
2008

Premier League Takeovers: Rate Your Club’s Takeover

With money and success comes recognition and fame, and no one has found this to be more true than today’s football superstars. Axel Witsel, a young pup playing from Standard Liege, is now known around the world just by virtue of being linked...

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Nov
3
2008

Manchester United 4-3 Hull City - Video Highlights

Yet another game of two halves as Manchester United dominated the Tigers from the outset before desperately scrambling to save the game as Hull City fought back from 4-1 down to finish the game 4-3.

Also See: Manchester...

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Nov
1
2008

Manchester United 4-3 Hull City - English Premier League - 1 November 2008 - Live Blog

Manchester United (Ronaldo 3′ 44′, Carrick 29′, Vidic 57′) 4-3 Hull City (Cousin 23′, Mendy 69′, Geovanni pen. 82′)
Stadium: Old Trafford, England
Competition: English Premier League...

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Oct
26
2008

Manchester United’s ref issue, Tottenham’s real problem and Barton’s Newcastle disgrace

Many people admire Alex Ferguson. He is undoubtedly one of the best managers ever to have been involved in the game, and his record with Manchester United speaks for itself.

Unfortunately, Fergie himself also speaks; predominantly about referees....

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Oct
24
2008

Grin Up North - Tigers celebrate a fantastic start to the season

The tabloid headlines following Hull City’s victory over West Ham read predictably…

‘London 0 Hull 4’.

The latest win over a team from the capital (Hull had already claimed the scalp of Fulham, Arsenal and Tottenham earlier...

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Oct
17
2008

Top 20 Most Expensive EPL Non-Starters: Kieron’s not so Dyer situation

The English Premiership’s most costly bench-warmers have been revealed today in a new list published by football scouting website IMScouting.com. The list gives...

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Oct
8
2008

Do YOU remember the last time you beat Chelsea at the Bridge?

Sunday was the day that the Aston Villa juggernaut was set to send the Premiership in circles by derailing what is turning out to be one of the most astonishing records in Premiership history. Instead of ranting about what Chelsea football club have...

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Sep
29
2008

Video Highlights: Portsmouth 2-0 Tottenham, Arsenal 1-2 Hull, Newcastle 1-2 Blackburn and more

English Premier League video highlights from the 27-28 September 08 matches:

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Sep
26
2008

Weekend Predictions: Tottenham, Everton, Villa, Arsenal, Man Utd to win, Liverpool, Man City, Sunderland, West Ham and Newcastle to lose

No man is an island, with the possible exception of Frank Lampard.

We all crave companionship, but I crossed the line in my pursuit of Helen Chamberlain. I sneaked in to the Soccer AM studios and took a few unauthorised photos to publish on...

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Sep
24
2008

Breaking news: Windass threatens to walk out on Hull

Dean Windass is set for showdown talks with Hull boss Phil Brown after being left out of the side for the 2-2 draw with Everton.

Writing...

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Sep
24
2008

Top 5 West Ham fire-sale players - Newcastle, Tottenham and Arsenal would be interested

Personally, I am not convinced that West Ham will be handing over money to Sheffield United this side of 2020 with all the expected appeals, but this morning’s newspapers are full of stories that the Hammers will be forced to sell their star...

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Sep
16
2008

Ban Danny Guthrie until Craig Fagan is fit

Newcastle midfielder Danny Guthrie’s vicious scythe on Hull’s Craig Fagan on Saturday had many commentators and pundits saying the Tigers striker was lucky to escape without serious injury. Well, it turns out he didn’t. Despite jumping...

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Sep
11
2008

20 Billionaires you want buying your football club

Come on down! These days everyone wants to be taken over by a billionaire and then immediately get linked with players worth more than the entire debt of Africa. But how?

Ker-Ching! It’s easy! The Premier League title awaits, all you have...

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Sep
4
2008

Premier League spent more than 500m on transfers this summer

Deloitte consultancy firm reported that English Premier League clubs spent more than GBP 500 million during the recent summer transfer window.

Including the 2008 winter transfer window, total transfer spending was around GBP 675 million, compared...

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Sep
2
2008

Chelsea ‘fans’ defect to Man City

The Premiership woke up this morning to a lot of excitement.

Everton fans were celebrating breaking their transfer record, West Ham fans were incredulous that they had sold half their defence without replacing them, Liverpool fans were “overjoyed”...

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Sep
2
2008

Transfers Roundup (2 Sept 08): Manchester United nab Berbatov, Robinho signs for Manchester City, Liverpool land Riera, and more

There’s really only a couple (well, one to be specific) deals that many people followed on transfer deadline day, but while many looked to see if Dimitar Berbatov would sign for Manchester United and who Manchester City would nab...

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Sep
1
2008

Transfer Rumors (1 Sept 08): United expected to sign Berba, Aston Villa in for Ashton again, Newcastle sign Valencia midfielder on loan, and more

After hundreds (at least) of news bits over the last few months, we’re finally almost at the end of the summer transfer window. There’s a lot yet to happen on the final day of the window, but I’m here to get you caught up on all of the latest...

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Aug
31
2008

Transfer Rumors (31 August 08): Pav signs for Spurs, more to follow? Hull bid for Man United’s Campbell, only one day left

There are only a couple more days left in the summer transfer window, so there’s less spec and more deals right now as the deadline approaches.

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Aug
30
2008

Hull want Campbell for 7m - should United sell?

Hull chairman Paul Duffen on the club’s £7m bid for young Manchester United striker Frazier Campbell:

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Aug
29
2008

Weekend Predictions: Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton and Villa to win, Liverpool, Tottenham, Newcastle and Man City to lose

I’ve never really understood the need for foreign travel. It makes no sense to leave a perfectly good country for a significantly poorer one; although this is never a real problem for the Welsh.

When I have capitulated to convention, I have...

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Aug
27
2008

If Style Won You Silverware…

Who would win the Premier League? The Champions League? The FA Cup?

Would Manchester United and Chelsea still fight for the title? Will Arsenal and Liverpool be dumped out of Europe by Villa, Everton and Tottenham?

Which is the best...

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Aug
25
2008

Why Liverpool should be 2 points ahead of Chelsea and why West Ham should have lost by 4 goals…

After the second weekend of the new season, there’s only one Premier League team left with a 100% record, according to the Right Result.

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Aug
22
2008

Weekend Predictions: Liverpool, Arsenal, Man Utd and Newcastle to win, Tottenham, West Ham, Everton and Man City won’t

The Olympic Games have been a real disappointment. The only event that I was desperate to watch was the diving, but it turned out to be a few lunatics jumping into a pool.

My tissues did come in handy when Paula Radcliffe limped over the line...

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Aug
20
2008

Transfer Rumors (20 August 08): Robinho’s Chelsea move not happening, Arsenal move for Silvestre, West Brom splash club-record cash on Valero, and more

It’s a pretty short day in transfer tidbits, since most of the focus today is on the international action going on everywhere, but there is still a decent amount of news to report on, so let’s hop to it, shall we?

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Aug
19
2008

Transfer deadline extended - more time For Berbatov, Barry and the rest

The Premier League has confirmed the first transfer deadline of the season has been extended until 1 September.

The window is scheduled to close 24 hours earlier but, following normal league guidelines, it has been put back because August 31...

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Aug
19
2008

Glory Fans - Not So Bad After All?

As a child, the summer holidays brought about a family trip to a campsite in Europe. We’d get in the car to travel down to Dover and I would always be wearing my United shirt. After hours and hours of driving, we’d pull in at our designated...

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Aug
18
2008

Is it time to panic yet?