Features news coverage of Hull City and its players, including match reports, transfer rumours and general football news.
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...
Read more »
Written by BD Condell. 17 comments
Today’s Soccerlens Daily is brought to you by the lovely Lucy Pinder:
Written by Soccerlens. 2 comments
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)...
Read more »
Written by Soccerlens. Leave a response
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...
Read more »
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 3 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by goalcentre.com. Leave a response
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
Read more »
Written by Victor Li. 15 comments
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....
Read more »
Written by David Green. One comment
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...
Read more »
Written by Andy Greeves. 5 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Marco Pantanella. 7 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Anthony McGuane. 10 comments
English Premier League video highlights from the 27-28 September 08 matches:
Written by goalcentre.com. Leave a response
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...
Read more »
Written by Gerry McDonnell. 9 comments
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.
Written by Gary Andrews. 2 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Rob Parker. 12 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Rob Parker. 9 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Oliver Fowler. 10 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Soccerlens. Leave a response
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”...
Read more »
Written by David Green. 38 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Eddie Griffin. 2 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Eddie Griffin. 17 comments
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.
Written by Eddie Griffin. Leave a response
Hull chairman Paul Duffen on the club’s £7m bid for young Manchester United striker Frazier Campbell:
Written by Ahmed Bilal. 3 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Gerry McDonnell. 9 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Oliver Fowler. 18 comments
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.
Written by Soccerlens. 14 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Gerry McDonnell. 16 comments
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?
Written by Eddie Griffin. 7 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Soccerlens. 7 comments
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...
Read more »
Written by Scott the Red. 23 comments
