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A few poems from the weekend, kinda. Starting with rugby and that and ending with that Dutch guy
who runs a lot... Rugby Wigan and Hull play football, In a cities were they generally chase eggs.
Filling their football stadiums at weekends, With a small number of footballing dregs. Dirk Kuyt
Like a forest Dirk [.
Phil Ascough has contributed a number of excellent pieces to The Two Unfortunates over recent
months. Here, the author of Kissing the Badge attempts to get his head round the worst kept secret
in this week's football league: I guess we'll find out some time today - possibly by the time you
read this - whether Hull City need a new manager.
Where's your Caravan?By Chris HargreavesPublished by The Friday Project, August 2011£8.99ISBN:
9780007364145What next for a lower league footballer upon retirement? A simple enough premise, but
too few biographies have tackled the theme with any distinction, so Chris Hargreaves' recent
release, which engages throughout with the realities and emotions of signing off from one's playing
days, is a
Excuse the imaginative-less title, but I thought that I'd direct peoples' attention to a new piece
that I devoted portions of my Bank Holiday weekend to which has now up on the excellent Hungarian
Football website. It's a recent history of Plymouth Argyle as told through the experiences of their
three former Magyars, Ákos Buzsáky, Péter Halmosi and Krisztián Timár.
Darryl Duffy's career trajectory may perhaps have left the striker wondering if he has perpetually
arrived too early for the party. Most notably, journeyman though he may appear to be, he has
enjoyed spells at two clubs which, not long after his departure, have attained Premier League
status. First, he joined Hull City in a fanfare of publicity five years ago, his 37 goals in just
68 games for
Last month, Nick Richards was kind enough to answer a few questions about his new novel,
Memorabilia and provided some enlightening comments in particular on the process - Nick having
enlisted the assistance of "self-publishing" facilitators Grosvenor House in his efforts. Now, TTU
regular Phil Ascough has provided a few thoughts on the more traditional route - Phil''s Kissing
the Badge was
Last month, Nick Richards was kind enough to answer a few questions about his new novel,
Memorabilia and provided some enlightening comments in particular on the process - Nick having
enlisted the assistance of "self-publishing" facilitators Grosvenor House in his efforts. Now, TTU
regular Phil Ascough has provided a few thoughts on the more traditional route - Phil''s Kissing
the Badge was
The waiting is almost over as the Championship kicks back in to action on Friday night as Hull face
Blackpool at the KC Stadium. For lower league fans all across the country the time is now upon you
as reality kicks in. Will your pre season optimism turn to a nightmare? Is it inevitable that [...]
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As (a) a supporter of a team that has almost nothing to look forward to over the next nine months
and (b) someone who's had to spend these last few balmy evenings with the curtains drawn due to
blogging demands, I can't say that I'm spectacularly excited about the coming year.I apologise if
you came looking for the equivalent of a Super Sunday trailer for the beginning of the new season.
For the simple reason that we think the Seagulls would have been less likely to stroll to
promotion like they did without him, Elliott Bennett takes this year's Young Player award. Of
course, the man of the protruding tongue has since caved in to Paul Lambert's advances but given
the Canaries' rising star, who can really blame the lad?
What makes a good day out? Three points would do nicely for a start, even in Dagenham, but other
variables might range from a particularly memorable chant to the discovery of cracking pub in
the shadow of the ground (more to come on that later in the summer on this site...). This year, the
award goes to a trip that happened to provide positive results in two of those criteria for this
very
For our latest post. we are delighted to welcome back Phil Ascough; his musings the result of a
debate with a mate in the pub as to which XI has most distinguished the amber and black of Hull
City. We are particularly pleased because Phil has been very busy lately on a new book, Kissing the
Badge, to be published next month but available for pre-order now.
Our latest guest post comes from David Kim, creator of a brand new blog, Arshavin's Hat, a site
that promises to bring us "football tactics from a height of 163cm". David wrote this assessment of
Hull City's first season back among the unfortunates before today's profoundly deflating defeat at
home to Middlesbrough, but draws encouragement from the management of Nigel Pearson whilst
identifying
While my thoughts tend to veer towards League One and beyond these days, I can't deny looking on at
Preston's steady decline with a grim fascination.North End's decline really does remind me of my
own side's downfall last season. For all of the following, read 'check': increasingly modest
crowds; an excessive and unsustainable wage bill being shelled out on a largely lifeless squad;
instability
One of the more surprising moves of the latest transfer deadline day witnessed Hull City stalwart
Ian Ashbee cross the Pennines in order to rejoin old flame Phil Brown. Phil Ascough eulogises over
a City career spanning nine years.It was a must-win game. Not so much in terms of avoiding
relegation but certainly in regards to easing the strain on a manager whose arrival a few months
earlier had
Three weeks ago, I reported back on Hull City's attempts to accommodate a large squad while
launching their bid for a speedy return to Premland. A lot has occurred since. While yesterday's
opponents Reading have been out shopping in Eastleigh, Hereford and Swindon, the East Riding club
have been considerably more ambitious.
My fellow blogger Frank Heaven and I are often prone to debate the merits of players labelled "ball
playing centre halves". It's a term pregnant with meaning- and a slight damning with feint praise
is never far from the equation. For just as Glen Johnson's attacking attributes from full back are
often highlighted only to stress his defensive inadequacies, centre backs who can "play a bit" are
