For more than two years, they formed the public face of Hull City, each gravitating towards the limelight in a manner that endeared them to some but increasingly irritated others. As chairman and manager, Paul Duffen and Phil Brown tried to project a positive image, regardless of results. Click to continue reading...

He was given a stay of execution by his new chairman but I still fear Phil Brown's days are numbered.
Adam Pearson returned to the club two years after his departure, replacing Paul Duffen, who saw the club join the Premier League under his tenure but also accrue alarming levels of debt at the same time. Click to continue reading...

He was given a stay of execution by his new chairman but I still fear Phil Brown's days are numbered.
Adam Pearson returned to the club two years after his departure, replacing Paul Duffen, who saw the club join the Premier League under his tenure but also accrue alarming levels of debt at the same time. Click to continue reading...

Pompey mount revival. Following a miserable season start of 7 losses, conceding 13 goals and netting just 3 in the process, the South Coast club, rooted in last place, were everyone's early season pick for relegation. But how quickly things change in football. In the last 4 matches, Portsmouth have scored 10 goals, conceded just 2 and amassed 7 crucial points on the way to Premiership survival.

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Football fans have become better educated in the mysteries of football finances over recent years out of necessity as much as anything else, but just occasionally old naiveties come to the fore. It might just be that they can't believe that things could be as bad off the pitch as on it at the moment, but Hull City fans are less concerned than they should be about the lack of financial information coming out of their club in recent times, and now that the information has come out and has proved as grim as one may have feared, they still don't sem to believe that things can be as bad off the pitch as on it; despite the phrase "significant doubt over their ability to continue as a going concern" appearing not once, but three times in a relatively short annual report and statement of accounts for the Tigers' promotion year.

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Pop Idol, he's not.

For any of you that have been living under a rock for the last few years, Hull City Football Club have taken a roller coaster ride that even the most serious coaster enthusiasts would envy. Last year they made their first top flight appearance in the history of English Football & subsequently stayed up, albeit barely.

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International women's World Cup qualifiers, huge surprise in Spain and a prison sentence for Premier League footballer all feature on this week's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly section of languagecaster's podcast. Vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post.

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Phil Brown prepares to break into his ode to Michael Jackson before a recent match.

Yes, Phil Brown is still Hull City's manager. At least for now.

Despite reports suggesting he is on his way out, Brown still has a job, but that didn't stop Hull City chairman Paul Duffen from getting the boot.

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Phil Brown prepares to break into his ode to Michael Jackson before a recent match.

Yes, Phil Brown is still Hull City's manager. At least for now.

Despite reports suggesting he is on his way out, Brown still has a job, but that didn't stop Hull City chairman Paul Duffen from getting the boot.

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Poor financial state forces Tigers supremo to step down.

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Hull City chairman Paul Duffen resigns

Duffen stood down this morning after pressure mounted on him and manager Phil Brown after a disappointing start to the campaign which has seen them take just eight points from their opening 10 games.

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The Clock is Ticking!

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Bookies have suspended betting on the next Premier League manager to be sacked following speculation Phil Brown is on the verge of leaving Hull City.

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When the club you are chairman of have only won two of their last twenty-eight premier league games, there are certain things you don't say in public. Calling your fans pathetic in a radio interview for wanting Phil Brown to do a better job or be...
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The first three Premiership rounds have generated a lot of excitement and even though it is still early in the season, some things are clearer after we have seen the teams play. Premiership sack race is as interesting as ever, but Rafa Benitez has, surprisingly or not, emerged as the hot favourite after Liverpool lost two of the first three league games, while Paul Hart and Phil Brown were among the candidates even before the season started.

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UPDATE: According to Hull City's official website, Hull City have completed the signings of Stephen Hunt and Kamel Ghilas. Both players signed four-year deals with the clubs.

August 12th, 2009 According to Sky Sports News, Hull City are set to announce the signings of Reading midfielder Stephen Hunt and Celta Vigo striker Kamel Ghilas on Thursday.

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UPDATE: According to Sky Sports News, Hull City are set to announce the signings of Reading midfielder Stephen Hunt and Celta Vigo striker Kamel Ghilas on Thursday.

August 11th, 2009 According to Sky Sports News, Hull City have agreed to personal terms with Celta Vigo striker Kemal Ghilas.

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According to Anthony Smith at the Reading Chronicle, Hull City are close to signing Reading winger Stephen Hunt for around £3.5million. Reading director of football Nick Hammond said,

"I have been talking with Hull chairman Paul Duffen for some time now and we reached an agreement over the weekend .

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Looking at the predictions that are currently flooding the world of Premiership football, two teams are entrenched in a dogfight for who will finish bottom. No-one, but no-one thinks both Hull City or Burnley will stay up. One if not both of them, in the eyes of everyone think they're dead and buried before a ball is kicked.

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UPDATE: According to Aston Villa's official website, Aston Villa have signed Newcastle defender Habib Beye for an undisclosed fee. Beye signed a three-year deal with the club.

August 6th, 2009 According to Sky Sports News, Hull City have agreed to a fee for Newcastle defender Habib Beye.

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UPDATE: According to Sky Sports News, Hull City have agreed to a fee for Newcastle defender Habib Beye. Hull City chairman Paul Duffen said,

"Habib Beye is a player we believe can add quality to the Hull squad .

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Hot on the heels of Sebastien Bassong's Tottenham move comes news that highly regarded Newcastle United right-back, Habib Beye is on the verge of a move to the Hull City Tigers. City chairman, Paul Duffen, has confirmed that an offer has been accepted by United, after a previous £2 million bid failed to hit the [. Click to continue reading...

Hull City chairman Paul Duffen has dismissed reports that he is a contender to become Liverpool's new chief executive.
Liverpool are aiming to appoint a new chief executive after Rick Parry left his position at Anfield at the end of last season.
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According to Martin Hardy at News of the World, Hull City chairman Paul Duffen admitted that he would like to sign striker Michael Owen. However he would like to sign him "on the right terms." Duffen said,

"We're interested in Michael Owen on the right terms.

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Hull City chairman Paul Duffen had a six-month driving ban for speeding around town in his Aston Martin V8 Vantage overturned this week because the court ruled that it would cause him "exceptional hardship".

While not being able to drive your Aston Martin V8 vantage around for six months does kind of suck, what exactly would qualify as "exceptional hardship"?

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According to the Sunderland Echo, Hull City are not interested in Sunderland footballers Dean Whitehead and Paul McShane. Hull City chairman Paul Duffen said,

"They are not players we are trying to acquire at this point .

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Hull's chairman, Paul Duffen, has today claimed that things are going to plan with their £6 million move for Frazier Campbell. Whilst other clubs have been rumoured to be interested, Hull are the only club who have permission to talk with the player and are apparently the only club Campbell is interested in leaving us for.

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Hull chariman, Paul Duffen, is letting Frazier Campbell know just how badly the club are interested in signing him. After United had accepted a £6million bid for the young striker, Campbell's father insisted no decision had been made yet.

However, Duffen reckons that moving to Hull would be in Campbell's best interests.

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EPL Talk's ex-pat and Anglophile readers familiar with the classic British sitcom Only Fools and Horses will likely remember the program's 1985 Christmas special, "To Hull and Back," in which Del Boy and Rodney unwittingly end up in the northern English city of Hull on their way to picking up smuggled diamonds in Holland. Click to continue reading...