It's a game of two halves...
Nov. 9th, 2009 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxSo, yesterday's match saw Hull City take on Stoke, and at half-team the Tigers (for such are called Hull City) were 0-1 down, due to some awful defending on our part. We'd started brightly, and Jimmy Bullard (our star player who lasted all of 37 minutes last season before succumbing to a knee injury) was clearly exerting a positive influence on the side.
Nonetheless, at half-time I was texting to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brundle that although I could see us scraping an equaliser, if Stoke got a second then that'd be it, game over.
Stoke have terrifically vocal away support, and they were on top form yesterday, what with some stirring renditions of 'You're getting sacked in the morning' and such like in the first half (Phil Brown, Hull's not universally-loved manager, has something of a metaphorical guillotine hanging over his head, given a really rather appalling run that covers most of the current calendar year).
However, in the second half, Hull equalised courtesy of Olofinjana, a former Stoke player himself, at which point the Hull faithfull broke into a rousing chorus of 'You're not singing any more' at the Stoke fans. And with the crowd well and truly up, the pendulum swung in the home side's favour.
At 1-1, with five minutes to go, and Hull clearly on top, I said to P that the match was going to end with us disappointed with 'only' a point, whereas at half-time I'd been thinking that if we'd been lucky, that was the most that we could have expected.
And then (deep breath) Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored in injury time, the crowd went wild and Hull secured a vital three points and moved out of the relegation zone.
The first half, despite some glimpses of promise, hadn't been that great, but the second half? That was epic :D
Nonetheless, at half-time I was texting to
brundle that although I could see us scraping an equaliser, if Stoke got a second then that'd be it, game over.Stoke have terrifically vocal away support, and they were on top form yesterday, what with some stirring renditions of 'You're getting sacked in the morning' and such like in the first half (Phil Brown, Hull's not universally-loved manager, has something of a metaphorical guillotine hanging over his head, given a really rather appalling run that covers most of the current calendar year).
However, in the second half, Hull equalised courtesy of Olofinjana, a former Stoke player himself, at which point the Hull faithfull broke into a rousing chorus of 'You're not singing any more' at the Stoke fans. And with the crowd well and truly up, the pendulum swung in the home side's favour.
At 1-1, with five minutes to go, and Hull clearly on top, I said to P that the match was going to end with us disappointed with 'only' a point, whereas at half-time I'd been thinking that if we'd been lucky, that was the most that we could have expected.
And then (deep breath) Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored in injury time, the crowd went wild and Hull secured a vital three points and moved out of the relegation zone.
The first half, despite some glimpses of promise, hadn't been that great, but the second half? That was epic :D
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Date: 2009-11-09 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-09 09:12 am (UTC)Also, 20,000 fans screaming for full time to be blown (there were four minutes of injury time) is somewhat deafening!
Official Guardian report here.
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Date: 2009-11-09 09:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-09 07:18 pm (UTC)