The Hull City Gazette
Match6 Nov 2027
The wait goes on for Hull City
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match2 Nov 2027
The cup run ends for Hull City
2‑2 against Watford, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Anatolii Trubin is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Anatolii Trubin: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market8 Nov 2027
Henrik Heggheim raises the bar for Hull City
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hull City heard it as anything else.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Nobody could get near Mohamed Belloumi
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
The crowd has taken to Dom Ballard
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market8 Nov 2027
One of our own: Nicholas Moore joins the Hull City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Moore is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Nov 2027
Hull City promote Charles Butler from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Charles Butler has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Nov 2027
Oliver Collins steps up from the Hull City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oliver Collins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Hull City against Newcastle United
- Player ratings Dom Ballard in the eights
- Squad Appearance number 200 for Joe Wright