Daniel King

Defensive Midfielder - Hull City U20
28 Jul 2042
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel King

766 Edition

The Hull City Gazette

1 Apr 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Samuel Phillips damages knee ligaments — 78 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 78 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Hull City boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Alexander Wilson breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

16 seasons of Ivor Pandur

566 appearances across 16 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Hull City know what they have.

Match

6 matches without a win for Hull City

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Hull City are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Ivor Pandur keeps Hull City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Luca Kronberger’s goal not enough for Hull City

Luca Kronberger scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Cardiff City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

The Oliver Hall question follows Hull City around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Oliver Hall’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jerae Jones

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
751 Edition

The Hull City Gazette

17 Dec 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Joshua Jackson damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Nathan Harris out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hull City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Stephen Roberts keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hull City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Hull City

Ivor Pandur was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Hull City come up short against Rotherham United

Rotherham United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Hull City buy the years ahead of Daniel King

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Óscar Zambrano

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

Player ratings

The one thing Oliver Hall could not do

Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings

Jerae Jones runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief