AKA Reverend Ballbag. I heard he retired from his normal vicaring job, but is he still the city chaplin? Xmas just wouldn't be the same without his one man carol service.
Poor Allen, he don't half belt them out. Its always good for a laugh or dishing out abuse, depending on your mood.
I like that we've stuck with it in it's same format right from being at Boothferry Park. It would have been easy with the move to the KC and then again when we got to the PL to make it more glitzy and americanised. It always feels like it's where the inspiration for John Shuttleworth's delivery of songs came from.
I think it adds to the experience in a quirky and good way. Brings back a lot of happy memories over the years...
Got to agree. Not sure if other clubs have something similar, but it's a nice quirk to our club. I like things like that.
As Hull fans we can give him abuse if i heard a single away fan give him abuse i would start ranting about tradition and how they should appreciate him!
I completely agree with these posts but erm, hasn't he been missing from the KC for the last 2 or 3 christmases?
First I'm hearing of it, been a while since I've been able to come down to games between Xmas and New Year.
The last time I really remember it is when we played Leicester under Parkinson in December 2006 just before he was sacked. ***an scored a cracker and he was our best player then. Actually wait Parky must have already been sacked by then, so maybe it was under Brown, oh I don't know.
You joke, but with our Hull bootroom policy he could be the first coach/chaplain in the league. Think he'd be better as a youth coach or a coach dealing with the players moving between youth and senior level than a senior one though, all about the attitude and helping them with the adapting to the increased pressure. (which he'll have had when he moved from Glentoran to Scotland, and then again when he moved to the big leagues)
I'd love to see Elliot involved at the club. I realise he's a little godcentric and that will be a bit alien to some of the lads, but he was one of the most committed and exciting players I've ever seen at City.
You could well be right. I didn't make the xmas games last year and I really can't think what I actually last saw him. Just always been a part of the xmas furniture. Shame if he is gone. As for Stu Elliot, I would demand a cartwheel between each carol.
Agreed, bumped into him a few times, even though he's a bonkers religious chap, he's still a top fella. If there was a sniff of header in the oppositions penalty area, 90% of the time he'd be on the end of them. I can't remember anyone in my time to date that was better in the air than Elliot?
The funny thing about it was he had a band with him but they forgot to give them microphones so all you could hear was the Reverend singing. My mate used to be in the band who played with him. He was a Hull White and all.
I just remember the chant echoing around the ground: "6-1, Tranmere, don't you know it's Christmas time!" Poor Theo in goal We led 4-1 at Cardiff around the same time a year or two afterwards, I tried to get it going again and failed miserably
