Premier league bell?

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Is anyone gonna actually ring it?

Or are we just gonna accept it was a bit sh!t?

What happened the last couple of times?

Oh, and it looks like the Elvis estate is endorsing the Mackems.

Good. Let's get rid of another thing 'a bit sh!t' too.

We should always have our unique song, not just Adam Pearson sniffing Bob Murray's arse cast as 'heritage'.

Just not 'Caravan' Ok?

Or some random (mis) appropriated 90's house classic like Middlesboro.

Though 'Old Red Eyes' might aptly describe some of the squad reporting back in pre-season.

And much of the North Stand and Press Suite.

Please discuss ... <cheers>

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The Premier League bell was a novel idea the first time, but I didn't realise it'd been redone for our subsequent two promotions.

It was a bit **** in hindsight as I just remember Duffen and Brown huddled in a tight corner of what looked like a bathhouse in some obscure country. Ring here when you get your happy ending, kind of thing. And didn't Duffen nearly rip the thing from the wall? <laugh>
 
It wasn't a bit **** at all. The bell was installed when the stadium first opened and Hull City were in the bottom leagues. No-one believed we would ever hear the 'Premier League Bell' wrung. It was a pipe dream, but a good one.
It was also a massive deal when it was eventually wrung by Paul Duffen and didn't the rope break?
So its one of the few traditions we have and it shouldn't be rubbished as seems the trend these days.
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
It wasn't a bit **** at all. The bell was installed when the stadium first opened and Hull City were in the bottom leagues. No-one believed we would ever hear the 'Premier League Bell' wrung. It was a pipe dream, but a good one.
It was also a massive deal when it was eventually wrung by Paul Duffen and didn't the rope break?
So its one of the few traditions we have and it shouldn't be rubbished as seems the trend these days.
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It was naff, and naffer still was Duffen dedicating the ringing of it to generations of City fans who never lived to see that day, oh... :emoticon-0138-think


It's our time.
 
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It was naff, and naffer still was Duffen dedicating the ringing of it to generations of City fans who never lived to see that day, oh... :emoticon-0138-think


It's our time.
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No Tony, not having that, maybe I'm getting too sentimental in my old age but I believed all that. I had friends who would have loved to see City play in the Premier League ( 1st Division as it was) friends who are no longer with us, but were brought up as we all were in Hull to believe that Hull City would never reach the First Division, it was almost folk lore. With all sorts of excuses to back it up, 'they cannot afford it, the council don't want it because it will push up wages ( that was one), Hull is a low pay area and they want to keep it that way' and so on. People believed that stuff.
I never thought I would see it and I'm being totally honest. Nor did I ever think I would see us play at Wembley.
So keep the bell and ring it as loud as they can before the first home game of the new Premier League season. It means we have arrived, again, so let's hope we can hang around a bit longer this time.
UTT.
 
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No Tony, not having that, maybe I'm getting too sentimental in my old age but I believed all that. I had friends who would have loved to see City play in the Premier League ( 1st Division as it was) friends who are no longer with us, but were brought up as we all were in Hull to believe that Hull City would never reach the First Division, it was almost folk lore. With all sorts of excuses to back it up, 'they cannot afford it, the council don't want it because it will push up wages ( that was one), Hull is a low pay area and they want to keep it that way' and so on. People believed that stuff.
I never thought I would see it and I'm being totally honest. Nor did I ever think I would see us play at Wembley.
So keep the bell and ring it as loud as they can before the first home game of the new Premier League season. It means we have arrived, again, so let's hope we can hang around a bit longer this time.
UTT.
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Cripes, I refer the honourable gentlemen to the word 'oh' in my original reply. :emoticon-0138-think


It's our time.
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
No Tony, not having that, maybe I'm getting too sentimental in my old age but I believed all that. I had friends who would have loved to see City play in the Premier League ( 1st Division as it was) friends who are no longer with us, but were brought up as we all were in Hull to believe that Hull City would never reach the First Division, it was almost folk lore. With all sorts of excuses to back it up, 'they cannot afford it, the council don't want it because it will push up wages ( that was one), Hull is a low pay area and they want to keep it that way' and so on. People believed that stuff.
I never thought I would see it and I'm being totally honest. Nor did I ever think I would see us play at Wembley.
So keep the bell and ring it as loud as they can before the first home game of the new Premier League season. It means we have arrived, again, so let's hope we can hang around a bit longer this time.
UTT.
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I used to have similar discussions about our prospects of Premier League Football(Div 1) with the first man who ever took me to Boothferry Park in 69(My Granny's older sisters husband,along with my old man,both Scotsmen).

Lived up Beverley Rd,season ticket holder in the main stand for many years from the 60's to the late 80's and eventually moved back up home to Kilmarnock.

'Won't ever happen in my day' he often said,he got that one right.

I often wonder what he would think now...
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
No Tony, not having that, maybe I'm getting too sentimental in my old age but I believed all that. I had friends who would have loved to see City play in the Premier League ( 1st Division as it was) friends who are no longer with us, but were brought up as we all were in Hull to believe that Hull City would never reach the First Division, it was almost folk lore. With all sorts of excuses to back it up, 'they cannot afford it, the council don't want it because it will push up wages ( that was one), Hull is a low pay area and they want to keep it that way' and so on. People believed that stuff.
I never thought I would see it and I'm being totally honest. Nor did I ever think I would see us play at Wembley.
So keep the bell and ring it as loud as they can before the first home game of the new Premier League season. It means we have arrived, again, so let's hope we can hang around a bit longer this time.
UTT.
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I completely agree with your sentiment around the significance of the bell the first time. But I'm not sure whether it has or was ever intended to be rung on subsequent promotions, or is even still in place? It was in the West Stand reception wasn't it?

For me it was about the first one. And all the stuff you mentioned about people not believing it could ever happen, people not living to see it etc, not sure that stuff really applies to the subsequent promotions.
 
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