Phil Brown: 'I would have kept Hull in the Premier League for 20 years' http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-the-premier-league-for-20-years-9078606.html
Read the article. It says Hull would have been in the Prem 20 years not that he would have kept them there. I still have a lot affection for him and hope he gets a good reception from the Hull crowd at the weekend.
"I believe that, had I stayed, we would have survived a second season in the Premier League." "Please read the article before commenting."
He gave City promotions and pride; the Wembley Play-off Final victory over Bristol City; the incredible 'London 0 - Hull 4' of that first PL season. Then he increasingly became the victim of his own hubris......
here is a direct quote from the article "I believe that, had I stayed, we would have survived a second season in the Premier League and, with that new training ground, we would have remained a Premier League club for 20 years."
"This is real football with real people and real problems and I am enthused by it," he said. "I have always taken my strength from a river and I always will. I grew up on the banks of the Tyne, I had some of my best years in football on the banks of the Humber and now here I am on the banks of the Thames." Didn't he and Duffman break the bank in Hull?
i know. i read it. i quoted the first half of it. directly. was he referring to a different second season to the one he left in? julie karen said he didn't say he'd have kept us up in 2010 and suggested i'd not read all the article. i say he says he would have kept us up in 2010 but to be fair he says "a second season" and not "the second season" which may imply that he expected a relegation before the 20 years stay began. and that was why i asked which 20 years he was on about. comprenez-vous?
OK, i just followed normal quoting procedure and posted the full sentence and made no supposition - but as you are insisting we play the game ill have a go . To me the actual quote was written and spoke in reasonable English and thus the commer was only a pause in breath and not a pause in time , you seem to suggest a minimum of 3 years (relegation - promotion and survival) - you suppose all that from a simple Commer ? Looking at it logically in the context it is spoken Brownie was talking in a continuous timeline with no hidden breaks - had he said Could ,instead of Would - maybe nobody would have noticed .
A second coming .............. that's all I need to spoil my weekend. Walking on water and feeding the full stadium with 5 loaves and 2 fishes a special attraction . What an "A" grade plonker he is .He still hasn't learned to keep his mouth shut.
Phil Brown was 95% great. If only he could drop the dramatic stuff. "I have always taken my strength from a river" How does one do that exactly? Was that why he took the players for a walk on the Humber Bridge? It certainly energised Barmby and Bullard.
I'm not sure about the garbled "river" stuff at the end (unintentionally humorous as it is) but aside from that, what's wrong with the article exactly? Reads fine to me. His "20 years" assertion is a bit wild but it's hardly "I'm Jesus", is it? And all those griping about the exact words he used - it's a newspaper article, I seriously doubt ANY of his words are quoted verbatim.
He was an odd f**ker was Brownie. Depended which way the wind was blowing as to whether he'd talk to you or not but at the end of the day he was a character. As time goes by I find my fondness for the mad bastard growing and I wish him all the very best for the future.
It was a great day in Cardiff when we stayed up, to win at Wembley only a year later was unbelievable. I don't understand why people can't just judge him on his fantastic achievements at Hull City.
