Philip Buckingham: Why Hull City's home form is envy of English football By Hull Daily Mail | Posted: January 19, 2016 By Comments (0) BARRING an FA Cup fourth round replay, Hull City will not be back in action at the KC Stadium until the visit of promotion rivals Brighton on February 16. More's the pity. After Saturday's 6-0 rout of Charlton Athletic made it six consecutive home wins, Steve Bruce's men would happily play every fixture in their own backyard. City are now the proud owners of the best home record in English football. Eleven wins, two draws and just one defeat amounts to 35 points coming from the Tigers' 14 Championship games at the KC Stadium this season. Promotion rivals Middlesbrough and League One high-fliers Gillingham are the only teams to come close, with 32 gathered on home soil. RELATED CONTENT Steve Bruce facing tough choices to keep Hull City squad happy Hull City transfer rumours: Frazier Campbell availability sparks Tigers' interest Hull City: 'I've told Arsenal I want to sign Isaac Hayden' says Steve Bruce Include the Capital One Cup and FA Cup ties and City have impressively lost just one of 18 home games in all competitions since falling out of the Premier League in May. Bruce calls it an "impeccable" record and quite rightly so. If City had turned last month's away defeats at Leeds, Rotherham and Preston into draws, their superb home form would be enough to see them on top of the Championship as they travel to Fulham this weekend. Even allowing for a weekend embellishment as the goals flooded in against Charlton, the statistics behind City's season on home turf are quite something. Only Premier League title favourites Manchester City have scored more goals in front of their own fans this year but a goal difference of plus 24 cannot be surpassed anywhere in the top four divisions. As well as banging in 30 goals at the KC Stadium – 34 including the cup fixtures – City have leaked just six. Nine Championship visitors have left without scoring, ensuring the Tigers, on average, concede a goal every 210 minutes at home. The one blemish was a meeting with Derby County on November 27. Conceding twice at home for the only time in a sequence dating back to last May, a 2-0 loss against the Rams is all that prevents City from boasting an unbeaten record at the KC Stadium this season. Winger Sam Clucas, though, believes that has eventually worked in the Tigers' favour. "That Derby game gave us a bit of a kick up the backside as we thought we were better than we were at the time," said Clucas. "We have bounced back now and putting the points back on the table and hopefully we can keep the home form going until the end of the season. "Teams will come here now fearing to play us because they know our form in only getting beaten in one game." City's response to that Derby defeat has been excellent. Even when stumbles came on their travels, the results were professionally ground out at the KC. Bolton and Reading were narrowly beaten before Burnley, Brighton, Cardiff and Charlton were all conquered with ease. Fifteen of the last 18 points banked by City have come at home. On form such as this are promotion bids built. City are already just eight points shy of the 43 earned at home in the 2012-13 season that ended with Bruce's men crowned runners-up in the Championship, while Phil Brown's history-making class of 2007-08 managed to find 46 points at the KC Stadium when finishing third ahead of their play-off triumph. The current crop still have nine more games to surpass those figures but it is the home record that inspired promotion out of League One in 11 years ago that sets a target to be matched. Peter Taylor's men won 53 points from 23 home games that season, a record for the KC Stadium. The ultimate, albeit unlikely, mark for City to strive for is the one set in the 1958-59 season. Although just two points were awarded for each victory, Bob Brocklebank's promotion-winning side won 19, drew three and lost one of 23 home games in Division Three. In modern money, that is the staggering equivalent of 60 points. Anything over a half century this season, requiring five wins from the last nine home games, will be sure to see City in the hunt for automatic promotion. Just so long as the upcoming trips to Fulham, Burnley and Blackburn do not undermine all the brilliant work done at the KC Stadium. Read more: http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Phil...tory-28555426-detail/story.html#ixzz3xgRZ6kZH Follow us: @hulldailymail on Twitter | HullDailyMail on Facebook http://m.hulldailymail.co.uk/Philip...me-form-envy/story-28555426-detail/story.html Best home record.
I thought this was common knowledge prior to the Charlton game. We've had the best home form (based on points per game) across all four main divisions since nearly the start.
slightly exaggerating the truth. Boro played one less game and if win on sat will match our ppg for home form
