Premier League winners and losers Losers Hull City Marco Silva is not to blame, although he was unable to improve the dismal away form. Mike Phelan is not to blame, although he struggled to ignite a level of performance much above incompetence during his time in charge. The players are not to blame, although they were abject against Crystal Palace in failing to have a shot on target during a match they had to win. The supporters are not to blame; they never are. No, this one is all on the club. “It’s fair to say we didn’t see eye to eye and it couldn’t go on, we had to split up. We were spending all our energy fighting each other,” said Steve Bruce in January, explaining the reasons for his Hull City exit that had hardly been kept secret. Not content with burning bridges with loyal supporters – including telling them they could die – Hull’s owners had done the same with Bruce. Bruce had initially sided with the owners against fans, and lost a lot of goodwill for doing so, but his patience had run out. If we were writing a manual on how not to survive in the Premier League, it would be worth getting the Allams to write the foreword. Since beating Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off final, Hull mistreated their manager to the point that he quit, sold their matchwinner from Wembley and endured serious injuries to Moses Odubajo, Alex Bruce and Allan McGregor. The obvious response was to invest in the transfer market, necessary for every promoted club but particularly crucial for Hull City, and it is here where the owners were most guilty of dereliction of duty. Curtis Davies’ pre-season photo containing nine players was intended to humiliate; it did exactly that. View image on Twitter please log in to view this image Follow please log in to view this image Curtis Davies #6 ✔@TheCurtisDavies Hull City squad photo 2016/17 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image #HCAFC #TheBigLeague 12:40 PM - 4 Aug 2016 · Leogang, Österreich Hull’s season started with a caretaker manager in charge, and with supporters protesting once more about the Allam’s ownership. The team surprisingly won their first two league games of the season, before reality set in. Six points from 16 league games followed. That was when relegation was sealed, rather than in dismal defeat at Crystal Palace or home defeat to Sunderland. Those travelling supporters who have seen their team collect two points on the road since September 10 do not deserve relegation, but the Allam’s ownership does not merit them enjoying the financial rewards of Premier League football and the fans agree. Hull City blog Amber Nectar has more on that here. A year ago, I wrote a piece on why there were so many empty seats at Wembley for that play-off final. While some questioned the loyalty of supporters or the appetite for football in the local area, there was a more obvious conclusion: This was a reminder to the club that their supporters should not be taken for granted. Being continuously told that the play-off final could be worth £170m to your club doesn’t give you the same tingle when you know it’ll only go to an owner you despise and make him more likely to stay. Twelve months later, and nothing has changed. Still those supporters are disillusioned, still Hull City are a fractured club. They are an example of how the whims and wants of an individual can erode away at a social institution. I only wish those supporters the very best of luck next season. http://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-winners-and-losers-70
Allams must sell Hull City following mismanagement and inevitable relegation Gregory Whitaker YBN Sport15 May 2017, 12:05 please log in to view this image Yesterday, Hull City’s fate was sealed in a depressingly emphatic manor as the Tigers were battered 4-0 at Selhurst Park. However, in what must be one of the strangest atmospheres after a Premier League relegation since the league’s inception, the 2000 City fans who travelled to the capital, along with thousands watching around the country, remained fiercely proud and loyal towards the manager Marco Silva and our squad of ragtags and misfits. After all, the responsibility for this inevitable, but fully avoidable, relegation must fall at the feet of the club’s wretched ownership. Enough damage has been caused – for the good of the club the Allams must sell-up and leave. please log in to view this image View photos When I started this blog last August, Hull City were in turmoil on and off the pitch. Steve Bruce had just resigned, no replacement manager had yet been appointed, no new signings had been made, and an ongoing civil war between the fans and the owners over ticketing was still raging. Infamously, the squad travelled to their warm-weather pre-season training camp with just 13 senior professionals and no manager – an embarrassing situation which saw the club branded ‘The worst prepared club in Premier League history’ by the tabloids. When this PL season is analysed in the future, last week’s defeat to Sunderland will be pin-pointed as the moment Hull City were relegated. However, in reality, Hull City were as good as relegated last summer. As I have mentioned in recent weeks, it is always the hope that kills Hull City fans. At the time of Mike Phelan’s sacking in January, Hull City were rock bottom of the Premier League and in many ways supporters had accepted our inevitable relegation. The arrival of Marco Silva, along with a barrage of January signings, injected life into the club. So much so in fact, that the team actually managed to get into a situation where Premier League survival was in our own hands just two weeks ago. However, this was merely the illusion of Premier League life. While I am sure Silva’s spell in charge will always be fondly remembered, through no fault of his own this relegation is fully deserved for the way Hull City has been so horribly mismanaged over the past few years. As always, it just seems painfully unfair that it is the supporters who suffer the most. While it cannot be ignored that the current ownership did indeed save the club from financial ruin in 2010, as well as going on to oversee the most successful spell in the club’s 113-year history, it is bizarre to think that it is likely the family’s place in the history books will always be looked back on in a negative light. The family had the opportunity to be heroes in the City of Hull, but for some inexplicable reason decided to become the villains. The unusual sacking of fans’ favourite Nick Barmby, two unsuccessful name change attempts, and the complete abolition of concession ticketing at the KCOM Stadium, to name just a few unpopular decisions, are to thank for this. The relationship between the ownership and the fans is at rock bottom, however, this does not seem to affect the leadership duo of Assem and Ehab Allam. The fear now for the Hull City faithful is that this stubborn, almost arrogant, attitude which oozes from the Allams leads the club down the well-trodden path of ‘free-fall’ following Premier League relegation and gross mismanagement. Just ask supporters of Blackburn, Charlton, Coventry and Blackpool. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/al...nagement-inevitable-relegation-110509928.html
We're bound to have won worst throw-in award, especially after Clucas's awful effort halfway through the 2nd half at CP.
