Things We Think We Think #164

1: The Man Utd defeat looked fairly routine on paper, and it looked fairly routine on grass too. And not in a good way either.

2: If the home side has ever had an easier afternoon than that, we’d be genuinely interested in hearing about it. City not only failed to lay a glove on them, they rarely looked interested in even trying to. It’s not really clear what City were trying to do, because all that happened is that Jelavic was desperately isolated up front while the midfield wandered around to minimal effect and the defence alternated between passing the ball straight to Man U players and then waving them merrily through.

3: Apropos of gloves, stop wearing them please, Hatem Ben Arfa. It was a mild November day in England, not midwinter in Scandinavia. And any more performances as rank as that may see him wearing gloves elsewhere – on a day when few impressed, he really stood out as being poor.

4: Mind you, glove-wearing midfielders have nothing on half-and-half scarf wearers. On anyone over the age of about 15, they’re utterly revolting.

5: Everton away in midweek will be unbelievably difficult. Actually, scratch that – it’ll be believably difficult. We’ve not taken anything from there in the Premier League era and we’re hardly in the form to do so now.

6: City are now as short as 2/1 to be relegated. The likelihood remains that there’ll be three teams poorer than us to keep us safe; but weren’t we supposed to have loftier aims than mere survival this season?

7: Someone made an interesting point regarding Hull City’s official Twitter account at the weekend; namely, using the phrase ‘GOAL!!!’ (complete with upper case letters and excitable exclamation marks) isn’t probably appropriate when it’s the opposition who have scored. A simple lower case, unemotive, non-celebratory version of the word would suffice, reserving the more exhilarative interpretation for City goals. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if and when (let’s face it, we mean ‘when’) Everton score on Wednesday and the club’s tweetmaster needs to respond.

8: The club has, of course, decided that the Huddersfield hashtag “UTT” is preferable to using City’s own name; and okay, that’s their stupid decision to make, and in years to come it’ll be remembered as just another instance of the club acting with foolish passive-aggression towards its own fans. Nonetheless, we’ll be meeting with the club again on Tuesday night, so if there’s anything else we can try to help them with, please do let us know.

9: It’s a year today since Assem Allam slandered City fans as hooligans. A year he’s had to apologise. The lack of one proves that this is genuinely his view of us. What a sad state of affairs.

10: Regarding the owner, he’s said he won’t spend any more money if he’s not allowed his ridiculous name change. Granted, he says a lot of things, and they don’t have a 100% history of being correct – but if City are in the relegation zone and his manager is crying out for a new player in January, will he really resist? And should he?

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Hull City fans all use #hcafc, as do Sky, the BBC and every other media outlet, only the club(both ours and Huddersfield's) use #utt.

The reason Huddersfield don't use #htfc is because their neighbours Halifax Town started using it first(though ironically they went bust and since reforming now use #fcht).

If you have a hashtag that is already in heavy usage, both in the media and with all your fans, you'd have to be a complete idiot to try and use something else.