By other clubs fans in the modern game? Yeah you being a club who has never had a top flight history, nor a major final appearence? Yeah that's going to get you ridiculed, sorry if that upsets you but it will. Also you taking the moral high ground over others talking rubbish after your frankly bonkers argument over a certain member of city's team being a penalty taker is quiet frankly hypocritical.
yes it does you are saying that we were a joke prior to 2008 but it seems that you don't have much idea of what it was like you are looking at a few statistics and working it out (wrongly) without any experience of the time
We WERE a joke in the eyes of the modern football fan. How is that so hard for you to get your head around?
Late 60s and through the 70s we were a bloody good 2nd Division (Championship now) team who 1st Division sides (Premier League now) did not want to play in the cup, especially at Boothferry Park as they were likely to get turned over. Only in the 80s & 90s did we decline into "being a joke". I am told we were decent in 50s too but never saw it. Admittedly we never made the top Division or a cup final but we were by no means a "joke"
For 104 years, our team, Hull City was the butt of jokes, that's a fact - we had ZERO success, you quote the 60's as if it were some kind of halcyon days, it wasn't, we had one great season (by our standards) when we won promotion to the 2nd tier and also progressed to the 6th round of the FA Cup, every other season in the 60's we failed to get past the third round. I WAS there, and did get the mood of the place and I think I can safely say that I WAS supporting City then.
Just tell him and end this ****ing thing. Pete will keep arguing even when his point has been quashed. He's a bit weird like that.
Looking at the local press in Derby , a certain Mr Ince jnr has become the target of the ram's boo boys, what a shame.
As I say, with the forward line we had, the attendances we had and the runs in the FA Cup - extending through most of the 60s into the early 70s I don't think we were the butt of jokes. We got some great coverage. OK maybe you and one or two others felt that we were the butt of jokes but the vast majority of fans were proud of our club.
At any point in my life, when I've told someone I support Hull City, every single persons response has been a respectful "you had a lethal forward line in the 60's". FACT
Which is why I'm not totally engaging with him. I saw his views on certain penalty takers, I also saw how he was unable to climb down when it was pointed out he was talking bollocks.
You mean you think it's best not to tell everybody when you started supporting City? I think you must be the only person on here who is ashamed of that.
Bollocks. Some of my best memories of supporting City were away days when we were truly awful. 2001 Losing 4-2 away at Mansfield. Conceding 3 goals in 6 minutes That's what makes a fan!
I agree with the above and can vouch for Pete because I stood with him on the South Stand during the mid 60's. Hull City only became a joke club under the stewardship of Martin Fish and ownership of Chris Needler. The club may not have won many trophies but they were a club of some standing in the Football League. We were one of the pioneers of European football before it became a competitive league and also one of the pioneers of floodlit football which is how the European connection came about. The club had considerable success at Anlaby Road before the move to Boothferry Park and only missed out on promotion to the old Div 1 on goal difference. The club broke crowd records at several clubs during Carters reign and broke them again during the Cliff Britain era. Boothferry Park became one of the finest stadiums in the land and was on the shortlist as a venue for the 1966 World Cup. It had the best playing surface, the best floodlights and its own railway station. The Chelsea programme for the FA Cup 6th Rd game in '66 described us as the third division club with the second division outlook and the first division ground, or something like that. Some may have laughed as the club hit hard times but the fabric of the club showed through as we fought our way back from the very bottom to the very top. Never a joke club in my eyes.
