Someone slipped a
small tablet with the letters L, D and S on it into my beer last night and I
woke up in June 2019. Here’s my review of Hull City’s season. SPOILER ALERT…
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Player of the
season 2018/19
Of course it was Will “Keano” Keane. It’s amazing to look
back now and think he wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I’ve always rated the lad,
personally. He was well out of the first team picture when he scored from 40
yards at Bramall Lane in the League Cup defeat and that put pressure on the
manager to pick him.
Once he scored his first hat-trick of the season at Wigan,
the confidence just flowed. There are too many highlights to pick out but the
five goals he scored in that 12-0 drubbing of QPR in March will live long in
the memory.
It would be remiss not to give lots of credit to the new
owners for turning down that £30m bid from Liverpool in January. It would have
been easy to take the money but he’s surely worth more now with the England
call up and six years left on his new contract?
Game of the season
2018/19
I’ve still not recovered from the heart-break of missing
out on the play-off final due to a disgraceful refereeing decision and the
mis-fortune of having to finish the second-leg of the semi-final with only
seven players due to injuries but it’s hard not to be proud of the players. We’d
all written off the final anyway when we lost 2-0 to Nottingham Forest in the
first leg but the return at the KCOM with 8,000 fans locked outside was
something to behold.
We murdered them in the first half and deserved to lead
4-0 though Super Kev Stewart’s volley and the Keano hat-trick. The injuries began
to bite though, especially once Markus Henriksen went in goal.
I still thought we were full value at 4-2 but the ref
giving handball against Henriksen was a joke. I still don’t get how four
officials couldn’t get between them that he was the goalie? This is why we need
VAR in the Championship as soon as possible.
Goal of the season
2018/19
How is this even a question? I’m so glad I was at Carrow
Road that night. Jarrod Bowen gets the ball near the corner flag in our right
back position. We’re screaming at him to boot it away but he decides to take on
his man. It’s madness. Who tries a 1-2 with the bloody corner flag? He beat
that German kid and strode into their half. Yellow shirts were flying at him
but he just kept going past them.
The sub racing on to try and cut him down was out of
order but fair play to the ref for allowing play on – same when that fat kid
came out of the crowd and threw his hot dog at him. After all that, to have the
composure to round the keeper 20 yards out and finish with a rabona on his
wrong foot was quite something.
The old bloke behind me said he saw Waggy score ten better
goals at Boothferry in the early 60s but I’m not so sure.
Best newcomer
2018/19
Despite David Milinkovic contributing 15 goals from the
left wing in his debut season and George Long keeping those six clean sheets in
a row following David Marshall’s unfortunate injury – I have to go for Adam
Curry. I was as apprehensive as everyone else when three centre halves suffered
injuries just after the close of the January transfer window but I had faith in
thirty-something-twenty-something Curry stepping up from the U23 squad.
However, his performances surpassed even my optimistic hopes and that bullet
header to win the game at Derby live on Sky set him on the road to being a cult
hero. Although it cost him a chance to play in the play-offs, that red card for
head butting Tony Pulis cemented his cult status and I’m sure he’ll be a big
player for us when he returns from his 16 match suspension next November.
Moment of the
season 2018/19
The moment that saw the crowd flock back, the confidence
return to the players and the computers finally get upgraded in the club shop.
I still don’t know whether it was fate that took Adam Pearson and Bill Gates to
the same hotel in Crete last October but I’m so glad it did. I’ve got to give Allam
senior some credit too. After everything that’s gone on, Assem redeemed himself
in my eyes by allowing Bill to fire Ehab out of a cannon into the North Sea. A
perfect peace offering.
If you’d like to contribute to the “Search for Ehab” fund,
the RNLI are collecting on Withernsea seafront all day, every day. It’s only
been six months but they’ve already raised 87p.
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