Hull City

Sixer on names: Sunderland nicknames, Hull City Tigers and Chairman Bob’s stadium

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Jake sets the scene
Jake sets the scene

There was a price to pay for getting Ian Waterson, a prominent Hull City AFC fan, to do the honours with this week’s ‘Who are You?’ – see https://safc.blog/2013/10/hull-city-who-are-you-notohulltigers-yes-to-bruce-elmo-meyler-mcshane/.

Ian, a staunch opponent of the Hull owner’s decision to destroy tradition and impose the hideous Hull City Tigers on his club, dropping AFC altogether, asked if we would answer questions about their campaign, and how Sunderland supporters would feel in a similar situation.

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Hull City Guess the Score: is Father Marc seeking new papal miracle?

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Jake's impersonation of the SAFC chaplain
Jake’s impersonation of the SAFC chaplain

Salut! Sunderland never had its star illustrator Jake down as the sort to believe in the power of prayer.

But here he is imagining himself in the place of the Sunderland club chaplain, Father Marc Lyden-Smith, who seems to have had a spot of success in persuading Pope Francis to arrange some much-needed divine inspiration for the Lads.

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Hull City Who are You?: ‘#notohulltigers, yes to Bruce, Elmo, Meyler, McShane’

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Jake demands answers
Jake demands answers

Welcome to another outstanding edition of ‘Who are You?’ as Sunderland prepare to visit Hull for the crucial follow-up to derby joy. This is a bit out of sequence given Hull’s return to Spurs tonight (league cup) but other commitments mean that can’t be helped. Ian Waterson,* editor of the Hull City fanzine City Independent and a frontrunner in the campaign to preserve the club’s name as Hull City AFC rather than change to Hull Tigers as the owner wants, bears a proud Hull name of his own, one shared by the original members of the Watersons folk group (Norma and her late siblings, Lal and Mike). Ian turns out to be a ‘very distant relation’; it’s a little like the Sunderland connection that means any Wearside family called Morris may also be among Monsieur Salut’s “very distant relations” …

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Hull City FC: it used to be Hell and High Water, now it’s KC stadium and the sunshine band

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Sam Campbell
Sam Campbell, the second Hull University student to write for M. Salut

John McCormick writes: Monsieur Salut has still not returned so I’m continuing my sojourn as assistant editor, which once again allows me to introduce a guest writer. Those of you who followed the account of my journey to Hillsborough in ’73 will know that I was at  Hull University at the time. In those days Hull City were a nondescript  team playing in nondescript  Boothferry Park, which I last visited in 1973 or 4, when they beat an equally nondescript (but cupholding) Sunderland 2-0.

How things have changed. We’re an established  top-league team with a  top class stadium and Hull, with an even newer stadium, have now returned to the Premiership to join us

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You’re passionate, witty and support Cardiff, Hull or Crystal Palace. You’re needed

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Jake presents this year's winners
How Jake presents the series …


Stop Press: Palace and Hull already sorted home and away. Cardiff fan/s still needed …

Fans of Hull City, or a few of them, may recognise the music. For Cardiff City and Crystal Palace supporters, it’s a new tune.

Welecome to, or back to, the Premier League. Getting there was the easy bit; now for something more demanding. Salut! Sunderland is launching its customary close-season search for warm, witty or wise followers of the promoted clubs who may be willing to answer our questions ahead of the games home and away between Sunderland and their clubs.

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The Robson Report: Hull hath no fury like Steve Bruce scorned

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By now, you would think, any football reporter who rushed excitedly up to the sports editor and exclaimed ‘I have a great interview with Steve Bruce about how unfair life is’ would be demoted to covering junior rounders. Not so. Jeremy Robson notes that Bruce’s mantra, ‘how I was sacked for being a Geordie’ with a re-run of that other whopper that ignorance of the world of the web also did for him, is bizarrely still seen as news …

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Steve Bruce, Spurs and Hull City. And the challenge of supporting England

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Jake's way of looking back on a Salut! week

You can only guess at Steve Bruce’s thoughts as a string of modest Premier League posts sailed into view only to vanish beyond the horizon of his employability. Having downsized his ambitions and taken the Hull City job, what did he then think when the higher profile Spurs managership became available? You can also wonder at the thoughts of earnest BBC bigwigs at a loss for something dramatic to pull on the eve of Euro 2012. Two Salut! Sunderland writers placed themselves in the relevant minds …

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Soapbox Tote double: SAFC, Hartlepool, Hull, Gateshead – and David Meyler

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Are there telling clues about first-team prospects and planning to be had from watching the reserves? Pete “I’m no football junkie” Sixsmith caught two such games yesterday and reports on both, with an emphasis on how the impressive resilience of David Meyler is bearing up after his second dreadful injury setback …

As some of you may know, I have recently retired, allowing me to spend more time with my ever diminishing collection of full beer bottles. It also gives me the opportunity to winkle out obscure midweek afternoon football fixtures and join my fellow retired, anoraks and obsessives in near deserted football grounds.

This season,our reserves are playing a number of their fixtures in the afternoon at the Academy. Unfortunately, they are not allowing the retired etc in to watch on Health and Safety grounds as the club are in the process of being sued by a spectator who was hit in the face by a wayward ball at a game last year.

Many behind the goal at Roker Park and the SoL over the years should now be contacting Messrs Sue, Grabbit and Run.

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