Look back at 2008 part 1
By Tiger Tim
January 2 2009
This a month by month look at Hull City over the past 12 months . This is only part 1 and is a look at how the second half of the championship season went. the second part will be added shortly . so have a read and tell us what you think.
January: Hull started 2008 with a 1-1 draw with stoke at the Britannia stadium a result which saw them move up to 9th in the Championship. Hull went out of the FA cup in the third round losing 3-2 to Plymouth. On the 12th hull lost 3-1 to West Brom Kevin Phillips opening the scoring for the baggies after just 2 minutes. Hull ended the month with a win against Coventry, Caleb Folan scoring a 90th minute winner. Hull ended January in 11th in the Championship with 41 points from 28 games.
February: Hull were unbeaten in February recording 2 wins and 3 draws. The first win came against Plymouth who their lost to just a month earlier, Dean Windass scoring the only goal of the game in added on time at the end of the first half. Hull then Drew with Blackpool, Norwich and Colchester before ending the month with a win away to West Brom Caleb Folan scoring the winner in a 2-1 victory. Hull sat 8th in the table with 50 points from 33 games.
March: Hull began a Busy March with their 1st of 8 games, away at Bristol City, Losing 2-1. They then went on to win their next 2 games 2-0 against both Burnley and Scunthorpe at the KC stadium. They then lost away at Cardiff 1-0 Steven Mcphail scoring after only a minutes for the Blue Birds. Hull then won their next 4 1st Thrashing Southampton 5-0 at the Kc before beating Colchester and Leicester Away. Hull ended the month with a 3-0 win at home to Watford. At the End of March Hull sat 3rd in the Championship with 68 points from 41 games and were only 2 points off top spot.
April: Hull started the month with a 1-1 Draw against QPR at the Kc before going to Oakwell and beating Barnsley 3-1. Then Came a disappointing away defeat to Sheffield United before Hull beat Crystal Palace at the KC 2-0 thanks to goals from Frazier Campbell and Ian Ashbee. Hull ended the month in 3rd place with 75 points from 45 games.
May: Hull went into the last game of the season at Ipswich needing a win to be in with any chance of automatic promotion. Hull also needed stoke to Lose to Leicester. Stoke Drew 0-0 with Leicester and Hull lost 1-0 to Ipswich Alan Lee scoring the only goal of the game. Hull finished the regular season in 3rd and meant they would play the second leg of the play off against Watford at home. Hull travelled to Vicarage road as the underdogs But thanks to first half goals from veterans Nick Barmby and Dean Windass Hull took a 2-0 lead into the second leg at the KC. 3 days later at the KC Watford took the Lead on 12 minutes through Darius Henderson only for Hull to storm back and win the game 4-1 thanks to goals from Nick Barmby,Caleb Folan,Richard Garcia and Nathan Doyle. Hull were off to Wembley after a 6-1 aggregate win. Hull faced Bristol City in the Final who beat Crystal Palace over two legs.On Saturday the 24th of May Hull travelled to Wembley and beat Bristol city to Clinch Promotion to the top flight of English Football a 38th Minute Dean windass goal Was enough to seal a famous win and have 40,000 Hull fans planning trips to Arsenal,Chelsea and Liverpool.
June-July: With promotion Gained Hull began to plan towards their 1st season in the Premiership. Manager Phil Brown Signed Players he believed were capable of Keeping Hull in the Premiership . Brown added 9 players to his squad Peter Halmosi (Plymouth, £2m), George Boateng (Middlesbrough, £1m), Tony Warner (Fulham, free), Bernard Mendy (Paris St Germain, free), Geovanni (Manchester City, free), Craig Fagan (Derby, £750,000), Anthony Gardner (Tottenham, 2.5 Mil). Marlon King (loan) he also added Daniel Cousin in August for 1.5 mil from Rangers. Out went Michael Bridges (Carlisle, loan), Henrik Pedersen (Silkeborg IF, free), David Livermore (Brighton, free).
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