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By James Martin (Hull City supporter) November turned out to be a very action packed month for The Tigers with Manager Nigel Pearson moving to Leicester. Who would be Pearson’s successor was the talk of town. The favourite at one point was Manchester United reserves manager Warren Joyce, which failed to materialise and Nicky Barmby [...]

By Ross Gibson, creator of Scunthorpe blog Any Old Iron. October has been a packed month for Scunthorpe United – with seven games including League and Cup fixtures for the two on loan players. Sam Johnstone missed the final three games of the month due to a dislocated finger while Oliver Norwood was able to [...]

By James Martin (Hull City supporter) Hull City 2 Cardiff City 1 The Tigers continued their fine form with a home win over Cardiff. Brady performed well and looked solid both going forward and defensively. Brady could have given the Tigers the lead, but his curling shot from the edge of the area was tipped [...]

By Ross Gibson, creator of Scunthorpe blog Any Old Iron. Sam Johnstone Johnstone missed Scunthorpe’s first league game of September, but in the four following fixtures the month turned out to be a very profitable one for the very talented keeper, no question. It was a somewhat baptism of fire at home to Sheffield United. [...]

By James Martin (Hull City supporter) Peterborough 0 Hull City 1 For Hull and Brady the first game in September was against Peterborough and a chance for Hull Manager Nigel Pearson to test himself against Sir Alex’s son Darren Ferguson. It was a game that was going to be a tricky fixture, but promised to [...]

By John Fernandez (Peterborough United supporter) 10/09/2011- Peterborough United 0-1 Hull Ryan Tunnicliffe started his first game for Peterborough United after impressing in his substitute cameos and what a game for him it was. We may have lost but the game can only be seen as a success for Tunnicliffe who was awarded the Man [...]

By Ross Gibson, creator of Scunthorpe United blog Any Old Iron. Oliver Norwood Norwood is a decent, creative midfielder and certainly doesn’t look out of place at this level by any stretch of the imagination. His calmness in possession and under pressure has certainly impressed – especially his often inch perfect cross field balls, he very [...]

By James Martin, a Vital Hull forum member. Leeds 4 Hull 1 This is a game that will always test the nerve of any young player, a derby between two rivals at a noisy and hostile Elland Road. Brady was a threat early on and whipped in a few dangerous crosses, however in the second [...]

By John Fernandez Peterborough’s start to the Championship season has been surprisingly good by all accounts. Okay, so we haven’t trounced one of our biggest rivals 8-2, but by God we won 7-1 last weekend and were on TV. Being a Posh fan is just the best! Onto the pressing matters though. These being the [...]

By John Fernandez After our victory at old Trafford in the play-offs last season I knew that our squad would need some serious reinforcing over the summer, we lacked depth in our squad that we could rely on and well some lads could hardly cut it at League 1 level so the Championship was always [...]