Hull picking up where they left off last season
Hull’s 0-4 defeat to Everton in the Carling Cup last night compounded what has already been a miserable start to the season. Having lost defensive lynchpin Michael Turner to Sunderland, they now sit second from bottom of the league and are being booed off by their own fans. Will Phil Brown be the season’s next managerial casualty?
Brown was skating on thin managerial ice at times last season. His man-management skills were publicly called into question after leaving his team out on the pitch at half-time for a very public telling off following their first half display. The immediately depressing set of results which followed saw them plummet into the relegation race and the Hull public’s love affair with Brown was being questioned.
City have managed just four points this season and the manner in which they were beaten at home last night hardly gives cause for optimism. They will find it very hard at Anfield on Saturday and another heavy defeat to Merseyside opposition might leave brown Phil under unbearable pressure to beat Wigan in their home game that follows.
The only way Brown may be saved is through the blind loyalty of the board to back the man that got their club to the Premier League and kept them there (just about). There is only so far that good will can extend though. Back in July I predicted that Brown would be the first Premier League to lose his job, and nothing I have seen so far has made me change my mind.
