Hull City 2009 – 2010 fixtures

Growing up I always supported Manchester United, but then – who didn’t when I was growing up, I had more reason to with the old man supporting them and all my family coming from Manchester. Pin-ups of Cantona, Giggs and Schmeichel covering my walls, among the latest Loaded and FHM babes of course! Through my late teens/early twenties I followed, not closely, Hull City, like many people in my area. With Hull being our closest city it was a lot of people’s second team, there weren’t many brave enough to say they were a true supporter with them being only a 3rd Division team, apart from my mate Ricky D, whom I went to a number of City games with back then. When Hull started to climb up the leagues several seasons ago more and more people started to support them, hardy fans don’t tend to like this; ‘glory supporters jumping on the band-wagon.’ I can see the problem they have with this but at the same time I think it’s great for people to support their local team, it’s good for the community to have a shared interest.
So I started to follow Hull City (the Tigers) more closely as they entered the Championship, (League 1). And I was there along with Ricky D’s brother (Ricky D was in the States teaching football), and many others from my small town in Hornsea, also including one uni mate Gavin who has had a crappy cool tattoo of ‘Hull City’ for as long as I’ve known him, supporting our local team at the Championship playoffs.
Now, going into the second premiership season in Hull’s history, if anyone asks me over here in Canada who I support, (which is a common question from a Canadian to a Brit) which team do I support, I tell them Hull, The Tigers, City! I feel following my local team from so far away gives me that sense of ‘home’, which is always good, you’re roots are important.

Anyway here are Hull’s 2009/10 season fixtures, a quick reference for myself.