Phil Brown - A case for the defence

It was refreshing to see Hull City and Burnley take their places in next seasons Premier League.  I was interested to see the adverse reaction to Phil Brown's KC Karoke.  Love him or loathe him you can't deny that the 'tanned one' has overseen the most successful perid in the Humbersiders history.

Radio Five Mike Ingham took particular umbridge with Brown, suggesting Hull should be performing better.  Hull's a big city was Ingham's tone, yes so is Birmingham and Newcastle and look what the Blues and Toon have done in the last two season. This was the Tigers first season in the top flight in their history, any Hull fan would have took 17th before a ball was kicked.

Brown's problem was the fantastic start to the season.  The 2-1 win over Arsenal raised expectations as City flirted with the Champions League.  The crash was always going to come this is the Premier League after all. Brown made mistakes of course, the infamous Eastlands half time talk caused divison between manager and players.  Dean Windass was shunned despite scoring the goal that took Hull up.  I'm convinced that Windass could have netted five of six goals.

Radio Five's Ingham compared Brown's antics to the reserved Roy Hodgson.  Now I'm a massive Hodgson fan both as a man and a manager.  But would'nt life be dull if everyone had the same personality.  The media lapped up the antics of Cloughie and the Special One, so why dislike Brown to such an extent.  Then it clicked with Ingham, he's a Derby County fan, the same Derby County who sacked Phil Brown after a year.  Funny enough Hull gained more points by the start of October then the Rams did the previous season.  Yes Brown's singing was cringe worthy but that was nothing on Derby and their pathetic one win last season.

Maybe the Geordie loving media are hacked off because Hull stayed up at the expense of Newcastle United and Alan Shearer.  No one has a divine right to stay up just ask Spurs, Leeds, Forest, Villa, City and even United.