Hull 2 - 1 Derby County

Marc Edworthy (Who touched a Hull player to give away a penalty)

Yesterday, the glorious Rams played Hull City. I have affection for Hull City, over the last three years I have seen them as many times as I’ve seen Derby. They’ve done very well to get from Division 4 to the Championship in two years.

Unfortunately, the Rams lost! Or should I say robbed. A deserved Hull goal saw them go one down early, but after that Hull were on the back foot. Luckily Hull had the Referee in their pocket and a Stern John goal was disallowed just after half time.
We managed to get a penalty in the second half that Idiakas put away. Then normal service was reduced. The Hull players gave a (unusual for them) fine acting performance in falling at every opportunity and raising their arms if a Derby player sneezed. Predictably, Hull got a penalty and got the winner with 10 minutes to go. To add insult to injury, Derby had another goal disallowed and hit the cross bar. Travesty!

Here are some quotes from the Hull City Website;

“Derby finished the half strongly though and were unlucky not to go in level at the break, with Stern John's shot that hit the crossbar the closest they came to equalizing.John found the net 8 minutes into the second half, but his header was disallowed for a foul on Damien Delaney.The warning signs were there, and when Leon Cort brought down Seth Johnson in the box minutes later, Idiakez drew level for Derby County with the penalty.There only looked like being one team who could win it as the Rams continued to dominate, but against the run of play City stole a late goal. Chris Brown was brought down by Hall for a clear-cut penalty, and substitute Stuart Green put it into the bottom corner.The visitors had another goal disallowed in the 86th minute. Cort was challenged unfairly by Davies as he headed in, and the Derby player was sent off for protesting his innocence.”

“They had what looked a good goal disallowed 5 minutes before they equalized. Cast Iron penalty after Cort brought down Johnson. Following our inner, they had another disallowed (form which Davies was sent off for his protests), Boaz made 2 good saves and Tudgay put two just wide. It was a battering.”

About 30 minutes after the game finished I got a phone call as I do after every game from some of the Derby Lads. This phone call was different. They wanted to know how to get out of Hull. On the way up it had taken them one hour to the edge of Hull, then nearly two hours to get to the ground because of road works. So for the next 30 minutes I had to give him an alternative of how to get out of Hull. He missed the first 20 minutes of the game and couldn’t get a drink at half time due to the lack of speed of the kids behind the counter. Bizarrely he’s crossed this fixture off his away list for next year.

Ignore me though, its just sour grapes!