“Never mind how Crap the Referee was, how brilliant were Hull FC this afternoon”, said a fan I over-heard as we left the ground and indeed how bloody good they were! What an afternoon it was yesterday, to be a black and white!
Come that final hooter, it was the first tears since Wembley for yours truly, after a victory that we’ll be talking about for years! That was a simply magnificent showing that saw the return for the first time this season of the heart, tenacity and never say die attitude that got us through so many epic encounters last year! That was the FC I loved last term and that was Lee Radford’s never say die heroes at last making a welcome return to the KCOM.
What an afternoon in the sun it was. Against all the odds we beat the league leaders in a game when 12-man Hull fought as if their lives depended on it and beat what was at times a 14 man Castleford outfit who stood proudly at the top of the league! On a weekend when two games saw two teams called the Tigers play at the KCOM, there were sending’s off in both encounters and in them both, the short-handed team were justifiably aggrieved but won the day and although I know and care little about Hull City, what heroes we had out there in black and white on Sunday.
With more drama than two years of Coronation Street for the near 13,000 crowd to follow, I was so pleased that I was there to witness it! I squirmed and fidgeted, berated the referee and watched through my fingers until I was totally wrung out and until the relief at the end was palpable. What more I’m still buzzing 14 hours later as I post this Diary. The only thing that was missing was the Club playing Sweet Caroline at the end, so we could serenade our friends from Castleford as they left the ground, just as they have serenaded us so often in the past. But you can’t have everything. Marvellous stuff though wasn’t it?