Category: Memory Lane

Remembering my early days watching Hull City at Boothferry Park, when as a lad you waited for the toss up to find out which way the Tigers were kicking. If you wanted to watch the team attacking you raced around the ground to...

It was a beautiful opening Spring-time morning on the 21st March 1970 and the Tigers’ fixture that afternoon was away to Millwall at their notorious Den. The away coaches that I and most fellow fans regularly travelled on for...

Addiction is something that can be very destructive in anyone’s life. Drugs, alcohol, etc., can kill. My addiction though has left me in a reasonable state of health but instead quite often penniless. Hull City is my addiction....

It feels like a bereavement; Yes, Stevie Bruce has gone. The heart has gone from our club. Now we must soldier on. Four years to make a legend. We’re going to miss you, Steve. I read the news with disbelief. Did you really have...

My Dad used to take me to reserve games at first – always enjoyed the half time crisps – this would be around 1950. My first experience of the first team, also with my dad, was around the 1952/53 season. Can’t...

I was 10 years old in 1948 when Jack Rudd ( later to become my brother-in-law ) took me to watch my first Hull City game at Boothferry Park, it was also Raich Carter’s first game in charge of the Tigers. It was magic!...

My memories of Boothferry Park stretch back to the late 1940’s. I remember vividly the Raich Carter days, his skill on the ball and how he taunted the opposition with his foot on the ball, totally directing operations. Of...

Although I’d been to my first match at Boothferry Park a year or two previously, the first game of any significance that I can recall is the famous FA Cup sixth round against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in March 1966. A...

Probably the memory which stands out over anything else in 67 years of watching Hull City would be the first game I attended at Boothferry Park. I was taken by an Uncle and Aunt, both of whom regularly attended matches. It was...