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| Hull City v Chelsea: Premier League – live! | Hull City v Chelsea: Premier League – live! |
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| 3.48pm GMT15:48 | |
| Hull manager Steve Bruce has been talking to the cameras. | |
| We’re up against one of the best teams in Europe with arguably the best manager. When you put those two things today, it can be pretty formidable. | |
| Hernandez has shown in glimpses what he can do. It’s taken him a bit of a while to get used to the Premier League, whereas N’Doye has hit the ground running. | |
| 3.34pm GMT15:34 | |
| Mikel John Obi aside, Chelsea’s squad arrive in Hull with a clean bill of health. Hull meanwhile, have a few important absences: Tom Huddlestone is suspended, Nikica Jelavic has just undergone knee surgery, Mo Diame and James Chester are still recovering from their injuries, and Robbie Brady is only fit enough for the bench. | |
| Hull play six of the top seven teams in their last nine games. The sooner they get those players back, the better. Results went for them yesterday, with all the teams below them losing (apart from QPR, who play Everton today), but they remain just three points above the relegation zone. Bum, squeaky, etc. | |
| Updated at 3.44pm GMT | |
| 3.26pm GMT15:26 | |
| JOSÉ MOURINHO IS TAKING ONE GAME AT A TIME AND NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT THE TITLE although he has revealed he celebrated each of the 21 trophies he has won as a manager by removing his watch and keeping it as a memento. | |
| I take my watch from my wrist and I don’t wear it again. A big collection? I have a big collection. I keep it. They’re in a safe box. Like people keep medals or shirts, I keep my watches. Another thing is if I don’t win, the watch becomes a normal watch, so I wear, I don’t wear, I wear, I don’t wear. But when I finish a season with a trophy, that season is represented with a watch. I have 21. | |
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| Updated at 3.27pm GMT | |
| 3.12pm GMT15:12 | 3.12pm GMT15:12 |
| Today’s teams. | Today’s teams. |
| Hull (3-5-2): McGregor, Dawson, Bruce, McShane, Elmohamady, Livermore, Meyler, Ramirez, Robertson, N’Doye, Hernandez. Subs: Rosenior, Davies, Brady, Sagbo, Harper, Aluko, Quinn. | Hull (3-5-2): McGregor, Dawson, Bruce, McShane, Elmohamady, Livermore, Meyler, Ramirez, Robertson, N’Doye, Hernandez. Subs: Rosenior, Davies, Brady, Sagbo, Harper, Aluko, Quinn. |
| Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Luis, Fabregas, Matic, Willian, Ramires, Hazard, Costa. Subs: Cech, Zouma, Oscar, Remy, Cuadrado, Azpilicueta, Loftus-Cheek. | Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Luis, Fabregas, Matic, Willian, Ramires, Hazard, Costa. Subs: Cech, Zouma, Oscar, Remy, Cuadrado, Azpilicueta, Loftus-Cheek. |
| Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland) | Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland) |
| Updated at 3.13pm GMT | Updated at 3.13pm GMT |
| 3.01pm GMT15:01 | 3.01pm GMT15:01 |
| Preamble | Preamble |
| The last time Hull City beat Chelsea was October 1988 with most of today’s players just a sparkle in their respective fathers’ eyes. Hull ran out comfortable 3-0 winners at the now-defunct Boothferry Park in the now-defunct Division Two in front of a crowd just short if 7,000, a Keith Edwards brace and a strike from Michael Smith helping the Yorkshire club to a deserved win. | The last time Hull City beat Chelsea was October 1988 with most of today’s players just a sparkle in their respective fathers’ eyes. Hull ran out comfortable 3-0 winners at the now-defunct Boothferry Park in the now-defunct Division Two in front of a crowd just short if 7,000, a Keith Edwards brace and a strike from Michael Smith helping the Yorkshire club to a deserved win. |
| The result wasn’t representative for how the 1988/89 season panned out. Chelsea would finish the season as champions with 99 points – a full 17 points ahead of the second-placed team, Manchester City, whilst Hull finished in 21st, just avoiding relegation. Sound familiar reader? | The result wasn’t representative for how the 1988/89 season panned out. Chelsea would finish the season as champions with 99 points – a full 17 points ahead of the second-placed team, Manchester City, whilst Hull finished in 21st, just avoiding relegation. Sound familiar reader? |
| Football fans, pundits and even journalists can get a bit carried away with one performance, or one result. Manchester United are now really good, Liverpool are rubbish, and that Steven Gerrard guy is a dirty little so-and-so isn’t he? Rarely are things so simple, but geezers (and geezettes) need excitement and narrative to make life a bit more interesting between now and the end of May. | Football fans, pundits and even journalists can get a bit carried away with one performance, or one result. Manchester United are now really good, Liverpool are rubbish, and that Steven Gerrard guy is a dirty little so-and-so isn’t he? Rarely are things so simple, but geezers (and geezettes) need excitement and narrative to make life a bit more interesting between now and the end of May. |
| If Chelsea fail to win today, some people will suggest Manchester City and perhaps Arsenal are still in with a sniff of the title. So expect a 3-0 home win for Hull today, reactive hyperbole tomorrow, Hull to avoid relegation by the skin of their teeth and Chelsea to ignore it all and romp to the title by 17 points. | If Chelsea fail to win today, some people will suggest Manchester City and perhaps Arsenal are still in with a sniff of the title. So expect a 3-0 home win for Hull today, reactive hyperbole tomorrow, Hull to avoid relegation by the skin of their teeth and Chelsea to ignore it all and romp to the title by 17 points. |
| Kick off: 4pm GMT | Kick off: 4pm GMT |
| Updated at 3.15pm GMT | Updated at 3.15pm GMT |