Up the Tigers
Football leaves me lukewarm. Traumatic school memories: as I lacked any eye/ball co-ordination, compulsory games at school involved the humiliating weekly ritual of being the very last to be picked, accompanied by cries of "It's not fair, Sir, we had him last week..." And yet, in all the years since I moved away from the East Riding, I would always look for Hull City's results first in the Sunday papers. Mild interest in their up-and-down performance swelled to huge pride shared by Hullites all around the globe when Hull City made their debut in the top division for the first time in their history.
East Yorkshire Motor Services celebrated the event by painting 698, a Wright Gemini Volvo B7TL (YX05EOR) in Tigers' amber-and-black livery. Corgi Classics also brought out a model. Having bought that from The Model Shop, Ferensway, Hull (where I bought lots of Airfix, Frog and Revell kits back in the 1960s), I had to get a pic of the 12"-to-1 ft version, and here it is, at the junction of Anlaby Road and Park Street, Hull. Result!
Will Tigers make it to a third season in the Premiership?
Up the Tigers
Football leaves me lukewarm. Traumatic school memories: as I lacked any eye/ball co-ordination, compulsory games at school involved the humiliating weekly ritual of being the very last to be picked, accompanied by cries of "It's not fair, Sir, we had him last week..." And yet, in all the years since I moved away from the East Riding, I would always look for Hull City's results first in the Sunday papers. Mild interest in their up-and-down performance swelled to huge pride shared by Hullites all around the globe when Hull City made their debut in the top division for the first time in their history.
East Yorkshire Motor Services celebrated the event by painting 698, a Wright Gemini Volvo B7TL (YX05EOR) in Tigers' amber-and-black livery. Corgi Classics also brought out a model. Having bought that from The Model Shop, Ferensway, Hull (where I bought lots of Airfix, Frog and Revell kits back in the 1960s), I had to get a pic of the 12"-to-1 ft version, and here it is, at the junction of Anlaby Road and Park Street, Hull. Result!
Will Tigers make it to a third season in the Premiership?