Back to the future as misery heaped on Hull

MAYBE it’s the mulled wine talking, or even the celebratory eggnog, but there was something about Saturday’s win at Hull which had me remembering Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Prior to the game we were treated to Christmas past, with a trip around Hull’s choice drinking dens. It was as if I’d stepped into the 1970s as I entered my first pub, with groups of our supporters calming their nerves with pre-match joints.

I wondered if the government had simply excluded Hull from any new laws until The Beatles reformed, with the smoking ban being flouted.