Battered Brown breathes again as Hull fight back in style

PHIL BROWN can breathe again.

The Hull City manager would have been forgiven for thinking this game would be his last in charge after his side trailed at the interval.

As it was, a feisty second-half recovery, capped by goals from Seyi Olofinjana and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, earned the beleaguered Brown a stay of execution.