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2011–12 Hull City A.F.C. Season
The 2011–12 season is Hull City's second consecutive season back in the Football League Championship, Championship after relegation from the Premier League in the 2009–10 season. They also competed in the 2011–12 Football League Cup, League Cup and the 2011–12 FA Cup, FA Cup. Events On 15 November 2011 manager Nigel Pearson left the club to take up an appointment at former club Leicester City F.C., Leicester City, taking with him backroom staff Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh. Hull City appointed Nick Barmby as caretaker manager. On 18 November it was announced that Steve Wigley would be rejoining the club's backroom staff as first-team coach. On 6 January 2012 Barmby announced that he would be retiring as a player. On 10 January 2012 he was appointed as permanent manager of the club. On 31 March 2012, during a match against Coventry City F.C., Coventry City, captain Jack Hobbs (footballer), Jack Hobbs suffered a rupture to his anterior cruciate ligament, an injury whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull City A
Hull may refer to: Structures * The hull of an armored fighting vehicle, housing the chassis * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a sea-going craft * Submarine hull Mathematics * Affine hull, in affine geometry * Conical hull, in convex geometry * Convex hull, in convex geometry ** Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull) * Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis * Injective hull, of a module * Linear hull, another name for the linear span * Skolem hull, of mathematical logic Places United Kingdom England * Hull, the common name of Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire ** Hull City A.F.C., a football team ** Hull F.C., Hull FC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city ** Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city ** Port of Hull ** University of Hull * River Hull, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Shakespeare
Craig Robert Shakespeare (26 October 1963 – 1 August 2024) was an English professional footballer and coach best known for managing at the time Premier League club Leicester City in 2017. A midfielder, Shakespeare began his playing career with Walsall, where he made over 350 appearances. After a brief spell with Sheffield Wednesday, he also made over 100 appearances for both West Bromwich Albion and Grimsby Town. He also played for Scunthorpe United before finishing his career in non-league football with Telford United and Hednesford Town. As a coach, Shakespeare worked at West Bromwich Albion, Leicester City and Hull City. He was briefly caretaker manager at West Brom in 2006 and took a similar role at Leicester in February 2017 before he was appointed manager in March. He was appointed permanent manager of Leicester City on 8 June 2017 after signing a three-year deal. He later served as assistant manager for Everton, Watford, Aston Villa and the England national team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Stewart (footballer)
Cameron Reece Stewart (born 8 April 1991) is an English former professional footballer. He played primarily as a winger, but he also played as a forward. He began his career with Fletcher Moss Rangers, then moving onto Manchester United, and also represented England at under-17, under-19 and under-20 level. He had loan spells with Yeovil Town and Hull City in the first half of the 2010–11 season, before he joined Hull permanently for an undisclosed fee in January 2011. After a year at Hull, he fell out of favour and went on successive loan spells to Burnley, Blackburn Rovers, Charlton Athletic and Leeds United throughout the 2012–13 and 2013–14 campaigns. He was due to join Leeds permanently at the end of his Hull contract in July 2014, but the transfer was cancelled and he instead joined Ipswich Town. However he made just two FA Cup appearances for the club, and had loan spells with Barnsley and Doncaster Rovers in the 2015–16 season, before he was released by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chester
James Grant Chester (born 23 January 1989) is a former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back. Starting at Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, he later went on to play for the likes of Hull City A.F.C., Hull City, West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa and Derby County. He also won 35 caps for the Wales national football team. Chester began his career with Manchester United F.C., Manchester United but made only one appearance for the club. He had spells on Loan (sports), loan at Peterborough United F.C., Peterborough United, Plymouth Argyle F.C., Plymouth Argyle and Carlisle United F.C., Carlisle United before joining Hull City A.F.C., Hull City in January 2011 on a permanent contract. He spent three and a half years there before signing for West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bromwich Albion in 2015. After only one year with West Brom, Chester joined Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McKenna (footballer)
Paul Stephen McKenna (born 20 October 1977) is an English former professional footballer. Career Preston North End Born in Eccleston, Lancashire, after making his debut in 1997 he soon became a fixture in the Preston North End first team. His appearance tally was 427 at the end of the 2007–08 season. This puts him at number nine in the all-time record appearances for the club. He has worn the number 16 shirt since squad numbers were adopted by the Football League. The 2006–07 season ended in disappointment for the Chorley-born player, not only at missing out on the Play-offs but at missing the last two months of the season with a groin problem. However, he recovered from the injury in time to make a first-team return in October 2007, and was named club captain in one of Paul Simpson's last acts as manager. McKenna has missed just one game since being handed the captain's armband. McKenna scored the winning penalty in the penalty shoot-out of the 2000–01 Division One pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Rosenior
Liam James Rosenior (born 9 July 1984) is an English professional association football, football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Ligue 1 club RC Strasbourg Alsace, Strasbourg. As a player, he played either as a full-back (association football), full-back or winger (association football), winger. He played for Bristol City F.C., Bristol City, Fulham F.C., Fulham, Torquay United F.C., Torquay United, Reading F.C., Reading, Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town, Hull City A.F.C., Hull City and Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion. He is a former England national under-20 football team, England U20 and England national under-21 football team, England U21 international with a combined total of 11 caps and one goal. Rosenior was interim manager at Derby County F.C., Derby County in 2022 and managed Hull in the EFL Championship from November 2022 to May 2024. He was then named as manager of Strasbourg. Club career Bristol City Born in Wandsworth in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Basso
Adriano Basso (born 18 April 1975) is a Brazilian former professional association football, footballer who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach. Basso began his playing career in his native Brazil before entering English league football with Bristol City F.C., Bristol City for whom he remained for five years. After being released in 2010, he signed a short-term deal with Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers the following year and then spent his last season at Hull City A.F.C., Hull City. Playing career Basso previously played for Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, Ponte Preta and Clube Atlético Paranaense, Atlético Paranaense in his homeland before moving to England. He had an unsuccessful three-month trial with Arsenal F.C., Arsenal before joining non-league sides St Albans City F.C., St Albans City and Woking F.C., Woking. He eventually signed for Football League One, League One side Bristol City F.C., Bristol City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Watkiss
Stuart Watkiss (born 8 May 1966) is an English football coach and former professional player who was most recently the assistant manager of National League South club Eastbourne Borough. As a player, he was a defender and notably played in the Football League with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Crewe Alexandra, Walsall, Hereford United and Mansfield Town. He became manager of Mansfield in 2002, and later took charge Kidderminster Harriers. Since 2006, he has held strong affiliations to Grimsby Town where he has had three separate spells serving as assistant manager and youth team manager as well as acting as caretaker manager. He has also briefly managed abroad at both Bharat FC and Naxxar Lions and has held various other roles on the coaching staff's of Barnsley, Hull City and Stockport County. Playing career Watkiss started his playing career at Ward's Bridge School in his hometown of Wolverhampton. He then joined Willenhall Town, for the youth team, which reached the Midl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Bruce
Stephen Roger Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Association football, player who was a centre-back in a twenty-year playing career. He is currently the head coach of EFL League One club Blackpool F.C., Blackpool. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, Bruce was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by several professional clubs. He was on the verge of quitting the game altogether when he was offered a trial with Gillingham F.C., Gillingham. He was offered an apprenticeship and went on to play more than 200 games for the club before joining Norwich City F.C., Norwich City in 1984, winning the 1985 Football League Cup Final, League Cup in 1985. In 1987, he moved to Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, with whom he achieved great success, winning twelve trophies including three Premier League titles, three FA Cups, one EFL Cup, League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Pearson (sports Executive)
Adam Pearson (born 19 November 1964) is the owner of Hull F.C. rugby league club, and former Executive Director of Leeds United. He is the former chairman of English association football club Derby County, Chairman (2001–07 & 2009–10) and Head of Football Operations (2010–12) at Hull City and a former member of the Sheffield Wednesday footballing committee. Career Born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Pearson left his position as Leeds United's commercial director in 2001 to purchase Hull City and take over as chairman. At the time, Leeds were one of the country's most ambitious, big-spending Premier League clubs, while Hull were in administration and languishing at the bottom end of the Third Division of the Football League. But by the time Pearson left Hull in 2007, he had seen Hull promoted twice, moving up to the Championship. Pearson was also Head of the Stadium Management Company, which operates the KCOM Stadium, the home of Hull City and rugby league side Hull F.C. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Dawson
Andrew Stuart Dawson (born 20 October 1978) is an English former professional footballer and current first team coach at Hull City. As a player he was a defender from 1997 to 2015. Having left Nottingham Forest as a youngster he joined Scunthorpe United permanently following a loan spell. He played for United on two occasions during his career having also spent ten years with Hull City. Playing career Early career Born in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, Dawson is the elder brother of Michael Dawson (formerly of Tottenham Hotspur) and Kevin Dawson (formerly of Chesterfield). Like his brothers, Andy started his professional career at Nottingham Forest, but he made only one senior appearance for them before moving to Scunthorpe for £45,000. Hull City Dawson moved to Hull City on 16 May 2003 on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United. During his several years at the club, he has worn the captain's armband on many occasions. Rise up the Football League Arriving in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
