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The Case for the Defence

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Well, since the last time I wrote on here about City, which was the 3-2 loss at home to QPR, we have had some real ups and quite recently some quite worrying downs. After that defeat which I attempted to analyse, things did start to pick up again and I would say from Nottingham Forest away until Sheffield Wednesday away there were a fair few reasons for City fans to be optimistic. That would be excluding the obvious of Forest at home and Barnsley away, both of which did really not showcase The Tigers favourably. In that time though we showed some extremely convincing performances against Derby, Fulham, Preston and Birmingham. But ever since we returned to the KCOM, following an encouraging run of away wins against QPR, Sheffield Wednesday and Rotherham in the cup, the feel-good factor that the club was starting to rebuild has been slowly crumbling. This is due to some poor showings against the likes of Fulham, Brentford and Blackburn which have left many feeling pessimistic and now co
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Racketlon World Championships 2019

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Here it is, a tad late yes I know, but I am finally writing my post about the 2019 Racketlon World Championships which took place in Leipzig in November. Just quickly going to go through the basic principle of racketlon for any unaware readers: very simply you play the four sports of table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis one after another, all up to 21 and whoever gets the most points across them wins! Now I had zero clue what to expect from this experience, apart from the obvious that I may have to pick up a couple of rackets in the duration of my time there. So, in the relatively early hours of a Tuesday morning I made my way from Humberside to Amsterdam to Berlin, and in that time made sure I submitted an RE essay about evangelism. My first encounter of a GB teammate came at Berlin Tegel Airport.  As I was waiting, very anxiously may I say, for that racket bag to be in luggage collection I met a fellow U21 team player, Cherisse,  the first of quite a few people I can safely
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Jordy, we missen je!

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Given the recent results Hull City have been getting, I have often found myself confused during matches as to what is going wrong and where the main cause of our losses stems from. We can go from looking like a competent side for around fifteen to twenty minutes, such as the beginning of the second half at Huddersfield, to then conceding goal after goal. This is something that probably should not confuse me because it is City, but still does as the shift in momentum always seems to shift pretty quickly in our matches. Therefore, today I will be looking at three reasons as to why I think we lost at home to QPR starting very specifically and building to be broader, in an attempt to solve all of our problems. You can thank me later Grant McCann.  1). Jordy de Wijs being out injured.       This is the most obvious one for me. As soon as I read the news on Friday that he had been ruled out for the match I knew we were in for some serious trouble and would most likely concede qui
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25.08.19

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Looking at the facts of this Test in the future, you would think that they were crazy and wonder how on earth we achieved them. England’s first innings of the 3 rd Test at Headlingley left me worrying away my hopes of going to watch the fourth day of the Ashes in a café in the Netherlands as the fall of wickets never stopped and we found ourselves all out for 67, which is less than half of what Ben Stokes managed to achieve in our second innings staggeringly.  In fact I had not had a massive amount of time to build up to this series-deciding match, I was only given two weeks to look forward to it, having been surprised with the tickets on my birthday. I was anxiously checking up on the score of the Test in the first three days non-stop, whether I found myself watching Feyenoord or Hull City, which with WiFi in football stadiums was quite the struggle. At the end of the third day Joe Root had been solid the whole innings and Ben Stokes had faced 50 balls and was only on 2 not out,
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My (shorter) Racketlon Journey

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Racketlon is a sport that in my opinion is massively under the radar despite the challenge and excitement it brings compared to many others. It involves playing the four sports of table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis to 21 points and the overall winner is who comes out of the four games with the most points. I was introduced to racketlon at a squash tournament a few years ago by one of the many players I have come up against and for a while after that I thought it was something I was going to change my focus to after a tough spell for me in squash dealing with my asthma.  A year or so on from that I decided to enter a tournament and see whether I would suit this format and be able to cope with the different demands each sport required. Being a squash player since the age of six and having played many tournaments over the years, this will always be my best sport and at the time the other three were grouped together at the bottom of my abilities apart from playing some schoo
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My Hull City Journey

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My name is Alexandra, better known as Lexie, and I am a squash and racketlon player, an avid reader but most importantly to me, a lifelong Hull City fan.  I have been able to call myself one of those as soon as I could talk as I did in fact have a season pass for the club before I was born as my birthday is in August when the season begins. For me football is what provides me with the most memories of my childhood, and despite the fact that I can remember absolutely zero of that play off final because apparently my three year old self didn’t consider that an important enough event, there is no past memory that is a negative one. The atmosphere of the past in the KC Stadium is one of the many reasons that I love football, how so many people can come together in support of one team, I used to have to cover my ears when the teams came out because of how much noise the stadium would generate, oh how times have changed. The routine of a Saturday is one of the distinctive things I c
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