My Hull City Journey

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 can remember from those days, getting into the ground by displaying our car park pass, always parking under the same floodlight as that was what brought us luck for the match, all four of my family putting their foot on our brick in front of the west stand when we knew we needed a win that day. Me and my sister always being given a chocolate bar at each game from the man sat in front of us which went along with the rest of the snacks we had for the match. These days of the club seemed as though they would live forever and as a young child, I obviously always believed this routine would stick for years to come.


 But then came the debacle of the name change, and whilst I knew which side of the fence I firmly stood on, the thing I disliked the most out of it all was how it created this divide between everyone who supported the club. Whenever I went to a match in the season that this was occurring, this problem was inescapable and is what makes that small period of time one of the worst for me as I was not used to such topics making their way into the football, something I had not seen before. Along with the proposal for the name change saw the abolition of concessions at the club, something that massively impacted my football experience from that moment on. The four members of my family, one of which being my disabled sister who had her concession taking away as well have never since all been to a match together, so the routine I had all those years ago was broken as soon as this happened. I struggled with this for a long time as being a stickler for a routine, I didn’t like not having this one reliable day of the week where win or lose I knew would be an enjoyable one. But despite all this, my passion for the club and which ever set of players we have had over the recent years has never diminished because that is never something that should change.


 Differences have been made to that routine of my childhood, mainly it only being my mum and I who go to home matches, but in all the adversity that has surrounded the club in the recent years, it makes me even more determined to cheer on those players on the pitch, in a hope that we will one day be able to regain the feelings that my love of the club was built on. This year as the club have brought back my concession, I am able to have a season pass for the first time since they were taken away. And even though the club is not in its strongest league position, and the odds for our relegation start to become more likely, I have more recently found myself more optimistic ironically, because I have been able to get a seat of my own for the first time in a long time. But when you look around the ground on a Saturday afternoon and see the attendance as low as it has ever been in the new stadium, that optimism starts to fade and I feel selfish, as whilst I am able to enjoy myself, not everybody is able to like they used to. And no, I don’t mean I think we should sell all of our players and getting the likes of Boyd, Brady, Fryatt and Elmohamady back into our team, although that would be a nice dream, it’s that feeling that I mentioned earlier around that I want back. 


I want Kamil Grosicki to try and encourage the crowd like he did against Bristol City and then be able to produce a loud enough response that the team are then able to go and convert those missed chances into goals and give us all the positivity we have been missing over the last few years. And although I would support this club no matter what, I can’t help but imagine sometimes what we could be missing out on at the moment if things had been done differently in certain aspects of the club.



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  1. Very well put Lexie. Pleased to have been on most of that journey with you x

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  2. Excellent piece of reflection.. Well said Lexie

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