The Hull manager believes that five wins from their remaining 19 league
games will be necessary for survival and that on-pitch talking-to was a
reminder to his players, he later explained, that 4,000 fans had
"arranged their Boxing Days" around a game of football. "I just thought
it was nice and cold and I would keep the boys alive because they
looked as though they were dead," Brown said.
His players, who have mustered a solitary win in 10 games, were spared
the humiliation of passing the entire interval on the pitch. "Let's not
read too much into that," Brown said, when asked why he eventually led
them off. But after delivering four goals to City in a horrible 21
minutes – "unacceptable behaviour and an unacceptable performance from
a Phil Brown side," as he put it – Brown suggested last night that his
side have got carried away with themselves. "We've been sucked into the
Premier League – the pretty Premier League," he said. "We are not
pretty by any stretch of the imagination. We are ugly Hull. If you
don't bring your ugly head to the table, then Manchester City will play
some football against you."

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