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Premier League: Hull City 2-1 Stoke City

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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Talk about inscrutable. When Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored Hull City's late, late winner – a goal conjured, incidentally, by Jimmy Bullard – Adam Pearson's face remained impassive, the new home chairman merely giving a little shrug in response to a comment from someone sitting nearby.

Is he about to offer Phil Brown an extended stay of execution as Hull'smanager or may an alternative havealready been lined up? Pearson's pre-match comments pointed clearly to the former scenario but doubts about Brown's future resurfaced when, unusually, he ducked post-match media duties, delegating them to his assistant, BrianHorton. When Horton was asked if victory had saved the manager's job he replied: "I refuse to answer that question. I won't talk about stupid things. Phil's a good manager. He's got a great future in the game."

So far so ambiguous but at least Horton, who claimed Brown was "enjoying a well deserved Guinness", proved more expansive about Hull's fourth Premier League win since early December 2008.

"It's like winning the play-off final all over again," he

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