Ryan Richardson

Photo of The Deep at night and its reflection in the River Hull

Photo of The Deep reflecting the sun

Pretty much the only good photos I've ever taken are of The Deep.

The Roy Hodgson 'Baptism of Fire' clip definitely exists. Pretty sure it was on a 2 Good 2 Bad back in the Chiles days.

Screenshot of a tweet by Hull City which says "If we had a pound for every blade of grass covered by Regan Slater tonight, we'd have been able to buy him twice."

Regarding this tweet by Hull City over Christmas; Regan Slater famously (to us) cost fifty grand, so he purportedly covered 100,000 blades of grass. Is that actually a lot?

18 years ago at Wembley:

Sol Campbell. Croatia. And the longest slide tackle since records began…

YouTube video by Martin Lewis Martin Lewis: Time to ban unnecessary Christmas presents!

Christmas gift giving is a zero sum game. Too much tit-for-tat ends up in tat, that wastes money and fills landfills.

Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvmlshow.bsky.social )

Photo from the Football Clichés live show showing an advert at the venue for an upcoming show by Sean McLoughlin

Footballers names in @footballcliches.bsky.social live show venue upcoming event posters

Freezing him out is right up there with the stupidest things Tim Walter did.

Purely from seeing it at the time, I'm not sure any keeper realistically saves it. It was blasted in off the bar from about 5 yards. Pandur saves shots but his distribution is a real problem and I think that matters more than people acknowledge.

I'M not one to complain usually but, I mean fucking hell. Come on. Peter Busby, e-mail

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

A page of a book showing a baby with body parts labelled for teaching an infant. The baby has a wide-ish stance with arms down by his sides but slightly away from his body as if for balance and his gaze is focused on a point ahead of and slightly above him. His tongue is poking slightly out of his mouth in the way that an adult might do when focusing on a task.

Can't see beyond how this baby in my son's book looks like a free kick specialist lining one up to bend it in the top corner. You've seen him score from this range before.

Take away the frustration at the scoreline and the run we're on and that's a really good half from #hcafc. Blackburn look tidy but have created nothing. We probably should be winning, certainly not behind.

The best time to see our beavers is mid to late afternoon from 3:30pm

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Bluesky:

Can't understand how/why Acun was so trigger happy when we were doing well but is so reluctant to act now that we're obviously shite. I don't buy the ego theory but there's really no good explanation. #hcafc

I think it's a product of the situation. He's lost the players and it's clearly over for him, yet we're dragging our feet sacking him and so he still has to do an interview and put on a brave face. It's a ridiculous situation that Acun simply needs to end.

Walter might well be a smart guy with a plan that could've worked under different circumstances, but it clearly isn't working and it looks extremely unlikely to turn around. We're just delaying the inevitable by not sacking him yet, surely. #hcafc

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It's still gutting to me that we had such a successful, likeable, popular and obviously intelligent manager and threw it away on the whimsical belief that we could do better. Utter stupidity that looks like it will hurt us for years.

Walter might well be a smart guy with a plan that could've worked under different circumstances, but it clearly isn't working and it looks extremely unlikely to turn around. We're just delaying the inevitable by not sacking him yet, surely. #hcafc

Plenty of talent but achieves nothing, just like the team in general.

I've recently become conscious that I instinctively drink my water whenever City concede. Probably looks like I'm deliberately copying Guardiola but I'm really just occupying myself whilst the opposition have their fun.

Mauled and 01482 are up there - if only to cancel out the overly serious sorts who say they're embarrassing.

Best ever might be a stretch, but this ball by Sagbo in the #hcafc 6-0 over Fulham always sticks in my mind. Sitting behind the path of it in the West stand I wasn't even sure what he was trying to do until it found Koren.

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Furious at @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social saying Hull were the team who snuck into the 2008 playoffs. We finished 3rd! Could've even got automatic promotion on the final day but we felt that Windass at Wembley was the better narrative path.