Source: Telegraph
Hull City 0 Blackburn Rovers 0: match report
It was a day of frustration and tedium at the KC Stadium, with two teams possessing the will but not the skill to take something from the game. No goals, no glory - and for thousands of shivering fans, no mercy. [LNB]Blackburn are becoming experts at this. It was their third league stalemate in a row, a result that further entrenches them in their mid-table purgatory. [LNB]Sunderland v Blackburn Rovers previewHull at least created chances, but though they might have played worse this season, scarcely can they have looked so impotent. [LNB]Really, it was a shocker from start to finish. Chances in the first half were few, but the best fell to Hull. Early on Franco Di Santo, in an echo of last week's game against Liverpool, took one touch too many and was pickpocketed. [LNB]This time, though, he was in his own half, and when George Boateng played it through for Craig Fagan, only a sprawling Paul Robinson saved Di Santo's blushes. [LNB]Robinson bailed out Chris Samba next, saving low from Stephen Hunt after Samba had slipped on the edge of his area, and Hull were unlucky not to win a penalty soon afterwards when Paul McShane went down under pressure from Gael Givet. At the other end, David Hoilett went close on a couple of occasions for Blackburn. [LNB]Both sides played their trump cards in the second half; Blackburn brought on £6m Nikola Kalinic - still waiting for his first league start - and to great fanfare, Hull manager Phil Brown introduced the American Jozy Altidore. [LNB]The latter furiously claimed a penalty when he was went over under pressure from Samba. [LNB]Replays showed, though, that Altidore had tripped over his own feet. It was as neat a metaphor for the game as any. [LNB]Di Santo and Kalinic enjoyed half-chances for Blackburn, but there was little else of note before Chris Foy blew what must have been the most compassionate whistle of his career. [LNB]The reaction on full time was, appropriately enough, silence. [LNB]
