Source: Eurosport
Avoid Riverside reverse - Brown
Phil Brown has told his Hull City side they will be in a 'must-not-lose' situation when they take to the field at Middlesbrough on Saturday.
The Tigers pulled further clear of Premier League trouble last weekend as they played out a goalless draw with fellow strugglers Portsmouth at the KC Stadium.
Hull's cause was helped as the bottom three - West Brom, Boro and Newcastle - all suffered defeats.
Boro will be desperate to pick up three points at home to Hull in their next match but Brown is equally determined to stop that from happening.
"It was a great point for us because the bottom three got nothing from the day. Portsmouth was about a result and it became a better point with the other results," Brown told the Hull Daily Mail.
"Middlesbrough is a must-not-lose situation. A win for us wouldn't seal their fate, certainly not in their eyes.
"But it would put a big points distance between ourselves and Middlesbrough with six games to go."
Brown's men are currently five points above the bottom three but the manager insists he will take nothing for granted until the end of the season.
"I am confident where we will be playing our football next season, I always have been," he said. "But I don't like the sound of 'comfort' or 'cushion', they are too fluffy for me.
"It is a hard life down the bottom and a tough life. I heard Alan Shearer say it is much easier to play at the top of a division rather than the bottom.
"It does tend to limit you. When I first came here, we were in a survival campaign and we didn't play pretty football to get out of that. But we got results."
