Source: Daily_Mail
Hull City 3 West Ham 3: Brown and Zola are really put through the wringer
No wonder they reckon Premier League management can seriously damage your health.[LNB]Blackburn's Sam Allardyce, now needing heart surgery, cannot be the only boss suffering.[LNB]Picture Phil Brown after 11 minutes at the KC Stadium, his team giving goals away as though they wanted him to be unemployed by Christmas.[LNB] Giving Hammers the hump: Kamil Zayatte celebrates Hull's second goal[LNB]Then step into Gianfranco Zola's shoes, as he watched victory turninto near defeat, destroyed by bad luck, stupidity and rough justice inthat order.[LNB]And just when they were preparing to rename his club Waste Ham, salvation came in the form of Manuel Da Costa's ugly left boot.[LNB]Hull, reduced to 10 men by then, had dithered in defence to throw away a victory of their own.[LNB]Imagine the blood pressure levels on the bench as Hammerssubstitiute Luis Jimenez almost stole all the points back in the dyingminutes, only to find the side-netting.[LNB]And the hearts jumping as Junior Stanislas headed over from so nearthe Hull goal that grandmas nationwide would have fancied their chances.[LNB] Sent off: Hull City's Bernard Mendy (right) is shown a red card by referee Mark Clattenburg[LNB]It was marvellous fun if you were a neutral. Carlton Cole squandereda fine fifth-minute chance. No matter, Stanislas swung in theresulting corner for Guillermo Franco to head his team's opener.[LNB]Hull keeper Matt Duke seemed to freeze at the cleverness of it all.Franco's confidence soared and six minutes later he produced the passof the match to leave Jack Collison an 11th-minute invitation.[LNB]The young midfielder duly accepted to loop his header goalwards,with Duke stranded in no man's land. 'Two-nil to the Cockney Boys' asthe Hammers fans sang. [LNB]At that point only the precise timing of Hull manager Brown's dismissal seemed up for debate, because the result wasn't.[LNB]The visitors' mistake was to underestimate another Londoner, JimmyBullard, who decided to chase a lost cause as if it were a matter ofpersonal pride.[LNB] Jumping Jack: Collison heads the Hammers' second[LNB]His first free-kick just about knocked out Scott Parker. His secondfree-kick was on target in the 27th minute, though it probably wouldnot have beaten Robert Green had Cole not intervened with his head. Thedeflection proved fatal and Hull were back in it.[LNB]Bullard let Stephen Hunt whip the home side's next telling set-piecejust before the break. West Ham's dozy defence watched as Kamil Zayattearrived with exquisite timing to apply the killer touch.[LNB]The colour returned to Brown's heavily-tanned face. If Zola was exasperated at that point, he was near despair in injury-time.[LNB]Referee Mark Clattenburg, never shy, pointed to the spot when Craig Fagan fell at Julien Faubert's feet.[LNB]That won him some attention, though some officials might have ruledthe 'offending' contact was initiated by the striker as he backed intohis opponent.[LNB] Bull hit: Jimmy Bullard fires home Hull's controversial penalty[LNB]Up stepped Bullard, who showed once again how well he can clip a ball. Green dived low, Bullard aimed high and Hull were ahead. But Brown's torment was not over because eight minutes after theinterval Bernard Mendy was correctly dismissed for tripping ScottParker, who was racing through on goal.[LNB]And in the 69th minute a Stanislas corner brought suicidal defending and Da Costa achieved parity.[LNB]Who would be a Premier League manager? All of us, of course. But it would often hurt.[LNB] Andy Townsend's Boot Room: Boy wonder Robin a hard act to followHULL CITY FC
