The KC Stadium

Monday, 3 January 2011

Hull City 0-1 Leicester City

Aerial shot of the KC Stadium (Bing Maps)

Ratings
Overall Ground Quality : 8/10
Ease of getting there : 8/10
Atmosphere : 8/10
Programme : 9/10
View of Action : 7/10
Quality of the game : 7/10
The "football" feeling : 7/10
Chances of coming here for a random game : 2/10
Legroom : 9/10
Surrounding area : 7/10

Overall : 72/100

Programme

Approaching the stadium

The front of the KC Stadium

Rear of the South Stand

One of the unusually shaped floodlights

Rear of the East Stand

Rear of the South Stand

Rear of the North Stand

The East Stand

The South Stand

The West Stand

The South Stand

The South Stand at Night

The East Stand at Night

Hull City 0-1 Leicester City

KC Stadium is home of Hull City, oh and Hull FC! Our long trip to Hull started early in the morning at 8am and reaching our first stop in Retford, Notts at 9:30am. Retford United and Worksop Town both play at Cannon Park which has a capacity of 2000 (According to Wikipedia!!). We then continued to reach Gainsborough at 10am. Gainsborough Trinity plays at The Northolme which has a capacity of 4304. Goole was our next stop and we got there an hour later. Goole play at the Victoria Pleasure Grounds (The VPG) which holds 3000. At 11:30am we found ourselves in North Ferriby. North Ferriby United play at Grange Lane (the Rapid Solicitors stadium) which has a capacity of 2700. We then went to the Hessle viewpoint of the Humber Bridge to take a few shots before entering Hull and visiting Boothferry Park, previous home of Hull City. Hull City moved out of Boothferry Park in 2003 to the KC Stadium. In January 2010, the majority of the ground was demolished due to several arson attacks on the historic site. On our visit, the six floodlight pylons were still standing tall over a crumbling, over grown Boothferry Park. We later realised we were seen on the site when I (Ross) found a webcam of Boothferry Park which contained a 24hour time-lapse of the previous day!

We then travelled across the city, even having a very brief chat with Radio Leicester’s Ian Stringer and former City player Alan Young who were also stationary at a set of traffic lights, and were lost! We visited Hull KR’s Craven Park before making our way back towards the KC Stadium and parking up. When we got into the ground and then I queued for a hot chocolate for myself and a tea for Adrian, which came to a rip-off total of £4.00, yep £2.00 for each hot drink! They still think they are a Premiership Club with Premiership prices. We later realised it was cheaper to by half a pint of beer at £1.50, how does that work out compared to hot drinks!!

Anyway end of rant; we walked down to our seats which were 4 rows from the bottom (Not a bad view) to find ourselves being deafened by the extremely loud music coming from the PA system above us for at least 45 minutes.

The game saw Leicester win by a single goal by Darius Vassell in the First Half against a very poor Hull City side managed by former Foxes manager Nigel Pearson (Thanks for the nice welcome in your programme notes Nigel! sarcasm). Unfortunately the game also saw Leicester’s promising loaned Left Back Greg Cunningham being subbed in the second half after an unfortunate tackle by Liam Rosenior which saw him sent off and we later found out Greg had actually broken his leg and could be out for about 4 months.

After the game we got out the KC and out of Hull in good time and both got home just after 7pm.

Overall I enjoyed my day up in Hull and our visits on the way. Even better, we beat Nigel Pearson and got an much needed away win!