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Hull must roll dice if they’re to prosper

PAINFUL: Hull squandered a 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 at home against Bristol City last month
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NO CLUB illustrate the twisted economics of modern football more vividly than Hull City, whose desperate need to be in the Premier League prompted the dismissal of Leonid Slutsky.
The experienced Russian might have got it right, given time, but that was not available.
Hull are interested only in looking up, and it was galling enough being 20th, 16 points off the play-offs. However, being only three points off the drop they had t...

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