HULL CITY 1984-85

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?DIVISION THREE PROMOTIONBy Neil Fissler

BRIAN Horton had an uncanny knack of winning promotion in his first full season with a club during his long playing career.He helped Brighton out of Division Two in 1977, Luton to a Division Two title four years later and then got Hull City out of the Third Division.His first job in management, after Colin Appleton had departed for an ill-fated spell at Swansea, turned out to be a dream.“I took over a team that had just missed out on promotion,” he recalled. “They were a decent team, but I changed the ...

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