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‘RIGHT FROM DAY ONE WE KNEW WE HAD TO ACHIEVE PROMOTION’

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The LeaguePaper Team
2 May 2021

By Chris Dunlavy

MAGIC MOMENTS: Jubilant Hull savour promotion to the Championship last weekend and, Insets, Tigers boss Grant McCann celebrates going up and Hull City’s influential No.10 George Honeyman
PICTURE: Alamy

GRANT McCann, beer in hand, sat down to address the media after Hull City had secured promotion to the Championship last weekend.
“This,” said the Northern Irishman, “Is for everyone who wrote us off before a ball was even kicked.”
It was not Jose-lite paranoia, artificially manufactured to engineer an us-versusthe-world mentality....

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