BoothferryBoy
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Just rewatched the highlights from our first ever Premier League game. September 2008. Hull City 2 Arsenal 1. And that Geovanni goal is still one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on a football pitch.
The way he picked the ball up on the edge of the box, looked up once, and just curled it into the top corner like it was the most natural thing in the world. Almunia didn't move. Nobody moved. The whole ground just erupted. I was in the East Stand and the noise was unlike anything I'd experienced before or since. People were hugging strangers. Grown men were crying. It felt like the entire city was vibrating.
You have to understand what that moment meant. This was Hull City. A club that had never been in the top flight in over a hundred years of existence. And here we were, beating Arsenal in our first Premier League home game with a goal that would have won goal of the season in any league in the world.
Phil Brown's tan. Boateng bossing the midfield. Myhill pulling off saves. That whole night felt like a dream. I walked home afterwards and genuinely couldn't believe what I'd just witnessed.
If you were there that night you know. And if you weren't you missed something that will never happen again. First time is first time.
The way he picked the ball up on the edge of the box, looked up once, and just curled it into the top corner like it was the most natural thing in the world. Almunia didn't move. Nobody moved. The whole ground just erupted. I was in the East Stand and the noise was unlike anything I'd experienced before or since. People were hugging strangers. Grown men were crying. It felt like the entire city was vibrating.
You have to understand what that moment meant. This was Hull City. A club that had never been in the top flight in over a hundred years of existence. And here we were, beating Arsenal in our first Premier League home game with a goal that would have won goal of the season in any league in the world.
Phil Brown's tan. Boateng bossing the midfield. Myhill pulling off saves. That whole night felt like a dream. I walked home afterwards and genuinely couldn't believe what I'd just witnessed.
If you were there that night you know. And if you weren't you missed something that will never happen again. First time is first time.
