The First Premier League Season 2008/09

[MKMFaithful]

After Windass got us promoted the big question was whether we could actually survive in the Premier League. Nobody gave us a chance. We were everyone's favourites to go straight back down.
Then the season started and we beat Fulham on the opening day. Phil Brown's Hull City actually looked like they belonged. The early part of that season was honestly the most fun I've ever had watching football. Geovanni scoring that goal against Arsenal on his debut, the place absolutely rocking, sitting in the top half of the table. It was surreal.
By Christmas we were genuinely in the top six and people were starting to talk about Europe. Europe! Hull City! Phil Brown did that interview where he was asked about it and you could tell even he couldn't quite believe what was happening.
Then it all went a bit wrong in the second half of the season. The squad wasn't deep enough and once injuries hit we started dropping like a stone. That half time team talk on the pitch at Manchester City was the beginning of the end for Brown. We survived on the final day but it was way more stressful than it needed to be after such a brilliant start.
Still though, that first half of the season was magic. Geovanni, Cousin, Ashbee, Myhill, Turner. A team of Championship players punching way above their weight. The atmosphere at the KC in those early months was the best I've ever known it.
Anyone else got memories from that first Premier League se
ason?

 

[TigerTom87]

Geovanni against Arsenal is probably my favourite ever goal at the MKM. The way he just chested it down and smashed it into the top corner. The ground erupted and I remember thinking this is actually happening, we're actually beating Arsenal in the Premier League. The first half of that season felt like a dream. Saturday afternoons checking the results and seeing Hull City above teams like Everton and Spurs was genuinely bizarre. Phil Brown gets a lot of stick for the way it ended but he took us from League One to the Premier League and gave us six months of absolute magic. That deserves respect.

 

[ChrisCityFan]

That half time thing at Man City killed everything. You could see the players' faces when he made them sit on the pitch and it was obvious the dressing room was gone after that. But yeah the first few months were unreal. My favourite memory is actually the Fulham game on the opening day. Walking into the KC knowing we were about to watch Premier League football for the first time ever. The whole day had this buzz about it that I've never experienced before or since. We won and everything felt possible. Mental to think back on it now.