Tigers legends line up for supporters’ club 20th birthday celebrations

GOING UP: Hull City celebrate winning a landmark promotion to League One in the 2003/04 season

By Simon Bristow, Co-Editor

Tigers legends Ian Asbee, Peter Taylor, Damien Delaney, Stuart Green, Marc Joseph and Paul Musselwhite will be among the guests when Hull City Official Supporters’ Club (HSOSC) celebrates its 20th anniversary with an event at the MKM Stadium next month.

The event, taking place in the club’s 120th year, will be held in the Kingston Suite at the MKM Stadium on Saturday, June 29.

Tickets, which cost £20, include street food and a souvenir ticket and are available here. The event will be hosted by Brendon Smurthwaite.

Attendees will also have the chance to obtain memorabilia available only on the night, with an auction conducted by ex-Tiger John Hawley. The main lot will be a replica shirt signed by the players present. HCOSC members will also receive £5 of free raffle tickets on presentation of their membership card.

Announcing the event on their website, HSOSC said: “In December 2003 the then Hull City chairman Adam Pearson had an idea which resulted in the formation of the Hull City Official Supporters Club.

“Later that season Ian Ashbee scored the goal at Yeovil’s Huish Park that guaranteed automatic promotion from the old Division 4 and set in motion a sequence of events which culminated in Hull City’s first ever membership of the Premier League.

“To commemorate these two events the Hull City Official Supporters Club invites fans of all ages to come along to a 20th anniversary celebration to be held on 29th June in the Kingston Suite at the MKM.

“Brendon Smurthwaite will be compering and chatting to players and staff from that season, including manager Peter Taylor, captain Ian Ashbee, Andy Dawson, Damien Delaney, Paul Musselwhite, Stuart Green and many others.”

Doors open at 6.30pm with the event scheduled to take place from 7.30pm to to 11pm.