Hull City fans paint London amber and black
A pub near King's Cross is rebranded in a nod to Hull City's former stadium Boothferry Park.
Hull City fans, including John Drinkall, have started arriving in London for the Championship play-off final [BBC] Hundreds of Hull City fans have arrived in London ahead of the Championship play-off final on Saturday. The Tigers are set to take on Middlesbrough after Southampton were thrown out of the play-offs by the English Football League having admitted spying on their semi-final opponents. As part of the pre-match preparations, the Dolphin Pub near King's Cross has been rebranded in a nod to Hull City's former stadium Boothferry Park.
John Drinkall, the organiser behind the London pub's makeover, said: "It's just everything. It means so much for the club to do well. " The family-run pub has been temporarily renamed the "Fer Ark".
As the Boothferry Park stadium aged, letters fell off the main sign until only "fer ark" were left standing, leading fans to adopt it as its nickname. A London pub has been rebranded as a nod to Hull City's old stadium Boothferry Park [John Drinkall] The pub was filling up with fans dressed in Hull City shirts on Friday. "We want to make a full weekend of it so we were always going to come down on Friday and go right the way through...
we don't go back till Sunday," Drinkall said. Drinkall's first game was in 1982, but his wife has been supporting the team for even longer. "I'm more nervous than I was before," he said.