Hull vs Middlesbrough LIVE: Championship play-off result, latest updates and fan reaction | OneFootball

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Hull City face Middlesbrough this afternoon in the Championship play-off final. This is a game that has been enveloped in controversy for the past 10 days, with Southampton expelled from the season finale for spying on Boro ahead of their play-off semi-final. The Saints beat Kim Hellberg’s side 2-1 on aggregate, thanks to Ross Steward and Shea Charles’ goals at St Mary’s Stadium in the second leg.

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20 hours ago

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20 hours ago

Jakirovic post-match

"It's an amazing feeling. I still can't believe we did it because we suffered a lot all game.

"The regular season was over and this was like starting a completely new tournament, no matter how many points you had.

"It's about pressure. In the regular season, you have time to fix everything.

"This is a very demanding, very difficult league. I have been working in Turkey, in Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and it's a little bit different.

"The intensity, with lots of games, is unbelievable."

20 hours ago

Hellberg post-match

“It was the toughest two weeks I've been through. With emotions and back and forth and handling those things. From the game vs Southampton and the extra time and how that game ended. It's been draining emotionally. There's no excuse. Hull scored today. We were ready to play.”

20 hours ago

Coyle post-match

"It's tough. There's just one man I want to celebrate this with. He's not with us. I look up at the sky and I had a look up there today. He's with me, I know he's with me, for sure.

"The next best thing is I have my family, my beautiful partner, my little boy, my brothers and my friend that have been there since day one.

"I don't think there's many people that thought I could captain a side to the Premier League and even saying that out loud sounds a little bit wild. I'm just an honest, humble kid.

"But there's certainly one man that would have believed in me and that's my old man - and that's all I told myself throughout the game.

"He would'ver been saying 'you can do it, son, f**k them'. I know I swore and I shouldn't, I apologise, but I had to get it in there because that's how my old man spoke.

"I just kept replaying those words in my mind and he got us over the line today. I know for a fact my old man did it."

20 hours ago

McBurnie post-match

"For the first time ever, I think I'm speechless!

"It's been a long, hard season and that game today summed us up. We knew we weren't going to come in and have all of the ball - I don't think we've won a game this year when we've had more of the ball than the opposition!

"It was tough out there with the heat and Middlesbrough are a top, top team. We knew we were going to be right up against it, but we felt we'd have one chance and it was written for me to get it.

"I didn't think it would be so late on, but what a feeling.

"When I first got my move to Sheffield United, it was what they expected of me and I probably wasn't really ready to be that person.

"As I've grown and got older and more mature, I think I've grown into that role and I enjoy that. I was looking forward to this game so much I couldn't sleep last night!"

21 hours ago

FT: Hull 1-0 Middlesbrough

That’s it!

Hull have done it. They are Premier League!

21 hours ago

Hull 1-0 Middlesbrough

90+10 mins: It’s kitchen sink time for Boro now. This is last chance saloon.

21 hours ago

Hull 1-0 Middlesbrough

90+7 mins: Lundstram and McNair are on for Hull, replacing Coyle and Slater. Sarmiento and Ibeh are on for Boro.

21 hours ago

Goal! Hull 1-0 Middlesbrough

90+5 mins: It’s there, and Hull are level so late in the day! It’s Oli McBurnie who scrambles it home, as Murikawa bursts down the left and gets a cross in. Brynn flaps at it, and the Scot bundles it over the line.

21 hours ago

Hull 0-0 Middlesbrough

90+2 mins: Hull are down to 10 after Charlie Hughes goes off for some attention. He was smashed in the face by Ajayi’s clearance.