Despite finally being appointed permanent manager this week, Mike Phelan revealed he couldn’t park in his designated parking spot at Hull’s training ground because a builder had left his white van there.
Well, on this evidence, a major reconstruction project is definitely required in order to keep Hull in the Premier League.
They were completely outclassed by Bournemouth here and Phelan will have to go back to the drawing board after his sub-par team recorded a sixth league match without success.
How the bright, optimistic days of August, when they beat champions Leicester and Phelan won the Manager of the Month award, seemed a distant memory in the chilly drizzle on the south coast.