Marco Silva has scrapped apple crumble, turned days off into 'rest days' and instilled belief at Hull: Here's how he got the Tigers roaring again

There was something different about Marco Silva at his unveiling as Hull City manager.

Call it confidence, but he refused to be flustered by those who suggested he would simply prove the next in a long line of failed foreign bosses parachuted in to crisis clubs.

There was an air of calmness, authority even, about Silva. He insisted on speaking in English, returned considered answers and was charming with it.

Now that does not necessarily make a good manager, but subsequent results would suggest Hull's players have also bought into their Portuguese coach.