'Having LFC here means we've arrived'

How happy are you with how you've began life back in the top flight?

I was deliriously happy with our start until three weeks ago when we got a first-half tonking at Southampton. Up to then no-one had outplayed us and we sat proudly a couple of points behind the top six. The squad is now depleted by injuries and we are running on empty until the January transfer window opens when we can hopefully find a striker or two. Steve Bruce must be laid awake at night wondering whose mirror he smashed when he walked under that ladder and fell over that black cat. But, if we can maintain our present league position until the end of the season then everyone's expectations will have been exceeded.

What does it mean to you to have the likes of Liverpool visiting the KC Stadium again?

When you follow a club like Hull City you don't ask for much. I will have 50 years of solid support under my belt in a few weeks' time, my first match being versus Everton in the FA Cup on January 4, 1964. In that time I have seen us play Liverpool about five times in Hull and a couple of times at Anfield. I have seen one victory - 3-0, in a pre-season friendly - but seldom do our paths cross.

The majority of those 50 years have been spent, with a few exceptions, fighting relegation battles in the lower leagues, fighting off the administrator, the taxman, and other clubs' fans (I'm kidding) yet the diehards amongst us always kept the dream alive that we would break free one day and play at the top level. I used to think it was written in the Football League handbook that Hull City will never play in the First Division because so many people used to tell me that from being a kid.

Our loyalty was rewarded on May 24, 2004 when local lad Dean Windass volleyed that fabulous goal at Wembley in the Championship play-off final. A thousand myths were blown apart, a million dreams came true and life would never be the same again. So what does it fell like to be playing the likes of Liverpool at the KC again? I feel as though we have arrived, we might have took the long way round but we have arrived and intend staying.

Which players have stood out for you this season?

Stand-out players for City so far - and those that can still stand - are Tom Huddlestone and Curtis Davies. Both could play for England if we were a fashionable club. But we don't have 'stand-out players' we have a team and there's no 'I' in team. Corny, yes, but true.

If you could take one player from Liverpool for Hull, who would it be?

In a word, Luis Suarez.

What's the best way to beat Hull?

The way to beat Hull is to wait for the referee to award you a penalty, sometimes two, send one of our lads off or get them carried off and give you countless soft free kicks around the box. It's worked for every team we've played so far!

Song we're most likely to hear?

At 14.04 on the clock the ground will erupt to 'CITY TILL I DIE' which is a protest against the name change and several chants of 'You're only here for the culture'. That's a reference to Hull being awarded British City of Culture for 2017. And well deserved it is.

Score prediction?

Nil to us and perm any one from 10 for yourselves. I never get scores right...