After a difficult first season in the Premier League last year, things were looking decidedly better for Premiership newboys Hull City today, as the new fixture list was published giving the Tigers a winable opening-day encounter against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
The Yorkshire team's league position has also significantly improved on last year's 17th place - the Tigers currently lie in 10th, just above Liverpool and Manchester United, on the fringe of a European place.
As expected, Wolves are bottom.
Hull manager Phil Brown was pleased with the opener at Chelsea. He said:
"It's good to start against one of the Big Boys, as I say, so to speak. If you'd have told me in May, that we'd have been in 10th place, I'd have taken that. What we've now got to do at the football club, is 'kick on' and try to challenge the Liverpools, the Manchester Uniteds, the Chelseas, the Arsenals, and so on and so forth, etcetera."
