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1 In 1984, Hull City declared they would play in the first ever football match on the MOON. Chairman Don Robinson took the squad to NASA’s base in Cape Canaveral during an American tour but admitted he hadn't found a team to play against.

2 Hull City took part in England’s first ever penalty shootout – and lost. The Tigers were defeated by Manchester United in the semi-final of the short-lived Watney Cup in 1970, with George Best scoring the first spot-kick. Denis Law then became the first player to have a penalty saved in a shootout while City keeper Ian McKechnie became the first player to miss when he fluffed the deciding penalty.

3 Is this the campest chant in football? Hull City fans singing 'you're getting mauled by the tigers', complete with theatrical clawing actions. Given it usually only gets an outing when the Tigers are coasting to victory, it's unlikely to be seen too often next season.... although who would have expected this rendition when the club won at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium?

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4 While we're on the subject of something that's So Macho... 80s pop star and celebrity City fan Sinitta, has promised/threatened (delete according to your musical tastes) to sing on the pitch when the club returns to the Premier League.

5 An even more random set of celebrity Tigers fans are American indie heroes Pavement, who also once owned a racehorse called Hull City Tiger, which itself had a song dedicated to it by Hull based band Salako.

6 A film about Hull City has won an OSCAR. Well, kind of. See You At Wembley Frankie Walsh, a comedy about a fan choosing between a wedding and a cup final, was awarded best foreign film at the 1987 Student Academy Awards.

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7 The film's director, Mark Herman, has smuggled references to his beloved Tigers in most of his films since. In Little Voice, for instance, Ewan McGregor character's pigeon was called Duane after then star striker Duane Darby, while in Brassed Off the celebratory balloons were in black and amber.

8 If Arsenal fans think they've had it bad, they should take a look at Hull City's dust-lined trophy cabinet. The Tigers have never even reached the final of the FA or League cup. They have lifted the Division 3 champions trophy three times, though.

9 The club's highest ever league position is 17th in their first ever Premier League campaign in 2009, with the achievement celebrated by flamboyant manager Phil Brown grabbing the microphone and singing on the pitch.

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10 The Tigers' most famous moment of their last two-year spell in the top flight also involved Phil Brown on the pitch. His angry team talk in the centre circle when 4-0 down at Manchester City was hilariously parodied by midfielder Jimmy Bullard back at Eastlands the next season in a 1-1 draw.

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11 London 0 Hull 4 wasn't just the title of The Housemartins' 1986 album, it proved to be a football prophecy. In October 2008 Hull City beat West Ham to take a fourth win out of four against London clubs having previously beaten Fulham, Arsenal and Spurs.

12 Hullensians can get confused when you call the football team 'Hull' without the 'City' bit at the end. That's because it's the name of the rugby league club which is also based at the same KC Stadium.

13 Nearly all rundowns of terrible football kits feature Hull City's tiger-stripe shirt from 1992/3, with a completely random pattern which meant no two were the same. But the mockery didn't stop the shirt breaking the club's shirt sales records - and they sell for up to £100 each now on eBay.

14 When Hull City fans protested against then owner David Lloyd, the former Davis Cup captain, they threw hundreds of tennis balls on the pitch during a cup game in 1998 at Bolton Wanderers. If the love-in with current owner Assam Allam were to sour, a similar symbolic gesture would be tricky since he made his fortune through industrial generators.

15 Hungarian side Vasas, perhaps the world's greatest of their era, toured the UK in the mid-1950s just after their national team had humiliated England at Wembley 6-3. Vasas put a total of 13 goals past the country's top two teams, Spurs and Sheffield Wednesday - and the national press wanted the match with Hull City, then bottom of the second division, called off to avoid any further embarrassment. Amazingly, City won 3-1.

16 Up to the early 1960s, when league games were often played on Christmas Day, Hull City and Grimsby Town were the only two teams exempt from playing because fans in the fishing industry needed to be at work.

17 Hull City player Arthur Childs was the first and last player ever to be sent off for wearing inappropriate boots. Shortly after the incident, in 1928, the laws of the game were changed so that players with incorrect attire are allowed to return to the pitch once the problem is corrected.

18 It was claimed gypsies evicted to make way for the club’s old Boothferry Park ground after the Second World War placed a curse on the club that they would never reach the top division. If such a spell existed, it lasted for over 60 years but was finally broken in the 2008 play-off finals by a goal from Dean Windass - a hometown hero who spookily grew up in the nearby area called… Gipsyville.

19 Until that moment, Hull was the answer to perennial pub quiz question: “Which is the largest city with a Football League team never to have been represented in the top division of English football?” The answer now is Plymouth.

20 And finally... Hull City is the only team in the Football League which hasn't got a single letter that you can colour in.