A decade has passed since Phil Brown simultaneously pulled off one of the great Premier League survival acts and secured his place in the division's hall of infamy.

Having led Hull City to safety in their first ever season in the top flight - one of the league’s more underrated achievements since its inception - Brown grabbed a microphone and serenaded supporters with a modified version of the Beach Boys’ hit 'Sloop John B'.

Bellowing out the chant that had become Hull's anthem over the course of a remarkable season - which had included wins at Arsenal and Tottenham - Brown sung: “This is the best trip I’ve ever been on."

The crowd at the KC Stadium loved it, but for his critics it provided more ammunition that Hull's relative success had gone to his head. Five months earlier, Brown had given a notorious half-time team-talk on the pitch as a way of demonstrating his displeasure at his side trailing Manchester City 4-0. Perma-tanned, brash, and with an ear-piece in place for every game, these episodes were held up as evidence of Brown's inflated sense of self-worth.

“Perception goes a long way,” Brown tells The Telegraph. “If I hadn’t done things like the half-time team talk and singing on the pitch… who knows? People look at that and think that’s the action of a foolish man. The way I look at it, I was enjoying my time, enjoying the experience.”