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CITY SHAKING OFF UNWANTED HOME TAG

- By BARRY COOPER

For those 20,000 or so Hull City fans who left the MKM Stadium in the relentless heavy rain on Saturday, there would have been a real sense of pride and joy at what had gone before.

Sergej Jakirovic’s Tigers swept aside Southampton with a clinical display, one of the teams with a huge budget and backed to seal an immediate return to the Championship, with a swagger and style rarely seen at the MKM Stadium in recent months.

Yes, the visitors may have seen most of the ball, but Jakirovic’s side controlled the game without it for long periods of the contest and scored some terrific goals, only denied their deserved clean sheet in the final seconds of added time.

The victory was symbolic, however. It was City’s second home win of the campaign, coming in just their third outing.