Hull City's tumultuous season took another twist on Saturday in a comfortable win against Fulham. Credit to City boss Iain Dowie for lifting the players' spirit after last week’s late debacle at Portsmouth, but the survival champagne corks shouldn't be popped just yet. It's important to put the 2-0 win in some sort of context.

Fulham were woeful, and played exactly what they were; a club with a small squad who have played lots of games in recent weeks. With a Europa League quarter-final on the horizon, it's understandable that Cottagers boss Roy Hodgson rested several of the team that lost to Tottenham on Wednesday.

If last week’s last-gasp defeat to Arsenal was demoralising, then Saturday’s defeat at Portsmouth was simply heart-wrenchingly unbearable. 2-1 up with five minutes to go, Hull City’s porous defence coughed up two goals in three minutes, witlessly failing to take even a point from the league’s bottom team.

To lose in such a way to on paper the worst team in the league was just monumentally hard to take. Caleb Folan’s second goal of the game looked to have wrapped up the points for City, but a late free kick from O’Hara and even later finish from Kanu after some shocking defending game Pompey the points.

Another crazy few days in the world of Hull City passes. Friday saw a spate of rumours about on the future of Phil Brown, and the odds on him being the next Premier League manager we drastically shortened.

Then came a terrific performance against one of the best clubs in Europe, with the players certainly playing for the manager, before Brown was put on gardening leave on Monday morning. Wednesday saw the appointment of Iain Dowie, an appointment that has already been derided by much of the City support.

What a whirlwind of emotions. First, sadness for Brownie, whose achievements as manager will never be forgotten. Many claim he’s our greatest ever manager, and while I wouldn’t go that far, I’ll always be thankful for the fantastic times Brown brought to the KC, three fabulous seasons and that day at Wembley.

Few things in football hurt more than your team conceding a late winner. But it really hurts when your team in question, Hull City, have played for the whole second half with only ten men, holding one of the best teams in Europe in the process. What a huge sickener Nicklas Bendtner’s injury-time goal was.

City battled and scrapped away well after an annoyingly docile opening 20 minutes, and were well worthy of a point in my book. It was terrific to see a 10-man Hull City side deny 11 Arsenal players for so long, but begs the question; why can’t we produce this level of performance against the poorer teams? (away from home in particular).

Hull City’s away form is really becoming a concern. In Sunday’s game at Everton, the Tigers started quite well, before capitulating worryingly in a second-half performance that had all the hallmarks of a relegation-bound team. There was no quality, urgency, or most worryingly of all for me, fight on display, as Everton overwhelmed City’s midfield and scored three goals in the second period.

Goodison Park is never an easy place to go, and few were predicting City could get anything from this encounter. But we expect a better shift being put in from the starting XI than was on show yesterday, particularly after the horror show at Upton Park.