BLUE MURDER AS TIGERS GO ON RAMPAGE

FRAIZER CAMPBELL says battered Birmingham felt the full force of Hull’s recent frustrations.

Leonid Slutsky’s side had suffered an alarming slide after just one win in their previous eight league games. But Campbell says things simply clicked into place to give Birmingham’s manager-inwaiting Steve Cotterill (right) a major headache.

The striker, who scored the opening goal for the Tigers, said: “It’s been a frustrating time of late so it was nice to blow a team out of the water and end our winless run in such convincing fashion.

“We were brilliant from the very first second of the game until the final whistle.

“It was disappointing to concede right at the end and lose out on the clean sheet but that doesn’t detract from what was a great team performance.

“We knew that we needed a reaction after the manner in which we lost the previous game against Preston and it was great to get the win that we all wanted so badly.

“We came out the blocks quickly, went after them, and got three goals in the opening 26 minutes. That gave us the confidence to kick on and it was pleasing to see that we didn’t just settle for the win in the second half.

“We showed great hunger and desire. We wanted to score more goals and we did.”

David Meyler’s penalty, plus goals from Jarrod Bowen, Kamil Grosicki (above, right), Markus Henriksen and Seb Larsson wrapped things up for Hull, with Sam Gallagher netting a stoppagetime reply.

The Blues’ caretaker-boss Lee Carsley will now step aside as Cotterill begins the task of lifting the club out of the bottom three.

The new boss spoke to the players after this heavy, dispiriting defeat.

Carsley said: ”I went in and caught the back end of it. The bit that I caught was that ‘the season starts on Monday’.

“If I am sat there as a player that’s what I want to hear. I want to hear there’s a fresh start and that the season starts on Monday.”

HULL: McGregor 6, Aina 6, Dawson 7, Hector 7, Clark 7,

MOTM Bowen 8 (Weir 81), Meyler 7, Larsson 7, Grosicki 7, Toral 6 (Henriksen 68, 6), Campbell 7 (Dicko 68, 6)

BIRMINGHAM: Kuszczak 6, Nsue 4, Morrison 4, Dean 5, Colin 4, Davis 5, Gardner 5 (Vassell 46, 6), N’Doye 6, Maghoma 5 (Cotterill 60, 5), Jutkiewicz 5 (Gallagher 60, 5), Boga 6