HULL HELL!

Mccann’s eight-goal slaughter

HULL slumped to the joint-heaviest defeat in their 116-year history on an extraordinary night.

Grant Mccann’s struggling side look in the mood to drop into League One, even if Wigan suffer a threatened 12-point deduction after going into administration this month.

Wigan scored SEVEN in a nightmare first-half for Hull with Kieran Dowell clinching his hat-trick after the break.

That completed Hull’s biggest reverse since they lost 8-0 at Wolves in 1911, and boss Mccann is facing calls to quit ahead of the remaining two games.

But he said: “I don’t think that’s a question I’ll answer now.

“We have two huge games coming up over the next week or so. So I’ll prepare the team to try and get results. I’ll never question the players. You’ll never get that from me.

“I’ll question all of us – myself, my staff, the players, all of us. We just looked like we were going to concede every time they went forward. We could have been 10-0 down at half-time.”

The result matched Bournemouth’s 8-0 thrashing of Birmingham in 2014 and set a new record league win for the Latics. Kal Naismith opened the scoring in the opening minute by heading in Dowell’s cross.

Hull then held out until the 27th minute when Kieffer Moore turned in Nathan Byrne’s pullback from the byline – and then the Tigers caved in.

After Naismith hit the post, Dowell scored his first of the night after neat work from Sam Morsy and Jamal Lowe.

Lowe himself made it 4-0 after 37 minutes with a smart finish from another Byrne assist and the full-back set up Moore’s header for number five.

Then Dowell was given space to run into the area and score from 15 yards.

And midfielder Joe Williams’ thundering shot from the edge of the area following a pass from Lowe just before the break made it seven to pile on the misery.

Antonee Robinson struck the Hull bar soon after the restart before Dowell’s wonder strike with a 65th-minute volley.

Latics boss Paul Cook said: “Since news came through that we were in administration, the town rallied around us. It’s been humbling and there has not been one complaint from the players.

“We’ve got the utmost respect for the 75 people who lost their jobs. What we have to do is make sure they’re proud of us and we go that extra yard and overcome that 12-point deduction.”