Wednesday are ‘blown out the water’ by buoyant Hull

HULL showed scant regard for the infamous manager-of-the-month curse as they extended their best league run at Championship level for more than a century.

Just 24 hours after Nigel Adkins received the bosses’ gong for an unbeaten December, the division’s player of the month Jarrod Bowen’s brace took his tally to nine goals in eight games before substitute Fraizer Campbell added a splendid solo effort for the third.

Adkins said: ‘We blew that one out of the water, didn’t we? Boom. We totally dominated the game from start to finish.’

Not since 1910 had Hull won six consecutive fixtures in the second tier and the team now look like genuine play-off contenders.

‘We are in the race but it’s one game at a time,’ Adkins added.

Bowen opened the scoring by caressing the ball home from outside the area in first-half injury time and then doubled the lead from the penalty spot after goalkeeper Keiren Westwood brought down Chris Martin.

The three-goal margin flattered Wednesday who are in the hands of caretaker manager Steve Agnew until February 1 when Steve Bruce takes control. The win was completed when Campbell flicked over the visitors’ backline and ran into the area to thrash the ball inside Westwood’s left-hand post, to raise Hull’s points tally to 22 points from a potential 24.

Agnew said: ‘It was a tough afternoon to say the least. We were never in the game.’