City remain one of the Championship's form teams and are on course to secure a top-six spot
Barry Cooper Hull City correspondent
09:00, 31 Jan 2026
Oli McBurnie has been key to Hull City's success this season
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Oli McBurnie has been key to Hull City's success this season (Image: Lee Keuneke/PA Wire)
Former Hull City promotion winner Fraizer Campbell is keen to see his old club recreate the magic that saw them famously win promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 2008.
Campbell claimed the assist for Dean Windass' historic volley that saw City beat Bristol City at Wembley to earn a place in the top flight under Phil Brown.
Almost 18 years on, Campbell hopes the class of 2026 can continue their impressive form and maintain their surge towards what would be a similarly unexpected promotion.
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Sergej Jakirovic has so far masterminded the Tigers to 15 wins from their 28 games, with them sitting firmly inside the top six and only five points off the automatic places, with a game in hand to come on Tuesday night at home to Watford, once they've faced a potential banana skin at struggling Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.
"Hull City are in a great spot. It's January and you're in and around the play-offs. Whoever becomes most consistent now has a chance to do something really special," Campbell told BettingLounge. "I think Hull (City) went under the radar a little bit. They've just been getting on with it.
"Oli McBurnie was the main guy through the start of the season, and he picked up an injury, so you worried that they were going to struggle to get the goals that he was providing or assist.
"Then Joe Gelhardt stepped up, he scored a lot of goals, and then he got injured. But then, just in time, McBurnie is back, so they're getting the goals. I think, like I said, they're going about their business quite quietly.
"They're just going away, picking up the points against some decent teams. Now people are starting to think that these guys are a decent outfit, and if they can keep winning their games, keep picking up the points, I'm sure they'll be there at the end of the season.
"It's a team, obviously, that I follow quite a bit with my history with them, and it'd be great to see them at least getting into the playoffs and creating some of that Dean Windass magic again."
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