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AAP Sports News (Australia)
05-15-2008
Soc: Hull one game away from Premier League

LONDON, May 14 AFP - Hull are 90 minutes away from playing in the top flight of English
football for the first time in their 104-year history after beating Watford 4-1 today
in the Championship semi-final play-off.

Hull's win at their KC Stadium in the second leg of this tie gave them a 6-1 aggregate victory.

It means they will now face Bristol City at Wembley in the play-off final on May 24,
a match billed as "the richest game in football," with the winners receiving some 60 million
pounds ($A128 million) for gaining a place in the lucrative Premier League.

Goals from Hull-born former England ...

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