The Athletic | Football :verified_business: 🤖<p>Has the sacking of the season come from Hull City?</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HCAFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HCAFC</span></a>, who you may remember dispensed with the services of Liam Rosenior at the end of last season despite finishing seventh, three points shy of the promotion play-offs, ditched his successor Tim Walter this week after 17 league games with the club third-bottom of the table.</p><p>Seems like a fair call, but you’ll have to go a long way to find a bigger U-turn in terms of a club’s owner publicly backing their manager.</p><p>Here’s a timeline of events…</p><p>6.37pm on Tuesday: Hull’s owner, Acun Ilicali, is live on BBC Radio Humberside before the home match against Sheffield Wednesday and the big topic of discussion is the team’s awful form and Walter’s position as manager.<br>Some selected Ilicali quotes:</p><p>“Everything needs time. We don’t feel like we (the team) are playing bad. It’s not right to blame somebody personally — it’s not all his (Walter’s) fault; it’s everybody’s fault.”</p><p>“I would never put the blame on Tim. I’ll put the blame on me too.”</p><p>“If we are searching for anybody to blame, blame me, blame my friends. I’m the one that’s guilty that we couldn’t deliver what Tim wanted.”</p><p>“Why are we putting the blame on Tim when he doesn’t have the full squad?”</p><p>And the killer question: “If you were to lose tonight, would Tim still be in a job?”</p><p>Ilicali: “Yes, he will be in the job. If we lose tonight he’s going to be in the job.”</p><p>9.39pm: Final score — Hull City 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday.</p><p>5pm on Wednesday: Sacks Walter.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://twitter.com/TimSpiers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TimSpiers@sportsbots.xyz</span></a></span> looks back at the strange things from football this week in his Row Z column: <a href="https://bit.ly/4fMO9zT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/4fMO9zT</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>