Marco Silva would probably prefer to be picking up league points than examining the possibilities presented by cup football in England, though perhaps the Hull City manager should view his first two games as a honeymoon period.
Quite an eventful one at that. Victory at the first time of asking in the FA Cup at the weekend may have been marred by a shortage of home fans – Hull supporters were staging a protest against the club owners – but this occasion was even weirder. First of all Silva was up against the only other Portuguese manager in the Premier League, and possibly the only one to claim to know him well. “He is one of the game’s good young coaches and I hope he wins some matches,” José Mourinho said. “Just not this one.”
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