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It takes a special kind of character to pull off a pre-planned goal celebration - especially when the target is the team's own manager. But that is exactly what Jimmy Bullard and his Hull City team-mates achieved to great effect at Manchester City on Saturday.
In last season's game at Eastlands, after 45 minutes Hull were already 4-0 down. Furious manager Phil Brown had dragged his team over towards the Hull City support, and proceeded to give his half-time team talk on the pitch, in the hope that the embarrassment would provoke a response.
Eleven months later, Bullard converted a second-half penalty to seal a 1-1 draw at the same ground - indeed the same end of the same ground - and celebrated by sitting his team-mates down in the same spot and wagging his finger at each one.
"We decided to do it last night," explained Bullard after the game. "He [Phil Brown] took it well.
"It was a bit of banter to do it if we scored a goal, and we agreed that whoever scored an equaliser or winning goal had to be the one who did the pointing.
"I think Paul McShane will be the one to take the flak for it."