Hull City's Premier League timeline

2008 - May: Promoted to Premier League after victory in Championship play-off final.

August: Sign Anthony Gardner for club record 2.5million, breaking previous highest mark of 2million paid for Peter Halmosi the previous month.

October: Victory over West Brom is sixth from nine games in a stunning start to Premier League life, briefly putting the Tigers joint top of table.

November: A report into Premier League finances suggests Hull are healthy and debt-free.

December: Victory over Middlesbrough at KC Stadium proves club's last at home in Premier League for eight months; manager Phil Brown delivers famous on-pitch half-time team-talk with side trailing 4-0 at Manchester City.

2009 - January: Sign Jimmy Bullard for new club record 5m, but player plays for just 37 minutes before injury ends season.

March: On-loan Manucho's last-gasp goal snatches an ultimately crucial 1-0 win at Fulham, Hull's only victory in their final 22 games of the season.

May: Survive relegation on final day of season with just 35 points. Defeat to Manchester United means they collected just one point from final seven games but Brown leads celebrations by singing on pitch.

August: After high-profile attempts to sign Michael Owen, Alvaro Negredo, Bobby Zamora, Fraizer Campbell and Marc-Antonie Fortune all fail, alarm bells start ringing as star defender Michael Turner is sold for reported cut-price 4m.

October: Chairman Paul Duffen resigns in wake of damaging report from auditors which questions club's ability to continue as a going concern. It suggests club would need to raise a surplus of 23million to meet current liabilities if relegated.

November: Adam Pearson returns for second spell as chairman; club begin month 18th with just eight points from 10 games and Brown widely reported to be one game away from sack, but return of Bullard sparks mini-revival of four games unbeaten.

2010 - January: Pearson speaks of hoping to trim 9million from wage bill in transfer window but largely fails in attempts to offload fringe players.

February: Defeat to Blackburn begins run of nine defeats in 11 games.

March: Brown is relieved of his duties and replaced by Iain Dowie in an attempt to stimulate a faltering team.

April: With relegation increasingly certain, Pearson hits out at financial recklessness of Duffen's tenure and warns, due to a debt of 35m, entering administration or a Company Voluntary Arrangement is possible.