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Meet Dean Windass, Hull City striker. He's a 39-year-old native of the northern town of Kingston Upon Hull. After getting releaesd from Hull's youth program, he started his career as a part-time player an construction worker. He returned to Hull in 1991 and has had stints at Aberdeen, Bradford City, Sheffield United and Middlesbrough.
Dean Windass looks more comfortable in a rugby scrum than on a soccer pitch. He famously got three red cards in one game at Aberdeen -- one for a second yellow, one for saying something really mean about the referee's mother, and one destroying the corner flag on his way off the pitch. While at Bradford, he also infamously grabbed an opposing player in the nuts.
Dean Windass has one foot of iron and the other of steel. If the left doesn't score, than the right one will -- and it did today in Wembley Stadium. Windass' clinical first-half strike capped a Hull counterattack that helped give the Tigers a 1-0 victory and its first promotion to the top flight of English football in its 104-year history.
At 39, Dean Windass has lived out his lifelong dream. His goal put his childhood club into the Premier League for the first time ever. From the looks of Hull, though, that Premier League dream has all the makings of a nightmare. Bristol City looked far more comfortable in possession most of the day and gave themselves many more opportunities to score. Their complete inability to finish, however, cost them a shot at a second promotion in two years.Hull City will face much better finishers in the top flight than they faced today. That's just one reason why many will predict that Hull's first trip to the top flight will last just one season. Perhaps that won't matter to the Hull supporters. Perhaps they will simply party their way through the type of season Derby County just endured, much like the Derby supporters did.
Either way, the party starts tonight in Kingston Upon Hull, and Dean Windass' money won't be any good in his hometown pubs this summer. He's just led his club to the promised land for the first time ever. Let the legends begin.
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