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Hull face bogey team Burnley knowing a win would boost season hopes

The very mention of Turf Moor is usually enough to bring Hull City supporters out in a cold sweat. Aside from a 1-0 victory on the way to promotion out of the Championship in 2012-13 and a last-minute win during the reign of Phil Brown six years earlier, the Tigers have lost each and every one of their trips to Burnley since 1984.

This unlikely hoodoo can be traced back to the final day of the 1983-84 season. A City side led by Colin Appleton travelled to East Lancashire knowing that a victory by three clear goals in their rearranged fixture would be enough for them to leapfrog Sheffield United and join Oxford United and Wimbledon in climbing out of the old Division Three.