HULL CITY interm head coach Andy Dawson refused to get involved in the controversial first-half incident which went against the Tigers en route to their winless Championship sequence extending to a tenth game in a 3-1 reverse at Middlesbrough.

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Middlesbrough pick up a fourth win in five games as they inflict a fifth straight defeat on managerless Hull City.

As was widely expected, Frank Lampard has been confirmed as the new manager of Coventry City, so is officially out of the running to be the next Hull City manager, not that he was ever really in the running.

In Hull they face a side in the bottom three, but hoping for a bounce after sacking manager Tim Walter on Wednesday. Northallerton-born Andy Dawson is in interim charge of the Tigers for this one and will no doubt look to try and solidify a leaky defence at the Riverside.

Follow live coverage as Middlesbrough face Hull City in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

There was to be no dramatic turnaround in results for Hull City following the departure of Tim Walter, as the Tigers slipped to a fifth successive Championship defeat for the first time in two years under the stewardship of caretaker boss Andy Dawson.