Green has been out of favour at Hull since a dressing room bust-up a fortnight ago. He was left out of the Humberside derby at Scunthorpe on Saturday and had been the subject of an official approach by United chairman John Courtenay following his appearance at the Carlisle-Kidderminster game on February 8. Hull bought him from Newcastle for £150,000, a figure they are likely to want to recoup if the deal is to be made permanent in the summer. Green spent three months on loan at Brunton Park last season from Newcasle United. He helped spark a revival that saw the Cumbrians pull clear of the relegation battle. In the summer, with behind the scenes turmoil at United, he agreed to join Hull on loan. The Tigers concluded a deal to bring him to the Kingston Communications Stadium on a permanent basis on Boxing Day, but within six weeks the move has gone sour and now Green is heading back to Cumbria, where he was born and brought up. City manager Peter Taylor appeared to be holding out an olive branch to Green yesterday when he said the player could fight his way back into the starting line-up if he was willing to sit down and sort out his differences with the manager in a head-to-head meeting. However talks between Hull chairman Adam Pearson and Courtenay have finally produced a breakthrough with the Humberside club allowing Green to go out on loan - something they had appeared reluctant to initially. The news will come as a big boost to the United faithful who have coveted Green since his impressive spell last year. He will be available to help United's bid to win the LDV Vans Trophy, as he has was left out of Hull's only game in the competition this season. Last night's first leg of the Northern Area Final with Shrewsbury was controversially postponed less than two hours before kick-off by referee Graham Laws. The news brought anger from travelling Shrews fans who had been assured by United that the game would go ahead. Heaters and covers had been brought in to work on the Warwick Road End of the pitch, which is in shade during the day. Despite the efforts of groundstaff, the pitch proved to be too frozen at that end of the ground. United told callers to their front office phone line that the game was going ahead with no inspection planned. Confusion now reigns over whether or not the club knew in advance of the referee's plan to inspect. Mr Laws only turned up after 4pm and put off any decision until more work had been carried out on the affected areas of the pitch. The first leg has been re-arranged for next week on Tuesday February 25 with a 7.45pm kick off. The second leg at Shrewsbury will be a week later on Tuesday March 4 with the same kick-off time. United will now have to move their scheduled league fixture at home to Scunthorpe which was to have been played on March 4. They have still to re-arrange Saturday's postponed trip to Oxford United. Picture from News & Star |
