Hull on verge of extinction

Little has not been paid for five weeks

Hull are set to find out in the High Court on Wednesday whether they still have a future.

The Third Division club face a winding-up order over an unpaid £500,000 VAT bill.

Chairman Nick Buchanan revealed that, after lengthy legal meetings, he hoped to avoid the court appearance but it seems set to go ahead.

Buchanan handed in papers which he hoped would provide Hull with another two weeks to come to arrangements with their creditors.

If we have to play at Scunthorpe, Grimsby, York, Mansfield or anywhere else we will do

  Hull chairman Nick Buchanan

The trip to the High Court comes a day after David Lloyd decided to lock the club out of Boothferry Park.

Lloyd, who still owns the ground and is a former chairman of Hull, insisted the move was in the club's best interests.

He claimed his action will force everyone with a stake in the club to sit down and discuss the way forward.

"What I am very worried about is that there are so many players all trying to claim a piece of the same action," Lloyd told BBC Five Live.

"I want them to come to a deal to play football in Hull for a long period.

"The pitch seems to me to be the only thing that can bring all these people around the table to make a deal."

It is the second time in nine months that Lloyd has looked the gates - and Buchanan is naturally anxious to get the decision overturned.

"I have to say it's something else that we could have done without, but nonetheless we will face it like we've faced all of the other problems and not run away," he said.

Despite the latest setback, Buchanan is confident Hull's home game will take place.

If its liquidation, it's liquidation. That's what we have been told

  Hull manager Brian Little

"If we have to play at Scunthorpe, Grimsby, York, Mansfield or anywhere else we will do.

"David Lloyd will not win because if he does there will be no Hull City Football Club."

Hull manager Brian Little told BBC Five Live that everyone would "soldier on" regardless.

"We are all really verry worried and anxious about that and tomorrow is a big day.

He added: "We have not been paid for five or six weeks now.

"All the players, myself, staff and all the people who work at the ground are aware of everything.

"Everyone just wants to soldier on in the hope that the club will be given the chance to continue.

"If its liquidation, it's liquidation. That's what we have been told."