They may not have won, or even claimed a point, but Hull City's triumphant march on the Barclays Premier League won fresh admirers after they finally gave way in a pulsating duel with Manchester United.
At 4-1 up just before the hour mark, the Premier League and European champions should have cruised home.
Instead, they reached the final whistle severely rattled as Bernard Mendy and Geovanni breathed new life into the contest and forced Sir Alex Ferguson's men to cling on for maximum points, with Cristiano Ronaldo netting a double.
As they had already won at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and, more pertinently, Arsenal this season, Hull had every reason for optimism as they travelled across the M62 to Old Trafford for a league match for the first time since 1975.
They refused to buckle even after Ronaldo had given United a third minute lead, although the slack marking that allowed Ronaldo to exchange passes with Dimitar Berbatov before seeing his shot cannon in off Boaz Myhill's left-hand post would eventually return to haunt them.
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