It took us ten years to realise that Hull City had game detail emblazoned FA Cup final jackets available for use on the day, and we can partially put that down to the ‘too soon’ sense of hurt in the days, months, even years after that memorable but ultimately heart-rending game.

So it occurs to us that we’ve probably overlooked other things that normally we’d be all over. We love the aesthetics of Hull City AFC, primarily the match and training wear yes, but everything else too: club crests, stadium design, floodlight configuration, pitch patterns, scoreboard graphics, merchandise and memorabilia, corner flags…and PENNANTS!

And there it is. The question: What did the Tigers pennant look like in 2014?

It’s hard to believe this thought hadn’t occurred before, maybe it had but our subconscious hurt pushed it aside. After all, we know what Arsenal’s pennant looked like, I even got to fondle it recently…

That got us searching through images from Wembley on 17th May 2014 for what captain, our captain Curtis Davies would have gifted his Gunners counterpart Mikel Arteta.

There’s nothing, though, to say it has to be a fabric pennant with a dowel rod, hanging rope and tassels that you exchange before a game. For example England used to hand over wooden plaques instead of pennants, and did you know they were made in Hull?

Here’s captain David Beckham holding a classy as hell, hand-crafted wooden plaque at the 2006 World Cup. Well those plaques were made by family run firm GK Beaulah & Co of Park Street, Hull (just a stone’s throw from the MKM Stadium) who have been designing and manufacturing wall plaques, shields and heraldic coats of arms since the 1930s. They supplied the FA plaques for England games for 42 years until 2008 (bring them back!)

That’s what City went with in the FA Cup final, a beautifully crafted wooden plaque, but it’s hard to find a decent image of the front that isn’t obscured. Here’s the back…

You can see a little bit of the front here…

I don’t recall ever seeing any images of the plaque from the club, and sadly GK Beaulah’s didn’t take any photos either. You’re too modest, GK Beaulah! You crafted a solid wood piece of club history!

Though they didn’t have photographs of the finished article, they did snap a rough technical rendering of how it would be constructed. Black bevel…fancy!

The only people who can conceivably show us what the plaque looks like now are Arsenal, the ultimate recipients. We can but ask…