{"id":450553,"date":"2026-02-28T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450553\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:22:07","slug":"hull-citys-lewie-coyle-on-why-hull-will-always-have-his-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450553\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull City’s Lewie Coyle on why Hull will always have his heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewie comes from a sporting background. His brother Tommy was a Commonwealth lightweight champion boxer, Joe is a PGA golf professional and the youngest of the four, Rocco, is following Lewie’s path and is in the Hull City under 21s.<\/p>\n

Between them, they have shown their support to the city by giving back.<\/p>\n

Lewie runs the Lewie Coyle Football Academy, coaching hundreds of young boys and girls each week, while Tommy annually hands out free school uniforms as part of his charity work. He was recently given the freedom of the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we continue our walk around the centre, Lewie cannot help but glance up at the grand City Hall building.<\/p>\n

“Our Tom fought in there loads of times,” he remembers with pride.<\/p>\n

“He used to sell it out. You used to be able to get about 1500 people in there.”<\/p>\n

I asked him if it was nerve-wracking watching his brother fight in front of such a large audience?<\/p>\n

He replies: “I find it more nerve-wracking when one of my brothers is doing something, because I’m not in control of it. With football, it’s me, it’s me who’s in control. But, our Tom fighting, I can’t do anything to help him.”<\/p>\n

We are stopped by supporters as we cross the road towards Whitefriargate and he poses for pictures, before asking some of the younger fans about City’s upcoming matches.<\/p>\n

This meeting helps him reflect on his own childhood dream of becoming a footballer.<\/p>\n

Although his ambition was to play for Hull City, his first break came as a youngster at Leeds United.<\/p>\n

“My dad would take me to football, back and forth up and down the motorway for years.<\/p>\n

“I used to get the bus back from my school, we used to have to pack the fruit and veg stall up quickly to get to Leeds in time for training.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewie comes from a sporting background. His brother Tommy was a Commonwealth lightweight champion boxer, Joe is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}