Six of the Best: Players to feature for both Middlesbrough and Hull City

Dean Windass

Middlesbrough and Hull City were just a small number of clubs that Windass featured for during his career.

Having come through The Tigers’ youth ranks, he was released by Brian Horton, before the former forward joined non-league North Ferriby United.

After impressing with his goalscoring exploits there, new manager Terry Dolan brought him back to Hull, where he became a firm fan’s favourite.

However, the club suffered financial difficulty and sold Windass for £700,000 to Aberdeen in 1995.

Following further spells at Oxford United and Bradford, Windass then signed for Middlesbrough in 2001, where he scored just three goals in 39 games, before moving on again to Sheffield United, where he had a successful loan spell beforehand.

But Windass was not done there!

The now 47-year-old returned to Hull in 2007, where he scored the winning goal in the 2008 Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley Stadium to send the Tigers into the Premier League for the first time in their history.