Follow live coverage as Stoke City face Hull City in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

Tonight will be Catalonian Narcis Pelach's first game in charge of Stoke after replacing Steven Schumacher at the helm on Wednesday, while in the opposite dugout will be Tim Walter, who hails from the south west corner of Germany.