Criteria for qualification as a player dictates that each participant must be 35 or other at the time of the tournament. I'm not sure if the player is permitted to still be at the club in question, but if so then Dean Windass (who may have left the club by July anyway) and Nick Barmby would both be available.
Then who? Well, Justin Whittle has to be captain, obviously.
Jay Jay Okocha would be a brilliant sight on a five-a-side pitch, assuming he's still in England. Jon Whitney needs to be involved so that any hate figures of the past (and given that our opponents include both Sheffield clubs and Leeds United, there'll be a plethora of those) can be booted high in the air. I suspect the goalkeeping candidates are restricted to Steve Wilson, Alan Fettis or Paul Musselwhite. John Eyre will, I think, be 35 and able to play. Duane Darby would be useful in an indoor match. Of the 40+ players, Andy Payton would be a fab recruit, assuming he remembered to turn up.
The interesting thing about it will be that our Masters team will be a team of almost total unknowns, with only the odd exception, while our main team is currently a selection of new household names. The Masters tournament will be the starkest reminder yet of where Hull City used to be.
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