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Tag: Fulham

  • Will Fulham win the sack race this season?

    Now Slavisa Jokanovic is charge, though it appears the term should be used loosely. He has been venting his frustration at Fulham’s transfer policy, claiming he has no role in buying players since that responsibility rests with the club’s data analyst, Craig Kline, ominously, a friend of the clubs’ owner. He told BBC Radio “The…

  • Championship reputation

    After 10 minutes of this game I turned to Tall Tom and pointed out the Newcastle game plan. “Every time the right back gets the ball he hits it diagonally behind the Fulham left back”. I hadn’t even finished the sentence before another ball was hoofed upfield for Perez to chase. On this occasion he…

  • F in Fulham

    As with terracing, the statue of Michael Jackson, like its subject, is alas no longer with us. The original Craven Cottage site was covered in woodlands, and allegedly, one plane tree survives today in a corner of the Putney End, the sole tree to be found in any senior British senior football stadium. Not the…

  • Best Song Ever

    Did we enjoy our afternoon? Too right. It was a classic cup tie where league positions went out of the window. The final twenty minutes where the United team never gave up running at the Fulham defence despite the leaden conditions under foot were edge of the seat stuff and the Blades fans can be…

  • The nicest club in the Premier League

    To concede five to rampant Arsenal, in full flow can (and has) happened to the best of teams, but with the resources he has available, Allardyce should today be hanging his head in shame at this performance. Sometimes the scoreline doesn’t reflect the game, and in some ways 3-1 to Fulham was being disingenuous to…

  • Swansea make themselves at home at the Cottage

    With Premier League survival no longer an issue, I feel Swansea should already be looking to prepare and build for next season. In doing so, starting contract talks with Gylfi Sigurdsson. Undoubtedly the most inspiring signing of the January transfer window, the Icelandic midfielder has slotted straight into the ‘Swansea way’ providing just what Swansea…

  • Fulham’s Europa adventure comes to a very late end

    There is barely time for Etheridge to pick the ball out of the net before the Israeli whistles for full time. There is stunned silence for a second while everyone tries to work out what has just happened. The phones are out again, but it is bad news from Poland. Thirty seconds before the end,…

  • Swans make light work of the Cottagers

    Suffering their sixth defeat of the season at Ewood Park last weekend, I felt Saturday’s fixture against Fulham was an important game for Swansea to win given that their next two games are away from home against incredibly stern opposition. However coming up against a Fulham side full of confidence having claimed a 1-0 victory…

  • Dnpro Problemo for Fulham

    Fulham will be more than happy with a 3-0 win, and that is reflected in overhead comments as we walk back to the station. It’s raining again, and it’s a quick walk back, via the main road. The general mood is that the score was slightly more than they could have hoped for, and the…

  • Fulham enjoy a Crusade of their own

    Crusaders were formed in 1898, but were not elected to the senior Irish League until 1949, when Belfast Celtic withdrew from the competition. According to the club’s history, in the early years players paid for the privilege of playing; if you didn’t have the required two pence, then you didn’t play, and this was strictly…

  • Don’t stop ’til you get enough

    Fulham’s opponents for the first qualifying round are a team that finished third in the Faroe Island league last season, and started off this year’s competition with just one point from their opening four games. However, NSI Runavik recovered and won their next six, to go from bottom of the ten team division to top.…