The 200% Pre-Season Previews: Fulham
How long is a reasonable time for a club to be expected on find its feet in a new division? One year? Three years? Five years? It’s a question worth...
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Match Of The Past: Fulham FC
At their picturesque home on the banks of the River Thames Fulham have long been a favourite of the television broadcasters, and today we have six matches from their archive,...
Match Of The Week: Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-0 Fulham
August is the month in the football calendar for untrammelled optimism, and most pre-season predictions for their team this season were less than flattering, but the supporters of Wolverhampton Wanderers...
The Twohundredpercent Premier League Previews: Fulham
It has, in general terms, been a summer of poor career decisions but, in football terms, if there was to be a winner for this particular award over the last...
The Mark Hughes’ Career Path Turns Into A Cul-de-Sac
The end of the domestic football season can be a tough time for anybody that works in the game. As contracts expire, many players are left with their livelihoods hanging...
Triumph of the Middle Class?
As another Premiership campaign winds down, most of the attention turns to those pitched battles near the bottom of the table, where clubs play a game of Musical Chairs to see who...
Match Of The Week 2: Fulham 3-0 Blackpool
Perhaps it was inevitable that it would come to this in the fullness of time. The worlds of football, celebrity and cloying sentimentality have been slowly moving towards each other...
2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
The Premier League 2010/11 Previews, Part 9: Fulham – After The Lord Mayor’s Show
So, just how do you follow an act like Roy Hodgson? Since Fulham's own chairman appears unable to express any appreciation for just what he did for the club over...
Greed Or Unity: The Football League Must Decide
Amongst the fulsome tributes offered in the direction of Fulham over the last twenty-four hours or so in the wake of their Europa League win against Hamburg, it was mentioned...
Match Of The Midweek: Fulham 2-1 Hamburg SV
It is a warm, sunny evening in West London. The sun sparkles on the Thames in the pre-match aerial shots of Craven Cottage, but there is a sense of calm...
The Premier League Ponders A Salary Cap
The Premier League’s Annual General Meeting this summer will provide stringent salary cap regulations for English football’s top tier, to judge by the plethora of club chairmen who have offered...
What A Night To Be A Fulham Supporter
Spring is in the air, and the good news stories just keep coming. Former Chester City supporters seem to have a decisive upper hand in their battle to get their...
Match Of The Week: Fulham 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur
As quietly as a mouse, spring has sprung. The FA Cup quarter-final between Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur this afternoon is a 5.20 kick-off, but the sun is still glittering on...
Match Of The Week: Fulham 3-0 Manchester United
Fulham brushed aside Manchester United in the Premier League yesterday afternoon with a performance which suggested that 2010 could be a very good year for the London club. Roy Hodgson...
Sir Bobby Robson – 1933-2009
It has been a very sad day for football on the eve of the new season. We have lost one of us. It is, perhaps, a reflection of the hole...
Match Of The Week: Fulham 0-4 Manchester United
It is a shame that, this year, the FA Cup has become the competition that best represents the poisonous inequality that cuts through English football like a hot knife through...
Match Of The Week: Swansea City 1-1 Fulham
For those of us in our mid-30s, Swansea City left a pretty indelible mark. Our coming of age coincided with theirs, as they rocketed up to the First Division under...
Scenes From Football History – 1982/83: How Fulham Blew It
From the mid-1960s on, football grew massively as a passive spectator sport. The realisation that football could evolve as a spectator sport for people that weren’t even at the match...
Find Out What It Means To Me
Joe Kinnear, one suspects, has been out of football for too long. If he hadn’t been, he wouldn’t have been as completely unaware of the FA’s much publicised “Respect” campaign,...