When I was younger and played 11 a side football on a regular basis, I was a centre back. Coupled with Italian heritage, I have always been a big fan ...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 16:12

Speculation grows on the message boards that Fulham are (or even have) signing Huddersfields “36 goal hitman” Jordan Rhodes. I was excited at the idea...

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• Date: Tue 22 May 12:57

“It was a dark and stormy night” – as Craven Cottage’s own Edward Bulwer-Lytton might have put it. Despite Montpellier needing only a point against al...

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• Date: Mon 21 May 22:58

******. Anyway, Chelsea are victorious after dodging a thousand Barcelona and Bayern Munich shots and springing the odd random goal JUST when it was n...

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• Date: Sun 20 May 14:17

I don’t care if there’s no ‘end product’. I’ve honestly never seen a footballer who’s as fun to watch as Mousa Dembele. We sit in what I used to think...

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• Date: Thu 17 May 21:46

Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix pay football. Hat tip to Adam Spangler via Bruce McGuire. Here’s a guest post from Shaz Rahman, who wonders how England mi...

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• Date: Thu 17 May 08:12

You may have missed it amid all the hoopla in Manchester and our own hand-wringing over Clint Dempsey’s absence and subsequent future, but Madrid was ...

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• Date: Wed 16 May 17:22

So, just how did Fulham finish ninth, their first ever back-to-back top 10 finish in the top flight? Chances were, if we were winning at half, we’d wi...

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• Date: Tue 15 May 17:07

I don’t think John Terry is going to be going to the Euros. This week the Guardian’s Paul Wilson, the Sunday Times’ Jonathan Northcroft and the Evenin...

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• Date: Tue 15 May 13:28

Hi all. Hope you like the new design, but more importantly, the new direction this site will take over the summer and coming season. I don’t want to s...

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• Date: Tue 15 May 03:27

Some thoughts then: Manchester City look a good team to me, but not as good a team as they should be. Carlos Tevez could have had this league sewn up ...

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• Date: Mon 14 May 10:33

Fulham was a team with little really to play for, a bad away record, and missing its leading scorer. They faced a Tottenham desperate to win at home a...

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• Date: Sun 13 May 17:55

The big news, which I’ve heretofore ignored as it made my head spin, is Roy Hodgson’s appointment as England manager. Never mind the Redknapp or speec...

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• Date: Wed 09 May 15:52

I was recently watching a documentary about Pearl Jam, the American rock band (still on iPlayer if you’re interested). It was strange: the first time ...

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• Date: Tue 08 May 14:11

Welp, just over one week left. Two match days remaining. The 2011-12 Season carriage will soon turn into a pumpkin at the stroke of 5pm GMT Sunday, Ma...

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• Date: Thu 03 May 18:13

(Rich’s report was eaten by the internet, so here’s the next best thing: HatterDon’s View From South Texas) Historic Victory for Fulham At Uninspired ...

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• Date: Thu 03 May 13:41

All of which goes to prove that goals change games: on Saturday the early goal was conceded; this time we scored it. Full report in the morning.

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• Date: Tue 01 May 22:08

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will...

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• Date: Mon 30 Apr 10:20

Did you enjoy the Champions League semis? Hard not to I reckon. Some thoughts: People have been very quick to write Barcelona off, but they’re still a...

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• Date: Thu 26 Apr 08:28

The following is a fantastic diatribe by Simon Shaw. Simon’s not a big fan of the Olympics. Readers who don’t like politics on a football message boar...

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• Date: Tue 24 Apr 18:11

One thing we don’t seem to do very much of in football is look at a player’s career arc. So when people talk about Robin van Persie scoring all these ...

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• Date: Tue 24 Apr 10:34

Hey look kids, Clint Dempsey is not in the PFA Team of the Year! That’s right, the player that’s tied for 4th in the league for goals and isn’t even a...

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• Date: Mon 23 Apr 21:43

I rightly abandoned the week-by-week predictortrons as they were too complicated and not accurate.  But the SEASON predictortrons are still something ...

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• Date: Mon 23 Apr 12:16

As regular readers will know, I have long prattled on about goal difference as a good indicator of things not being quite right. If a team is higher o...

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• Date: Fri 20 Apr 08:37

Well done, Chelsea. Sorry, but it felt like it needed saying. Barcelona are very good, transcendentally good (whatever I mean by that – they’re elite,...

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• Date: Thu 19 Apr 08:17

It’s been a good week for righteous indignation, but I fear that the latest round slightly misses the mark. While I was quick to pepper any journalist...

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• Date: Tue 17 Apr 11:28

Awards that are not based on statistics or anything that’s actually measurable are hogwash. And so we turn to the PFA Player of the Year shortlist. Wh...

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• Date: Mon 16 Apr 18:49

The funny thing about yesterday’s Semi-Final is the talk afterwards of Chelsea being the better team so the silly decisions didn’t ultimately matter. ...

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• Date: Mon 16 Apr 09:46

Interesting to learn of Damian Comolli’s departure from Liverpool.  This isn’t (as has been suggested) the death of Moneyball because as far as I can ...

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• Date: Fri 13 Apr 12:23

UPDATE: I’m bringing this back from the archives in response to Alex’s comment below. Do you think we’ve improved here? I exaggerate to make a point, ...

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• Date: Fri 13 Apr 09:51

Oooh, this is interesting.  Colin Baker was onto this kind of thing a while ago (and his stats in the Fulham Review already consider factors such as s...

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• Date: Fri 13 Apr 08:39

Yesterday’s news, but still worth a post. Per the official: Following an injury sustained against Bolton Wanderers on Saturday 7th April, the Club can...

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• Date: Wed 11 Apr 19:33

I think we should petition the F.A. to have all Fulham v Chelsea games to be played at 8:00 on a Bank Holiday from now on. Keegan once remarked that t...

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• Date: Wed 11 Apr 14:55

I gave up trying to talk to people about randomness in football about three years ago. Rationally we know that in any given season the same Fulham tea...

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• Date: Wed 11 Apr 14:25

Here. Two good people, eh? Have you ever seen a player with more of a manager’s demeanor than Murphy?  Fearless prediction: at some point Muprhy becom...

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• Date: Wed 11 Apr 09:14

Apologies for the quiet here, since Tuesday’s fun Stan’s had a version of Scarlet Fever so all hands to the pumps.  Just as well I didn’t hand him to ...

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• Date: Thu 05 Apr 18:28

Me and Stan went to the club’s open training session this morning. Nice it was, too. The sun shone, the players put on a good show, and everyone seeme...

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• Date: Tue 03 Apr 21:46

This morning I biked to Worcester Park where I had hoped to get our laptop repaired. Unfortunately the shop had succumbed to the recession and a door ...

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• Date: Mon 02 Apr 17:44

I have been conspicuous by my absence on here of late so I thought it was time I pulled my finger out and tried to contribute something. In keeping wi...

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• Date: Sun 01 Apr 22:41

A great game of football that ended the right way, but boy was it close. We’ve often talked about moments being decisive in these games, isolated inci...

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• Date: Sat 31 Mar 20:22

I took this cycling over the Thames this morning (I stopped to get off the bike).  What a lovely sight, eh?   Just when you get tired of London, you g...

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• Date: Fri 30 Mar 14:20

There’s a stat going around the interwebs that states our (mighty) 8 goals scored on the road is the worst in the entire Football League. And as a res...

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• Date: Thu 29 Mar 21:07

From 1974. Look at Phil Lesh’s beard! And what is it about women from back then? The really long hair perhaps. Anyway, London’s in fine form, the sun’...

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• Date: Thu 29 Mar 12:46

One of the more annoying message board debates has been around Philippe Senderos’ impact on Brede Hangeland. I remember when Aaron Hughes was regularl...

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• Date: Wed 28 Mar 13:02

With moments to go Bryan Ruiz slipped Danny Murphy through, Michael Carrick tripped him and Michael Oliver didn’t give a penalty.  It was the wrong de...

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• Date: Tue 27 Mar 09:54