Football

There were extraordinary similarities between our game and Fulham’s. Both ended 3-2, all six goals came from wonderful strikes from outside the box and both  teams after dominating play were hanging in and on at the end. This was Brighton’s best game of the season and without Lewis [...]

I have already written now amazed and disturbed I am by the degree of fan dislike of Bryan Ruiz. Clearly a sensitive flower, it scarcely helps to raise his game if he has to  hear constant criticism from  his own fans. The transfer never really worked out and  joins the list of £10m plus [...]

We are all delighted with the start of Chris Hughton. Whereas Sami Hyppia had rather inflexible ideas about how his team should play but the group did not respond, Chris is more pragmatic basing his ideas on the potential of the players. He is very much a players’ manager. We are now unbeaten [...]

The 400 Fulham faithful that braved sub-Arctic conditions to see us proceed into the next round of the cup will remember this one for many years. It rather reminded me of a cup game more than 20 years ago when in conditions so awful that, were the two teams not earning from a Sky game, it would [...]

We have not managed a goal in our last 4 games and are by no means secure with 28 points in 18th place. We do have a prolific scorer – 5 in 9 outings- but Matt Smith is striking for Bristol City on loan not us, Ryan Tunnicliffe was called back from Blackburn Rovers and did feature. One player [...]

Try telling a Brighton fan that there is no magic in the FA Cup as the city is agog at the prospect with the visit of the mighty Gunners. Outside the Seagulls, Chelsea and Arsenal are the two most supported clubs here so some Gunners will not have far to travel. Every month or so I have lunch with [...]

Alan and I shared a mini cab to Hove and thence Worthing where he has a bungalow. Alan was gracious enough to admit that the managerless Seagulls were worthy winners and if we survive relegation by three points happy at least they came from Fulham. We hope to do better than this. It’s [...]

Shortly after Kit was appointed I had a conversation with one of the contenders whose windows I have cleaned for many years. He feared that there would be a bounce factor but we would then plateau into mid table. We always want Kit to succeed as he is Fulham through and through and passionate about [...]