Football

This was a match marred by the death from a heart attack of Fulham fan Paul Parish in the Hammersmith End. The players came off but treatment could not revive him. Inevitably and understandably this affects the game. Fulham were one up with a well-worked move, Fabio Carvalho finding Alex Mitrovic [...]

There is a cliche in football that runs “A cold night in Stoke”. It is normally applied to the skilful, fancy Dan, footballer who may not fancy it in cold, harsh conditions. Stoke is certainly a hard place and a team that traditionally gives no quarter. To win there is never easy and for us [...]

Fulham have scored 19 goals in their last three matches and now top the Championship by 5 points. Unless there is a collapse of Devon Loch proportions it looks like automatic promotion. If so, it means unlike the two previous promotions – which were via the play-offs – Fulham will have [...]

One incident defined the difference between the two teams. This would never occur at Brighton who have such a strong collective team spirit. They thoroughly deserved the draw with an equaliser from the outstanding Adam Webster. Except up front, Brighton have quality in depth. Graham Potter selected [...]

Fulham’s season is very much back on track with 3 consecutive wins scoring 14 goals. Some – notably Fulham TV commentator Gentleman Jim McGullion – would argue that it was never derailed as we only slipped out of the top two because of cancelled games due to the opposition being [...]

With 7 points outs of a possible 9, Brighton can look back at a successful festive season. For the first time Brighton scored 3 in a match at Everton in a 3-2 win and 2 came from the unlikely source of Alex Mac Allister [Note to sub-editor: he likes to separate his “Mac” from his [...]