Football

Three seasons ago I took Bob Tickler’s son Jamie and his mother to his first Fulham game. He was a flag waver welcoming both teams on the hallowed turf. Fulham lost 2-0 and Ipswich made the play-offs. I don’t have that Fulham team before me but am fairly certain that not one was playing [...]

On Sunday evening Alan, Ivan, Michel and I exchange emails and texts on our results. Only Michel could report a win, as OGC Nice beat Guincamp. Fulham lost 1-0, Brighton 2-0 and la Viola 3-0. We lost 7 players over the summer and Kalinic our main striker is see to join AC Milan. It was strange to [...]

The Fulham programme tends to take an optimistic party line. 3 draws are treated as an unbeaten run rather than winless. The fanzine, in contrast, tends to major more on examining the issues troubling fans, notably the input on transfer policy by the owner’s son Tony Khan and his analytic [...]

In the football section of the Rust Alan, Ivan, Michel and I are forever emailing our aspirations for the season. Alan is a typical football pessimist and thinks Fulham will not maintain their form of last season, Ivan is looking forward to Premier football but worried that poor results could cost [...]

In many ways the Championship is more interesting than the Premier and one of those ways is the manager. There are only five British managers in the Premier – Tony Pulis, Mark Hughes, Eddie Howe, Sean Dyche and Chris Hughton – and their expectation aspiration and ambition are for their [...]