Football

There are three good reasons why Fulham may fail to make the play-offs: 1) we cannot translate possession and supremacy into goals; 2) we make silly defensive errors virtually every game 3) our keeper is not good enough. QPR boss Ian Holloway set out his stall (commentary cliche c. 1998) to [...]

Juve defender Banucci surely made an error in saying this was only another match for his team. For la Viola it is the game of the season, an opportunity to set right the penalty awarded and scored by Liam Brady at Catanzaro and the one denied to us at Cagliari that presented the 1981 scudetto to [...]

Up and down the country crowds emphatically did not turn up for the Cup. At Cardiff the crowd was just over 5100. It was on Welsh TV at the unearthly hour of 11-30 on a Sunday which would not have helped as Cardiff fans could watch it on the telly and it was tough for Fulham fans to make it at all. [...]

It speaks volumes for the demise of the FA Cup that the first 3 Brighton supporters I met all wanted the Seagulls to lose this cup tie so we could concentrate on the Championship. This is a view shared by most Premier sides who either have better fish to fry in European competition, or achieving [...]

Once again a contrite Ivan Conway observed post-match “we mugged you again.” Brighton won a game which Fulham dominated. But, hey, if you miss a penalty (our 4th such miss at home) you don’t deserve to win. As galling was the fact that our penalty taker Chris Martin does not want [...]