Football

Michel  de Vacri Of course I follow in the Rust Brighton, Fulham and Harlequins but one thing I can say to my fellow correspondents is that I am the only one to support a team that tops its league. This is all the more impressive as we lost our manager Claude Puel to Southampton and our best [...]

Like many football supporters I have my superstitious match day rituals. I always have 2 fried eggs and fried bread. If the yolks do not break in the pan that means Fulham will win, if one does a draw, two a loss. Ominously two broke. Bob Tickler asked me to take his godson Jamie to the game, his [...]

You often read in the manager’s column of a programme that your (fans) support matters although clubs with their high ticket prices and endless sales promotion of merchandise do not do that much to foster it. Last night’s League Cup match v Reading before a crowd of 6000 – in [...]

Not too many Viola fans are filled with optimism for his season. We have bought in the Columbian Claudio Sanchez as an enforcer and Maxi Oliveira an Uruguayan left back from Penarol. The biggest transfer however has been in the opposite direction: Alonso for 25m euros to Chelsea. This is an [...]

Fulham could not produce the same level of performance of their first three matches and in the end were more than satisfied to earn a  point in this 2-2 draw with Cardiff. Cardiff, managed by Fulham old boy Paul Trollope, an early Ray Wilkins/Kevin Keegan signing at the beginning of the Al Fayed [...]

Last night I watched the dvd of Bo66y a documentary produced by Matt Lorenzo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of World Cup victory. Matt Lorenzo and his father before him are massive West Ham fans so I did not expect anything too critical. I did expect to learn something I did not know but long [...]