Sport

To achieve automatic promotion you have to grind out results which Fulham have been doing and Leeds and WBA have not. We have won by the odd goal at Birmingham, Hull and Swansea in recent months and repeated this yesterday at Ewood Park. These type of clubs are not easy to beat. Blackburn last [...]

Fulham scored three wonderful goals in the first thirty minutes, then conceded two and in the end had keeper Marek Rodak to thank for a series of fine saves. Bobby Decordova-Reid controlled a long cross-field pass on his chest then set off on a run that reminded me of the famous Archie Gemmill goal [...]

In the absence of anything else I watched the second leg of Aston Villa v Leicester last night and was rewarded by a pulsating Midlands derby which Villa won in the dying embers. Of interest to the neutral was the comparison between two of England’s brightest midfield prospects – James [...]

The high hopes of new owner US media billionaire Rocco Commisso are dissipating. We are still mid-table and the only real evidence of  his financial backing is we still have Federico  Chiesa. Over the last few years there  has been a revolving door of talented players from Florence like Alonso [...]

One of the factors in the Great Debate of attendance versus TV-watching is ease of travel. I watched this bore draw from the comfort of my sofa on the Skysport red button. I certainly would not have wanted to make a 3 hour journey home in the cold from Charlton. As it was, I was in bed by 10. [...]