Topic: Fulham

[Son of Spion]

Love the guy on the far right's reaction

I love the guy who is shouting the odds. Always loved his passion.

[Kekule]

It’s good job the club that printed that haven’t just sacked a manager, who was recently very successful at another club, after just 17 games amid loads of abuse from the fans.

They'd look like a gang of utter twats devoid of any self awareness.  It would be a bit of an own goal.

Oh, wait...

[Caligula?]

Who cares. They'll be back to being irrelevant and playing Championship football next season and won't be back for years, if ever.

[Brian Blessed]

Do they usually preview a game two weeks away?

[Redsnappa]

Who cares. They'll be back to being irrelevant and playing Championship football next season and won't be back for years, if ever.

Shame in one way for our Away crowd ... always a boss turnout at Fulham, with a huge allocation in their 'neutral' end!

[Something Worse]

Must be weird for Fulham fans to contemplate high-level concepts such as "being shit isn't acceptable".

[BarryCrocker]

Anyone know what's the story with Scott Parker's cardi-blazer? Wears it to virtually every match. You surely can't be in both camps.

[Zee_26]

I'm actually surprised he hasn't shown up in a WW2 soldiers uniform already. So brave.... so so brave Scotty Parker.

[redgriffin73]

It's the tie pin that gets me, I'd love to know what's going through his head as he's getting dressed on a matchday!

[Jookie]

Shame in one way for our Away crowd ... always a boss turnout at Fulham, with a huge allocation in their 'neutral' end!

Always a good away is Fulham.

Proper ground (though the away end was a dump when they 1st got into the Premier League) in a nice part of London with some good boozers around. Add in the neutral end and it's always a good away and one of the better London ones.

I always find Palace the worst away though the ground is tight and the atmosphere is always good. More to do with the lack of options to go for a drink before and after a game.

[Lusty]

Remember when Scott Parker was selected as England Captain over Steven Gerrard?

[Crosby Nick]

Remember when Scott Parker was selected as England Captain over Steven Gerrard?

Would we have won the Battle of Britain without his leadership though?

[Red-Soldier]

Remember when Scott Parker was selected as England Captain over Steven Gerrard?

Capello wasn't it?

[Lusty]

Capello wasn't it?

I think it was Stuart Pearce as caretaker manager.  That team had James Milner in it as well

Would we have won the Battle of Britain without his leadership though?

I thought that was Harry Kane?

[Crosby Nick]

I think it was Stuart Pearce as caretaker manager.  That team had James Milner in it as well

I thought that was Harry Kane?

My apologies. Scotty captained the first fishing boat to land at Dunkirk.

[Drinks Sangria]

I can't fucking stand that blazer cardigan thing he wears. Looks a bad dickhead in it.

Fulham will not get 35 points this season I don't reckon. They look awful and way off what's required. They went up at Brentford's expense but I would've said the bees would have done better in the Premier League.

[Kalito]

I think it was Stuart Pearce as caretaker manager.  That team had James Milner in it as well

I thought that was Harry Kane?

Aye, remember Gerrard saying Pearce told him, that he'll be making Scotty Parker captain, when he joined him at the urinals!

Talk about taking the piss....

[PeterTheRed ...]

I can't fucking stand that blazer cardigan thing he wears. Looks a bad dickhead in it.

Fulham will not get 35 points this season I don't reckon. They look awful and way off what's required. They went up at Brentford's expense but I would've said the bees would have done better in the Premier League.

The way they are playing, they would be lucky to get 20 points.

[disgraced cake]

I can't fucking stand that blazer cardigan thing he wears. Looks a bad dickhead in it.

Fulham will not get 35 points this season I don't reckon. They look awful and way off what's required. They went up at Brentford's expense but I would've said the bees would have done better in the Premier League.

I would bet good money they don't hit 20. There's more chance Everton win the league than Fulham hitting 35 points.

[ScottishKopite]

Happy to see them go down never brought anything to the premier league in my lifetime just making the numbers up really a bit like west brom .

Been down their a few times no bad wee stadium but terrible fans .

[So… Howard Philips]

Anyone know what's the story with Scott Parker's cardi-blazer? Wears it to virtually every match. You surely can't be in both camps.

He looks like he should be the singer in Goodfellas - Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton someone of that ilk.

[bradders1011]

Now I've had a few pints I'm less angry than I was earlier.

Really impressed with how Silva has them set up - they pressed us into mistakes and defended very well. Tim Ream as MOTM for me and Mitrovic, despite the exaggerated contact, was good. He scores goals, he's just been in crap sides and if they can create chances he'll score enough to keep them up.

Decordova-Reid and Pereira ran at us and caused us problems as well.

Don't think they'll have any problem staying up this year.

Their fans are still Cotton Traders shithouses who clap like a polo crowd and sing League One songs though.

[disgraced cake]

Their feeble efforts and eventual defeat against a relatively abject Wolves side next week will make today all the more frustrating

[Barneylfc∗]

They got a draw in their cup final. Hope they go down and never come back up. Tory wankers.

[Linudden]

They got a draw in their cup final. Hope they go down and never come back up. Tory wankers.

Meh. Quite an inoffensive club I'd say. Growing up with them and Charlton in the league I'll never consider them out of the place in the top flight based on that alone. White and black in that format is also a rather awesome kit colour scheme. Then Craven Cottage is located beautifully next to the Thames which makes it quite a destination on its own.

That they have a diving striker like Mitrovic on the other hand is a bit obnoxious.

[KillieRed]

Disappointed by their general shithousery. The pressing was good for a while but they couldn’t keep it up for a whole match. Will be interesting to see how they get on against teams of a similar level to themselves. Singing GSTQ doesn’t work as a wind-up it just makes you sound like a deluded serf.

[Fromola]

Now I've had a few pints I'm less angry than I was earlier.

Really impressed with how Silva has them set up - they pressed us into mistakes and defended very well. Tim Ream as MOTM for me and Mitrovic, despite the exaggerated contact, was good. He scores goals, he's just been in crap sides and if they can create chances he'll score enough to keep them up.

Decordova-Reid and Pereira ran at us and caused us problems as well.

Don't think they'll have any problem staying up this year.

Their fans are still Cotton Traders shithouses who clap like a polo crowd and sing League One songs though.

They look better equipped than last time at least.

We always seem to struggle there. Last time they battered us in the first half at their place and we got out with a 1-1 draw from a late pen.  We've had a lot of late winners there as well.

[JackWard33]

Now I've had a few pints I'm less angry than I was earlier.

Really impressed with how Silva has them set up - they pressed us into mistakes and defended very well. Tim Ream as MOTM for me and Mitrovic, despite the exaggerated contact, was good. He scores goals, he's just been in crap sides and if they can create chances he'll score enough to keep them up.

Decordova-Reid and Pereira ran at us and caused us problems as well.

Don't think they'll have any problem staying up this year.

Their fans are still Cotton Traders shithouses who clap like a polo crowd and sing League One songs though.

Dunno about that - isn’t it a tale as old as time … promoted club at home on the opening day, fired up beyond belief - run their hearts out, get something then hang on for a point at the end?
We played as badly as we can and they were at their best and they produced 0.5xg plus a pen due to an error .. think they’re going to struggle to score enough goals and they won’t press as effectively as that in the dog says of winter
Don’t know if they’d stay up - it’ll be a bun fight down there - but yesterday is going to make them look far better than they are

[killer-heels]

We always struggle down there.

[Fromola]

Dunno about that - isn’t it a tale as old as time … promoted club at home on the opening day, fired up beyond belief - run their hearts out, get something then hang on for a point at the end?
We played as badly as we can and they were at their best and they produced 0.5xg plus a pen due to an error .. think they’re going to struggle to score enough goals and they won’t press as effectively as that in the dog says of winter
Don’t know if they’d stay up - it’ll be a bun fight down there - but yesterday is going to make them look far better than they are

Norwich gave us a hard game on the opening day last year but didn't take their chances and we were clinical.

It's important promoted sides start well though. Norwich spiralled from there and that will give Fulham some confidence and momentum, same as Brentford beating Arsenal on the opening day last season did.

Bournemouth also won at home yesterday and I don't see them staying up, so you can't judge it too much. Silva has shown he can cut it at this level before, whereas the managers they'd come up with previously hadn't.

[disgraced cake]

We always struggle down there.

Don't really remember many comfortable wins there other than Maxi's classic treble on that Monday night. Quite a few late winners too, Benayoun, Gerrard's pen, Milner's pen. All in seasons we were challenging for the title. Shame it was the first game this time around, if it was March we would have came up with a winner 

[Crosby Nick]

Don't really remember many comfortable wins there other than Maxi's classic treble on that Monday night. Quite a few late winners too, Benayoun, Gerrard's pen, Milner's pen. All in seasons we were challenging for the title. Shame it was the first game this time around, if it was March we would have came up with a winner 

The Sturridge hat trick in 12/13 was fairly comfortable, although we went a goal down. Most of our wins there do seem to have been comebacks.

[Linudden]

The Sturridge hat trick in 12/13 was fairly comfortable, although we went a goal down. Most of our wins there do seem to have been comebacks.

Rafa's first away win in the league was there after being down 2-0 at the break and then Biscan scoring a long-range effort in the second half to cap off a 4-2 turnaround. One of those places

[disgraced cake]

Dropped quite a few points down there come to think of it. Yesterday, 1-1 the last time we'd played there, the game just before the Champions League final in 2007 that sent Colin Wanker's head flying down the road, the one where we had two sent off, the one where Spearing got sent off, think I'm forgetting a couple too going back to around the days of Rafa.

[Linudden]

Dropped quite a few points down there come to think of it. Yesterday, 1-1 the last time we'd played there, the game just before the Champions League final in 2007 that sent Colin Wanker's head flying down the road, the one where we had two sent off, the one where Spearing got sent off, think I'm forgetting a couple too going back to around the days of Rafa.

I'd personally pinpoint the 3-1 loss in early autumn 2009 as what kickstarted the end of the Rafa era. Coming from that hard-fought 2-0 win over United with the famous Torres and Ngog goals, it was vital to keep in touch with the top teams, but instead that started a barren run that put the team eighth over Christmas.

[Fromola]

Rafa's first away win in the league was there after being down 2-0 at the break and then Biscan scoring a long-range effort in the second half to cap off a 4-2 turnaround. One of those places

They tend to be wild games. Yesterday was similar to the game we played there last time and we were top at the time.

It'd be nice to have loads of grounds like City have of annual easy wins. We've only really got Norwich for that and they've buggered off again (although City have lost their annual cruise at Burnley and Watford). Most teams always make it tough for us.

[Americano12345]

João Palhinha will be a very good signing for them

[J-Mc-]

João Palhinha will be a very good signing for them

Said it during the half time thread, if he keeps putting in performances like that first half, he won’t be at Fulham for long.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Watch them shit the bed in their next fixture.

[Studgotelli]

They will get relegated…