| Oh how very Fulham … 17:37 - Oct 17 with 10370 views | Rs_Holy |
Despite their domination over QPR I’m so glad I don’t support Fulham…
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 14:49 - Oct 18 with 2339 views | NW5Hoop |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 13:16 - Oct 18 by Konk |
No idea what the band's about, but because I'm not eighteen, I can't say I feel personally embarrassed by stuff like that, the Gin bar, or even the bizarre Michael Jackson statue that stood round by the burger vans. I'll get the hump with the club over ticket prices, having the owners son as DOF etc. but having an out-of-tune band playing outside the ground or selling vegan pasties isn't going to have me worrying about what other clubs' fans think. Same with the 'neutral' section, which should actually be called the 'mixed' section - I'm proud that our supporters - and away supporters - have been able to mix with no bother at all since it started. It was a clever way of getting around the fact that there's no segregation for turnstiles/facilities at the Putney End, anyway, so why not see if people could be trusted to watch a game in an unsegregated section. Loads of away fans have been able to watch their club when they wouldn't otherwise have been able to do so, and we've been able to sell tickets right up to kick-off because of it.
We've always had a bit of quirkiness to us - we've got a house in the corner of the ground ffs - but even though we have a fair chunk of middle-class support, most of our fans are no different to the support at Rangers or Brentford. The Rupert thing just makes me chuckle - I've been in the Crown & Sceptre, and been in the Griffin when they're at home, and the demographic in both seems exactly the same as every pub I've ever drank in for Fulham home games. If Rangers ever get a new ground in West London, I would be amazed if you don't end up with your own six-nations-gilet-jeans-tan-loafer element, and Corporate lawyers taking their kids along.
The acoustics at the Cottage are terrible - we can hardly ever hear the away fans from the Hammersmith End, even when you can see everyone's singing and vice-versa. We're not a noisy crowd - especially not for midday kick-offs - but then again, the atmosphere's not exactly been electric most of the time when I've been to your place. The two bits closest to the away section - the Riverside and the Putney are also by far the quietest and most middle-class parts of our ground. It's pretty ridiculous to say no-one's bothered by the result.
The man below with the sponge makes me smile every time someone decides to re-post it on twitter. I love the fact that a middle-aged bloke has baked a cake and taken it along to the game to share with friends/family. I know if he'd been a 'proper' football fan, he'd have been smuggling in a load of coke to do with his mates in the bogs, but what can you do.
Everyone thinks their club is special/different, but for most of us Whites, our identity is the Cottage, and even when we're shi t, I'd still take my Saturdays at the Cottage over supporting a winning team anyone else.
EDIT. Cardboard clappers, however, are fuc king awful, and our supporters have to take their share of the blame for them! No idea why people can’t just clap their hands together, rather than slapping a bit of cardboard, but people are strange! [Post edited 18 Oct 2021 13:21]
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Great post. Always amazed how QPR fans seem to think our place is so much more of a bear pit of Ye Olde Football How It Used To Be. Plenty of middle class fans at QPR, too (I'm one of them), and it's not like you can buy a house for buttons in the Bush. I always enjoy trips to the Cottage, even if the game is always awful, and you're absolutely right about mixing in the Putney End. It does make it funny when you've got tw4ts offering each other outside from either side of the dividing sheet, when you know that if they wanted to, for the only time in their football-attending lives, they actually could just go down to the concourse and have a punch up. Yet they never do. [Post edited 18 Oct 2021 16:03]
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 20:17 - Oct 18 with 2119 views | GaryBannisterswedge |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 14:49 - Oct 18 by NW5Hoop |
Great post. Always amazed how QPR fans seem to think our place is so much more of a bear pit of Ye Olde Football How It Used To Be. Plenty of middle class fans at QPR, too (I'm one of them), and it's not like you can buy a house for buttons in the Bush. I always enjoy trips to the Cottage, even if the game is always awful, and you're absolutely right about mixing in the Putney End. It does make it funny when you've got tw4ts offering each other outside from either side of the dividing sheet, when you know that if they wanted to, for the only time in their football-attending lives, they actually could just go down to the concourse and have a punch up. Yet they never do. [Post edited 18 Oct 2021 16:03]
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You can’t be insulted or offended by Fulham, the trumpeters were fine, the pasty made me smile, but I don’t go to the football for food so good luck to them as they are catering for their audience, not my bag and I’d certainly not want to watch my team in that way, but each to their own, I do find Konks comparison that us and Hounslow fc have as many Ruperts as FFC a bit “ambitious “ | | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 20:35 - Oct 18 with 2093 views | Rangersw12 |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 20:17 - Oct 18 by GaryBannisterswedge |
You can’t be insulted or offended by Fulham, the trumpeters were fine, the pasty made me smile, but I don’t go to the football for food so good luck to them as they are catering for their audience, not my bag and I’d certainly not want to watch my team in that way, but each to their own, I do find Konks comparison that us and Hounslow fc have as many Ruperts as FFC a bit “ambitious “ |
It's up there with the rubbish he spouted about Fulham having loads of fans in Hammersmith | | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 20:48 - Oct 18 with 2079 views | Konk |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 20:17 - Oct 18 by GaryBannisterswedge |
You can’t be insulted or offended by Fulham, the trumpeters were fine, the pasty made me smile, but I don’t go to the football for food so good luck to them as they are catering for their audience, not my bag and I’d certainly not want to watch my team in that way, but each to their own, I do find Konks comparison that us and Hounslow fc have as many Ruperts as FFC a bit “ambitious “ |
I think I said that most of our support was probably from similar social backgrounds, which I stand by. Because we play in an area of town that is now full of high-earning professionals/six-nations sorts, we’ve naturally attracted a fair few punters from that background. We’ve been in the Premier League for 15 out of the last 20 odd years, play at a lovely old ground, no problem getting tickets and no bother etc means we’re an obvious choice if you live locally and your kid wants to go to the football, or if you’re an Sports fan who’s moved into the area and fancies finding something to do for a few hours on a Saturday. So, yeah, we probably have more middle-class fans than most comparable clubs, but they’re not the bulk of our support. I think Arsenal are as middle-class as us btw.
If you’d gone and watched Fulham before we got to the Premier League, then except for the odd eccentric old posh character, our support was as working/lower middle class as most. Don’t remember Rangers or Brentford making anything of the Rupert thing back then. We’re generally a pretty quiet crowd for whatever reason, and whilst everyone’s very welcome, I do think the six-nations like have diluted what atmosphere there was - it was frequently a better atmosphere in the past with far fewer fans at the Cottage.
Anyhow, no idea of who’s filling Brentford’s extra seats these days, but with the amount of wealth in parts of your catchment area, I’d be amazed if you built a new stadium and didn’t suddenly find you had a load of media/finance/lawyer types popping along. |  |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 21:02 - Oct 18 with 2054 views | Konk |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 20:35 - Oct 18 by Rangersw12 |
It's up there with the rubbish he spouted about Fulham having loads of fans in Hammersmith |
I didn’t grow up in Hammersmith but have known a few dozen from round there over the years without going out of my way to find Fulham fans from the area. I think there’s a good chance I know more about our support than someone who goes to the Cottage once a season when we’re in the same division. And in terms of pubs, having drunk round there for thirty odd years on match days, there have always been plenty of Fulham in pubs on our side of the Broadway before and after games because of Fulham fans living in the area, Fulham coming in from the North-West London suburbs. I’m not suggesting the place was like Carnival when we getting sub-4,000 at home, but the pubs at the top of the Fulham Palace Road, the Chancellors etc always had plenty of Fulham when there was a game on.
You earlier suggested no-one at Fulham cares about the result, which is clearly fuc king silly. Have you ever actually known a Fulham fan? [Post edited 18 Oct 2021 21:16]
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 21:44 - Oct 18 with 1988 views | stowmarketrange |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 21:02 - Oct 18 by Konk |
I didn’t grow up in Hammersmith but have known a few dozen from round there over the years without going out of my way to find Fulham fans from the area. I think there’s a good chance I know more about our support than someone who goes to the Cottage once a season when we’re in the same division. And in terms of pubs, having drunk round there for thirty odd years on match days, there have always been plenty of Fulham in pubs on our side of the Broadway before and after games because of Fulham fans living in the area, Fulham coming in from the North-West London suburbs. I’m not suggesting the place was like Carnival when we getting sub-4,000 at home, but the pubs at the top of the Fulham Palace Road, the Chancellors etc always had plenty of Fulham when there was a game on.
You earlier suggested no-one at Fulham cares about the result, which is clearly fuc king silly. Have you ever actually known a Fulham fan? [Post edited 18 Oct 2021 21:16]
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My Fulham mate certainly cared about the result as she kept reminding us over a post match beer. |  | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 22:12 - Oct 18 with 1948 views | Rangersw12 |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 21:02 - Oct 18 by Konk |
I didn’t grow up in Hammersmith but have known a few dozen from round there over the years without going out of my way to find Fulham fans from the area. I think there’s a good chance I know more about our support than someone who goes to the Cottage once a season when we’re in the same division. And in terms of pubs, having drunk round there for thirty odd years on match days, there have always been plenty of Fulham in pubs on our side of the Broadway before and after games because of Fulham fans living in the area, Fulham coming in from the North-West London suburbs. I’m not suggesting the place was like Carnival when we getting sub-4,000 at home, but the pubs at the top of the Fulham Palace Road, the Chancellors etc always had plenty of Fulham when there was a game on.
You earlier suggested no-one at Fulham cares about the result, which is clearly fuc king silly. Have you ever actually known a Fulham fan? [Post edited 18 Oct 2021 21:16]
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Yeah my best mate is Fulham, been to loads of your games and drank in your pubs over the years
It's a very weird experience going to your place and not like any other ground in country but you obviously enjoy it and fair play but it's not for me or anyone of the people I knock about with at football | | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 22:14 - Oct 18 with 1948 views | distortR |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 08:50 - Oct 18 by Antti_Heinola |
i mean, tons of stuff.
i can't stand about 25% of people on here for a start. Redknapp. Briatore, Sky's whitewashing of Newcastle's takeover yesterday.
But some blokes playing some music when a coach arrives at a football club. Who's got the time to be angry/annoyed/anti that? |
ah, I 'liked' your original post because I thought you were approving of the pasty!
As for the band, our performance................havana syndrome, i tell you. | | | |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 22:17 - Oct 18 with 1945 views | joe90 |
Someone on here or WATRB once compared the atmosphere at Fulham to bonfire night crowd. I thought that was a brilliant comparison.
There is something special about Fulham, definitely not for everyone, but good when you need a bit of footballing TLC. |  | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 23:04 - Oct 18 with 1883 views | KPR |
I live in Hammersmith and have been going to watch us at Fulham and also many other matches there against all and sundry with Fulham supporting friends since the 1960’s . The 1972 fixture where Martin Busby’s leg was so horrifyingly broken by a savage tackle from Paul Went you could really hear the snap and his screams all over the ground and I always think of this every time I go there.
Anyway in all this time I have walked to and from the ground and have always noticed that the foot traffic from Hammersmith Broadway has invariably been predominantly away fans and when arriving at the ground being met with a hugely larger throng of home fans coming from the Putney direction.
Similarly, after the game there is a battle against the masses heading south which immediately subsides once you get past the Hammersmith End exit. There are Fulham fans living in Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush but in my experience over the years, not that many. | | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 23:12 - Oct 18 with 1868 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 23:04 - Oct 18 by KPR |
I live in Hammersmith and have been going to watch us at Fulham and also many other matches there against all and sundry with Fulham supporting friends since the 1960’s . The 1972 fixture where Martin Busby’s leg was so horrifyingly broken by a savage tackle from Paul Went you could really hear the snap and his screams all over the ground and I always think of this every time I go there.
Anyway in all this time I have walked to and from the ground and have always noticed that the foot traffic from Hammersmith Broadway has invariably been predominantly away fans and when arriving at the ground being met with a hugely larger throng of home fans coming from the Putney direction.
Similarly, after the game there is a battle against the masses heading south which immediately subsides once you get past the Hammersmith End exit. There are Fulham fans living in Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush but in my experience over the years, not that many. |
That's a very good observation and has been my exact experience on entry and exit also. |  |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 23:54 - Oct 18 with 1837 views | Konk |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 23:04 - Oct 18 by KPR |
I live in Hammersmith and have been going to watch us at Fulham and also many other matches there against all and sundry with Fulham supporting friends since the 1960’s . The 1972 fixture where Martin Busby’s leg was so horrifyingly broken by a savage tackle from Paul Went you could really hear the snap and his screams all over the ground and I always think of this every time I go there.
Anyway in all this time I have walked to and from the ground and have always noticed that the foot traffic from Hammersmith Broadway has invariably been predominantly away fans and when arriving at the ground being met with a hugely larger throng of home fans coming from the Putney direction.
Similarly, after the game there is a battle against the masses heading south which immediately subsides once you get past the Hammersmith End exit. There are Fulham fans living in Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush but in my experience over the years, not that many. |
Most of our support comes from South-West London and Surrey, these days, but there’s more and more youngsters coming from the surrounding streets, and a significant percentage comes from NW London outer suburbs. The club published data on where our season-ticket holders lived and there were a surprising amount west and north-west of Fulham.
In my experience most away fans use Putney Bridge and drink down that way. I have always got the Piccadilly down from North London, and very rarely see lots of away fans on it unless we’re playing Arsenal or Tottenham. Think that’s reflected in the pubs, with the vast majority of away fans drinking the other end of the Fulham Palace Road or in Putney. | |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 00:11 - Oct 19 with 1824 views | Konk |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 22:12 - Oct 18 by Rangersw12 |
Yeah my best mate is Fulham, been to loads of your games and drank in your pubs over the years
It's a very weird experience going to your place and not like any other ground in country but you obviously enjoy it and fair play but it's not for me or anyone of the people I knock about with at football |
Well, I’m amazed that your best mate’s Fulham, you’ve watched us loads, and come away thinking no-one gives a fu ck whether we win or not. Certainly most weeks on the walk back up to Hammersmith, everyone seems to be buzzing or fuc ked-off depending on the result.
A lot of Away fans love Fulham as a day out for the ground and the fact you can go where you want for a beer without any bother. Others think we’re plastic and tinpot because they’d prefer the ‘edge’ of something like Stoke away, with escorts, being corralled into shit away pubs, loads of tubby tw ats giving it the big’un from across the netting, with no intention of lumping anyone, and then being dumped straight onto the train home. I’d sooner not have to deal with fat 50 year old and impressionable youngsters who think they’re upholding their club’s honour by bothering people who just want a few beers and the football.
Get what you mean about the cricket, in that it’s probably one of the most ‘civilized’ grounds, but completely wrong to suggest fans don’t care about the result. | |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 00:40 - Oct 19 with 1806 views | KPR |
That’s an interesting stat about the number of ST holders to the NW of Fulham, perhaps due to your years in the Prem? The support mainly from SW London and Surrey is understandable due to the long standing local support being pushed out due to rocketing property prices over the years. It’s the same with us.
Nevertheless I do think the main footfall heading south to the Cottage is from away fans. If you are playing anyone from north of London their fans are likely to come into Kings Cross, St Pancras or Euston and get the Piccadilly or Hammersmith & City to Hammersmith and walk down. They would have to change to the District to go further to Putney Bridge. No big deal either way.
Changing the subject the new stand looks very impressive and glad to see it’s so close to the pitch. I remember standing on the open terrace there before the Eric Miller stand with all the flagpoles at the back. | | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 08:08 - Oct 19 with 1670 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Congrats on the win, Konk. Hope you're well. |  |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 08:10 - Oct 19 with 1669 views | Konk |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 00:40 - Oct 19 by KPR |
That’s an interesting stat about the number of ST holders to the NW of Fulham, perhaps due to your years in the Prem? The support mainly from SW London and Surrey is understandable due to the long standing local support being pushed out due to rocketing property prices over the years. It’s the same with us.
Nevertheless I do think the main footfall heading south to the Cottage is from away fans. If you are playing anyone from north of London their fans are likely to come into Kings Cross, St Pancras or Euston and get the Piccadilly or Hammersmith & City to Hammersmith and walk down. They would have to change to the District to go further to Putney Bridge. No big deal either way.
Changing the subject the new stand looks very impressive and glad to see it’s so close to the pitch. I remember standing on the open terrace there before the Eric Miller stand with all the flagpoles at the back. |
Most of my lot grew-up in areas of Harrow, Hillingdon, and Hounslow, with a few round Wembley/South Kenton, after their families decided to leave pre-gentrified Fulham and Hammersmith for the good life out in the suburbs. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time! I think the support out that way tends to be multi-generational, whereas my guess would be that a lot of the middle-class support we’ve picked-up over the past twenty years, is people living in Fulham, Putney, Barnes etc.
My last comments on away fans travel arrangements(!): I’ve just googled ‘Fulham ground guide’ and looked at ten sites - every one of them says to use Putney Bridge and only a few of them make any reference to Hammersmith tube as an alternative. Getting the Piccadilly for weekend games, and H&C for midweeks, I hardly ever see anything other than the odd little pocket of away fans on the tube going to Hammersmith. Look at any club’s forum before they play us and discussions on pubs are all focused on Putney or the bottom end of the Fulham Palace Road. I always walk to/from the ground via backstreets or the river, and barely notice any away fans other than people heading to the Crabtree; maybe it’s different on the Fulham Palace Road?
PS. Glad you like the new stand - fuc k knows what they’re going to charge for tickets, but it won’t be cheap. Should be very good when it’s kitted-out - will probably attract even more rugby types! Main thing is it hopefully secures our long term future at the Cottage.
PPS. Before anyone gets on my case, I’m not suggesting that we have millions of supporters out in NW London or Hounslow, just that a fair percentage of our support lives out in those boroughs. [Post edited 19 Oct 2021 8:23]
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 09:58 - Oct 19 with 1581 views | BklynRanger |
My sample size of 3 Fulham fans does seem to back up that first para, Konk.
1 from Hanwell whose dad was a teacher around Shepherds Bush - they went to QPR quite a few times in the 70s and 80s but his dad didn't want him to get any more into it because he apparently taught a lot of the boys they'd see at the games. I've never been clear what that means but that was the reason. Doesn't go very often but sits in the Hammersmith end.
2 others whose wives are consultants in hospitals in South London - one couple living in Clapham and the other in Fulham. So one of those was in the Johnny Haynes stand on Saturday (near the Putney end as suggested) and the other is Brazilian and has fallen badly out of love since they got beat 7-1 by Germany. [Post edited 19 Oct 2021 10:02]
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 15:34 - Oct 19 with 1461 views | NewBee |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 08:10 - Oct 19 by Konk |
Most of my lot grew-up in areas of Harrow, Hillingdon, and Hounslow, with a few round Wembley/South Kenton, after their families decided to leave pre-gentrified Fulham and Hammersmith for the good life out in the suburbs. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time! I think the support out that way tends to be multi-generational, whereas my guess would be that a lot of the middle-class support we’ve picked-up over the past twenty years, is people living in Fulham, Putney, Barnes etc.
My last comments on away fans travel arrangements(!): I’ve just googled ‘Fulham ground guide’ and looked at ten sites - every one of them says to use Putney Bridge and only a few of them make any reference to Hammersmith tube as an alternative. Getting the Piccadilly for weekend games, and H&C for midweeks, I hardly ever see anything other than the odd little pocket of away fans on the tube going to Hammersmith. Look at any club’s forum before they play us and discussions on pubs are all focused on Putney or the bottom end of the Fulham Palace Road. I always walk to/from the ground via backstreets or the river, and barely notice any away fans other than people heading to the Crabtree; maybe it’s different on the Fulham Palace Road?
PS. Glad you like the new stand - fuc k knows what they’re going to charge for tickets, but it won’t be cheap. Should be very good when it’s kitted-out - will probably attract even more rugby types! Main thing is it hopefully secures our long term future at the Cottage.
PPS. Before anyone gets on my case, I’m not suggesting that we have millions of supporters out in NW London or Hounslow, just that a fair percentage of our support lives out in those boroughs. [Post edited 19 Oct 2021 8:23]
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"Glad you like the new stand - fuc k knows what they’re going to charge for tickets, but it won’t be cheap. Should be very good when it’s kitted-out - will probably attract even more rugby types! Main thing is it hopefully secures our long term future at the Cottage."
Re your last sentence, isn't it a punt on promotion?
Obviously the club is committed to paying the £80m(?) the new developments is costing, come-what-may.
Promotion to the PL would take care of that, esp if for more than a season, both from the TV/Corporate income, but also from selling out 29k seats at PL prices.
However, if Fulham somehow weren't to make it, or did, but somehow contrived to piss it all into the Thames like last time, then that stand could be a "Whites' Elephant" (sorry).
How committed to Fulham do you reckon Khan is? Prepared to bear that sort of loss? Or determined to get all his money back - and then some? | | | |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 15:52 - Oct 19 with 1437 views | Mick_S |
Ahoy, hoy, Konk. The place I have a pint in Hillingdon has an unnatural amount of Fulham support in it. Probably more than any other London club, Brentford excepted. One or two clubs we don’t talk about much, so they don’t count. |  |
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 22:37 - Oct 19 with 1305 views | Konk |
| Oh how very Fulham … on 15:34 - Oct 19 by NewBee |
"Glad you like the new stand - fuc k knows what they’re going to charge for tickets, but it won’t be cheap. Should be very good when it’s kitted-out - will probably attract even more rugby types! Main thing is it hopefully secures our long term future at the Cottage."
Re your last sentence, isn't it a punt on promotion?
Obviously the club is committed to paying the £80m(?) the new developments is costing, come-what-may.
Promotion to the PL would take care of that, esp if for more than a season, both from the TV/Corporate income, but also from selling out 29k seats at PL prices.
However, if Fulham somehow weren't to make it, or did, but somehow contrived to piss it all into the Thames like last time, then that stand could be a "Whites' Elephant" (sorry).
How committed to Fulham do you reckon Khan is? Prepared to bear that sort of loss? Or determined to get all his money back - and then some? |
NewBee: Forbes estimate Shad Khan's wealth at just shy of $9bn, so he's not shy of a few bob. He's currently invested somewhere around £500m to buy the club, convert debt into equity and finance the new stand, so that's a pretty big spend to date for a club of our size, three relegations and a couple of promotions.
Khan usually makes one appearance a year, when his NFL team, the Jacksonville Jaguars are also playing in London, so he's presumably not that ars ed about going to games, but as with the Jaguars, we seem to have been bought so his son could try out his sports analytics modelling (which looks to be going about as well for us most years as it does for the Jaguars...). That's a bit of a tricky situation, as most fans would rather have a proper DOF and scouting team, but at the same time, you can't knock a £500m investment. He's clearly prepared to put his hands in his pockets, they're just not very good at running sports teams. As billionaire owners go, I'd take him over most of the others, though.
If Khan was really bothered about trying to reduce the need to subsidise either Fulham or the Jaguars, the first logical step would be to ease his son out and get him doing his wrestling gig full-time and give someone sensible ago at running the sports side of both clubs. Having seen the obscenity that is Shad Khan's super yacht, my guess would be that the new stand is being built as much for somewhere suitable to impress his guests, as it is for a desire to make the club more sustainable. The old Riverside didn't have much going for it in terms of design, facilities or luxury; the new stand will have all of that. If we're in the Premier League again and he has his new stand, I guess we'll see a bit more of him.
As for whether it will be a white elephant - Just shy of 30,000 is as big a ground as I can ever see us needing, and it should appeal to corporates and the like; great facilities, brilliant location, good views across the city. Hopefully those tickets will be subsidising the rest of us, as walk-up ticket prices are very toppy and won't help grow our support. If we're in the Premier League then I would have thought we sell-out against the big clubs and get 23-26,000 for most other sides, if prices were semi-sensible - partly because we would presumably turn the whole Putney over for away fans when playing the bigger clubs.
Brian - Thanks mate. Same to you.
Mick - Weirdly, there are three other Fulham living within a few streets of me that I know of, someone else on the local FB group was trying to get a Fulham birthday cake for her husband, and I saw two different blokes out running in Fulham kit on the same day, the other week. So, we might be even bigger in BS3 than we are in Hillingdon. We're fuc king massive, mate.
Brklyn - with a sample of that magnitude, I'd say it's conclusive proof. Good to have the data to back-up my hypothesis. [Post edited 19 Oct 2021 22:45]
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| Oh how very Fulham … on 23:15 - Oct 19 with 1245 views | NewBee |
Konk - "Forbes estimate Shad Khan's wealth at just shy of $9bn, so he's not shy of a few bob."
Wow! I knew he was rich (obv), but I didn't know he was super rich.
So yeah, fair enough, you seem to be in good hands, all things considered. | | | |
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