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Comment | To see the Queens Park Rangers - Preview
at 11:16:54
Fair enough, mate. I was just guessing. I remember being up in Manchester on several weekends in the 90’s and United or City mobbing-up in town and it all kicking-off when the other lot returned from away games in the North and Midlands. |
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Comment | To see the Queens Park Rangers - Preview
at 22:00:38
Guessing SYP might have moved Barnsley v Blades to Sunday as Wednesday are at home to Lincoln at 3pm on Saturday, and there was too much potential for bother in Sheffield, with Barnsley being under 30 mins away on the train. |
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Comment | Fulham faltering at worst possible time - Interview
at 20:52:12
We're keeping very well, thanks Bosh - hope you're well too.
Honestly, I was struggling for enthusiasm before the restart, but we're really not very good and if we do get to the play-offs, or the play-off final, that'll be sh it because it'll all happen BCD, and if we're promoted, we'll have Scott Parker for another year and Tony Khan continuing as DOF...so that'll be a pile of wan k too!
TacticalR - Other than the DOF, Manager, playing system/style and almost everyone struggling for form, there are very few areas for improvement! |
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Comment | Fulham faltering at worst possible time - Interview
at 20:17:43
I agree with Dan that Hector has been a huge upgrade on the alternatives at CB. Definitely one of the better performers, but I didn't include him in the potential POTY list as he's only played 15(?) games. That said, I stuck Reed in my list and he's only played 19 times, so unfair to exclude Hector on that basis. As he says, us missing out on signing Hector in time to play from August was a massive fu ck-up as we all knew our defence desperately needed a quality CB and RB. |
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Comment | Same time next year then — Report
at 08:30:56
Sounds like watching Fulham!
I was once stood next to a bloke in the North Bank at Highbury who spent the whole game screaming abuse at Jesper Olsen, calling him a "Dutch cu nt" and screaming "fu ck-off back to Holland, you Dutch cun t!"; this despite the fact that Olsen was a Danish international and wasn't playing because he'd left Man Utd about 3 seasons before the game we were at. |
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Comment | Two quick trips to Nottingham — Travel Guide
at 21:10:50
If you like your ale, then you can't go wrong with The Vat & fiddle. It' the Castle Rock brewery Tap - serves all their beers and plenty of stuff like Estrella and Carlsberg too. A proper old school pub with friendly locals, the excellent Harvest Pale on tap at £2.70 and cheese and onion cobs. Quality boozer open from 11am and a 90 second walk from the station. Busy without being mobbed. |
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Comment | Khan's misjudgments continue to plague Fulham - Interview
at 10:19:00
Didn't work out quite as he intended, did it? Glad you enjoyed our European run - I can't bring myself to want the wealthiest clubs to do well in Europe, but our run (and Boro's) was a bit more like when Villa, Forest, Ipswich etc were getting to finals. You could properly get behind them. |
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Comment | Khan's misjudgments continue to plague Fulham - Interview
at 08:47:12
Thanks for your kind words, folks.
We’re lucky with the Cottage in that we can develop to 30,000, which should do us forever. You lot are so restricted by your surroundings that it’s difficult to see how you could increase capacity by much more than a couple of thousand tops – you’re already crammed in as it is with 18,000 – my shins would be scraped to the bone by now if we’d spent any longer lodging at LR. Whenever I see the old Jamon Iberico on a counter in a Spanish bar/restaurant, I always think of visits to LR; the incremental scraping away of fine layers of flesh. It would be a real shame to lose LR – you can’t beat wandering down a residential street, turning the corner and finding a football ground in front of you. Great location for transport, pubs etc too and a decent atmosphere when you get going.
For a lot of us, Craven Cottage = Fulham. The location, Stevenage Road/Johnny Haynes stand and the Cottage itself; it’s a bit special. We don’t have loads of cups, the biggest support etc, but we do arguably have the loveliest setting for home games, so it’s what sets us apart a bit and makes us Fulham. Not everyone shares that view, as people campaigning against a move to the Dairy Crest site discovered when distributing leaflets before games when we played at LR, but for a football romantic like me, it’s the Cottage or nothing.
Age – 40-something, so hopefully a bit of time to see us at least win the sodding league cup. It can’t be that difficult, can it?!
Mike Rigg – yes, the same one! Having looked at his career and watched an interview when he was appointed, he comes across as the serious/ambitious bloke who turns up at work, restructures everything for the sake of being seen to do something, pis ses everyone off and then 8 months later either walks into an even better paid job or is sacked with a massive pay-off. However, we made some okay signings, so I’ll reserve judgement.
Pat Roberts – potentially a really great player. Fantastic skill, quick, direct…he just needs to bulk up a bit. Spent most of last season on our bench, so got very little game time either with the first XI or Junior sides, so probably didn’t help his development a great deal. Obviously we couldn’t match City’s offer, but it doesn’t sound like we tried to break the bank to keep him. A fee rising to £10-11m depending on his achievements looks like a good price, but time will tell.
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Comment | Bojan blow fails to mask Stoke progress — opposition profile
at 08:28:46
Minor point, but our highest ever finish was 7th under Hodgson. The year before Hughes took over, we finished twelfth, but I suspect that was partly due to our 19 game run to the Europa League final. Hughes did a decent job for us and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have gone down a couple of years later if he'd hung about. |
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Comment | LFW Travel Guides - Birmingham, St Andrew's
at 13:02:30
The Anchor’s a brilliant spot – one of my favourite football pubs ever. Rolls in cling film and everything. Friendly crowd too – not sure what it’s like with loads of away fans as I’ve only ever been with Fulham (joke). Other than that, if you like your beer, there’s the Brew Dog pub and right opposite, Cherry Red (not really a pub, but more of a bar), both of which are very good for your beers and close to New Street. And you have the Wellington too. |
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Comment | A lot of quality in the building
at 22:22:55
Minor point, but our highest ever finish was 7th under Roy. Hughes got Roy's team to 8th the year after we got to the Europa League final. Also Dembele was scouted by the club prior to Hughes appointment and it was Jol who switched him to his current position and transformed his game. |
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Comment | Defensive horror show leaves QPR floundering — full match report
at 11:59:47
RangersW12 - wouldn't disagree with any of that. In terms of media - press aren't interested in us because we're a small/medium middle table club - not much to write about. Makes me laugh that a small number of our fans think there's some kind of conspiracy. You get a lot more media because of the seasons you've had since promotion and Fernandes/Beard turning up for any show/press conference that will have them. |
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Comment | Defensive horror show leaves QPR floundering — full match report
at 10:41:42
I make you right, Dave. Most Fulham fans live in SW London or Surrey and will only ever come into contact with Rangers fans when we play each other. For that lot, QPR meant little until Hughes went to LR. For those of us in W/NW London, the QPR game means more as we have more dealings with Rangers fans. |
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Comment | Defensive horror show leaves QPR floundering — full match report
at 10:18:49
"Spot on seems to be a cup final for them when they play us and you only have to scan their forums to see they have an unhealthy obsession with us
Strange really as never ever been any hatred from our side"
The vast majority of posters on this site seem like decent types, but most of my lot live in areas with a fair bit of QPR support and since Al Fayed turned up in ’97, we’ve had to listen to a lot of sh it about us being a two-bob 4th division club with no history and wan k support. We’ve had Rangers fans who couldn’t fight a cold, basking in the reflected glory of your div element, giving it endless about Fulham melting and hiding when Rangers play at the Cottage/Bush.
The whole Ruperts/Tarquins thing, the bol locks we have to listen to/read about us being scared to come to the Bush, the tales of you taking over the whole of Fulham, Putney, Hammersmith, Surrey and Northern France whenever you come to our place and take "liberties" by drinking wherever you want as though that was some sort of result down at friendly Fulham, the bullying at our place in ’99 when your idiots set out to “put Fulham in their place†by acting like cu nts in Fulham and Hammersmith, the bizarre idea that QPR have some sort of super mob who are going to take over our ground and wreak havoc whenever we play you – which, by the way for Factomundo and the divs on WATRB, didn't seem to go too well in '99 from where I was stood. An obsession with our away support, backed up with giddy excitement by pictures of the away end at Wigan half-an-hour before kick-off etc. Our away support often doesn’t need exaggerating in terms of its sparseness, but we still have to listen to “Fulham only had 200†up at Wigan even when we’ve taken 1,000+ and you can clearly see that on the telly. “Foolhamâ€, “The Fools†(you and Brentford seem to be the only ones who go in for this hurtful behaviour btw), the idea that we only have about 3,000 “proper†fans and everyone else has come along since Al Fayed, even though we averaged 6,644 pre-MAF in our last season in division 4, whilst you lot were averaging a whopping 12,554 in the PL. We have the reverse of that, now, with a generation of support who seem to think you’ve never played in the top division before, are a lower division club etc, so it’s not unique to Rangers, but it does betray a lack of football knowledge and it gets tiring.
Most people who know anything about both clubs would spot a lot of similarities and see two clubs of broadly comparable size and heritage, but it amuses/rankles a lot of our support that a chunk of your lot genuinely seem to think you’re miles bigger than us and that we’re massively punching above our weight. The truth is we’re both probably somewhere between 35-40th if you were drawing up a list of the biggest clubs in England.
Some of our fans do seem a bit obsessed with the thought of Rangers going down – with us mid-table and the PL sewn-up, I suppose it gives us some interest in the season. The Fulham v QPR games might mean more to us than you at the moment for various reasons, but it’s not all one-way.
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Comment | Defensive horror show leaves QPR floundering — full match report
at 08:15:34
"Fulham seemingly weren’t in the mood to be turned over twice in a derby that seems to mean a good deal more to their recently swollen ranks of support than the Hooped faithful who look – rightly or wrongly – more to Chelsea with their own hatred and bile."
Good report, Clive, but I should point out that for 99% of Fulham fans, Chelsea are very much the club we'd most like to beat/go out of existence/move to Slough. '99 at our place, an unmerited superiority/delusional complex amongst sections of the QPR support, Mark Hughes, Bobby Zamora and a derby that we can actually win more than once every thirty-odd years, have given Fulham v QPR games a bit of spice for our lot. I like it as a fixture. |
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Comment | Berbatov and Fulham hunt Rangers revenge — opposition focus
at 08:27:51
"Over the years the rhetoric has changed in this corner of West London. The basement excavators of SW6 didn’t particularly like the idea of the 5,000 lower division football fans that used to quietly stumble into Fulham’s decrepit old ground suddenly being replaced by 40,000 football tourists flocking to a steel monstrosity and planning permission proved unobtainable."
After a hard-fought campaign, we did actually get planning permission to redevelop the Cottage into a 30,000 stadium (we never applied for 40,000), but whilst we moved to LR to facilitate the build, Al Fayed/the board declared the cost to be prohibitive and instead explored the possibility of building a 37,000 stadium up at the Dairy Crest site. Opposition from supporters then saw us move back to CC, build the two pretty basic ends, with the new Riverside stand scheduled to be built over the next 18 months or so. |
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Comment | Resolutions and revolution as QPR embark on 2013 — full match preview
at 11:04:42
You might have had a close shave in missing out on a job at Rangers. My mate works for his club in the Championship and has found it massively dispriting; principally because most of the influential people working there are clueless non-football fans who see the support as a mass of halfwits to be milked for every penny. Whenever he puts the fans' perspective across, he's told to be professional and stop thinking like a punter. Do you really want to spend your working days with people who refer to your club as "the brand"? |
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Comment | Dave Sexton — A True Visionary
at 08:42:01
Really nice piece. I've heard a lot about that Rangers side over the years - must have been a very special time for your club. |
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Comment | LFW Travel Guides — Arsenal, Ashburton Grove
at 10:03:15
Oh yeah, and if you like your Craft beers and Real ale, after the game you might want to visit either the North Pole on New North Road or the Earl of Essex on Danbury Street. From the ground it's either a 30 minute walk, 271 bus or a cab to the North Pole, and it's a bit further to the Earl of Essex or a 43 (19?) or walk up to Islington Green and then a cut through down St Peter's Street. Both are excellent pubs for beer. |
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