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As part of the vertible kaleidoscope of Fulham footballing fun and hi jinkery in general we’re looking for match reporters. You might be a season ticket holder, you might be some grotesque and obese couch bound sloth living in a high rised flat on Coco Pops and chip sandwiches but have 327 channels …
Mark Clattenburg is clearly in the wrong job.
Whilst continuing to serve the Premier League with distinction as a ‘top referee’, Clattenburg could be making a fortune on UK Living as a ghost hunter.
This week Clattenburg witnessed the telekinetic power of Bolton Wanderers’ Kevin Davies that the rest of us missed, for the Bolton forward managed to foul Fulham defender Brede Hangeland without even touching him.
To deny Davies a goal on his …
Fulham are set to join Arsenal in the race to sign QPR wonderkid Raheem Sterling, according to the Mirror.
Fulham want to sign the lightning-quick striker, who turned 15 last December, on a £1.5 million deal in the summer, with a number of add-ons if the player fulfils his potential. Sterling has also interested Arsene Wenger, who has ordered academy director Liam Brady to snap up the youngster. Manchester United, Chelsea and …
Roy Hodgson failed in a last ditch attempt to sign Stoke City striker James Beattie for Fulham last night, with The Sun and The Daily Mirror giving differing interpretations of why the deal fell through. Beattie is surplus to requirements at the Britannia Stadium following a bust-up between Beattie and Stoke manager Tony Pulis at the Emirates Stadium in early December. The pair allegedly had to be pulled apart by …
Was the Arsenal v Manchester United slaughter the defining moment of the 2009-2010 season for the Gunners? Will I avoid making the blindingly obvious “Chelsea skipper John Terry scores away from home” comment? Who showed Liverpool star Dirk Kuyt which way the goal is? Will Harry Redknapp’s phone bill at the end of today resemble the Sultan of Brunei’s bank account? All these answers, I’m not sure of (apart from the Terry …
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Villa’s 28-year-old full-back Nicky Shorey could soon be on his travels again as a loan move to Fulham looks set to be on the cards.
Shorey has already been on loan this season, having played for Championship club Nottingham Forest, and only returned back toVilla Park two weeks ago.
The move could work well for Shorey because Fulham’s first choice left-back, Paul Konchesky, has an ankle injury and it is unsure as …
Roy Hodgson has to be credited for resurrecting Fulham and turning them into a genuine top half side. In Europe and flying high in the Premier League, he has also made a number of excellent signings, Damien Duff being one of them. A £2.5 million signing from Newcastle United, Duff has shown this season he can terrorise defences just as he used to in his Blackburn and Chelsea days.
Joining Blackburn as a trainee in 1996 after playing for Leicester Celtic, St. Kevin’s Boys and Lourdes Celtic as a schoolboy in Republic of Ireland. He made his Blackburn debut at the age of 18 against Leicester City on the final day of the 1996-97 season.
After being relegated, Duff helped Blackburn achieve promotion back to the Premier League in 2000-01 and then win the League Cup the following season. In the 2002-03 season he finished top goal scorer for Rovers with 11 league goals.
A £17 million transfer to Chelsea followed and he started his Chelsea career well but was somewhat disrupted by injury. The arrival of Jose Mourinho threatened to put an end to Duff’s Chelsea career as he signed Arjen Robben, though Duff found solace on the right-wing and formed a great partnership with the Flying Dutchman as Chelsea went on to win two League titles and a League Cup. Injuries plagued Duff during the latter stages his career and was eventually transferred to Newcastle United for £5 million in 2006.
Duff’s Newcastle career can be summed up with one word; injured. He spent most of his time in the northeast on the treatment table. In the final match of the 2008–09 Season, against Aston Villa in a crucial relegation decider, Duff unluckily scored the deciding own goal that sent his side down. He voiced his intention to help Newcastle back into the Premier League but Hodgson and Fulham stepped in and brought the Irish winger back to London and back to the Premier League.
The transfer can only be described as a bargain; Duff has regained some of the form that led Chelsea to pay £17 million for his services an age ago. Reunited with his first boss Roy Hodgson, it seems he is happy playing once more and with 21 games so far this season for Fulham, it seems his injury problems are behind him. Hodgson has employed Duff mainly on the right-wing allowing him to cut inside more often and with a tremendous work rate he fits into the Fulham system extremely well.
At £2.5 million he could well prove to be the bargain of the season.
Ok, I’ve set myself a slightly different task this week. Lets face it fellow fantasy managers, if you haven’t got Cesc Fabregas or Wayne Rooney (or both) in your team at the minute then you really need to consider taking up another hobby. No, I am serious. Few players are offering nailed on mega-points each week as much as this pair and while it would be tempting (and …
To say Chris Smalling’s rise from non-league football obscurity to starting the 2010-2011 season possibly taking the field at Old Trafford to play at the heart of Manchester United’s defence, is meteoric would, for once, be something of an understatement. Manchester United’s new £7m signing from Fulham, who he only joined in June 2008 and for whom he has made a grand total of 4 league appearances, was snatched …
Fulham have joined the race to sign Egyptian attacking midfielder Mohamed Nagy Gado. The 25-year old has been lighting up the African Cup of Nations and has scored 3 goals so far in Angola. ‘Gedo’, as he is more commonly known, plays his club football for Al-Ittihad and has also attracted interest from Sunderland, Celtic, and a host of Spanish Clubs.
The player has been praised for his performances in the Nations …
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