[Amelia Chaffinch]

He's back, we're back, game on!

The Terriers v The Cottagers
at the John Smith's
on Saturday 14th August 2021
at 3pm

The borough of Fulham is home to two football clubs; Fulham and Chelsea which, although a wealthy area, neither can afford to add a United, Orient or Spurs to their name.

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Fulham is also home to an exclusive polo, golf and croquet club called The Hurlingham. There's a 15 year waiting list so better get our names down now. When finally offered membership I'm guessing there'll be a unanimous cry of "How much?!" If none of that puts you off I'll just point out that Jeffrey Archer is a member.

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There are a couple of songs that refer to Fulham Broadway tube station. I think one was Jethro Tull. I didn't recognise it. I can't even be sure it was by them ... it was yesterday when I was looking and I've lived since then.

The other I do know is What A Waste from Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

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Talking of what a waste, Scott Malone played for both. A bit of nuisance versus us but didn't seem to be able to do the same for us.

Terence Kongolo whose chant that you'll never get past him was, if we're honest, a little exaggerated. He went on loan to Fulham and then signed permanently. However, this allegedly magic player appears to be beleaguered by injury at present.

There was Dale Tempest who started his senior career at Fulham before tranferring to us is 1984.

Finally, Len Quested who had lengthy spells at Fulham and Town. According to wiki, he appears to have started playing (for a team anyway) in the Navy.

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With just one game played, there's obviously not a lot of form to talk about. Their first fixture with Middlesbrough at home on Sunday was a 1-1 draw. Their goal came from Harry Wilson, a new signing from Liverpool. He never made a league appearance for Liverpool but is well known to us for his loans at Championship clubs Derby and Cardiff. We're 11th, they're 17th for alphabetical reasons but especially because drawing away trumps drawing at home, apparently.

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Head to head league stats favour Fulham. We've won 23 to their 28 with 15 draws. Our last 2 meetings were in the 2019/20 season. Unfortunately, we lost both.

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Scott Parker left at the end of last season and is now at Bournemouth. New manager Marco Silva (formerly at Everton until 2019) arrived on the 1st of July.

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That will have to do. My computer won't let me do spacing hence the use of ~ at regular intervals. I'll leave you with The Boys Are Back In TOWN.

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