I imagine there will be people angry about this but City have won every single home game this
year, right? So quite what we were supposed to do about that I'm not sure. People talk about our
record at Eastlands but that was before City became CITY and, well, honestly...
The shame was that the game was over before it had begun, Adam Johnson managing to fall over
Chris Baird in the area to win a dodgy penalty to make it 1-0, then Baird put through his own goal
to make it two before we'd even started to play.
Rich made a comment in my previous post that got me thinking, "just how hard was our first
half?"
Well, unfortunately, soccer is a bit behind on the sabermetrics such as SOS and RPI and Power
Rankings or other crazy mathematic formulas/systems that determine, well, everything.
What we can figure out is our points haul from one half of the season to the other.
This is veeeeeery interesting:
This paper evaluates the extent to which the performance of English Premier League football club
managers can be attributed to skill or luck when measured separately from the characteristics of
the team. We first use a specification that models managerial skill as a fixed effect and we
examine the relationship between the number of points earned in league matches and the club's wage
bill, transfer spending, and the extent to which they were hit by absent players through injuries,
suspensions or unavailability.
David Preece on gay footballers.
Kevin Davies' wife on the transfer window.
Zonal Marking on being good in the air.
Some players like lots of time and space, others can operate in crowds.
To play in central midfield you need to be at one end of what we'll call the space-time
continuum; if you are not at the right end you may struggle in that role. In that case you need to
find somewhere else where you will get space and time.
As London went Siberian (although not for me; watched at home while looking after the boy)
Fulham were much as Fulham are. Yes, we lacked a true number 25, but individual players are
always less important than we think they'll be. In truth we looked more or less okay.
Fulham lined up with what was more or less a 4-4-2, Murphy and Sidwell flanked by Duff and
Davies, with Dempsey and Ruiz a surprising but skilful front two.
Hmm, lets get this over with.
His first goal:
My favorite:
Best season:
http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/4678124/bobby_zamora_09_10_fulham.swf
Bobby Zamora 09/10 Fulham. Watch more top selected videos about: Fulham F.C.
His funniest (scroll to :45 second mark)
http://www.
So says Duncan Castles on Twitter.
In which case:
- why have Fulham sold an important player to a rival?
- why is there no obvious replacement in place, even though we are not safe from relegation?
- why did we only receive £4-6m for a player who is in or around the England squad?
After an non-intensive manhunt that began in September 2010, reports are coming out of Motspur
Park that Rafik Halliche has been found.
Former Fulham midfielder Julian Gray found Halliche in the same spot where he hid for two
seasons: sitting in the Riverside Stand.
"None of the Fulham fans or staff ever go near the Riverside Stand, so when I heard about
Fulham's small reward to help find the 'fella, I knew where he'd be," Gray said.
Reports from Craven Cottage are suggesting that Fulham have sold QPR a player who "never existed
in the first place."
The extraordinary claims come on the back of Bobby Zamora's mooted £5 million move from Fulham
to QPR.
A source from the West Ham grounds staff revealed today that "Bobby Zamora gave up football a
long time ago.
Fulham have stunned both Footballing Worlds by signing American Football player Tim Tebow on a
free transfer.
"After being healed from my rib, lung and chest injuries suffered during the defeat to the
Patriots earlier this month, I had a calling from God that I should try my hand at another sport
this off-season," Tebow said.
Martin Jol has stunned the footballing world by dramatically selling himself to Aston Villa.
"To be honest I expected more from Fulham. It's a small club," he explained while screwing up
his nose and sniffing. "And I wanted to be at a big club. You know? With big things."
Jol continued: "I had seen what happened to Mark Hughes after he walked out on Fulham.
Fulham manager Martin Jol has surprised everyone by exchanging all of his first team squad
except Bryan Ruiz for Sheffield United's 2011 FA Youth Cup runner-up team.
"At first we looked at the Man United squad. They were the winners of that tournament, after
all, and I am not stupid.
Fulham are on the verge of signing 19 year old Argentine Alfonso Penne from Italian club
Torino. Penne, known as "The Fonz", will be out of contract in the summer and is keen to test
himself in the Premier League.
Penne rose to prominence last year as a 18 year old at Torino, scoring 47 goals in 15 U16 games
for Il Granata as an over-aged player playing under a false passport.
