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Barnsley chop down Fulham, despite Dennis

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on February 18, 2020

THE RECENT Soccerex Football Finance 100 showed that English football is the dominant force in world football at the moment. Of the many clubs from the Premier League and Championship, there was one name that certainly made you look twice to ensure your eyes were not playing tricks  – Barnsley, the 65th strongest football club in world football. Barnsley? The team of Michael Parkinson, cricket umpire Dickie Bird, Skinner Normanton and brass bands? One of those clubs that, to a large degree, is a standard bearer for regional identity. Barnsley it certainly was, sitting at the bottom of the Championship on the morning of February 15. How could a football club with a turnover of around £ 14 million and a wage bill of…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Barnsley, Championship, Craven Cottage, Fulham, Lead, London, managers, top slot

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So Leeds were in town

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on December 22, 2019

THE mounted Police were out in force. “I think they use horses to calm the fans down,” said one Fulham fan walking through Bishops Park as a large, Shire-esque creature plodded through the waterlogged pathway. “This is how they control football crowds in England,” he added to his foreign guest. A police horse has never introduced a calming effect on football fans, far from it. They unnerve you and they occasionally shower you in fresh manure or urine. But the gentle folk of Fulham were braced for the arrival of Leeds United. Across Putney Bridge, the pubs had “Home Fans Only” taped to their windows, while it was noticeable that there was a considerable high-vis presence in one of London’s most sought-after locations, an…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Championship, Craven Cottage, Fulham, Leeds United, London football, Marcelo Bielsa, top slot

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Fulham and Charlton show why the Championship is so compelling

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on October 7, 2019

HOW OFTEN does a crowd filter out of a football stadium feeling they haven’t really been entertained? All too frequently, there’s a collective shrug of the shoulders, comments like, “not bad” or “they tried”, although supporters of the winning team console themselves with the result, a case of points over performance, function over form. Not so the 18,500 people who witnessed Fulham against Charlton, a four-goal thriller that could have been won by either side. Fast, furious stiff, a little niggle here and there, and a couple of ejector seat goals. What’s more, the atmosphere was, at times, intense, boosted by a healthy contingent from South London, fans who are clearly enjoying Charlton’s return to the Championship. Fulham’s form had taken a turn for…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Championship, Charlton Athletic, Craven Cottage, featured, Fulham

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A parachute helps Fulham and smothers Millwall

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on August 23, 2019

ANYONE who watched Fulham’s calamitous 2018-19 season probably felt there was no way the team constructed by the club’s owner and his son was “too good to go down”. Certainly, even if the players bought in the summer of 2018 – an example of scatter gun team construction – underperformed because of a lack of cohesion, Fulham’s record was still poor and relegation was on the cards from October onwards. It was a campaign of bad judgement, over £ 100 million of bad judgement. It is therefore difficult to look upon Fulham and get the immediate feeling their current squad is far too impressive for most opponents. In football, there is always a danger that people fail to look beyond the Premier in forming…

Categories: English Football

Tagged: Championship, Craven Cottage, featured, Fulham, Millwall

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