Soccer

Not being miserable or anything, but Defoe’s hat-trick probably means Bob’s not going to start for England for a bit.  Shame, I thought he might have done tonight if fit.  Now look what’s happened. Still, nice win for England, and C...

But not in the way you might have expected.  Below the line are all (most) transfers since 2006. First, just goes to show how many players come and go.  We know this, of course, but seeing them all written down is nevertheless very surprising.   I had a quick look through the ins and figured maybe...

What did you think of the transfer dealings then?  Here is a roundup of everything, showing that we’ve balanced the books better than most this off-season (mainly because we had a decent squad and no manager, perhaps!). The big move was Paul Konchesky to Liverpool.  On the surface this is really disappointing, not least because...

Due to popular demand, I’ve reprinted the latest Fulham Review.   I got a good deal from the printer so it’s still £5 a go. www.godsfoot.com tobuy. If in doubt, please do get one!  You know it makes sense.   Easily the biggest and best version yet.   If you haven’t got one, why not? That’s me being...

The goals on Saturday were down to individual mistakes, no doubt about it, but under Hodgson they probably wouldn’t have happened. By committing men forward Hughes is making life much more interesting for supporters, but is leaving his defence a bit exposed. For the first goal we can see that Stephen Kelly’s been caught well...

Hurray!   We’re sold out!   I was hugely proud of this year’s book, easily the biggest and best yet, so it’s great that it has found its way into as many hands as possible. We’ve about eight 2007/08 Great Escape reprints left, and a few more of the other two (2006/07 and 2008/09).   So if you...

In today’s Times Literary Supplement, in an unlikely article about a book about small African gold weights, David Attenborough notes an old Ghanaian proverb:  “It is unwise to rub bottoms with a porcupine”. I think we can all see the wisdom in that, never moreso than today. But on reflection, I’m increasingly inclined to put...

Which, translated, means “I have played a blinder here and got exactly what I wanted from Ajax while leading Fulham along like a… well, anyway”.

It feels like something out of a film.  Our hero, a brown suited underslept journalist played by Jake Gyllenhaal, sits in the office, shooting screwn up paper into waste bins, getting ribbed by Robert Downey Jr and under pressure from his domineering boss (played by an older man with white hair).   “Get me the story!” –...

I was digging around the internet looking for Martin Jol’s transfer dealings when Ken V on TIFF posted the following, which lists them all. Some of the dealings, then: 2004/05 in:  Paul Stalteri (free), Andy Reid (£4m), Michael Dawson (£4m), Michael Carrick (£2.75m), Pedro Mendes (£2m) 2004/05 out: Simon Davies (£3m), Kasey Keller (£.5m) 2005/06...

Tremendous picture from Simon Shaw here: Which was taken during a stadium tour shortly after this game. Interesting on a few levels (“Boa always over the ball” is intriguing in its insistence, and much else of good ponderability there too)…   you’d assume that players might remember these sorts of details, but if writing things...

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