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CHAIRMAN & DIRECTORS Chairman: Shahid Khan Vice Chairman & Director of Football Operations: Tony Khan Chief Executive Officer: Alistair Mackintosh Non-Executive Director: Mark Lamping Non-Executive Director: David Daly FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT Manager: Claudio Ranieri MANAGER CAPTAIN Head of Fitness & Physical Performance: Claudio Ranieri looks Tom Cairney eyes Andrea Azzalin 04 ahead to today’s 06 maximum points from Assistant Manager: Paolo Benetti televised encounter this afternoon’s clash First Team Coaches: Carlo Cornacchia & Scott Parker Goalkeeping Coach: Paolo Orlandoni Assistant Fitness Coach: Vitantonio Pascale Manager of First Team Medical & Sports Science: Marco Cesarini Fitness Coaches: Alastair Harris & Gary Hall FOOTBALL OPERATIONS Vice Chairman & Director of Football Operations: Tony Khan Assistant Director of Football Operations & Chief Scout: Brian Talbot MANAGEMENT BOARD GEORGE COHEN MAIN INTERVIEW Chief Executive Officer: Alistair Mackintosh The Whites legend is the Calum Chambers on 14 latest inductee into the 28 reinventing himself in a Chief Revenue Officer: Casper Stylsvig Academy Director: Huw Jennings Forever Fulham Club new role at the Cottage Chief Operating Officer: Darren Preston General Counsel: Peter Limbert Fulham FC Foundation CEO: Mike McSweeney THE EXFILES EDITORIAL 42 Catching up with a past Whites player with a link to today’s Programme Editor: Tom Harvey opponents. This afternoon, it’s Jamie O’Hara Art Editor: Paul West CLIFF CARR Contributors: Bob Cain, Gordon Davies, Leigh The Fulham favourite and former skipper recalls his eventful time Edwards, Andy Greeves, Drew Heatley, Dean 52 in SW6 Jones, Ian McCulloch, Adam Micklewright, John Shirley & Alex White NOW! THAT’S WHAT I CALL RANDOM QUESTIONS Photography: Ken Coton, The Press Association Forward Aboubakar Kamara randomly chooses eight questions & Shutterstock Inc 58 from our list of 30 THANKS TO Cliff Carr, George Cohen, Joseph Dunlop, Joe THE LIST Edwards, Ben Kosky, Malcolm Macdonald, 66 We like making strange lists. Up next, it’s the top three totally Carmelo Mifsud, Leah Mylles, Jamie O’Hara, unnecessary handballs Geoff Pruce & David Slark THE WAY I SEE IT 74 A former Whites star talks us through a Fulham-related photograph of them. Today, it’s Malcolm Macdonald SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 96 A Whites ace reveals his personal playlist. This afternoon, it’s Published by ProgrammeMaster Tom Cairney Managing Director: Lee Berry Printing: Bishops Printers GORDON DAVIES Programme Subscriptions: 0207 121 5000 98 The Club’s record goalscorer airs his views on all things FFC in his Enquiries: [email protected] regular column Website: programmemaster.com fulhamfc.com 03 OPENING SHOT

THE BIG MAN’S IN TOWN Father Christmas braves the rain and cold to hand out presents at Fulham’s home game with West Ham United last time out in SW6.

04 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme fulhamfc.com 05 06 The Oﬃcial Fulham FC Matchday Programme CLAUDIO RANIERI MANAGER The boss looks ahead to today’s televised encounter…

A WARM welcome to Craven opportunities we had in the fi rst fantastic support in all games. Cottage for our Boxing Day 45 to cause them problems. These are positive factors and Premier League match against We understand the work we will help us to react and move Wolverhampton Wanderers. must undertake in all areas of in the right way. I believe they I hope you all had an enjoyable the pitch to win matches and try will do their best and improve Christmas Day and are now to move away from the bottom because everything around the ready for the busy Premier of the table. It’s diffi cult, but Club allows and encourages League schedule, a wonderful it’s important to stay positive us to perform well and make tradition in English football with and together. The team showed improvements. We are in a many families attending games that they can create chances, diffi cult moment, but it’s throughout the country during reaching good positions to make important to stay together and the festive period. 16 shots compared to West keep fi ghting hard. Welcome to Nuno Espirito Ham’s six. We continue to train Wolves arrive here today Santo, his coaching team, hard to improve to make sure in good form. Promoted as and the visiting club staff and that we can be more eff ective in champions, they have settled supporters of Wolves who have these situations. in the Premier League very well, made the trip early this morning Work on our defensive structure taking 25 points from their fi rst for the 12:30pm kick-off . is important, too. As I’ve 17 matches of the season. Prior I’m writing these programme mentioned before in programme to their match against Liverpool notes ahead of our away trip to St James’ Park due to programme “ I HAVE A VERY GOOD DRESSING print deadlines over Christmas. I ROOM, THE PLAYERS ARE TOGETHER hope that by the time you read these, we will have made an AND OUR FANS HAVE SHOWN encouraging performance against Newcastle United and taken FANTASTIC SUPPORT IN ALL GAMES ” points from this game. notes, in the Premier League last Friday, they won their last The more points we are able to teams possess a lot of quality three games. We know today collect during this busy run, the and can punish us if we are will be a test, we are at home more confi dence we will have for not robust enough, physically, and we need to show a positive the upcoming matches. tactically and mentally in our reaction in front of our fans. The result against West Ham defensive shape, which starts Thank you for getting behind United last Saturday was diffi cult from the front when we don’t the boys, we need your fantastic to digest as the team started have possession of the ball. support with us again throughout the match very well with good It’s diffi cult to keep pressing the whole match today. chances to open the score. We against teams that play one played a very good fi rst half, and two touches so in these Let’s get behind the team. but conceded two goals from circumstances we must make Enjoy the match. fast counter-attacks leaving sure that a good shape is us with a big challenge in the maintained. Then, try to recover second period. We tried in the possession in a reasonable way, second half, but against a strong without chasing unnecessarily and confi dent West Ham team even though the temptation is to who had won their previous try to get the ball immediately. three matches in the Premier I have a very good dressing League prior to our game, room, the players are together CLAUDIO RANIERI we were unable to create the and our fans have shown MANAGER fulhamfc.com 07 08 The Official Fulham FC Matchday Programme TOM CAIRNEY THE CAPTAIN The skipper eyes a favourable points return from two home games in quick succession…

WELCOME BACK to the Cottage put the pressure on them, but we points over a short space of time for today’s Boxing Day clash. just couldn’t manage it. now - if we can do that we can I hope everyone had a great The conditions were Baltic. It was really start looking up the table. Christmas and that we can freezing. It was proper December Snooker legend Jimmy White deliver a belated present for the weather and it was a late kick-off , came to the training ground with Fulham fans this afternoon. so it was a chilly one, but that our sponsors Dafabet earlier this I’m writing these notes prior to didn’t play a part in the loss. It was month. He said he needed to play our visit to Newcastle on Saturday, the same for both teams. the best pool player at Fulham so fi ngers crossed we got a good The table doesn’t make good and obviously that was me. I result there to take into this crucial reading, but it’s important our played him and won 2-1 - to pick fi xture with Wolves. I didn’t feel the defeat to West Ham last time out at the Cottage “ THE TABLE DOESN’T MAKE GOOD was a fair result. We walked in at half-time wondering how we READING, BUT IT’S IMPORTANT OUR hadn’t scored and were 2-0 down. HEADS DON’T DROP ” It was the best 45 minutes of football we’ve played under the heads don’t drop. Training has up the victory on my home turf new boss so far. Performance-wise been good, and it needs to stay was very sweet. it was much improved, but as we that way. It’s been enthusiastic It was an amazing hour or so in know, it’s all about results. and there’s a good vibe. We’re the company of a top man. He It’s fi ne margins. Goals change trying to keep it upbeat with little showed me a few tricks and he’s games. Abou went clear early competitions and tournaments, invited me to go and see him play on and, having scored two in his and spirits are still high. The in the Dafabet Masters Snooker previous two, I fancied him to players and staff also went out for tournament at Alexandra Palace fi nd the net again. I think his fi rst a meal - Italian obviously - before next month, so I’m going to head touch got stuck under his feet a the long away trip to Newcastle up and have a few games on the bit and the keeper made a good and these sort of things are good practice table. stop. Abou forced another save for team bonding. with a header not long after that I’ve been impressed by Wolves Enjoy the game. as well and we know we have to this season, but not surprised to take our chances because you see them doing so well. They were a don’t get many of them in the quality side when we played them Premier League. last term and they’ve added to At half-time we said we just that over the summer. They’re hard needed to carry on doing what to play against with their wing- we had been and we did okay backs, so we know we’ve got to be in the second half without really at our best this afternoon. We’ve TOM CAIRNEY threatening. A goal would have got the chance to pick up some CAPTAIN

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STEVEN SESSEGNON recently signed a contract extension with Fulham. The deal will keep the 18-year-old at Craven Cottage until the summer of 2022, with a Club option to extend by a further 12 months. Steven joined the Academy as an Under-9 alongside twin brother Ryan, and penned his fi rst professional contract with Fulham in the summer of 2017. He made his fi rst-team bow in a 2-0 win over Wycombe Wanderers MITRO’S GOLDEN BALL AWARD in the Carabao Cup soon after, a competition he has now appeared ALEKSANDAR MITROVIĆ has won Serbia’s Golden Ball award, given to the in four times for the Whites. country’s best player in the year just gone. “Hopefully I can make my league The striker enjoyed a wonderful 12 months for both club and country debut very soon, but over time I need to keep working hard and knuckling in 2018, with 31 goals to his name. He played a key role in Fulham’s down and see what happens,” he promotion to the Premier League, bagging 12 goals after joining on said. “You can’t rush this sort of loan from Newcastle United in January. The World Cup was his next thing. I’m going to take my chance, port of call, where he featured in all of Serbia’s group games in Russia whenever it might come.” and scored against Switzerland. Mitrović’s form continued into the new season and he has seven goals already this term. He also helped Serbia win Group C4 in the Nations League, fi nishing as the competition’s top scorer with six goals.

TWO FIXTURE CHANGES

TWO OF FULHAM’S February ﬁ xtures have been moved for live television coverage on Sky Sports. The home clash with Manchester United on Saturday 9th February will now kick-oﬀ at the earlier time of 12:30pm. And the away date at West Ham United will now take place a day earlier on Friday 22nd February at 7:45pm. PRINT DEADLINES PL2 GAME POSTPONED Due to print deadlines over FULHAM SAW their PL2 meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers on Christmas, today’s programme Friday 14th December postponed due to a frozen pitch at AFC Telford. went to press prior to Saturday’s A new date will be arranged in due course. trip to Newcastle United.

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fulhamfc.com 13 14 The Oﬃcial Fulham FC Matchday Programme GEORGE COHEN: FOREVER FULHAM

INTERVIEW: TOM HARVEY

George Cohen is the latest inductee into the Forever Fulham club. A one-club man, the right-back made his debut in March 1957 and amassed 459 appearances for the Whites in total, scoring six times, before injury cruelly ended his career in April 1969. Now 79, the 1966 World Cup winner with England remains a regular at the Cottage as a matchday host in the lounge that bears his name. A statue of George also stands outside the Hammersmith End. We caught up with the great man himself…

“The Club have already put a One of Fulham’s finest-ever 1967 was the beginning of the statue up of me, which is quite defenders, Kensington-born end for Cohen and after a something,” says George. “I was George played a major role in handful of further appearances also made an honorary freeman helping Fulham reach two FA Cup he was forced to retire in April of the London Borough of Semi-Finals in 1958 and 1962 and 1969 at the age of 29. Hammersmith & Fulham a couple of win promotion to Division One “Signing professional at 17 in years ago and I’m an MBE, so I seem in 1959. His razor-sharp tackling, 1956 is still one of the highlights to have more than enough honours! strength, speed and powers of of my career,” says George. “I “But it’s a nice thing to do to recovery were a key component of then stayed with the Club until I acknowledge players who’ve Fulham’s style of play. was injured. given good service to the Club. Cohen, who made 37 “I did try hard to get back, but I’m delighted. The only thing is I appearances for England, is the knee was so badly damaged, can’t run on the pitch to receive synonymous with the Whites, but I was told I had to make another it! However, I gather they’ll be coming up to interview me in the stands at half-time. Fulham might never be as big as Chelsea “ I’M TOLD TOMMY TRINDER REFUSED or Arsenal, but the Club is OFFERS FROM TOTTENHAM, ARSENAL, growing, and we’ve hopefully got a new stand on the way as well.” LIVERPOOL AND EVERTON FOR ME ” Paid for by numerous donations by fans, with the final figure matched pound for pound by things could have been different. living. My knee was wrecked and Chairman Shahid Khan, the “As I’m told, the chairman there was no way I could carry statue of George stands outside Tommy Trinder refused offers from on. I did have a good go, but I the Hammersmith End having Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool, was told, ‘you can try as much as been unveiled in October 2016. Everton and one or two others,” you like George, it’s not going to “Every time I pass by, I look at reveals George. “Tottenham stand up to anything.’ It was one the peak cap I put underneath wanted to buy me and Alan big injury and that was it. it and there still isn’t any money Mullery. Trinder told them that “Then I went into the property in it!” laughs George, who joined Mullery could go, but I couldn’t. business for a while, before Fulham as an amateur in 1955 on I don’t know why. Alan went and coming back for a bit as a youth- a pay packet of £7 a week. “It’s that was a big mistake as Mullers team coach. I’m still here now on terrific and the seagulls haven’t and I were a great combination. a matchday and it’s lovely to be got to it yet! To have a statue at He was a very good player receiving this award today. Any the Cottage along with Johnny indeed.” time you get recognised for what Haynes, who was my hero and a A terrible knee injury suffered you’ve done for Fulham, it’s a fantastic player… I’m very proud.” against Liverpool in December great privilege.” fulhamfc.com 15 STATS FULHAM

TOTAL MEETINGS 90 W 25 D 23 L 42

STAT ATTACK

TOP SCORER MOST ASSISTS 16 ALEKSANDAR MITROVIĆ LUCIANO VIETTO GOALS SCORED 7 4 42 GOALS CLEAN YELLOW RED CONCEDED SHEETS CARDS CARDS 0 27 2

SOCIAL MEDIA AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE 24,214 469K 844K TWITTER FACEBOOK @FulhamFC @FulhamFC ON THE RECORD 10 YEAR LEAGUE RECORD LAST FIVE GAMES 1 PT L Chelsea (A) 0-2 7th 8th 12th Leicester (H) 1-1 D 9th 12th 19th 3rd Man Utd (A) 1-4 L 6th West Ham (H) 0-2 L

17th Newcastle (A) X-X X 20th CHAMPIONSHIP PREMIER LEAGUE

08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18

16 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme TS LIFE

WOLVES

BIGGEST WHITES WIN BIGGEST WOLVES WIN V WOLVES V WHITES 70 H 1928 90 H 1959

STAT ATTACK

TOP SCORER MOST ASSISTS RAUL JIMENEZ RAUL JIMENEZ 5 4 19 19 GOALS GOALS CLEAN YELLOW RED SCORED CONCEDED SHEETS CARDS CARDS 5 32 0

SOCIAL MEDIA AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE 450K 459K 30,985 TWITTER FACEBOOK @Wolves @Wolves ON THE RECORD 10 YEAR LEAGUE RECORD LAST FIVE GAMES 9 PTS Cardiﬀ (A) 1-2 L PREM 1st 1st W 7th Chelsea (H) 2-1

15th Newcastle (A) 2-1 W CHAMP 17th 14th 20th 23rd 15th 1st Bournemouth (H) 2-0 W

LG 1 Liverpool (H) X-X X

08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18 fulhamfc.com 17 FACTFILE

YEAR FORMED: 1877 CHAIRMAN: Jeﬀ Shi NICKNAME: Wolves GROUND: Molineux CAPACITY: 31,700 ATTENDANCE RECORD: 61,315 v Liverpool FA Cup Fifth Round 11.02.1939 SEASONS IN TOP FLIGHT: 64 ALL TIME TOP SCORER: Steve Bull - 306 (1986-99) MOST APPEARANCES: Derek Parkin - 609 (1968-82) MOST CAPS: BILLY WRIGHT 105 England

TOP TRANSFER FEE PAID: £18m Adama Traore (Middlesbrough - Aug 2018) TOP TRANSFER FEE RECEIVED: £14m Steven Fletcher (Sunderland - Aug 2012)

18 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme THE AWAY ENDWORDS: BEN KOSKY WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS

INTRODUCTION

BATTLING TO avoid relegation Leicester City in their next outing, - with varying degrees of Wolves then accumulated 14 success - was the primary focus points from a possible 18, holding of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ both Manchester clubs to draws most recent forays into the as well as registering victories Premier League. against West Ham United, But the evidence so far Burnley, Southampton and indicates that the men from Crystal Palace. Molineux, promoted to the top Miserly defending was the fl ight as Championship winners hallmark of their run, with only last season, are setting their two goals conceded during ambitions higher this time. that six-match streak as well as While it’s almost four decades two further clean sheets in the since John Barnwell’s side Carabao Cup. fi nished sixth in the old Division However, Wolves then appeared One and qualifi ed for Europe, as to hit a signifi cant bump in the well as winning the League Cup, road - the next set of six games it may not be entirely fanciful to yielded just a single point, from suggest the current squad are a 1-1 draw away to Arsenal, as capable of similar achievements. opposing sides fi nally found a A hat-trick of Premier League way to break down their backline. victories in the run-up to Watford, Tottenham Hotspur Christmas, including a 2-1 defeat and Huddersfi eld Town all of Chelsea, lifted Wolves to the triumphed at Molineux, while dizzy heights of seventh place further defeats to Brighton & after a barren November had Hove Albion and Cardiff City threatened to derail their progress. placed Nuno’s side under some Nuno Espirito Santo’s squad pressure going into December. made a good early impression But Wolves’ response banished after reacquainting themselves those doubts, following up with the Premier League, twice their victory against Chelsea by coming from behind to secure beating Newcastle United and a point in their opening game AFC Bournemouth to ensure against Everton. their focus will remain on the top Despite a 2-0 defeat at six rather than the bottom three. fulhamfc.com 19 CLASSIC CAMPAIGN 1953/54 THE TRIO of Johnny Hancocks, Dennis Wilshaw and Roy Swinbourne scored 74 goals as Wolves won the Division One title for the first time in 1953/54. Stan Cullis’ side lost two of their opening three games, at Burnley and Sunderland, but stormed to the top with an 18-match unbeaten run, with Hancocks grabbing a hat-trick in an 8-1 demolition of Chelsea. Other notable wins during that period included 3-2 at Arsenal and 2-1 at Newcastle United, with Wolves maintaining their challenge by beating Blackpool 4-1, Sheffield United 6-1 and Preston North End 1-0. They completed the double over local rivals West Bromwich Albion, then beat Charlton Athletic 5-0 and won the title by four points. Hancocks was ever-present, while eight other players - Peter Broadbent, Jimmy Mullen, Bill Shorthouse, Bill Slater, Swinbourne, Bert Williams, Wilshaw and Billy Wright - missed just 31 games between them that season. LEIGH EDWARDS

TERRACE IDOL STEVE BULL ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL striker Steve Bull holds Wolves’ all-time goalscoring record. Initially with Tipton, he joined West Bromwich Albion in August 1985, but had limited first-team chances before moving to Molineux with Andy Thompson in November 1986. ‘Bully’ formed a lethal partnership with Andy Mutch as Wolves won the Division Four and Three titles in consecutive seasons as well as the Sherpa Van Trophy in 1988. After representing England at Under-21 and B levels, he scored on his full international debut against Scotland in May 1989 and gained 13 caps. He became a cult hero at Molineux, finishing as Wolves’ leading marksman nine times and netting 250 goals in 474 league games until a knee injury ended his top- flight career in July 1999. Briefly reuniting with Graham Turner at Hereford United, he then managed Stafford Rangers. Awarded the MBE and is a Wolves vice president with a stand named after him. LEIGH EDWARDS

20 The Oﬃcial Fulham FC Matchday Programme LAST TIME WE MET DODGY IN SW6 HAIRCUT

GEORGE BERRY

Season: 1977/78 TOP KIT

CHAMPIONSHIP 24.02.2018 JOLEON WOLVERHAMPTON LESCOTT FULHAM 2 0 WANDERERS R Sessegnon, Mitrović 71 Season: 2000/01

fulhamfc.com 21 THE GAFFER NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO became the third foreign coach to take charge of Wolves when he arrived at Molineux 18 months ago - and the former FC Porto goalkeeper is already the most successful of the trio by far. Norwegian Stale Solbakken was fired after six months in 2013 as Wolves hurtled towards League One, while ex-Italy star Walter Zenga lasted just three during the 2016/17 campaign. By contrast, Nuno - aided by several talented imports from his homeland - guided the Old Gold to an emphatic Championship title success in his first season and has made a solid start to life in the Premier League. Born in the former Portuguese colony of Sao Tome, Nuno began his playing career at Vitoria Guimaraes and spent five seasons with Deportivo La Coruna, during which he was loaned to Merida and Osasuna. He had two separate spells with Porto, as well as a brief stint with Dynamo Moscow, and won three caps for Portugal’s B team before hanging up his gloves and joining Malaga as goalkeeping coach in 2010. Nuno’s first managerial opportunity came two years later when he took charge at Rio Ave, securing Europa League qualification for the first time in the club’s history before returning to La Liga as Valencia boss. Despite a fourth-place finish in 2014/15, Nuno left Valencia the following season and rejoined Porto as head coach, but was dismissed after failing to win a trophy and took the Wolves job nine days later.

Age: 44 | Nationality: Portuguese Managerial Career: Rio Ave (2012-14), Valencia (2014-15), Appointed: May 2017 FC Porto (2016-17), Wolves (2017-) THE CAPTAIN CONOR COADY ONE OF Nuno Espirito Santo’s ﬁ rst tactical changes after taking over at Molineux involved moving Conor Coady into a three-man defence - and he has been a permanent ﬁ xture at the back ever since. The Merseysider started out as a midfielder with Liverpool’s youth academy, but made just two first-team appearances for the Reds before spending the 2013/14 campaign on loan at Sheffield United. Coady departed to join Huddersfield Town the following summer and made 48 appearances for the Yorkshire side, scoring three goals, which prompted Wolves to pay £2m for his signature at the end of the season. During his first two years at Molineux, he continued to play in midfield, or sometimes at right-back, but was converted into a central defender by Nuno and his ability to read the game and distribute the ball has been essential to Wolves’ success. Coady missed just one game - due to suspension - during his side’s Championship title triumph last season and has now accumulated more than 150 16 appearances in the Old Gold.

Age: 25 | Nationality: English | Position: Defender | Signed From: Huddersﬁ eld Town

22 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme INS & OUTS 2018/19

TRANSFERS IN RUI PATRICIO GK SPORTING CP WILLY BOLY DEF FC PORTO JONNY OTTO DEF ATLETICO MADRID LOAN RUVEN VINAGRE DEF AS MONACO PAULO ALVES MID LIVERPOOL LEANDER DENDONCKER MID ANDERLECHT LOAN DIOGO JOTA MID ATLETICO MADRID JOAO MOUTINHO MID AS MONACO BENIK AFOBE FOR AFC BOURNEMOUTH LEO BONATINI FOR AL®HILAL RAUL JIMENEZ FOR SL BENFICA LOAN ADAMA TRAORE FOR MIDDLESBROUGH TRANSFERS OUT CARL IKEME GK RETIRED 8 DANNY BATTH DEF MIDDLESBROUGH LOAN Age: 21 BARRY DOUGLAS DEF THE STAR MAN LEEDS UNITED Nationality: Portuguese RODERICK MIRANDA DEF OLYMPIAKOS LOAN Position: RUBEN NEVES Midﬁ elder WOLVES BROKE their club record to sign Ruben Neves in JORDAN GRAHAM MID the summer of 2017 and the £15.8m cheque they handed IPSWICH TOWN LOAN Signed From: FC Porto to FC Porto immediately looked like money well spent. BEN MARSHALL MID The midfielder joined Porto’s youth side as an NORWICH CITY LOAN eight-year-old and, at 17, became the club’s youngest PRINCE ONIANGUE MID goalscorer in the Primeira Liga when he found the net on his senior debut, a 2-0 win over Maritimo. CAEN Neves went on to break further records over the next MICHAL ZYRO MID three years, becoming the youngest Portuguese player POGON SZCZECIN to feature in the Champions League, and also the BENIK AFOBE FOR youngest to make 50 appearances for Porto. STOKE CITY LOAN His quality of passing and ability to score spectacular JOE MASON FOR goals from distance caught the eye in his debut campaign for Wolves, being named Championship Player PORTSMOUTH LOAN of the Season as the Black Country side clinched the title. fulhamfc.com 23 THE AWAY END THE SPINE

GOALKEEPER DEFENDER MIDFIELDER FORWARD

11 5 18 9 RUI RYAN DIOGO RAUL PATRICIO BENNETT JOTA JIMENEZ Age: 30 Age: 28 Age: 22 Age: 27 Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Portuguese English Portuguese Mexican Signed From: Signed From: Signed From: Signed From: Sporting CP Norwich City Atletico Madrid SL Benﬁ ca (loan)

PORTUGAL’S EUROPEAN WHILE RYAN Bennett may ANOTHER OF the FC Porto MOVED TO Molineux on Championship-winning have been one of the less contingent to follow Nuno a season-long loan from goalkeeper has been an heralded arrivals at Molineux Espirito Santo to Molineux, SL Benfi ca. Went into last ever-present in the Premier in the summer of 2017, he initially on loan, Diogo Jota Friday’s match against League since signing for has proved to be among the has recently forced his way Liverpool as Wolves’ top Wolves in a £16m move more astute additions to back into Wolves’ starting scorer with fi ve goals. from Sporting Clube de Wolves’ squad. line-up and justifed his Raul Jimenez began his Portugal last summer. Released by Ipswich Town place by contributing in career with Club America, Rui Patricio made his as a youngster, he signed for front of goal. helping them become Sporting debut at the age Grimsby Town in 2007 and Starting out with Pacos Mexican champions in 2013 of 18 and spent 12 seasons appeared 117 times for the Ferreira, the attacking and, after just a single with the club, helping them Mariners before moving to midfi elder netted 14 goals season at Atletico Madrid, he win fi ve domestic trophies Peterborough United, who in 41 appearances before joined Benfi ca for £9m and and reach the Europa sold him on to Norwich City moving to Atletico Madrid featured in the side that won League Semi-Finals in 2012. for a £3m fee in 2012. in 2016, but returned to back-to-back league titles. Having made his full Part of the squad that Portugal just months later Won an Olympic gold international debut in 2010, won promotion to the to sign for Porto on loan. medal as part of the Mexico he has now won 77 caps Premier League three years Jota’s performances the squad that triumphed for Portugal, featuring in later, Bennett was handed following term persuaded at London 2012 and has two World Cups and two a free transfer in 2017 - Wolves to loan him at amassed 70 caps for his European Championships and has since become an the start of the 2017/18 country, appearing at the - including their triumph in integral part of Wolves’ campaign, with the move World Cup Finals in both France two years ago. three-man defence. later becoming permanent. 2014 and 2018.

24 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme HOT 2 7 10 PROSPECT MATT IVAN HELDER DOHERTY CAVALEIRO COSTA Age: 26 Age: 25 Age: 24 MIDFIELDER Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Irish Portuguese Portuguese

DEF Signed From: Academy FOR Signed From: AS Monaco FOR Signed From: AS Monaco 15 19 21 JOHN WILLY JONNY RUDDY BOLY OTTO Age: 32 Age: 27 Age: 24 Nationality: 17 Nationality: Nationality: English French Spanish MORGAN Signed From: Atletico DEF Signed From: FC Porto DEF GK Signed From: Norwich City GIBBSWHITE Madrid (loan) Age: 18 Nationality: 25 26 27 English ELLIOT PEDRO ROMAIN Signed From: WATT GONCALVES SAISS Academy Age: 18 Age: 20 Age: 28 DESPITE THEIR infl ux of Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Scottish Portuguese Moroccan overseas stars, Wolves are clearly keen to develop homegrown talent as well - epitomised by the way in MID Signed From: Academy MID Signed From: Academy MID Signed From: Angers which Morgan Gibbs-White has steadily forced open the door to the fi rst team. 28 29 30 The teenage midfi elder, who hails from nearby Staff ord, JOAO RUBEN KORTNEY made his fi rst Premier League MOUTINHO VINAGRE HAUSE start in the 2-1 victory over Age: 32 Age: 19 Age: 23 Chelsea at the beginning of Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: December, catching the eye Portuguese Portuguese English with his ball skills and ability to fi nd space. Gibbs-White has been at Signed From: Wycombe MID Signed From: AS Monaco DEF Signed From: AS Monaco DEF Molineux since the age of Wanderers eight, working his way up through the youth ranks before making his senior 32 33 37 debut in an FA Cup tie against Stoke City almost LEANDER LEO ADAMA DENDONCKER BONATINI TRAORE two years ago. He featured 13 times during Age: 23 Age: 24 Age: 22 Wolves’ Championship- Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: winning campaign and has Belgian Brazilian Spanish been involved in most of their Premier League fi xtures to date, as well as representing Signed From: MID Signed From: Academy FOR Signed From: Al-Hilal FOR Middlesbrough England at each level from Under-16 through to Under-19.

fulhamfc.com 25 PRESS BOX ANALYSIS Joe Edwards, sports reporter for the Express & Star, gives us the inside track on today’s opponents…

they’ve adjusted so seamlessly, has proved a very capable No.9. it certainly seems achievable. Conor Coady and Ryan Bennett Although there have been calls are no-nonsense, consistent for another striker to come in, performers, but the pick of the and perhaps a defender, Wolves bunch has been Matt Doherty. A seem to have the quality, and the wing-back with great energy and depth, to fi nish in the top 10. an eye for goal, he’s so crucial to the way Wolves play. Given the good start, are thoughts even turning towards What sort of tactics does Nuno a European spot? They are, and Espirito Santo tend to deploy? you can’t blame fans for thinking Nuno stuck by a 3-4-3 for the it’s possible. Burnley fi nished entirety of the Championship How would you sum up the seventh last season and, on paper campaign but, with the rise of season so far for Wolves? Things at least, it would be fair to argue Morgan Gibbs-White, has now have gone very well. They’ve this Wolves team is stronger. You added another string to his bow. stuck by the same principles would back Manchester United to Wolves played a 3-4-1-2 system, which served them so well in get their act together and end up with Gibbs-White in the free role, the Championship - catching sixth, but seventh is attainable. to fantastic eff ect against both the eye with free-fl owing football and fearing nobody. “ THE CLUB’S OWNERS HAVE LOFTY It hasn’t all been plain sailing. The losses to Huddersfi eld and AMBITIONS, AND THEIR SWIFT START TO Cardiff - during a run of fi ve PREMIER LEAGUE LIFE HAS BOOSTED defeats from six games through October and November - were HOPES OF FULFILLING THEM ” low points, but the victory over Chelsea and draws with Arsenal, Who have been their standout Chelsea and Bournemouth. But Manchester City and Manchester players so far this term? Ruben he hasn’t abandoned his favoured United proved they’re not your Neves was sensational in the 3-4-3, so it’ll be interesting to see typical promoted team. The Championship last season and, how they line up today. club’s Chinese owners have lofty while he’s still been good this ambitions, and their swift start to term, he hasn’t hit the same What’s he like to deal with Premier League life has boosted heights. Teams are going out of from a press perspective? Nuno hopes of fulfi lling them. their way to stifl e him, and Cardiff isn’t the most outgoing of bosses and Huddersfi eld were successful. but, from my experience, he’ll What were their aims at Willy Boly looks as if he has always answer your question. A the start of the campaign? been playing in the top fl ight for good way to describe him would First and foremost, staying several years. A man mountain, be effi cient. He likes to carry up. But I think the majority of he is also calm with the ball at his out his press conferences with a people connected with the club feet and brings it out of defence minimum of fuss - answer, not thought a top-half fi nish was with ease. Raul Jimenez, with a give too much away, and not look a realistic aim. And given how fair share of goals and assists, too far ahead!

26 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme fulhamfc.com 27 28 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme STARTWORDS: TOM HARVEY ALL OVER CALUM CHAMBERS

Calum Chambers has a new string to his bow having reinvented himself as a defensive midﬁ elder in recent months…

fulhamfc.com 29 IF AT FIRST you don’t succeed… his own ever since, although Most importantly, this position after a tricky start to his loan spell he’s the first to admit he’s still allows me to help the team out at Fulham, Calum Chambers has learning his trade. defensively and try and get a bit found a new lease of life. “Liverpool away wasn’t an more solidarity in the middle of Brought in from Arsenal as easy one to get thrown into for the park. That’s my first role in a centre-half, the 23-year-old my first game in that position, there - to help out the boys at initially found the going tough in but since then I feel I’ve grown the back, break-up play and build SW6. He flitted in and out of the in confidence there,” he tells the from there. side as Slaviša Jokanović searched official matchday programme. “I “When I was younger I did a for a winning line-up and was hauled off at half-time in the 4-2 defeat at Cardiff City after “ I CAME HERE TO PLAY CENTRE¡HALF, BUT a testing opening 45 minutes at right-back. THINGS CHANGE QUICKLY IN FOOTBALL One of Jokanović’s last acts as Fulham boss was to deploy AND IT’S ABOUT HOW YOU ADAPT ” Chambers in a defensive midfield position at Liverpool in what need to keep working on it, but season or two in midfield at would be the Serbian’s final game I’m enjoying it in there. Under-21 level for Southampton, in charge. The Whites lost 2-0 “I’m learning in every game but in the Premier League that afternoon, but Chambers I play in that role. I watch I’d played about four or five turned in an impressive the games back and look at games there. At this level it’s performance in his new role at little clips and see what I can been relatively new for me, but Anfield. It’s a position he’s made do better on and off the ball. growing up I played almost

30 The Official Fulham FC Matchday Programme every position in Southampton’s knows a bit or two about the a name for themselves in midfield. academy. If you do that, you role of a midfielder having made “It’s been a tough season so learn what people want in every almost 600 senior appearances far,” states Chambers prior to role. Now I’ve played midfield, if in the position for various clubs Saturday’s trip to Newcastle I go to centre-half or full-back in during an illustrious career. United. “As I said before, things the future, I’ll know what I want “He’s been really good and really can change quite quickly in from a midfielder in front of me. helpful,” says Chambers. “We do football and it’s all about how I can use the experience I’ve had stuff after sessions, quick feet you adapt to the situations you from playing different positions stuff, working on my body position get thrown into, both personally to help me during a game. and making sure I’m aware of and as a team.” “At the start of the season, I what’s around me. I’ll ask him Fulham’s goals against column came here to play centre-half, where I should be with and doesn’t make good reading, but but things change quickly in without the ball. If there are little Chambers insists there are signs of football and it’s about how you things I’m unsure of, I’ll go and improvement, particularly following adapt. Going into the middle, I’ve speak to him and get his advice.” the arrival of Claudio Ranieri. had to focus on that, concentrate There are similarities between “Since the new boss has come on what’s needed and try and Chambers’ resurgence at the in, there’s been a lot more execute it.” Cottage and that of Chris Baird. structure in the way we play,” Chambers also has the Both started their careers at says Chambers. “Even though expertise of Scott Parker to tap Southampton and struggled in we’re still searching for our first into. Fulham’s First Team Coach defence at Fulham before making clean sheet, we feel and look

fulhamfc.com 31 CALUM CHAMBERS: THE DETAILS

AGE: DATE OF BIRTH: 23 20.01.1995

PLACE OF BIRTH: PETERSFIELD, ENGLAND

HEIGHT: WEIGHT: 183cm 66kg

2018/19 APPEARANCES: 2018/19 GOALS: 12 0

32 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme “ SINCE THE NEW BOSS HAS COME IN, THERE’S BEEN A LOT MORE STRUCTURE IN THE WAY WE PLAY. IT’S A PROCESS THAT WILL TAKE A BIT OF TIME, BUT THINGS WILL TAKE A TURN FOR THE BETTER ”

fulhamfc.com 33 more organised defensively. It we keep believing, things will take clear. He coaches well on the was very important for that to a turn for the better.” pitch and in meetings, too.” happen. So that’s a positive and Bar a slight injury that ruled It would be easy for heads to we have to keep working on that, him out of the 4-1 defeat at drop given Fulham’s struggles, keep learning and listening to the Manchester United, at the time but Chambers insists morale in messages the Manager is giving of writing Chambers has played the camp remains high. us in training. every minute of Ranieri’s reign. “You have to keep the belief,” “There are a lot of goals in the He’s enjoying life under the Italian. he says. “We more than believe side and it’s important we switch on and focus on our defending as a team. We’re in the transition of “ I HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WITH doing that now; I feel you can see changes in training and in games UNAI EMERY. I NEEDED TO PLAY GAMES from before. We need to keep working on it and results will come THIS TERM AND I WAS UNSURE WHETHER our way. THAT WOULD HAPPEN AT ARSENAL ” “It’s a work in progress. It was never going to be ﬁxed instantly. We had some tough games after “When you get change at a we’re good enough to stay up the new boss came in, but we football club, everyone wants to with the squad we have; it’s just also had some matches - West prove themselves and show why ﬁnding the right way of playing Ham for example - where we they should be playing,” says and winning games. The defence created a lot of chances but Chambers. “It’s a new lease of was a big issue for us, but we’re didn’t put them away on the day. life for a lot of players, which has working on that and tightening It’s a process that will take a bit been good. I’ve really enjoyed up as a team and learning our of time - we don’t have much of it and his philosophy of how he duties in every position. We have it - but we’re working hard and if wants his team to play is very the self-belief, we just need a

34 The Official Fulham FC Matchday Programme result to change things and get a League. I came back from that incredible. They look so together bit of momentum going.” a different player and that’s as a squad. What Gareth and Chambers joined Arsenal what I wanted to happen this Steve Holland have done is from Southampton in July 2014, season. I played a bit at Arsenal create a special atmosphere. To taking in a loan stint at then- towards the end of last season, get back in the squad is an aim, Premier League Middlesbrough but I wanted a full campaign of for sure. You want to play for in 2016/17. To date, he’s made 83 playing week in, week out.” your country.” appearances for the Gunners, but Capped three times for Right now, though, Chambers rather than play what he thought England - all in 2014 - getting is focused on helping Fulham might be a bit-part role under back in the Three Lions’ squad climb the table, starting with new boss Unai Emery, Chambers remains a goal for Chambers. He today’s visit of high-flying headed to Fulham in search of watched with a tinge of jealousy Wolverhampton Wanderers. regular football. as Gareth Southgate’s men “They’ve had a very strong “I had a lot of conversations reached the Semi-Finals of the start to the season and done very with Unai Emery,” says Chambers. World Cup last summer. well,” he says. “They’ve adapted “I trained with Arsenal pre-season, “My England caps are definitely to life in the Premier League. It but I needed to play games this up there as one of the highlights won’t be easy; no game is in this term. I was unsure whether that of my career,” he states. “There league. As the saying goes, every would happen at Arsenal this have been a few, but that was a game is a cup final for us and we season, so I wanted to get out and big one for me and my family. need to get the results. play games to get experience. “Of course, everyone wanted to “But the games come thick and “When I went to Middlesbrough be in the squad out in Russia. It fast at this time of year and it’s on loan, I played a lot at centre- was an unbelievable tournament. a stage of the season where you half. Unfortunately, we went Luckily, I was in London and able can get some momentum going down, but it was great for me to celebrate with everyone else! and get some points together to go somewhere new and play It was an amazing few weeks quite quickly. That’s what we’ll be a lot of games in the Premier and being there would have been looking to make happen.”

fulhamfc.com 35 FROM THE VAULTS WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Delving into the archives to take a past look at previous matchday programmes against our visitors to SW6…

LEAGUE CUP GOALS FROM Steve THIRD ROUND Earle, Allan Clarke Match Date: 05.10.1966 (2), Jimmy Conway Programme Price: 6d and Les Barrett saw Fulham progress to the Fourth Round of the League Cup. Conway scored after a brilliant 50-yard solo run.

FINAL SCORE FULHAM 5 0 WOLVES 1966/67 FINAL LEAGUE POSITIONS FULHAM DIVISION ONE 18TH WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS DIVISION TWO 2ND

DIVISION THREE MIDTABLE FULHAM were held to a draw 05.10.1988 by high-ﬂ ying Wolves Programme Price: £1 on a chilly October evening. Andy Mutch tapped the visitors in front, but Robert Wilson equalised. Justin Skinner put Fulham into the lead from the spot, before Mick Gooding levelled.

FINAL SCORE FULHAM 2 2 WOLVES

1988/89 FINAL LEAGUE POSITIONS FULHAM DIVISION THREE 4TH WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS DIVISION THREE 1ST

36 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme FA CUP THIRD ROUND FULHAM AND Wolves played out an entertaining draw. The best chance of the game Match Date: 03.01.2015 fell to Leon Clarke, but he shot wide with the Programme Price: £3 goal gaping. The Whites won the Replay on penalties in the snow at Molineux.

MUDDY WATERS CONTINUED... pick up their portion of the riches on With 20 minutes gone there was offer from the TV company, the game another factor to consider: Ashford “We would have settled went ahead. Referee Andy D’Urso may were leading! They were still ahead at for 2-2 before the game, have deemed the pitch playable, but to the break when the home groundstaff but to have a win taken us lot getting more and more drenched had to restore the white lines to by the minute it seemed a case of “see distinguish the pitch from a random away from us with how we go”: much as we’d like to Kent mud heap. Any semblance of something like that watch a game of football, as kick-off grass had gone the way of Fulham’s was cruel.” time approached this all seemed hopes of a cup run. farcical. Oh well, if it became From our perspective it got worse, to Andy Pearson, dangerous to the players or evidently the obvious delight of the home Ashford defender unplayable the officials would surely support. With 20 minutes left Ashford call it off. went 2-0 up in the sludge; our hopes now rested on a legitimate if improbable abandonment or divine “This game should never intervention. have been played on valiant non-League opponents, In fact there was a third option. Step winning the Replay 5-3 after extra- forward D’Urso. With nine minutes to this pitch and in these time, only to get knocked out by go he awarded Fulham a penalty, duly conditions. Sky has Gillingham in Round Two. despatched by captain Micky Adams. done a lot for football Ashford Town went into Once he’d located the spot that is! Two administration in the summer of 2010 minutes later, another spot-kick, same but if they hadn’t been - although a reformed Ashford United taker, same result: 2-2. What a here today the match took their place in the Kent Invicta turnaround. wouldn’t have gone League for season 2011/12. Ó Not that we were able to turn around on the sidelines: yes, we were ahead, and I made those “We got away with it. cheering madly, but our thickly coated feelings clear to the ref. footwear had sunk too deep into the I understand that if the Without a doubt that ever-worsening Kent quagmire to was the worst pitch I've move. Diplomatic draw attained, the game hadn’t gone ahead ever played on… and players headed back to the dressing both clubs wouldn’t have rooms, many complaining of skin got the money on offer it was a great leveller. burns from excess lime in the white from Sky because any Ashford scored two lining. With considerable effort we BACK TO THE decent goals and we got sludged our way out of the ground and revised fixture wouldn't towards the sanctity of our cars. have been filmed. two penalties. We’re just In my case I seemed to take a In my case I seemed to take a I still maintain [two delighted to be given generous portion of the Homelands COTTAGE the chance to put things mud - and its stench - home with me. weeks later] that the Despite getting a long overdue clean game should not have Micky Adams grabbed another right at the Cottage.” brace in the Replay, although it took the following day, my Ford Sierra been started and at Two-goal hero carried a whiff of Ashford for weeks “Both sides were risking two extra-time goals to finally see Micky Adams afterwards. By that time, though, 2-0 to Ashford the injury out there. No one off the non-League battlers. Adams’ Fulham had squeezed past their referee would need to deserves to win on a second goal, three minutes from time, looked to have settled matters be brave or daft enough surface like that. On the as Fulham edged ahead 3-2 - the to abandon it! Micky journey home I could Whites’ other effort coming from Adams stepped up to think of little else but Simon Morgan. Having already recovered from save everyone’s bacon, Kevin Moore’s tenacity being 2-0 down, plucky Ashford including the ref’s and and the composure and responded brilliantly once more, mine, by blasting home skill under extreme however, when Mark Stanton grabbed his own second on the night to make it two extreme pressure pressure shown by 3-3 and force an extra 30 minutes. penalties.” Micky Adams.” A headed goal from Mark Blake Fulham Manager Fulham Chairman finally broke the Kent club’s Ian Branfoot resistance and Alan Cork rounded off Jimmy Hill the 5-3 scoreline in the second period.

42 Official Matchday Programme 43 Fulham Vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers - 03.01.15 FINAL SCORE FULHAM 0 0 WOLVES

2014/15 FINAL LEAGUE POSITIONS FULHAM CHAMPIONSHIP 17TH WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS CHAMPIONSHIP 7TH

CHAMPIONSHIP Match Date: 18.03.2017 Programme Price: £3.50

WOLVES MOVED ﬁ ve points clear of the relegation zone with victory as Fulham missed the chance to climb into the top six. Ivan FINAL SCORE Cavaleiro and Andreas Weimann scored for FULHAM 1 3 WOLVES Wolves, before Denis Odoi pulled one back. But 2016/17 FINAL LEAGUE POSITIONS Dave Edwards tucked home to seal the win for FULHAM CHAMPIONSHIP 6TH the visitors. WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS CHAMPIONSHIP 15TH

fulhamfc.com 37 CHOICE

A selectionCUTS of photographs from previous meetings between Fulham and Wolverhampton Wanderers…

FULL STRETCH Wolves goalkeeper Malcolm Finlayson makes a ﬂ ying save during his side’s 3-1 Division One defeat to Fulham at the Cottage in September 1959.

38 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme ON THE SPOT It’s August 1967 and Derek Dougan throws his hands in the air as his shot beats the despairing dive of Fulham goalkeeper Tony Macedo. Wolves won the Division One encounter 2-1.

WATCHING BRIEF Fulham boss Roy Hodgson and his bench take in the action as Fulham fall to a 2-0 Premier League defeat to newly promoted Wolves in September 2009.

LATE DELIVERY Fulham’s Floyd Ayité wheels away after scoring a last-gasp equaliser in the thrilling 4-4 Championship draw between Wolves and the Whites at Molineux in December 2016.

fulhamfc.com 39 FOOTBALL INSIDER DEAN JONES Fulham fan and Bleacher Report’s Football Insider searches for positives…

IT HASN’T been an easy season down by the Thames, but we should also reflect on just what a fantastic year we’ve had at Fulham. None of us expected anything pundits say our results and needed to stay up isn’t going to that happened. From the performances are “embarrassing”. be as high as it has been in most incredible unbeaten run that led It’s hard to respond to such seasons. A total of 30 might even us to the Championship Play-Offs, comments right now, but wouldn’t be enough to do it. I know that to a 1-0 win at Wembley over it be nice to have the last laugh? figure still seems some way from Aston Villa. And perhaps even So where is our inspiration us right now, but it is achievable. more surprising is that after all coming from? The core of last We’ve already played Tottenham, that success, Slaviša Jokanović is season’s triumph could be the Manchester City, Chelsea, now gone! key: Aleksandar Mitrović, Tom Liverpool and Manchester United Football is unpredictable, but it’s Cairney and Ryan Sessegnon all away from home - so hopefully that element of the unknown that ignites our passion and love of the “ THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BE game. Life would be boring if we knew what was around the corner, SAID FOR BEING STUCK IN THE wouldn’t it? RELEGATION ZONE IS THAT AT LEAST With that in mind, we should all have some hope over what WE MIGHT BE IN FOR AN EXCITING the future might hold this term. SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON ” It’s been difficult to hold much optimism in recent months. But have the potential to be game- the second half of the season will with Claudio Ranieri in charge we changers and spark a change not be quite as tough. have a new pair of eyes figuring in fortune. And of the new boys As Fulham fans we know success out exactly how we get off the it’s worth realising that Sergio doesn’t come easily. But it’s also our bottom of the table. Rico is a tremendous goalkeeper journey here that brings the realism The only thing that can be said and Jean Michaël Seri is likely to and straight-thinking that makes for being stuck in the relegation start dictating matches. There is us different from fans of other clubs zone is that at least we might be certainly hope. who think they have a divine right in for an exciting second half of The Premier League has always to be in the top division. the season. Imagine another run been a ruthless place, but this of wins that sees us stay up! season there seems to be a Keep the faith! It’s fair to say that pretty much bigger divide between those at everyone outside of this football the top and the bottom. And Follow Dean on Twitter club is writing us off. I’ve heard the truth is that the points tally @DeanJonesBR

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42 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme JAMIE O’HARA THE EXFILES

Drew Heatley catches up with a former Whites player with a link to our opponents. This afternoon it’s Jamie O’Hara. The midﬁ elder endured times of change at Fulham and with Wolverhampton Wanderers…

JAMIE O’HARA might be known to many Tom, Matt Smith, Ben Pringle and Richard for non-footballing reasons, but to Fulham Stearman,” says Jamie. “We’ve all still got fans he was an industrious midfi elder who a WhatsApp group where we have a bit of pitched in at a time of transition in SW6. banter about our time together at Fulham. He signed for the Club in July 2015 after Tom’s stayed, and he’s done fantastic; you a trial period - and, at nearly 29, he was can see he’s a real talent and he’s gone from determined to revive his career. strength to strength.” “Fulham is a massive club and I wanted Kit’s exit in November sparked an to be a part of it,” he recalls. “The manager uncertain spell as the Whites searched for Kit Symons was really keen to get me in, a replacement. “It was diffi cult,” admits too. Fulham was always a club I wanted to O’Hara. “We weren’t doing badly; we were play for; I love the set-up and the family ninth, and we were picking up points. We atmosphere. It was a no-brainer.” were one of the teams to watch in the Jamie was the fi fth of no fewer than 12 fi rst-team recruits that summer, as Symons looked to rebuild after Felix Magath’s reign. O’Hara remains full of praise for his former “ WE WEREN’T DOING boss, who would only last in the hot seat BADLY; WE WERE NINTH, until November. “It was diffi cult for him that he lost his job in the end,” states O’Hara. AND WE WERE PICKING “He was a fantastic bloke and he was Fulham through and through. We weren’t UP POINTS. THEN WE fi ring on all cylinders, but we weren’t doing DIDN’T HAVE A MANAGER badly either.” Despite Kit’s eventual exit with Fulham FOR SIX WEEKS ” outside the Play-Off places, O’Hara started brightly - notching up four man of the match awards in his fi rst nine appearances. Championship. Then we didn’t have a “I didn’t expect it,” he says, honestly. “It was manager for six weeks. We had Peter Grant a great start. I wanted to come in and prove for a bit, and then we had Stuart Gray . It everyone wrong, because I’d had a bad spell was frustrating, to be honest.” at Wolves and people were questioning me. The Club plumped for Slaviša Jokanović To build back up to a decent level and to be as 2016 approached, but the Serb’s style playing well, week in and week out, for such took time to stick and the Whites found a good club was great.” themselves battling the drop. “In the O’Hara was forming a positive partnership Championship, you have to grind out results; with fellow new arrival Tom Cairney in playing good football is diffi cult,” muses the middle of the park. The pair are still O’Hara. “And that’s where it went downhill fi rm friends. “We had a great group; me, for me. Slav had to change the way we

fulhamfc.com 43 played in order to get results.” in the summer. But then things people off,” he says. “But I lost a Championship survival preceded started to go wrong. couple of yards. That really put a summer that would ultimately “My back was giving me me on a downward spiral in terms end in frustration for O’Hara as problems and I began to have of being able to stay on top of my his contract wasn’t renewed. “At groin trouble,” he explains. “It fitness. My back was okay, but I the end of the season, I wasn’t disintegrated into a nightmare. always had aches and pains, then playing as much,” he reflects. The club got relegated and I my groin went, and I had hernia “But Slav said he wanted to keep came back the next season in and hip problems.” me. Mike Rigg (chief football the Championship. I struggled Though O’Hara acknowledges officer) wanted to change a couple of things and they wanted “ I STRUGGLED WITH MY FITNESS AND to bring in one or two other midfielders. It kind of just drifted WOLVES STRUGGLED ON THE PITCH. I into nothing. I played nearly 40 games that season, and I THINK I TOOK A LOT OF UNNECESSARY HEAT captained a few times. I wanted FROM THE FANS. BUT THE CLUB NEEDED A to stay, but I have some great memories.” SCAPEGOAT AND I WAS THAT MAN ” O’Hara had first made his name as a precocious talent at again with my fitness and the his fitness played a role in his Tottenham Hotspur, breaking club struggled on the pitch. I difficult spell at the club, he into the first team aged 21 and think I took a lot of unnecessary points to other factors, too. impressing in two loan spells heat from the fans. But the club “People forget very quickly in at Portsmouth. So, when he needed a scapegoat and I was football. I helped keep Wolves up signed with today’s visitors that man.” and that’s why they signed me,” Wolverhampton Wanderers, Jamie’s stay at Molineux is he states. “And they spent a lot of initially on loan, in January 2011, it illustrative of the impact injuries money on me. Those five months was considered a coup. That view can have on a player’s career, on were brilliant, but after that, the was strengthened when he helped and off the pitch. “As a footballer, club spoke a lot about signing the club stay in the Premier you don’t really talk about your more players; they only signed League, signing permanently injuries as you don’t want to put me and Roger Johnson. I was the 44 The Official Fulham FC Matchday Programme first to sign, and I was expecting promotion to the National League management. It’d be a dream to six or seven more. I said to Mick South, before leaving the club do some coaching at Tottenham McCarthy the club needed to earlier this month. He’s full of or Fulham in the future.” sign more players if they wanted respect for the league. “It’s not As for our own man in the to stay in the Premier League. It easy!” he laughs. “It’s hard work dugout, Jamie thinks he will help didn’t happen.” and end-to-end football. You play a put our early season struggles Despite everything, Jamie lot of games. And you don’t get the behind us. “With Ranieri in holds Wolves in high regard and same sorts of facilities you’d get at charge, Fulham will charge up believes they’re on the right a professional football club.” the table,” he declares. “It’s a track for Premier League success. O’Hara is also earning his fantastic appointment.” “They’ve got the right owners and coaching badges as he plans With our home festive fixtures brought in the right management for life after football - but he’s crucial as we battle to avoid team,” he says. “And they’ve not ready to hang up his boots the drop, O’Hara thinks Craven spent a lot of money. In the just yet. “I want to play for as Cottage will prove the difference Championship they were signing long as possible,” he says. “I love today. “Wolves have to travel, players for £15m. So, they’re the game; I don’t know what and no one likes that over having a go. I think they’ll stay I’d do without football. I’ll see Christmas,” he adds. “Fulham in the Premier League for a few what happens. I might get an players can spend Christmas with years now.” opportunity to go abroad and their families and look forward to After leaving Craven Cottage, experience that. But, for now, the game.” O’Hara went into non-League, it’s about playing as long as Let’s hope for one more present helping Billericay Town gain possible and taking my steps into this afternoon. fulhamfc.com 45 ONE MOMENT IN TIME

Goals by Johnny Hancocks and Jimmy Mullen gave FA Cup holders Wolves a 2-1 Division One win over Fulham at Craven Cottage on 20th August 1949. It was Fulham’s ﬁ rst-ever match in the top ﬂ ight. Football historian LEIGH EDWARDS traces what happened to the starting XIs of both teams…

DIVISION ONE 20.08.1949 CRAVEN COTTAGE FULHAM 1

WOLVERHAMPTON 2 WANDERERS

46 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme fulhamfc.com 47 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FULHAM’S TEAM?

DOUG FLACK JIM TAYLOR BOB THOMAS Goalkeeper who helped England international who was Inside-forward who netted 57 goals Fulham win the Division Two ever-present in Fulham’s 1948/49 in 176 games prior to joining Crystal title in 1948/49 and made 55 Division Two title success and Palace in September 1952. Reunited appearances before moving to netted five goals in 278 games, with Jim Taylor at Tunbridge Wells, Walsall in August 1953. Later becoming Tunbridge Wells player- then played for Kettering Town, coaching Corinthian Casuals and manager in May 1954. Later Gravesend & Northfleet and Tooting & Mitcham, he worked for managing Yiewsley and Uxbridge, Clacton Town. Later working for the an aircraft instrument company he was a painter and decorator Financial Times, he died in Sutton in and settled in Old Coulsdon. Died at Windsor Castle and died in March 1990. in October 2005. March 2001. ARTHUR ROWLEY HARRY FREEMAN Centre-forward who scored Right-back who netted eight 26 times in 59 outings before goals in 190 games before moving joining Leicester City in July 1950. to Walsall in October 1952. Later Became Shrewsbury Town player- Dover player-boss, he had a spell boss in June 1958 and netted an with Ashford Town, then was all-time English record 434 league Windsor & Eton player-coach goals overall. Later managing and managed Woodstock Town. Sheffield United, Southend United Became a baker and died in his and Oswestry Town, he died in native Woodstock in March 1997. December 2002. JOE BACUZZI BEDFORD JEZZARD Long-serving full-back who England international inside- missed just one match in forward who netted 154 goals in Fulham’s 1948/49 Division Two PAT BEASLEY 306 games before injury ended title triumph, scoring twice in Ex-England international his career in August 1957. Briefly 299 games before injury. Was (pictured) who scored 13 times Fulham’s youth coach, he was the Fulham’s reserve-team trainer for in 163 games, becoming Bristol Club’s manager from June 1958 nine years until May 1965, then City player-boss in July 1950. until October 1964. Later became worked in an eyeglass factory and Later managed Birmingham a publican in Stamford Brook and lived in Clerkenwell until his death City and Dover, also scouting for died locally in May 2005. in February 1995. Fulham, then settled in Chard. Died in February 1986. JACK MCDONALD LEN QUESTED Ex-Wolverhampton Wanderers Starred in Fulham’s 1948/49 ARTHUR STEVENS winger who netted 20 goals in 78 Division Two title triumph and Long-serving winger who netted games for Fulham before joining netted seven goals in 188 games 124 goals in 413 league games Southampton in August 1952, then before joining Huddersfield Town before hanging up his boots. Southend United, Weymouth and in November 1951. Emigrated Was Fulham’s trainer for nine Poole. Was licensee of the Royal to Australia in July 1957, playing years until May 1968, then ran Oak in Bere Regis and Tatnum for Auburn, then held coaching a grocery store in Banstead. Hotel in Poole, later working for posts. Died in Queensland in Settling in Epsom, he died in Pearl Assurance in Wimborne. Died August 2012. January 2007. in Ryde in June 2007.

48 The Oﬃcial Fulham FC Matchday Programme WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WOLVES’ TEAM?

BERT WILLIAMS BILL SHORTHOUSE JESSE PYE England international goalkeeper Centre-half who starred as England international centre- who helped Wolves win the FA Wolves won the FA Cup in forward who scored twice in Wolves’ Cup in 1949 and Division One title 1949 and Division One title in 1949 FA Cup Final success and was in 1953/54. Made 381 top-fl ight 1953/54. Scoring once in 344 leading marksman three times. appearances before leaving in top-fl ight games, he hung up his Netted 90 goals in 188 league May 1957, then had a sports boots in October 1956 and held outings prior to joining Luton Town shop in Bilston and ran a local various coaching posts including in July 1952, then Derby County and goalkeeping school. Settling in England Youth, Birmingham City Wisbech Town. Settling in Blackpool, Shifnal, he died in January 2014. and Aston Villa. Died locally in he died in February 1984. September 2008. LAURIE KELLY JIMMY DUNN Right-back who was unlucky to BILLY WRIGHT Scottish inside-forward who featured miss Wolves’ 1949 FA Cup Final Legendary Wolves captain who in Wolves’ 1949 FA Cup Final success triumph through injury, making netted 13 goals in 490 league and netted 33 goals in 123 league 60 league appearances before games and gained a club record outings before joining Derby County moving to Huddersfi eld Town in 105 England caps before retiring in November 1952, then played for October 1950. Became Nuneaton in May 1959. Later managed Runcorn. Later a local publican, Borough player-manager in Arsenal for four years, then he then coached West Bromwich May 1957, then scouted for was associated with sports Albion and was a physiotherapist in Huddersfi eld Town and died in coverage on ATV and became a Edgbaston. Died in December 2014. Dudley in July 1972. Wolves director until his death in September 1994. ROY PRITCHARD Left-back who featured in Wolves’ JOHNNY HANCOCKS 1949 FA Cup Final success and England international outside- helped win the Division One title right who netted 158 goals in 1953/54, making 202 top- in 343 league games prior to fl ight appearances before joining joining Wellington Town in July Aston Villa in February 1955. 1956, then played for Cambridge Later at Notts County, Port Vale United, Oswestry Town and GKN and Wellington Town, he resided Sankey. Worked at Maddock & in Willenhall until his death in Sons ironfounders, residing in January 1993. Oakengates until his death in February 1994. BILLY CROOK Versatile right-half who helped SAMMY SMYTH Wolves win the FA Cup in 1949 Scored twice in Wolves’ 1949 JIMMY MULLEN and scored twice in 196 Division FA Cup Final triumph, netting England international outside-left One games while at Molineux 34 goals in 102 league games (pictured) who helped Wolves win the prior to joining Walsall in October before moving to Stoke City FA Cup in 1949 and Division One title 1954. Then became a structural in September 1951. Later with three times, netting 98 goals in 445 draughtsman with Rubery Owen Liverpool, he settled back in league games. Ran his sports shop & Co in Darlaston. Settling in Belfast, running a sports shop in Wolverhampton until his sudden Cradley Heath, he died in May and becoming an agent for a death in October 1987 and the Wolves 2011. sportswear fi rm. Died in October Former Players’ Association was 2016. formed in his honour.

fulhamfc.com 49 #HASHTAG A round-up of our favourite recent tweets by players, staﬀ , fans and the Club’s oﬃ cial account. Follow Fulham on Twitter @FulhamFC

FFC OFFICIAL FFC PLAYERS & STAFF FFC FANS @FulhamFC • Dec 18 @_StevenSess • Dec 17 @gninniss • Dec 15 Tickets for our trip to @Arsenal have This is what the hard work has been for. Poor result, but decent performance now SOLD OUT! The boys will be backed Thank you for the support. from the lads. Good work rate and some by just under 3,000 of you at the good football. The better team today. Emirates on New Year’s Day. BIG step forward.

@FulhamFC • Dec 17 @Calumsec • Dec 15 We’re delighted to announce that To think I purchased FA Cup tickets. @_StevenSess has signed a contract Optional torture beyond that of the ST. extension. What was I thinking?

@FulhamFC • Dec 17 @jozanetti • Dec 15 Congrats Mitro! 2018 Serbian Footballer Don’t know what to say about today. of the Year! To survive in the Prem, you have to take @Neeskens_Kebano • Dec 15 the chances presented and not leak @FulhamFC • Dec 16 Life is about ﬁ ghting, we’re never gonna goals. We did neither. “We need to stay together, be positive give up. Heads up and we go again. and move straight on to the next @AliWinstanley • Dec 15 game.” - @CalumChambers95 Plus point of the day was bumping into Lucas Piazon in Clapham. He was @FulhamFC • Dec 15 equally as sad as I about the current “At this moment, it’s important to stay #FFC situation and genuinely a decent calm and react.” - Claudio #FULWHU chap.

@HenriettaCsilla • Dec 15 Quick stop oﬀ at the @krispykreme factory with @J0N1 and @avconnor after a cold, wet and miserable defeat. @sergiorico25 • Dec 15 Unity is our strength!

@FulhamFC • Dec 15 West Ham take this one, with goals coming from Snodgrass and Antonio. @georgewickens_ • Dec 14 @fulham_girl • Dec 15 #FULWHU Disappointing night on Tuesday, should Can we go back in time to Wembley have got more. and start this season again? @FulhamFC • Dec 15 #ThoseWereTheDays Happy birthday, @AyiteF! @Dazzer0306 • Dec 15 @FulhamFC • Dec 14 It’s a little damp? Unfortunately tonight’s #PL2 meeting with @Wolves has fallen victim to the weather. Corney & Barrow is the oficial wine supplier to Fulham Football Club.

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fulhamfc.com 51 CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS CLIFF CARR

Ian McCulloch speaks to Fulham favourite and former skipper Cliﬀ Carr…

IT’S NEVER a great situation A skilful, combative player the time, said he couldn’t believe knowing your boss doesn’t like epitomised by his never-say- we were down at the bottom you, but that was the dilemma die attitude, he had to endure of Division Two playing football full-back Cliff Carr faced when he some of the worst times ever like that. But then we played first signed on as an apprentice seen at the Club as the spectre Liverpool again a few years later with Fulham back in 1982. of Fulham Park Rangers loomed after all our good players had “Yeah,” remembers Carr with a large on the horizon. “If the Club been sold off and we lost 10-0. laugh when we catch up with him had been in a better shape off I didn’t play that day, I was out at his home in Stafford. “Terry the pitch, who knows what we injured, and it was all kids out Mancini, who was reserve-team might have achieved,” he says. there. Very sad.” coach at the time, told me “We had some fabulous players Carr was an almost instant manager Bobby Campbell didn’t there then - experienced players success when he made it into really fancy me when I signed on. like Tony Gale, Ray Houghton, the first team. “That year was “Terry persuaded him to take Ray Lewington, Gordon Davies, so exciting,” he says. “The team a chance. That’s not a great and then we had this conveyor had just won promotion and it place to find yourself in as a young footballer trying to make the grade, but in a way I think it “ IF THE CLUB HAD BEEN IN BETTER SHAPE made me more determined to OFF THE PITCH, WHO KNOWS WHAT WE succeed. I’m that sort of person, an awkward bugger.” MIGHT HAVE ACHIEVED ” Luckily for Carr, and for Fulham, it was Mancini’s opinion that belt of really talented kids coming was such a good side - I was lucky held sway, and the Irish coach through - Paul Parker, Jeff to get in. I made my full debut proved to be an excellent judge Hopkins, and so on. It was a really at Coventry in the League Cup of talent. Carr went on to make good mix. But then we had that - a great experience, fantastic - his first-team debut at the age whole thing with David Bulstrode and I thought I did okay. What of 17 and became a regular the taking over and we sold off all our was nice was that I got plenty following season. He captained best players and became a really, of encouragement from the the Club for two years - because, really young side. lads. People like Ray Lew, Ray he says, he was ‘gobby’ - and “Those games we had against Houghton and Tony Gale were represented England at Under-21 Liverpool in the League Cup terrific with all of the young level. All told, he made 166 when Malcolm Macdonald was players coming into the team.” appearances for Fulham, scoring still manager - it took them And then, in just his fourth 16 times, and - we think - was three games to beat us, and I first-team appearance he hit the the youngest permanent captain remember all the plaudits we winner against Derby County. in the Club’s history. got. Joe Fagan, their manager at “I remember that very well,” he

52 The Official Fulham FC Matchday Programme fulhamfc.com 53 for the reserves at Fulham behind Geoff Banton and Stevie Hatter.” He also came up with some crucial goals, many of them says. “I played as an emergency scored. If we had been 5-0 up and penalties. He was coolness forward as we had a bit of an he had scored my reaction would personified from the spot, injury crisis. Andy Thomas got to have been the same.” exemplified by his last-minute the byline, pulled it back, and I In his time at Fulham, Carr conversion in a League Cup tie at just managed to get my head on played pretty much everywhere Chelsea in 1985 to earn a Replay. it and slot it into the corner!” Manager Macdonald was very pleased with his new debutant: “I “ I WAS TAKEN TO CHARING CROSS got particular satisfaction from HOSPITAL IN ERNIE CLAY’S SON’S ROLLS Cliff Carr’s performance,” he said. “And the fact that he got the ROYCE, CLARET EVERYWHERE ” winner impressed everyone at the Cottage. He is a tremendous on the pitch. “I started off as a And a measure of his character professional with a great future. left midfield player,” he says. “But and determination was that he It is not only his skill that I admire, ended up at left-back. Paul Parker never hid after missing a chance. but his attitude. With this sort of played a few games there, but Dean Coney said this after the attitude, coupled with his natural then they moved him over to the Chelsea game: “It’s my view, and talent, he is sure to succeed. His right and I slotted in on the left. that of all the lads, that Cliff is goal had me leaping out of the And I played quite a few times an outstanding skipper. Imagine dugout to applaud. It was not up front as well. Funnily enough having to take a penalty with less because it was the winning goal, when I was a kid I played sweeper. than two minutes to go, in front but simply because Cliff had In fact I mostly played sweeper of nearly 20,000 fans, knowing

54 The Official Fulham FC Matchday Programme that you failed to convert one just 10 days earlier. Cliff strode up and coolly slotted home. That takes character. There isn’t a single coward amongst the Fulham team, but I can tell you that not one of us wanted anything to do with that spot-kick. Thanks Cliff .” been calling me Carry and then Which brings us on to the that changed to Scarry for a bit. matter of Carr’s nickname while But like the scars themselves it he was at the club. “Ah,” he says wore off in the end.” ruefully. “Scarry! They used to Despite putting his face on call me Scarry. It was when I got the line for the Club and having kicked in the face in a reserve to endure all the diffi cult times game against West Ham. I went behind the scenes, Carr still for a header at the back post, a harbours fond memories of my apprenticeship - being diving header, and a West Ham his time at the Cottage. “They head lad in my second year - I player booted me in the face. were my best playing days,” he remember it fondly, very fondly. I remember being taken up to says. “I had some good seasons I was captain, got my England Charing Cross Hospital in Ernie at Stoke after I left Fulham, Under-21 cap there, and when Clay’s son’s Rolls Royce, claret played really well there, and you think of some of the teams pouring out of me everywhere. I I enjoyed my fi rst season at we played against, all of those had stitches in my forehead and Chesterfi eld. But the way we nights in the cups where we had my face, so I was a bit of a sight played football at Fulham, and some unbelievable games and did for a while. It was Peter Scott who the fantastic people at the ourselves proud... I still look back came up with the name - they’d Club who I grew up with during at them as my best years.” fulhamfc.com 55 A LOVE SUPREME A Fulham fan tells their unique Whites-related story. This afternoon, it’s the turn of 12-year-old Joseph Dunlop…

frustrated for the fi rst 40 minutes. I started paying increased attention when Aleksandar Mitrović hit a low, powerful drive towards goal only to miss by centimetres. As the ball bounced back into play, Sessegnon appeared out of nowhere to tap it into the back of the net. There was an unmistakable, THE REASON why I came to fi nish in the Play-Off Final collective feeling - game on! support Fulham is rather unclear followed by the deafening It wasn’t until the 66th minute to me as I started following cheer of the Fulham fans who when a Sessegnon corner them before I could even climb had been dreaming of top- came into the box followed the stands unaided and my only tier football for years, will be by genuinely one of the best glimpse of the pitch was from something I’ll never forget. headers I’ve ever seen from up on my dad’s shoulders. Back My most vivid Fulham memory Denis Odoi. I had previously then the dreams of beating the likes of Arsenal were just “ AS THE BALL BOUNCED BACK INTO that - dreams, and Mark PLAY, SESSEGNON APPEARED OUT OF Schwarzer was everyone’ s hero. The Cottage was (and still is) NOWHERE TO TAP IT INTO THE BACK magical and the Johnny Haynes Stand is my second home. OF THE NET ” Since Fulham went down is when the Whites played regarded him as one of the nearly fi ve years ago, it has been Derby in the Second Leg of weak links in a strong Fulham incredible to see us transition the Play-Off Semi-Final. The side. However, this stunning from a standard Championship face of Derby striker Cameron goal changed my view of him group of players to a decent Jerome will haunt me forever completely. The score remained Premier League team. The as he very nearly shattered 2-1 on aggregate until the fi nal picture of Ryan Sessegnon’s mine, and many other Fulham whistle and a magnifi cently perfectly weighted throughball fans’ hopes, of Premier league chaotic pitch invasion. We were and Tom Cairney’s world-class football. I watched the game, through to the Play-Off Final!

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56 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme INVENTED IN THE LAB, PROVEN ON THE PITCH HYDRATE* LIKE FULHAM

*Carbohydrate-electrolyte solutions contribute to the maintenance of endurance THE OFFICIAL SPORTS DRINK OF performance during prolonged endurance exercise and enhance the absorption FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB of water during physical exercise. Drink during exercise as part of a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. fulhamfc.com 57 PLAYER QUIZ

Tom Harvey

It’s been annoying footballers for break the mould? In today’s edition, Interview:

THE PROGRAMME QUIZ. many a year. So who are we to Aboubakar Kamara IFrandomly YOU WEREN’T chooses A eight FOOTBALLER, questions fromWHAT our list of 30… WOULD YOU BE? If I wasn’t involved in sport, I would be a ﬁ reman. That’s 1 what I wanted to be when I was a kid.

WHAT WOULD YOUR SUPERPOWER BE? Invisibility [does an evil laugh]! Or it would be 8 good to read people’s minds.

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WHAT’S YOUR NICKNAME? My sister calls me ‘Boubs’. Back home I’m known as ‘Abaker’. 7

WHAT’S YOUR COMPUTER WERE YOU GOOD AT ANY OTHER SPORTS GAME OF CHOICE? AS A KID? NBA2K. I play online. Without bragging, I was good at a lot of sports, in particular athletics, rugby and badminton. If I hadn’t 30 become a footballer, I would have been a hurdler.

HAVE YOU EVER WON A TENNER ON THE LOTTERY? I used to do a scratchcard now and then in France. I once won €50. 21

HOW DO YOU PASS THE TIME ON LONG AWAY TRIPS? I get in touch with people on the phone, listen to music or watch box sets. Right now, I’m watching ‘Le Bureau 27 des Legendes’ - a French spy thriller. 07.03.1995

| Date of Gonesse,Birth: France ABOUBAKAR23 KAMARA French Age: Place of Birth: 05.08.17 Monaco, Nationality: WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE FILM? FFC Debut: ‘Home Alone’. In France it’s called ‘Mum, I Missed v Norwich City, Championship The Plane’. Previous Club(s): 4 KV Kortrijk, Amiens fulhamfc.comfulhamfc.com 59 UNSEEN FFC Digging deep for rarely seen photographs involving the Whites…

60 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme FULHAM COTTAGE PRIDE At ﬁ rst glance, we thought this was something to do with the 1975 FA Cup Final, but the kits suggest this picture could have been taken any time between 1977 and 1981. We have to be honest, we’re not quite sure what’s going on. Answers on a postcard.

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MESSAGEBOARD Fulham FC Publications, 9th Floor, 1 Olympic Way, Send your photos, stories, and messages about life following Fulham FC Wembley, to [email protected] or post them to the address opposite. London HA9 0NP OBITUARIES

DAVE ROWSOME Sadly, a beloved member of the Rowsome Fulham dynasty passed away earlier this month. Dave Rowsome left us on Saturday 1st December, aged 67. Dave was the fi rst of the six Rowsome brothers to go to Craven Cottage accompanied by our Grandfather (who had been supporting Fulham since World War One). REANNA His fi rst game was at 10 years old at home to Happy 17th birthday to Reanna, a Fulham Season Ticket Holder and Sheffi eld Wednesday on 21st January 1961, a fan for the past 10 years. Lots of love, Dad, Mum and Ethan. true test of loyalty as we were thrashed 6-1! He followed the Whites even when not well and we are all so very happy that the last game he attended was the epic Wembley Play-Off Final in May. Even though he was already quite weak, he shared in our delight on that day. Beyond Fulham, Dave was an incredibly colourful character loved by everybody. Dave was a humanist, believing in kindness and peace, but also fair play, so he was proud that Fulham has always embodied these qualities in football. He will be terribly missed by so many people, including those he encountered at Fulham. ART CORNER

Noriko Thomas, our TOMMY resident artist, Happy 8th birthday Tommy Steel. Enjoy celebrating at the Cottage! has drawn this brilliant picture KELLY of Fulham We would like to wish Kelly Dennett a very happy 26th birthday for defender Cyrus Christie. 23rd December. Kelly is a massive Fulham fan and Season Ticket Holder in the Johnny Haynes Stand. Have a wonderful birthday. Lots Are you a dab of love, Mum, Dad and Aaron. hand with the charcoal, pencils, ROSE or crayons? If so, send your works rjwatches.com Happy birthday to Rose C. (15 today), a massive Whites fan. With love of art to the details at the top of the page and from all the Curberts (Curtis and Gilbert families). we’ll print them here. RJXWATCHES

62 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme arraw MARINE TITANIUM

rjwatches.com RJXWATCHES SEASONS IN THE SUN Each matchday, Andy Greeves takes a look back at one of Fulham’s 25 previous seasons in the top ﬂ ight. This afternoon, he reﬂ ects on the Whites’ debut campaign in Division One, the appointment of Bill Dodgin as manager and the signing of a certain Johnny Haynes on an amateur contract - all of which happened in 1949/50.

their forthcoming matches. Jezzard got the only goal of the game in a 1-0 triumph over Manchester United on 10th December and a week later, Rowley was on target in a 1-1 draw at Molineux against a Wolves side who would go on to fi nish second that term. Fulham’s good form in December continued with a 3-0 victory over Aston Villa at Craven Cottage on Christmas Eve which preceded home and away draws with Everton. The year ended with a 2-1 defeat at Charlton Athletic. The Addicks became a familiar foe for the Whites around that time, with a 2-2 draw at The Valley in the FA Cup Third Round on 9th January followed by a 2-1 NOT LONG after leading Fulham to 7th September. A week after a 1-1 draw defeat in the Replay at Craven Cottage the Division Two title in 1948/49, boss with Chelsea, Thomas scored again in two days later. A return to league Frank Osborne assumed the role of a 2-1 home win over Newcastle United action on 14th January saw Fulham general manager at Craven Cottage. on 24th September, with Jezzard also beat Manchester City 1-0 at home, Bill Dodgin arrived from Southampton on target. while Dodgin’s side drew 0-0 at Chelsea in July 1949 to take charge of fi rst- A goalless draw at Blackpool was the following week. team aff airs ahead of the Whites’ followed by back-to-back victories Thomas scored four times in three debut season in the top fl ight. against Stoke City and Burnley, which matches during February 1950. While It was Wolverhampton Wanderers lifted Fulham to ninth position - just his strike at Newcastle was only a who provided the opposition for three points behind third-placed consolation in a 3-1 defeat, he got Fulham’s inaugural match in Division One on 20th August. Goals from ‘ IT WAS WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Johnny Hancocks and Jimmy Mullen gave Wolves a 2-1 victory at Craven WHO PROVIDED THE OPPOSITION Cottage, with Joe Bacuzzi getting the home side’s consolation. Dodgin’s FOR FULHAM’S INAUGURAL MATCH IN men picked up their fi rst point of the DIVISION ONE ON 20TH AUGUST ’ season four days later with a 2-2 draw at Huddersfi eld Town. Manchester United. A run of three the only goal of the game against After a 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa, consecutive defeats thereafter meant Blackpool on 18th February and two Fulham achieved their fi rst victory the Whites had dropped to 15th place in a 2-2 draw with Stoke at Craven of the campaign in style against by early November. Cottage seven days later. At this point Huddersfi eld Town on 31st August. A Jezzard, Thomas and Rowley scored in in the season, Fulham were 13th, just double from Arthur Rowley, a strike a 3-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers on two points behind rivals Chelsea in from Beddy Jezzard and an own goal 12th November during a month in which 10th. saw the Whites cruise to a 4-1 win over the Whites lost at Aston Villa and drew A goalless draw at Burnley on 4th the Terriers at Craven Cottage. with both Birmingham City and Derby March was the start of 10 matches Bob Thomas got 11 goals for Fulham County. After a heavy 4-1 loss at West without victory for the Whites up during the campaign and his fi rst brace Bromwich Albion on 3rd December, to and including the fi nal game of of the season was enough to secure a the Whites secured two of their most the season against Middlesbrough 2-1 away victory at Middlesbrough on impressive results of the season in on 6th May. Thankfully, Dodgin’s

64 The Offi cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme SEASON: 1949/50 Fulham’s fi rst campaign in the top fl ight Division/league position: Division One - 17th FA Cup: Third Round Top scorer: Bob Thomas - 11 (10 league)

TIME CAPSULE Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill made a landmark speech in support of the idea of a European Union at Kingsway Hall in London on 28th November 1949.

On 17th December 1949, the Sutton Coldﬁ eld transmitting station began transmitting BBC television to viewers across the Midlands - marking the ﬁ rst time BBC broadcasts had been seen outside of London.

India became a Republic on 26th January 1950, severing its ties with the British crown. men had done enough earlier in the paper on an amateur contract with campaign to avoid getting drawn into Fulham. A month earlier, Dodgin a relegation dog-fi ght. Draws with had watched the starlet score Two people Birmingham, Arsenal and Liverpool two in England Schoolboys’ 8-1 died during during that period helped Fulham to victory over Scotland at Wembley. a tornado a fi nal points tally of 34 (during the Under the headline of ‘These Lads that era of two points for a win) and a fi nal Make the Cottage the Happiest of travelled position of 17th. Homes’, Willie Evans of the Daily some Manchester City and Birmingham Mirror reported that the Whites 68 miles between Wendover in were relegated at the end of the saw off competition from Arsenal, Buckinghamshire to Blakeney in season, while Wolves were denied the Portsmouth, Tottenham and Wolves Norfolk on 26th May 1950. The title by virtue of goal average (number to secure Haynes’ services. He also tornado had the longest trail of goals scored divided by goals wrote that the player had been conceded), having fi nished level on 53 attracted to Craven Cottage by the ever recorded in England and, points with champions Portsmouth. prospect of playing alongside his lasting for some two-and-a-half In May 1950, a 15-year-old by the England Schoolboy colleagues Luigi hours, remains the longest lasting name of Johnny Haynes put pen to Caretta and Tosh Chamberlain. tornado on record in Europe.

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MAKING LISTS OF Random THINGS... TOP 3 TOTALLY UNNECESSARY HANDBALLS

IT’S CHRISTMAS time here in SW6 and turn things around. presumably other postcodes too, though In the meantime, why not take some we haven’t checked. Whilst the league yuletide solace from this belated table doesn’t make for particularly merry Christmas cracker of three totally reading at the moment, every game is unnecessary handballs (stop looking at another chance to grab three points and the table).

ALEKSANDAR MITROVIĆ

THE WHITES pulled off a transfer deadline day coup back in January when they nipped in front of Bordeaux and Anderlecht to bag Newcastle striker ‘Mitro’ on loan until the end of the season. The belligerent Serbian got off to a fl yer, scoring 12 goals as the Whites secured a glorious return to the top fl ight. Joining permanently in the summer, Mitro began the new season in emphatic style, scoring three goals in four games, and found the net again at Brighton. With the Whites 2-1 up and cruising, Mitro decided to make the season much more exciting for Fulham fans by inexplicably using his arm to bring down an innocuous high ball inside the area, even playing on like nothing had happened, before watching Brighton score the resulting penalty. Perhaps overcome by a sudden wave of existential angst, he decided to remind us all that man is inherently fallible. Maybe it was hubris. It isn’t wise to press a man of Mitro’s size and build with these sorts of enquiries, so his curious behaviour that day remains a mystery. But in the end it wasn’t a problem, as we didn’t want those two extra points anyway...

66 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme PAUL SCHOLES

ONE OF the nation’s true greats, everyone could appreciate the majestic elegance with which Paul Scholes played the game. Possessing the full package of footballing wizardry, people would be forgiven for forgetting that Paul was still capable of doing things that were a bit rubbish. On 21st March 2009 Fulham got their fi rst home win against Manchester United in 45 years, beating a star- studded side 2-0. Admittedly, United played most of the game a man down, since Paul was dismissed after just 18 minutes for a comically amateurish goalline handball. Former Whites stopper Edwin van der Sar blocked a Bobby Zamora header, only for the ball to come straight back to him for another go. As surprised as everyone else at Craven Cottage to see Bobby hit the target twice in quick succession, Paul panicked, putting his arms up to block the shot in cowardly fashion, perhaps wishing to protect the lucratively handsome face of the world’s great consumer brands. Sinking to his knees, Paul off ered nothing in the way of protest at the inevitable red card, before plodding wearily down the tunnel. Danny Murphy (perhaps not trusting fate to smile on Bobby a third time) converted the resulting penalty. TOMAS KALAS AS DEDICATED readers of The List will know, the most memorable incident of Tomas’ time with the Whites was when he was sent off after 39 seconds at Reading on 12th August 2017. Coming a close second is the time he conceded the winning penalty (again, at Reading) in the Whites’ Play-Off Semi-Final defeat the previous May. With the teams level on aggregate following a 1-1 draw at the Cottage, the Royals’ Yann Kermorgant raced onto a hopeful long ball into the box, closely shadowed by Tomas, who was able to get in front of the ageing Frenchman to snuff out the danger. Unfortunately for the Whites, Tomas’ method of neutralising the threat was to allow the ball to travel up his left arm before launching it into the Berkshire sky. The damage was done. We cannot help but think that kicking the ball out of play fi rst, without the handball, would have been preferable. We aren’t sure whether Tomas has visited the Madejski Stadium since, but when he does, we trust that he will take the opportunity to fulfi l his destiny by burying a spectacular 30-yard belter in the top corner of his own net, completing the Holy Trinity of defensive howlers.

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fulhamfc.com 71 As part of a regular feature, Andy Greeves looks at now defunct or disused stadia that Fulham were previous visitors to. The series BACK continues this afternoon with a trip to Derby PASS County’s former home, the Baseball Ground.

THE BASEBALL Ground was built that time. the Whites’ debut season in Division by local businessman Sir Francis Formed in 1884 by members of Two in 1907/08. Fulham’s fi rst away Ley. When it opened in 1890, the Derbyshire County Cricket Club, match of that campaign saw them stadium was the centrepiece Derby County Football Club played win 1-0 at the Baseball Ground, thanks of a 12-acre sports complex the their early matches at the County to a goal from Walter Freeman. industrialist had provided for his Ground, which was also used as a On 11th February 1911, the Baseball workers at the Malleable Castings racecourse. The Rams occasionally Ground staged its fi rst and only Vulcan Ironworks. played matches at the Baseball full international as England beat As its name might suggest, it Ground - known as Ley’s Baseball Ireland 2-1 in a British Home was baseball rather than football Ground until 1895 - when their Championship match. The venue that was originally played at the fi xtures clashed with race meetings. became the property of Derby ground. Following a trip to America In 1895, Derby County FC reached County in 1924, when the Rams in 1899, Ley developed a keen an agreement with Ley to become purchased it from Ley’s heirs for interest in the sport and formed permanent tenants of the Baseball a fee of £10,000. An ambitious Derby County Baseball Club on his Ground. In turn, Ley invested redevelopment programme was return to the UK. The team stormed £7,000 to raise the capacity of the soon set in motion as a new main to the National Baseball League of stadium to 20,000, which included stand - designed by Archibald Great Britain and Ireland title in its transferring stands from the County Leitch - was opened in 1927. This was inaugural season in 1890. Ground. The Rams’ fi rst match followed by the construction of the Opponents complained about the as full tenants saw them beat two-tier Osmaston End in 1933 and number of American players in the Sunderland 2-0 thanks to a brace Normanton End in 1935. Derby team, forcing them to resign from Steve Bloomer. Fulham and Derby met in the top from the league after their title Derby’s relegation from the top fl ight for the fi rst time in 1949/50. A success. They continued to play in fl ight in 1907, coupled with Fulham’s 2-1 defeat on 18th March continued the British Baseball Championship election to the Football League that the Whites’ poor run of results at the until 1898, winning three titles during summer, saw the two clubs meet in Baseball Ground. Frank Osborne’s

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Burnley at Filbert Street in their final FA for the game to be replayed, but match to guarantee their place in their request was rejected. the top flight. Leicester, though, Fulham’s final trip to the Baseball missed chance after chance and Ground came on 21st April 1984, Fulham finally ended the long wait could only draw 0-0. A win would where they lost 1-0. In all, Fulham for a victory there on 25th August take Fulham up, but Derby, too, won just two of their 21 matches 1954, with goals from Beddy Jezzard, were fighting for survival. In the 71st there, drawing six and losing 13. Bobby Robson and a brace from minute a superb volley from Bobby With the capacity of the Johnny Haynes sealing a 4-3 win. Davison gave Derby a 1-0 lead, Baseball Ground limited to around Following further development edging them closer to safety and 18,000 towards the end of its work towards the end of the denting Fulham’s promotion hopes. existence, Derby announced 1960s, the Baseball Ground And then the trouble began. plans to move to a new stadium accommodated its record crowd The last 10 minutes were played to the east of the city centre in of 41,826 for Derby’s 5-0 victory out amid chaotic scenes. Derby February 1996. The Rams headed over Tottenham Hotspur on 20th fans lined the pitch, many spilling to the £22m Pride Park the September 1969. The decade that on to the playing area. One even following summer, with the first followed was the Rams’ most kicked out at Robert Wilson as he team playing their last match successful to date, with the club dribbled down the left flank. With 78 at the Baseball Ground against winning the Division One title in both seconds to go, referee Ray Chadwick Arsenal on 11th May 1997. The 1971/72 and 1974/75. The likes of took the players off. Rams fans ‘BBG’ continued to stage reserve Juventus and Real Madrid visited for invaded the pitch and the final one fixtures until 2003, when it was European Cup ties during this time. minute and 18 seconds was never demolished to make way for 150 Promotion-chasing Fulham completed. Fulham appealed to the new homes. headed to Derby in the final match of the 1982/83 Division Two season. BASEBALL GROUND It was a game that ended in chaos. Former Address: Shaftesbury Crescent, Derby, DE3 8NB Leicester City and the Whites were Opened: 1890 | Closed/Demolished: 2003/2004 | Peak Capacity: 42,000 level on points, but the Foxes had a Capacity (at closure): 18,300 | Record Attendance: 41,826 - superior goal difference. City only Derby County v Tottenham Hotspur, 20.09.1969 had to beat relegation-threatened

fulhamfc.com 73 THIS WAS at the opening of morning, but the session went ﬂ ustered him, he was always in Bobby Moore’s pub ‘Mooro’s’ in on through the afternoon as it good humour and full of bonhomie. Stratford in November 1976. usually did when we got together! It was through England that I From left to right, I’m with It was always fascinating to be in got to meet Mooro. As captain, Rodney Marsh, comedian Kenny the company of these guys. he always went out of his way to Lynch, Frank Lampard, Alan Ball, Mooro was the most calm and welcome any new lads into the George Best and Mooro. The collected gentleman you could squad. Alf Ramsey really valued the picture was actually taken late ever wish to meet. Nothing ever huge amount that Mooro did to

74 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme IN MY OWN WORDS MALCOLM MACDONALD A former Fulham star talks us through a Whites-related photograph of them…

keep everything ticking along. I was on his side, that I realised money in those days wasn’t very The ﬁ rst time I played with what a superb footballer he was. good and we got stung badly Bobby was at Middlesbrough’s old He could knock a 50-yard ball by the tax man. For every £100 I Ayresome Park ground for a game right to your foot and his choice earned, I only got £17.50! Actors between the English League and of pass was always spot on. and rock stars could escape to the Scottish League. I partnered Back then, opening pubs and America to get away from the Geoﬀ Hurst up front and Mooro bars was quite common for heavy tax burden, but footballers was at the back. It wasn’t until footballers when they retired. The couldn’t do that.

fulhamfc.com 75 THIS IS THE COTTAGE

This season is Fulham’s 121st at Craven Cottage. Club Historian Alex White continues to chart the history of the ground...

LUXURY FLATS BY THE RIVER and the playing pitch remaining one the old Cottage if the Club wins EVEN IN the 1930s there was much of the best in the league. promotion to Division One,” it was speculation about the future of Architect Archibald Leitch, who announced in 1936. “Division One Craven Cottage and whether the redesigned the ground in 1905, was football would create a dignity at Club would remain there. asked to draw up plans in November the Cottage, long overdue, though it The board spent some money 1935 for a stand along the riverside would demand certain obligations. on improvements; electricity was of the stadium. The proposal, which These would be in excess of the installed in the Cottage pavilion in provided cover for an extra 6,000 arrangements at present available, 1933 at a cost of £70 and dressing spectators, was rejected because the so other measures would have to rooms were improved, including costs of £11,197 were considered too be taken. It would be necessary to new baths. However, there were few high. A suggestion that ﬂ oodlights centralise the establishment in a changes to the ground itself other be installed was also turned down. more convenient manner. than advertising boards appearing “The directors intend to pull down

76 The Offi cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme FURTHER CONJECTURE Cottage could be sold to builders There were more rumours about or developers who wanted the the future of the ground in April site for a block of luxury fl ats 1938. The Leeds Mercury stated overlooking the Thames. Dean “Thus, if promotion is gained that chairman John Dean was was reportedly considering an this season, the directors will considering an off er for Craven off er of £60,000 for the site, immediately put in hand a scheme Cottage, with Fulham to take £34,000 more than he paid for the ground. Dean later issued an announcement that in the event “ THE DIRECTORS INTEND TO PULL DOWN of the ground being sold the Club THE OLD COTTAGE IF THE CLUB WINS would still function, though in a new home. PROMOTION TO DIVISION ONE “ In early 1939, the West London Observer reported that the London County Council wanted of reconstruction which would over the Mitcham Stadium at to turn Craven Cottage into entail the removal of the Cottage, Sandy Lane, where the Streatham an open space and that unless providing more accommodation and Mitcham Rugby League team attendances improved, Dean for spectators and establishing used to play. would consider selling it. All the offi ces, dressing rooms and Cliff ord Webb in the Daily speculation ended with the start all other domestic aff airs. That is Herald speculated that Craven of World War Two later that year. the objective and ambition.” Nothing came of this plan.

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fulhamfc.com 81 BRIGHTINTERVIEW: ADAM MICKLEWRIGHT YOUNG THING The next generation of Fulham stars…

CODY DRAMEH

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2018/19 U18S APPS: 7

2018/19 U18S GOALS: 0

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82 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme HUW JENNINGS ON... CODY

“CODY IS a dynamic full-back who has stepped up early in his Scholarship into the Under-23s. He WHEN DID YOU REALISE YOU YOU’VE BEEN PLAYING A LOT was recently placed on standby for HAD A TALENT FOR FOOTBALL OF GAMES FOR THE PL2 TEAM England Under-18s.” AND HOW DID THAT LEAD YOU THIS SEASON. HOW BIG A STEP TO FULHAM? My brother started UP IS IT FROM UNDER18S TO playing before me. I was still in my UNDER23S FOOTBALL? It’s pram, but I wanted to be like him. nice to test myself against a QUICK Football has been deep-rooted more physical group. These are 5 QUESTIONS in my family for about 25 years. proper men so it’s good to make I was playing for my local team that step up and I think I’ve and one of the scouts here came adapted to it well and held my TWITTER OR to watch me. Fulham signed me own. It’s been a dream coming INSTAGRAM? a couple of weeks later after a here, playing week in, week out, I don’t have either! tournament down at Motspur and going on tours. This season Park. My mum and dad love what has been the highlight. I’m doing, and I just want to keep FAVOURITE TV SHOW? going and do the best I can. WHO DO YOU BASE YOUR Riverdale STYLE ON? A mix of Kyle Walker WHAT WOULD YOU BE and Joshua Kimmich. Walker DOING IF YOU WEREN’T A for his engine and the way he FOOTBALLER? Probably in music gets up and down the pitch and FOOTBALLING IDOL? production. I love making and Kimmich for his intelligence and Joshua Kimmich listening to good beats, so I’d go crossing. down that route. YOU’VE BEEN ON STANDBY NANDO’S OR YOU SCORED A STUNNER FOR ENGLAND UNDER18S. IS DOMINO’S? FOR THE PL2 SIDE AGAINST A CALLUP THE DREAM? When I Nando’s NORWICH IN OCTOBER. TALK was 14 I never thought this would US THROUGH IT… The ball got be a possibility. The fact I’ve got FAVOURITE pinged over to my wing and the to this stage so early… it’s nice COMPUTER GAME? keeper came rushing out. That to know I’m doing something made up my mind - I saw him right. It would be crazy if I could FIFA on PS4 oﬀ his line and chipped it. People represent my country and be say it was a cross, but I promise I slightly surreal, but I’m working meant it! my way there. fulhamfc.com 83 THE SQUAD 2018/19 THE HOME END

GOALKEEPERS 1 25 31 50 MARCUS SERGIO FABRI LUCA ASHBY BETTINELLI RICO HAMMOND Age: 26 Age: 25 Age: 30 Age: 17 Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: English Spanish Spanish English

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DEFENDERS 4 5 13 20 DENIS CALUM TIM MAXIME ODOI CHAMBERS REAM LE MARCHAND Age: 30 Age: 23 Age: 31 Age: 29 Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Belgian English American French

@CalumChambers95 @timream5 21 22 23 26 TIMOTHY CYRUS JOE ALFIE FOSU-MENSAH CHRISTIE BRYAN MAWSON Age: 20 Age: 26 Age: 25 Age: 24 Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Dutch Irish English English

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84 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme MIDFIELDERS 3 6 7 8 RYAN KEVIN NEESKENS STEFAN SESSEGNON McDONALD KEBANO JOHANSEN Age: 18 Age: 30 Age: 26 Age: 27 Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: English Scottish Congolese Norwegian

@RyanSessegnon @Neeskens_Kebano @stefanjohansen 10 24 29 36 TOM JEAN MICHAËL ANDRÉFRANK LUCA CAIRNEY SERI ZAMBO ANGUISSA DE LA TORRE Age: 27 Age: 27 Age: 23 Age: 20 Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Nationality: Scottish Ivorian Cameroonian American

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fulhamfc.com 85 PREMIER LEAGUE UNDER18S

2018/19 TABLE U18 PREMIER LEAGUE SOUTH

Club P W D L GD PTS 1 Tottenham 11 9 2 0 +37 29 2 Arsenal 11 9 0 2 +22 27 3 Chelsea 11 8 2 1 +13 26 4 Aston Villa 11 6 0 5 +5 18 5 Leicester 11 5 2 4 -5 17 6 West Ham 11 5 1 5 -7 15 7 Fulham 12 3 5 4 -1 14 8 Southampton 11 4 1 6 -4 13 9 Brighton 11 3 1 7 -4 10 10 Reading 11 3 1 7 -15 10 11 Swansea 12 2 2 8 -15 8 12 Norwich 11 1 1 9 -26 4 *Table correct as of 20.12.18 correct as of *Table

15.12.2018 19.12.2018 UNDER18S WEST BROMWICH ALBION FAIRWOOD TRAINING APPS & GOALS TRAINING GROUND ¢AWAY£ GROUND ¢AWAY£ 18/19 LEAGUE CUP WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2 SWANSEA CITY 1 A G A G FULHAM 1 FULHAM 1 Terry Ablade 4+6 4 1+2 - Timmy Abraham 5 1 3+1 1 FULHAM Stahl; Drameh (McAvoy 67), FULHAM Stahl; McAvoy, Asare, Bakrin, Armsworth, Cover; Davis (Page Armsworth, Drameh; Hilton (Davis 62), Franck Amekortu 2 - - - 62), De Havilland; Frei (Abraham 70), De Havilland; Elliott, Carvalho, Jasper; Cameron Antwi 3 - - - Tahir, Jasper; Ablade. Ablade. Scott Armsworth 6+1 - 2 - Zico Asare 12 - 2 - FULHAM’S FINAL Premier League FULHAM WENT into the Christmas Luca Ashby-Hammond 2 - - - Cup game ended in defeat away to break with a point in their pockets Naz Bakrin - - 1 - West Bromwich Albion on Saturday after a 1-1 draw at Swansea City on Mika Bierith 2 - - - 15th December. Wednesday 19th December. Fabio Carvalho 8+1 5 1 - Sylvester Jasper tested Ted Cann in The visitors saw an early shout for Tristan Cover 6+1 - 4 - the West Brom net, but the Baggies handball in the box turned down as Ben Davis 10+1 - 3 - went in front against the run of the Whites dominated the opening Ryan De Havilland 3 - 2 - play when Stanley Asomugha curled stages. Midway through the fi rst Cody Drameh 4 - 3 - home in the 26th minute. half, the Swans were awarded a Harvey Elliott 7 3 2 - Toni Stahl made a fi ne save to penalty after a foul by Sonny Hilton. Elias Frei 1+2 - 1 - deny Albion a second soon after and Tivonge Rushesha converted the Sonny Hilton 9 3 3 - Fulham were level on 37 minutes spot-kick. Sylvester Jasper 9+1 2 4 1 when Jasper fi red into the far The Whites were level on the Erick Kenko 0+1 - 1 - corner. stroke of half-time. Sylvester Connor McAvoy 9 - 3+1 - The hosts took the lead again Jasper’s pull-back found Fabio Idris Odutayo - - 0+1 - in the 50th minute when Yusuff Carvalho and his fi rst touch set him Ollie O’Neill 3 - - - Ojebode’s cross was met by Finn up for a clinical fi nish from 10 yards. Matt O’Riley - - 1 1 Thorndike and he beat Stahl. Harvey Elliott sliced over at the Jonathan Page 5+2 - 0+2 - Adrian Pajaziti 0+1 - - - Elias Frei bent a shot inches away back post when well placed in the Ollie Sanderson 0+1 - - - from the far corner, before Stahl second half, before Mason Jones- Toni Stahl 3 - 3 - saved with his legs from a Lewis Thomas rattled Toni Stahl’s post Showkat Tahir 3+3 - 2+1 - Smith eff ort and Toby King shaved from 25 yards at the other end. Jean-Pierre Tiehi 1+2 2 - - the top of the bar as the Whites Terry Ablade then toe-poked just Riley Warland 8 1 1+1 - fi nished bottom of Group D. wide and Scott Reed saved at Jasper’s George Wickens 7 - 1 - feet as the spoils were shared.

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THE FINAL Fulham action of 2018 Scoring has been an issue for month where both goals were takes place this coming Saturday the Terriers in the Premier League. scored by midfielder Aaron Mooy, at Craven Cottage when we face Last season’s tally of 28 was who has recently been ruled out Huddersfield Town. The Whites equal lowest alongside relegated until February through injury. will be looking to avenge the Swansea City, whilst Town are again BOB CAIN 1-0 defeat suffered at the John struggling in front of goal this term. Smith’s Stadium early last month. However, the summer transfer Huddersfield last visited Craven activity saw the arrival of only Cottage in October 2016, going one permanent striker in Adama down to a 5-0 defeat after goals Diakhaby from Monaco. Isaac V from Chris Martin (2), Tomas Kalas, Mbenza also joined on loan from Lucas Piazon and Kevin McDonald. Montpellier to bolster the attack. TICKETS Despite that defeat and a Other acquisitions included 4-1 home loss to Fulham later Mainz 05 goalkeeper Jonas Lossl Tickets are on General Sale (maximum four per person). that season, Huddersfield went and Monaco defender Terence on to clinch promotion via the Kongolo. Swiss right-back Florent Loyalty Points: 2 Championship Play-Offs, beating Hadergjonaj arrived from FC ADVANCE PRICES: Reading on penalties at Wembley. Ingolstadt 04, whilst left-sided Adults £30 Having returned to the top flight for defender Erik Durm was signed from Concessions £25 the first time in 45 years, the Terriers Borussia Dortmund. Juniors £20 held on for a 16th-place finish Town gained their first success despite winning just once in their on the road this season at *Adult members receive a £5 discount on an final 10 games. Wolverhampton Wanderers last Adult ticket, while 65+/ 18-21s receive a £3 discount (one ticket per member per game).

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AWAY AWAY ARSENAL BURNLEY THE EMIRATES TURF MOOR Tuesday 1st January 2019 | Kick-Oﬀ 3pm Saturday 12th January 2019 | Kick-Oﬀ 3pm Tickets are sold out. Tickets are currently on sale to all fans with a Previous Loyalty Points: 2 | Allocation: 2,873 Purchase History (maximum four per person). Loyalty Points: 5 | Allocation: 2,458 PRICES: Adults £30 | Over-65s £20 Under-22s £20 | Under-18s £15 There are six pairs of wheelchair disabled tickets available, priced as above. Personal assistants go free. Ambulant disabled tickets are taken out of the standard allocation, priced as above. Personal assistants go free SOLD NONSTANDING SEATS These tickets are only available to purchase over the phone and are allocated in Block 6, Rows A-H - these seats have an overlay on them called “Non-Standing Seats”. OFFICIAL COACHES Depart Craven Cottage and Motspur Park 7:15am. Season Ticket Holders/Members: Adults £30, Juniors £20. General Sale: OUT Adults £35, Juniors £25.

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Sunday 6th January 2019 | Kick-Oﬀ 2pm Sunday 20th January 2019| Kick-Oﬀ 4pm Tickets are on General Sale (maximum six per person). Tickets are on sale to fans with a Previous Purchase History (maximum four per person). Loyalty Points: 2 Loyalty Points: 4 HAMMERSMITH & PUTNEY ENDS PRICES: PRICES*: Adult £10 | Over-65s £5 | 18-21 £5 | Under-17s £1 Adults from £30 | Concessions from £25 | Juniors from £20 RIVERSIDE & JOHNNY HAYNES STANDS: Adult £15 | Over-65s £10 | 18-21 £10 | Under-17s £5 All supporters who have signed up to the Home Cup Scheme will have their credit/debit cards charged automatically and will be sent a paper ticket. HOW TO BUY TICKETS

Online at fulhamfc.com/tickets All prices exclude booking fees: 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Save on booking fees £1.25 per ticket when booking online by buying online £1.50 per ticket, plus a handling fee of £2.50 per transaction when booking over the phone By phone on 0203 871 0810 No booking fee applies when buying in person from the Ticket Office Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Local rate connection charges apply All ticket prices for home games will increase by £5 on a matchday In person Official Club Members receive a £5 match ticket discount for Adults and £3 discount for Over-65s and 18-21 year olds From the Ticket Office: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Please note that discounts apply to one ticket per member per match. fulhamfc.com 89 LASTGASP GOALS There’s nothing quite like a late, late goal. In each matchday programme, John Shirley picks some of Fulham’s most famous…

JIM STANNARD OH NO HE DIDN’T, OH YES HE DID DIVISION THREE 09.09.1989 VS. CREWE ALEXANDRA A¡ FULHAM GOALKEEPER Jim The Whites then had Glen Thomas Sayer arrived to touch it into the Stannard was an agile and sent off for a second bookable net. The striker quickly claimed eff ective shot-stopper, but his off ence, so it was no surprise when the goal, but the media - as well most famous attribute was his Crewe levelled once more. as the next Rothmans Football size. He tipped the scales at more With little time remaining, Yearbook - gave it to our keeper. than 104kg, so when he put his Stannard decided the best way BBC Radio announced the Fulham weight behind a drop-kick, it would to overcome the one-man defi cit scorers after the game as Walker, really travel. This led to an unusual was to launch the ball straight Sayer and Stannard, apparently last-gasp goal when we visited into the home penalty area. His seeing nothing unusual about the Gresty Road in September 1989. mighty hoof bounced over the third name. It was Fulham’s fi rst-ever trip to advancing Crewe keeper Mel Discussing the incident later in Crewe Alexandra, a club on the rise. Rees, who reached desperately the season, Stannard said: “After Clive Walker gave us the lead, but upwards and got a touch to the game Andy Sayer said he the Alex soon equalised. We went the ball, but couldn’t prevent it touched it six inches from the line, ahead again when Peter Scott set dropping behind him. but talking to the photographer up Andy Sayer, who had struggled Fulham fans positioned level and the fans, it was over the line the previous season and was with the goal area confi rmed that when he touched it. As far as I’m desperate to get on the scoresheet. the ball crossed the line before concerned, I scored!” 90 The Offi cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme PLAY IT NOW

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*Table and stats correct as of 20.12.18 correct as of and stats *Table 20 Fulham 17 2 2 4 10 18 0 1 8 6 24 -26 9

FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB APPEARANCES AND GOALSCORERS 18/19 MAN IN THE MIDDLE LEAGUE CUPS SEASON TOTAL FULHAM CAREER APP GLS APP GLS APP GLS APP GLS André-Frank Zambo Anguissa 7+4 - 3 - 10+4 - 10+4 - Floyd Ayité 0+6 - 1+1 - 1+7 - 50+22 13 Marcus Bettinelli 7 - - - 7 - 105 - Joe Bryan 6+1 - 1 1 7+1 1 7+1 1 Tom Cairney 9+3 - 1 - 10+3 - 131+12 27 Calum Chambers 9+2 - 1 - 10+2 - 10+2 - Cyrus Christie 7+4 - 2+1 1 9+5 1 10+10 1 Ibrahima Cissé 0+1 - 1 - 1+1 - 5+5 - Luca de la Torre - - 1+1 1 1+1 1 2+8 1 *Marcelo Djaló ------2+2 - Harvey Elliott - - - - 0+1 - 0+1 - *Tayo Edun ------6+1 - Fabri 2 - - - 2 - 2 - *Rui Fonte - - 1 - 1 - 18+11 3 Timothy Fosu-Mensah 7 - 1 - 8 - 8 - *Stephen Humphrys ------0+3 - Stefan Johansen 4+8 - 1 - 5+8 - 93+11 21 Aboubakar Kamara 4+5 2 2 2 6+5 4 18+27 11 Neeskens Kebano 0+2 - 1 - 1+2 - 26+38 9 Maxime Le Marchand 12 - 1+1 - 13+1 - 13+1 - ANDRE MARRINER Alﬁe Mawson 9+1 - 1 - 10+1 - 10+1 - Birmingham-born Andre Marriner is Kevin McDonald 7+2 - 1 - 8+2 - 102+2 6 today’s referee. He was promoted to the Aleksandar Mitrović 17 7 1 - 18 7 36+2 19 list of Select Group Referees in 2005 after Denis Odoi 14+1 - 1+1 - 15+2 - 74+19 5 Sergio Rico 8 - 3 - 11 - 11 - taking up the whistle in 1992. In 2013, Matt O’Riley - - 0+1 - 0+1 - 2+1 - he oﬃciated the FA Cup Final between *Marek Rodák ------1 - Manchester City and Wigan Athletic. Tim Ream 6+1 - 2 - 8+1 - 121+10 2 Jean Michaël Seri 16+1 1 1 - 17+1 1 17+1 1 Marriner last took charge of the André Schürrle 14+1 5 1 - 15+1 5 15+1 5 Whites in October when Fulham lost 3-0 Ryan Sessegnon 14+2 1 2 - 16+2 1 85+15 24 at home to AFC Bournemouth. Steven Sessegnon - - 1+1 - 1+1 - 3+1 -

Luciano Vietto 8+4 - 1 - 9+4 - 9+4 2018/19 MATCHES OFFICIATED: 15 **Cauley Woodrow ------29+37 12 *Out On Loan **No Longer At Club At **No Longer *Out On Loan ■ Yellow Cards: 44 ■ Red Cards: 2

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AUGUST 2018 AUGUST 2018 Sat 11 13:00 SWANSEA CITY H 11 D Fri 10 19:00 MANCHESTER UNITED H 22 D Sat 18 12:00 Aston Villa (A) 0«2 L Fri 17 13:00 Middlesbrough (A) 3«4 L Sat 25 11:00 SOUTHAMPTON H 22 D Mon 27 13:00 Aston Villa (A) 1«2 L SEPTEMBER 2018 SEPTEMBER 2018 Sat 1 11:00 West Ham United (A) 1«4 L Sat 1 13:00 SOUTHAMPTON H 11 D Sat 15 12:00 NORWICH CITY H 31 W Tue 4 19:45 Oxford United - Checkatrade Trophy (A) 0«3 L Sat 22 12:00 Leicester City (A) 1«3 L Fri 14 19: WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 10 W Sat 29 11:00 EVERTON PREMIER LEAGUE CUP H 12 L Tue 18 19:45 Wycombe Wanderers - Checkatrade Trophy (A) 1«2 L OCTOBER 2018 Mon 24 19:00 Stoke City (A) 1-1 D Sat 6 11:00 READING H 70 W OCTOBER 2018 Sat 20 11:00 Brighton & Hove Albion (A) 2-1 W Mon 1 19:00 Newcastle United (A) 2-5 L NOVEMBER 2018 Sat 6 12:00 Birmingham City - Premier League Cup (A) 2«1 W Sat 3 11:00 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR H 11 D Fri 19 19:00 WEST BROMWICH ALBION 03 L Sat 10 11:00 Arsenal - Premier League Cup (A) 0«4 L Mon 29 19:00 Norwich City (A) 4«0 W Sat 24 11:00 CHELSEA H 00 D NOVEMBER 2018 DECEMBER 2018 Fri 2 19:00 SUNDERLAND H 20 W Sat 1 11:00 Arsenal (A) 2-6 L Tue 6 19:45 Northampton Town - Checkatrade Trophy (A) 0-2 L Tue 11 19:00 Leicester City - FA Youth Cup (A) 1-2 L Tue 6 13:00 COLCHESTER UNITED H 50 W Sat 15 11:30 West Bromwich Albion - Premier League Cup (A) 1-2 L Fri 23 19:00 Reading (A) 0-3 L Wed 19 11:00 Swansea City (A) 1«1 D DECEMBER 2018 JANUARY 2019 Mon 3 19:00 Reading - Premier League Cup (A) 1-2 L Sat 5 12:00 ASTON VILLA Sat 8 13:00 STOKE CITY H 11 D Motspur Park (Home) Fri 14 19:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers P-P Sat 12 11:00 Swansea City AFC Telford (Away) Fairwood Training Ground (Away) JANUARY 2019 Sat 19 11:00 Southampton Fri 4 13:00 MIDDLESBROUGH Staplewood Training Ground (Away) Motspur Park (Home) FEBRUARY 2019 Fri 11 19:00 Manchester United Sat 2 11:00 WEST HAM UNITED Leigh Sports Village (Away) Motspur Park (Home) FEBRUARY 2019 Sat 23 12:00 Norwich City Fri 1 19:00 ASTON VILLA Colney Training Centre (Away) Motspur Park (Home) MARCH 2019 Fri 15 19:00 Southampton Sat 2 12:00 LEICESTER CITY Staplewood Training Ground (Away) Motspur Park (Home) MARCH 2019 Sat 16 11:00 Reading Fri 1 19:00 NEWCASTLE UNITED Reading Training Ground (Away) Motspur Park (Home) Sat 30 11:00 Tottenham Hotspur Mon 11 19:00 West Bromwich Albion Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre (Away) Aggborough Stadium (Away) APRIL 2019 APRIL 2019 Sat 6 11:00 BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION Fri 5 19:00 READING Motspur Park (Home) Motspur Park (Home) Sat 13 11:00 Chelsea Mon 15 19:00 Sunderland Cobham Training Centre (Away) Eppleton Colliery Welfare (Away) Sat 27 11:00 ARSENAL Fri 26 19:00 NORWICH CITY Motspur Park (Home) Motspur Park (Home)

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DATE H/A OPPOSITION KO/RES ATT (AWAY) FULHAM STARTING XI SAT 11 AUG H Crystal Palace 0-2 L 24,821 (2,917) Fabri Christie Chambers Le Marchand Bryan Cairney ■ SAT 18 AUG A Tottenham Hotspur 1-3 L 58,297 (3,117) Fabri Fosu-Mensah Chambers Le Marchand Bryan Cairney SUN 26 AUG H Burnley 4-2 W 23,438 (1,518) ■ Bettinelli Fosu-Mensah Odoi Le Marchand Bryan Seri 1 ■ TUE 28 AUG H Exeter City R2 2-0 W 9,333 (1,394) Rico Christie Mawson Chambers R Sessegnon Anguissa

SAT 1 SEPT A Brighton & Hove Albion 2-2 D 30,526 (2,982) Bettinelli Fosu-Mensah Odoi Mawson ■ Le Marchand Anguissa ■ ■ SAT 15 SEPT A Manchester City 0-3 L 53,307 (2,215) Bettinelli Christie Odoi Mawson R Sessegnon Seri SAT 22 SEPT H Watford 1-1 D 23,418 (2,917) Bettinelli ■ Fosu-Mensah ■ Mawson Chambers R Sessegnon Johansen TUE 25 SEPT A Millwall R3 3-1 W 5,839 (1,925) Rico S Sessegnon Ream Le Marchand Christie 1 Anguissa SAT 29 SEPT A Everton 0-3 L 38,788 (1,200) Bettinelli Fosu-Mensah ■ Odoi Ream Bryan Vietto ■ ■ SUN 7 OCT H Arsenal 1-5 L 25,401 (2,892) Bettinelli Odoi Ream Le Marchand Christie Anguissa ■ ■ SAT 20 OCT A Cardiff City 2-4 L 29,681 (1,800) Bettinelli ■ Chambers Odoi Ream Le Marchand ■ Johansen ■ SAT 27 OCT H AFC Bournemouth 0-3 L 25,071 (2,672) Rico Fosu-Mensah Odoi Ream Le Marchand ■ ■ McDonald ■ ■ THU 1 NOV A Manchester City R4 0-2 L 35,271 (470) Rico Fosu-Mensah Odoi Ream R Sessegnon Cairney MON 5 NOV A Huddersfi eld Town 0-1 L 17,082 (597) Rico ■ Fosu-Mensah Odoi Le Marchand R Sessegnon Anguissa ■ SUN 11 NOV A Liverpool 0-2 L 53,128 (2,744) Rico Christie Odoi Mawson Le Marchand Anguissa ■ SAT 24 NOV H Southampton 3-2 W 24,603 (2,721) Rico Christie Odoi ■ Mawson Le Marchand Chambers ■ SUN 2 DEC A Chelsea 0-2 L 40,551 (2,931) Rico Christie ■ Odoi Mawson Le Marchand Seri WED 5 DEC H Leicester City 1-1 D 22,881 (2,821) Rico Christie Odoi Mawson Le Marchand Chambers SAT 8 DEC A Manchester United 1-4 L 74,523 (2,121) Rico Odoi Mawson Ream Bryan ■ Seri ■ ■ SAT 15 DEC H West Ham United 0-2 L 24,081 (2,711) Rico Odoi Mawson Ream Bryan Chambers ■ ■ SAT 22 DEC A Newcastle United 3:00pm WED 26 DEC H Wolverhampton Wanderers 12:30pm SAT 29 DEC H Huddersfi eld Town 3:00pm TUE 1 JAN A Arsenal 3:00pm SUN 6 JAN H Oldham Athletic 2:00pm KNOW THE GAME PLAN SAT 12 JAN A Burnley 3:00pm THREE POINTS isn’t the only priority on matchdays. Making sure everyone SUN 20 JAN H Tottenham Hotspur 4:00pm goes home safely is the most important result. Here’s a quick reminder of TUE 29 JAN H Brighton & Hove Albion 7:45pm what you can do to help: SAT 2 FEB A Crystal Palace 3:00pm • Arrive early, allowing more time for security checks SAT 9 FEB H Manchester United 12:30pm • Minimise what you carry - fewer bag searches will speed up entry to the ground FRI 22 FEB A West Ham United 7:45pm • Be vigilant at all times and if you see anything suspicious, tell a steward right away WED 27 FEB A Southampton 7:45pm • If you see anything that could pose an immediate threat to safety, call 999 SAT 2 MAR H Chelsea 3:00pm • In an emergency, listen to the Public Address instructions and follow them SAT 9 MAR A Leicester City 3:00pm • If told to evacuate, do so immediately - do not wait around to fi lm events on your mobile SAT 16 MAR H Liverpool 3:00pm • Move right away from the stadium as quickly as possible for your safety and to SAT 30 MAR H Manchester City 3:00pm allow clear access for any emergency vehicles SAT 6 APR A Watford 3:00pm • Once you are safe, follow the local police force on Twitter for updates SAT 13 APR H Everton 3:00pm SAT 20 APR A AFC Bournemouth 3:00pm All kick-off times are UK times. The dates and times for these fi xtures, including TV matches, are subject change. are to matches, TV including xtures, these fi and times for The dates times. UK times are All kick-off SAT 27 APR H Cardiff City 3:00pm SAT 4 MAY A Wolverhampton Wanderers 3:00pm SUN 12 MAY H Newcastle United 3:00pm

KEY Fulham score shown ﬁ rst Premier League Emirates FA Cup Carabao Cup n Yellow Card n Red Card First Sub Second Sub Third Sub

94 THE OFFICIAL FULHAM FC MATCHDAY PROGRAMME SUBSTITUTES

■ McDonald Seri Schürrle Mitrović R Sessegnon Rico Kebano Johansen Vietto Fosu-Mensah Cissé Kamara Anguissa Seri R Sessegnon Mitrović 1 Kamara Rico Kebano Johansen Schürrle Vietto Christie McDonald ■ McDonald Cairney ■ Schürrle 1 Mitrović 2 Vietto Fabri R Sessegnon Chambers Johansen Christie Anguissa Kamara Cissé Johansen Kamara 2 Fonte Kebano Fabri S Sessegnon Odoi McDonald Bryan De La Torre Mitrović

■ McDonald Seri Vietto ■ Mitrović 1 Schürrle 1 Fabri Chambers Christie Bryan R Sessegnon ■ Johansen Kamara McDonald Johansen Vietto Mitrović Schürrle Fabri Chambers Ayité Le Marchand Fosu-Mensah Bryan Anguissa ■ ■ McDonald Seri Vietto Mitrović 1 Schürrle Rico Odoi Le Marchand Christie Anguissa Ayité Kamara McDonald Bryan 1 De La Torre 1 Kamara Ayité Fabri Odoi Chambers O’Riley Elliot Cissé Mitrović ■ Anguissa Seri R Sessegnon Schürrle ■ Mitrović Rico Le Marchand ■ Christie McDonald Cairney Johansen Ayité

Seri R Sessegnon ■ Vietto Mitrović ■ Schürrle 1 Rico Mawson McDonald Johansen S Sessegnon Ayité Kamara ■ ■ ■ McDonald Seri Schürrle 1 Mitrović R Sessegnon 1 Rico Mawson Christie Anguissa Vietto Kamara Ayité ■ ■ Seri ■ Kamara Schürrle R Sessegnon ■ Mitrović Bettinelli Mawson Anguissa Christie Cairney Vietto Johansen Anguissa Seri Vietto Mitrović Schürrle Fabri Mawson Christie De La Torre Le Marchand S Sessegnon Ayité ■ Cairney Seri Vietto ■ Mitrović Schürrle Bettinelli Chambers McDonald Johansen Ream Christie Mawson ■ Chambers Schürrle Cairney R Sessegnon Mitrović Bettinelli Ream Fosu-Mensah Seri Johansen Vietto Kebano ■ Seri Schürrle 1 Cairney R Sessegnon Mitrović 2 Bettinelli Ream Bryan ■ Johansen Kebano Ayité Kamara ■ Chambers Johansen Cairney Mitrović R Sessegnon Bettinelli Ream Bryan Cissé Kebano Ayité Kamara Seri Kamara 1 Vietto R Sessegnon Mitrović Bettinelli Ream Bryan Kebano Cairney Schürrle Anguissa ■ ■ ■ Anguissa Schürrle Cairney R Sessegnon Mitrović Bettinelli Christie Kebano Johansen Vietto Cissé Kamara 1 ■ Seri Cairney Kamara Schürrle Mitrović Bettinelli Christie Kebano ■ Johansen Ayité Vietto Cissé

PERSISTENT STANDING the stadium and other Club sanctions, so that it can be investigated further. Persistent standing in seated areas of including withdrawal of ticketing privileges. The Club has several security the stadium presents a safety risk. The measures in place to enhance your Sports Ground Safety Authority, who TRAVELLING TO AWAY FIXTURES safety, including our turnstile searching license the Club’s activities, considers regime. To assist us in reducing entry- seated areas to be designed for sitting, Now the Club is back in the Premier time delays, you are asked that you do and does not have the additional forms League, we hope those of you travelling not bring larger or unnecessary bags or of structural protection which are to our away fi xtures have a memorable items with you to make searching easier required for areas of standing. experience. and faster. The Sports Ground Safety Authority Whether travelling on organised If you see or become aware of an has a range of enforcement powers coaches, the rail network or public incident, please follow the advice below: under the Football Spectators Act 1989, transport, we ask that you please including the ability to prosecute for consider your fellow travellers and a breach of any condition within the therefore behave in a manner which Run to a place of safety. This license, which may lead to a reduction supports the Club values and family is a far better option than to in the stadium’s capacity. friendly reputation. surrender or negotiate. If there’s The Club is asking all supporters for nowhere to go, then… your assistance to comply with the SECURITY AWARENESS It’s better to hide than to confront. current legislation and would politely Can all supporters continue to Remember to turn your phone to ask that you sit in your allocated seat be vigilant during your journey to silent and turn off vibrate. Barricade and do not stand up to view the game. Craven Cottage and throughout your yourself in if you can. Then fi nally There will be increased stewarding matchday experience. We all have and only when it is safe to do so… activity on matchday seeking to enforce responsibility for our own personal compliance where necessary. safety and if you see something out of Tell the Police by calling 999 Where persistent standing is identifi ed the ordinary or suspicious, please report then supporters may face ejection from it to a steward or Fulham staff member

FULHAM FC HONOURS CHAMPIONS: PROMOTED: CUP COMPETITIONS: Football League Div One: 2000/01 Football League Div Two: 1958/59 (Runners-up) Intertoto Cup Winners: 2002 Football League Div Two: 1948/49, 1998/99 Football League Div Three: 1970/71 (Runners-up); UEFA Europa League Finalists: 2010 Football League Div Three (South): 1931/32 1981-82 (Third Place); 1996/97 (Runners-up) FA Cup Finalists: 1975 Football Combination: 2001 Championship Play-Oﬀ Final: 2017/18 (Winners) Anglo-Scottish Cup Finalists: 1975

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THE SONG THAT GETS ME READY THE FIRST ALBUM I BOUGHT FOR A GAME 50 Cent | Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ Ed Sheeran | Perfect I got this on CD. I knew most of the words. Not the most upbeat track admittedly. I don’t listen to this particular song before every game, but I’ll always put on a bit of Ed Sheeran. It gets me in the zone.

THE SONG THAT REMINDS ME OF GOOD TIMES Drake | One Dance Me and Matt Smith shared a room in THE SONG I DO AT KARAOKE Las Vegas for Richard Stearman’s stag Boyz II Men | End of the Road do. Matt would play this to get me out I like to think I’m a good singer! When I joined of bed. Fulham, I also did this for my initiation song in Portugal.

THE SONG THAT MAKES ME DANCE THE FIRST GIG I WENT TO Nelly | Ride Wit Me Drake This is a throwback, but it gets me up on the I didn’t go to a gig until I was about 17 dance ﬂ oor. Something by the Jackson 5 will when I went to see Drake at Sheﬃ eld work as well. Arena with the Hull squad.

96 The Oﬃ cial Fulham FC Matchday Programme

IVOR’S COLUMN GORDON DAVIES

Gordon Davies, Fulham’s record goalscorer, pens his regular column in the oﬃcial matchday programme…

have opened up a bit more, and edge of the six-yard box you’re we could have won comfortably. going to pay for it and it seems We haven’t started like that like every time we make a mistake for quite a while. Everything was at the back, we get punished. looking so good, we just needed It’s a hard lesson to learn, but at that bit of luck in front of goal, this level we need to tighten up which we didn’t get. in defence and be more clinical in Aboubakar Kamara had the attack. It’s those two ends of the best opportunity early on when pitch that’s going to sort us out he went clean through. From one way or the other. a forward’s point of view, if I’m We were the better footballing being hyper-critical, maybe he side in the Championship last I’M TOLD all the players and staff should have gone for the widest season, but Wolves won the title went out for a meal a week or so part of the goal and bent in with a squad that was - and ago and I’m all for that. It’s good round the keeper. But he didn’t still is - athletic and powerful. to have some team bonding as open his body up enough to be They’ve kept the majority of it’s that group that are going able to curl it to that far post. He the same players that got them to keep us up. We don’t know tried to fool Lukasz Fabianski and up and for the first nine games what will happen in the January transfer market, but the players need to stay strong and stick “ WE WERE THE BETTER FOOTBALLING together. Cyrus Christie and Tom Cairney SIDE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP LAST came over to my lounge after the West Ham game and SEASON, BUT WOLVES WON THE TITLE answered a few questions about WITH A SQUAD THAT WAS AND STILL the position they’re in. I’m no Jeremy Paxman, I’m not putting IS ATHLETIC AND POWERFUL ” pressure on the lads, but it’s got to be difficult for them to face some of the supporters. However, go to the narrow side, but the of the season, they named the they were happy to chat to the West Ham man read it. Kamara same starting XI. We haven’t fans and it’s important to do has to learn from it and be had a settled team and that’s that in good times and bad. confident enough to get in that had an impact. Tom described West Ham’s first position again. No one expected us to have goal as a ‘sucker punch’ and he When you look at West Ham’s this start to the season, but was spot on as we’d been the two goals, the first was a great this is where we’re at. If we better side up until then. If we’d finish by Robert Snodgrass, but put a 90-minute performance taken our chances, it would have there were defensive frailties together, especially at home, we been a whole different ball game. leading up to it. The second one can beat anybody. We’ve only If we’d scored first, it would have by Michail Antonio wasn’t nice to played well in fits and starts - changed the whole dynamics watch. When you leave someone now we need to do it for the of the match; West Ham would at this level unmarked on the whole game.

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