Charlotte Green makes her debut today. please log in to view this image "At 5pm on Saturday afternoon ‘Out Of The Blue’ will strike up and Charlotte Green will fulfil a 50-year dream by reading out the football results in their time-honoured slot. The former newsreader will become the first woman to perform this iconic task on BBC radio as she takes over from James Alexander-Gordon and brings her liquid gold delivery to the job." Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...classified-results-weekend.html#ixzz2gBdfKCoD Let's hope there's an upward tilt in the 'liquid gold' voice when she announces, Fulham ..
There's no room for politicians in football. please log in to view this image "Lifelong Cardiff City supporter Lord Kinnock "caused angry responses" by leaping up and down with joy when his team scored against Fulham. Security staff had to escort him from his seat for "spoiling" the enjoyment of home fans at the West London club." Link to the restof the story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/te...Cardiff-City-match-for-wild-celebrations.html
The more I hear from Redknapp in the press, the more I dislike him. Fancy him spitting his dummy out because he didn't get the England job!
Read a biography about him recently - "Harry's Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp by John Grace". Pretty revealing how paranoid, bitter and twisted our 'Arry could be. Loved this quote today: Bosingwa on Harry Redknapp: "How would he do technical analysis on players if he spends all his time negotiating with agents during training?" PS See 'Arry's own 'autobiography' is already down to half price on Amazon. Think I might wait for the pound shop version.
Also, isn't it hilarious that Gerrard has come out and said 'Arry lied about Stevie texting him and saying he wanted him to be England boss. His constant gobbing off in the media was always going to backfire somehow. I'd be concerned if were a QPR fan, that he still seems bitter about the England job. Classless twat.
Not the only thing 'Arry has fibbed about. There was a neat picture of this particular one: please log in to view this image
What I'm stumped by is how Harry managed to write an autobiography when last year while been investigated for tax fraud he said he can't even write out his own team sheet.
Joke of the Day "Jack Wilshere having a smoke in the stand last night" please log in to view this image
I listened to the Inside Fulham webcast which features Kasami, Jol and Khan. Worth the 10 minutes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iffc Kasami looks like his loan spealls have helped him. Jol would be happy with 20 points before Christmas and targets 50 by the end of the season. Khan suggested that Riverside development will be going ahead and is looking for a sustainable investment.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of SW6 "Australia's most capped player of all-time, Mark Schwarzer, has announced his retirement from international football Schwarzer originally had plans of going to Brazil with the Socceroos but it's thought the change of manager from Holger Osieck to Ange Postecoglou may have played a part in his decision. Postecoglou is due to announce on Wednesday morning his first Australian squad for the friendly against Costa Rica at Allianz Stadium on November 19. While Postecoglou is expected to name an experienced squad for the match, he has a plan to renew the Socceroos with fresh faces in time for the world's biggest sporting event. While Schwarzer had his heart set on playing in a third straight World Cup, his decision to sign as Petr Cech's back-up at Chelsea â where he has not played a single league match this campaign â has led to many questioning whether he would be match-hardened for Brazil. Source: http://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/mark-schwarzer-retires-from-socceroos-20131106
Nothing to do with football at all, but this story is bloody hilarious. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/norwegian-hunter-misses-moose-shoots-man-toilet
Oh Dear! ”Queens Park Rangers are on course to be hit with the biggest fine in British football history, which, in a worse-case scenario, could top £60 million. Ironically, it will be imposed because of the amount of money they are losing — believed to be a huge £80m for last season — and will compound their financial troubles, perhaps sparking meltdown. They have racked up big debts and massive annual losses largely through signing dozens of players on huge contracts in recent seasons, including Chris Samba, Park Ji-Sung, Julio Cesar, Jermaine Jenas, Loic Remy and others, most of whom remain on the club’s books, draining their resources with contracts worth up to £100,000 a week. If QPR are promoted this season, the fine will be levied in January 2015 by the Football League under their new Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, which will see overspending clubs ‘taxed’ on their losses. Rangers are currently favourites to go up to the Premier League from the Championship this season. They could avoid a fine — or at least postpone it — if they fail to get promoted. In that case, they will be hit with a lengthy transfer embargo. The mathematics are complicated, but in broad terms, Championship clubs will pay a £1 fine for every £1 they lose over £18m in the 2013-14 financial year. Short stay: Chris Samba spent six months at QPR to July 2013 on £100,000 a week and his 10 Premier League games cost £2.5m in wages Sources familiar with QPR’s financial situation have told The Mail on Sunday that the club will post losses for 2012-13 of about £80m. The club are not obliged to publish those accounts until next spring and have declined to comment. Rangers are two-thirds owned by Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes and one-third by the Mittal family. Fernandes’s majority shareholding gives him ultimate power and it is he who sanctioned the hiring of Mark Hughes and then Harry Redknapp, allowing both to sign large groups of players. It is expected that the club will record another massive deficit for the current season, and it is the losses in 2013-14 that will be measured to calculate any fine. If QPR’s losses for the season are £80m, the fine will be about £62m. That would equate to roughly all of QPR’s Premier League income (if they are promoted) for next season. Even if 2013-14 losses are as ‘low’ as £60m, a fine of more than £40m would follow. ‘This is the first season in which clubs will ultimately face sanctions [for over-spending],’ a Football League spokesman told The Mail on Sunday. ‘Clubs have to submit their accounts for 2013-14 to us by December 1, 2014, with sanctions levied early in 2015. If a club being sanctioned are in the Premier League by then, the fine will need to be paid.’ QPR’s accounts for 2012-13, in which they were relegated from the Premier League, have not been made public, nor will the club confirm when they will be. Asked to comment on their expected losses last season and this season, and on the potentially destructive fines, a Loftus Road spokesman said: “The club will be making no comment on [these] matters at this time.” Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...cord-fine-losing-80million.html#ixzz2kutq37l1
Any one see the disallowed goal for Barnet near the end of the game with Cambridge that finished 2-2. Some Barnet supporter had let a smoke bomb off behind the goal in the last minute of the game and smoke was billowing above the goal, when the ball went straight up in the air through the smoke and came back down to hit he top of the crossbar, came out and fell in the area to a Barnet player who scored. Linesman had his flag up for the ball going out of play while it was going through the smoke, looked a wrong decision, but what justice for letting off a smoke bomb at the wrong time, if only it could happen to Liverpool.
I put together our current Fulham team using FIFA 2010. The team was 4.5 stars. This might just about sum up our team right now, a great team 4 years past it's prime!
