It’s Fulham v Newcastle United at Craven Cottage up subsequent.
I believed I’d take a quick have a look at the post-war historical past of our subsequent opponents.
Fulham’s best ever participant is undoubtedly Johnny Haynes. One membership man and England worldwide, captain Haynes performed 657 video games for the Cottagers scoring 157 objectives.
He was the primary £100 per week footballer after the abolition of the utmost wage and a part of his time at Fulham dove-tailed with the comic Tommy Trinder’s chairmanship of the membership.
Trinder was chairman at Fulham from 1959 to 1976 and his proudest second got here in 1975 when former England captain and World Cup winner Bobby Moore, led the Lilywhites out at Wembley to play towards his former membership West Ham United within the FA Cup Last.
One other former England captain, Alan Mullery, was additionally within the Fulham ranks that day, however two Alan Taylor objectives for the Hammers ensured the cup could be going again to the East Finish.
Different well-known footballer figures who’ve represented Fulham over time are the likes of Jimmy Hill, Sir Bobby Robson and George Greatest.
Fulham’s best hour arguably got here beneath Roy Hodgson in 2010, once they reached the Europa League Last and had been narrowly overwhelmed after extra-time by Atletico Madrid.
Former Newcastle United man, the versatile defender Aaron Hughes, was within the Fulham line-up that night time on the Volksparkstadion Stadium in Hamburg.
Extra not too long ago, former Toon centre ahead Aleksandar Mitrovic additionally turned a Fulham cult hero, by scoring 97 League objectives in 173 video games after becoming a member of Fulham in 2018.
United’s latest file at Craven Cottage (gained on all of our final 5 visits) is sweet and I anticipate an open sport this weekend. There isn’t a doubt that Fulham have gotten some canny gamers who may properly trigger us some issues.
They are going to be licking their wounds a little bit after exiting the Carabao Cup towards Preston North Finish at Deepdale in midweek. The sport was lastly determined 16-15 on penalties however Fulham modified their whole workforce.
I regard Fulham as being greater than worthy of their Premier League standing.
Supervisor Marco Silva is properly revered by his friends and so lets hope that our personal ‘Quick Eddie’ can have his Hotrods revving out of the blocks faster than our opponents on Saturday afternoon.
One other win on our travels could be completely large, getting many older lads like me excited and dreaming as soon as once more.
