The Fulham Chronicle
Squad3 May 2038
Sol Brynn keeps Fulham in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad3 May 2038
Callum Bates is carrying Fulham
10 goals and a season average of 7.68. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings3 May 2038
Murillo shuts the door
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings3 May 2038
A defender's afternoon for Liam Foster
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market3 May 2038
Simon Johnson is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fulham is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 May 2038
Kaleb Dyke: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fulham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match1 May 2038
The wait goes on for Fulham
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match1 May 2038
7 unbeaten for Fulham
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Fulham did not have in the autumn.
Squad3 May 2038
Bradley Locko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Player ratings Liam Ross was immovable
- Player ratings Thomas Hill runs at them all day
- Market Kevin linked with a move away