Seth Ridgeon

Defensive Midfielder - Fulham U18
15 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Seth Ridgeon

40 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Seth Ridgeon hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fulham can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

6 saves: Bernd Leno was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

Stephen King: 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.

Squad

Alex Iwobi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fulham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Kevin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words at Fulham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seth Ridgeon is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Seth Ridgeon

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Newcastle United take the points off Fulham

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Jonah Kusi-Asare is the division's best young player this month

At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Fulham will try very hard not to make too much of it.

In brief

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30 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

9 matches without a win for Fulham

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Fulham are no longer polite ones.

Market

Seth Ridgeon hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fulham can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Alex Iwobi scores twice — 8.48

Two goals and a mark of 8.48 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Fulham may not be able to give Joachim Andersen what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Joachim Andersen wants continental football; whether Fulham can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Market

Only the photograph left for Alex Borto

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alex Borto will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fulham the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Fulham

Alex Iwobi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Ryan Sessegnon was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bernd Leno

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bernd Leno, and the manager let it.

Squad

100 appearances for Kevin

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

In brief