Christopher Allen

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Fulham U18
26 Sep 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Christopher Allen

56 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ryan Kent

68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fulham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Josh King at 20 — 7.66

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Josh King did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Nobody wants to play Fulham right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Antonee Robinson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Antonee Robinson and Fulham agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Riccardo Calafiori 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Fulham

6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Tempers go at Fulham

Josh King 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

Ninety minutes of Calvin Bassey at his very best

Marked 9.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fulham.

Match

Todd Cantwell sends Fulham past Ipswich Town

It finished 2‑0, and it was Todd Cantwell’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fulham.

In brief