The Fulham Chronicle
Player ratings10 Dec 2029
Kevin runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 61. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Dec 2029
Fulham out of the cup
Manchester United ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match8 Dec 2029
The wait goes on for Fulham
7 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.
Market10 Dec 2029
Alex Iwobi raises the bar for Fulham
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Fulham heard it as anything else.
Match8 Dec 2029
Fulham cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market10 Dec 2029
Alberto Rizzo 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.
Squad10 Dec 2029
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.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Words at Fulham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joachim Andersen 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.
Squad10 Dec 2029
A muscle injury sidelines Christopher Mitchell for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Fulham will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Ryan Sessegnon
- Squad No hiding place for Christian Dunbar-McDonald
- Match No goals between Fulham and Crewe Alexandra