Stephen Walker

Left Midfielder - Fulham U20
5 Mar 2051
Sunday
Process

Marked for Stephen Walker

1248 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

27 Jun 2050
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stephen Walker

18 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.

Squad

Steven Atkinson says Fulham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Nathan Moore has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fulham they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Eyes on Anthony Walker again

The phone has started ringing about Anthony Walker again, and this time the name on the line is Queens Park Rangers. Fulham are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Nathan Collins 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.

Squad

When it matters, Joseph Wood plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
1247 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

20 Jun 2050
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stephen Walker

27 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Steven Atkinson

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

Squad

Charles Grant out for 18 days

The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Charles Grant, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

Derby County are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Fulham will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Christopher Martin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christopher Martin commits to Fulham for another 3 years.

Squad

Edward Mitchell has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Fulham will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief