The Fulham Chronicle
Squad27 Jun 2050
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.
Squad27 Jun 2050
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.
Market27 Jun 2050
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.
Market27 Jun 2050
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.
Squad27 Jun 2050
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.
Squad27 Jun 2050
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
- Market Rotherham United are about to pick up the phone
- Market The Edward Mitchell story refuses to die
- Boardroom Fulham keep producing them