We've got competing threads here. http://www.fulhamusa.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=6322
No... Don filed it in Music/movies to tweak me .. or he considered it pure entertainment. Or both. Suffer!
Taking off from work for the game. An hour and a half + quest (if I am lucky) on Buses, Trains, and Tubes and Feet. Won't get home till midnight. My first game in MY SEAT! H6 Row Z Seat 142...here I come. I will try to take a few pictures and post them. COYW!
Ormondroyd pics from the first leg. Really gives you a fell for how it was to be there (warning, contains an American). http://www.flickr.com/photos/ormondroyd/3780660183/
Those were awesome. "Fulham" tatooed across some guys shoulders. A "Viagara is for pussies" shirt. Bunches of beer-belleyed, balding, pasty white Englishmen. And Mike looking like a Fulham account executive. Europe must be a blast!
I'm running a live blog over at CravenCottage.us today if anyone is interested. Like a chat room, just different. Gotta test out the system before the Premiership starts. Whats nice about it is, I can have a scoreboard up and running, so you will know what is going on with all the Prem games while Fulham is on. I won't do a complete scoreboard today though as there are too many Europa games to keep up with.
Is there going to be audio for this match? ~15 minutes before kickoff and nothing about it on the club website. Edit: Ah, there it is.
Etuhu in the 54th i think it was, and AJ in the 80th and 84th. Edward Johnson assisted AJ's second goal.
let me also say this about Roy and one of the reasons I love that man. Obviously we are a much better squad then Vetra, but let me point out why Roy is such a good manager. I didn't see the first match but with all three goals in the 2nd half of that one as well, I imagine it was very similar. What was Roy's biggest thing he preached when he first came in as manager last year? 5 gold stars to whoever answers correctly. Too late, I'll answer it. He preaches keeping your shape, and if I remember correctly, the team largely worked on keeping their shape a lot when he first took over. Now back to today's match. Vetra played 10 men behind the ball the entire first half, and for a large part of the 2nd half. They did a great job of keeping their shape for probably 65 minutes of the match. Even though we got the first goal, it was still hard to break them down through 65 minutes, maybe 70. However, from that point on we repeatedly caught them out of position and took full advantage with two more goals. Then think about our defensive prowess since Roy took over and how good we've been on that end and I have to give Roy full credit for the job he's done in making us difficult to bring down because of our shape. I even recall a Dempsey interview towards the end of the year last year where he talked several times about keeping our shape and covering for Pantsil at times when he makes forward runs and what not. Anyways, just some random jarble from me. Like what I see from Riise. The kid has good start and stop ability. Looking forward to seeing more of him this year. And Edward...oh Edward....nice set up. Maybe he is Bobby's back up this year. Keep it goin lads
On the train on my way home. Miserable weather, great result. Could have been 5 nil easy. Doing this NY blackberry. Solid game by all. They really never threatened. Have a few snap shots from the game. I will try to past over the next couple of days. Not much else to say other than I am a bit soaked and tired. Oh yeah, no beer at the game. What US up with that?
Fantastic pics. Thanks so much for posting them. Mike you do full justice to the Fulham management attire and that Ollie is the cutest little boy I've ever seen. Who is he?
