Fulham

Sixer’s Sevens: SAFC 2 Fulham 2. From brink of disaster to salvation

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Jake gives Sixer star billing
Jake gives Sixer star billing

This is where Pete Sixsmith records his instant verdict, in seven words, on each Sunderland game. Thirty-five minutes in, we were stumbling towards a dreadful defeat, a combination of Craig Gardner’s weakness for giving away penalties and atrocious defending of a counter-break. Fortunately, Gardner can bang them in from the spot as well and did so a minute or so after the second. A second-half onslaught should have produced two goals to win the game but, in the end, the draw was salvaged only after Simon Mignolet superbly defied Berbatov’s fabulous opportunity to put it beyond our reach …

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Salut! Predictions: Sunderland, Fulham, Newcastle, Swansea, Arsenal, Spurs – How will they fare?

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NB: Completed but inexplicably not posted by kickoff time. Sorry, Monsieur Salut’s 1-0 prediction already blown to pieces but he also had a punt on 4-3 ….

Salut panel member thinks long and hard about the weekend fixtures.
Salut panel member thinks long and hard about the weekend fixtures.

 

I have vocally embraced a well used assumption a lot today, writes Stephen Goldsmith. The one that goes along the lines of “Don’t worry, we’re bound to win tomorrow as I’m not there”. You know the drill. Then it dawned on me that Sunderland tend to lose the games I do and don’t attend in equal measure. I may not care by tea time if I’m as intoxicated as expected in a Liverpool pub somewhere.

The Predictions League table has undergone a stewards enquiry since last time it was published. Carelessness on my behalf and I’m thankful for Malcolm’s obsessive compulsive tendencies for all things correct that it’s now been updated. Apologies if you have slipped down it somewhat. Imagine needing things to be correct and proper, and witnessing Sunderland this season? Ouch!

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SAFC v Fulham: guess the score (but 3-0 has already been chosen)

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'The usually tight git's giving one away without strings for a change', says Jake
‘The usually tight git’s giving one away without strings for a change’, says Jake

Good news for Pam Stokoe, whose name has special resonance around these parts. Her mug, won with a correct if disloyal 0-1 forecast for the SAFC v Arsenal game, has finally been ordered.

Good news for Eric, who posts regularly to the Comments section and invariably offers a prediction. I will take his 3-0, which appears at the end of the Fulham “Who are You?” – about which he was less than enthusiastic – as a valid entry. I also hope it comes true.

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With a sideswipe at Stoke, Fulham fan warns SAFC to beware the ‘strolling Bulgar’

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Jake's so far away in Spain, that the chances are he'll have to opt for square
Jake’s so far away in Spain that the chances are he’ll have to opt for square

Philip Mison likes to strike a controversial note in his ESPN blogging about Fulham. Mr Tony Pulis’s boys are dismissed as Stoke Rugby Club, Bramble and O’Shea are identified as Sunderland weak links Fulham can exploit and Martin O’Neill is seen as “looking less than secure in his job”.

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SAFC v Fulham ‘Who are You?’: forget prawn sandwiches, give us sushi and wine

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Jake asks the question
Jake asks the question

Con Kondonis* is an Aussie, resident in the UK for 10 years or so, and an adopted but keen supporter of Fulham, our opponents at the Stadium of Light on Saturday. He has little time for cricket, loved Fulham’s European adventures, urges players to stop behaving like a bunch of softies, misses Danny Murphy, couldn’t give a hoot about Fayed’s Michael Jackson statue at Craven Cottage and would like to see sushi and wine replace meat pies and sausage rolls in football catering …

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Sunderland, Newcastle safe (ish). And the losers are … QPR, Aston Villa plus Reading or Wigan

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John McCormick's examines his source material
John McCormick examines his source material

It may not seem a good time to be predicting relegation for Reading (just after they’ve beaten us), QPR (buoyed by big new signings with an escapologist in charge) and Aston Villa (didn’t we somehow contrive to make even them seem half-decent?). But John McCormick has been pottering around with his blinding statistictal science again, attempting to calculate the impact fluctuating goal differences can have on survival prospects. As things stand, he sees safety for Sunderland but not by a comfortable margin and a possible lifeline for Reading, at Wigan’s expense …

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Martin’s Musings from Fulham: ‘a great ball from Johnson’

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Back to the drawing board?

Martin O’Neill needed a win and got one. Monsieur Salut hes written elsewhere – click here for the ESPN piece – that even when Simon Mignolet was making his saves, 4-1 somehow seemed more likely than 3-3. The boss’s post-match e-mail picks out the Adam Johnson pass for Fletch’s opener. In my humble view, AJ was immense in the second half after an anonymous start…

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