… but, in all honesty, when you win 3-1 away and have waited a long time to win anything, it’s natural to want to crow about it.
Fulham
Sixer’s Sevens: Fulham 1 SAFC 3 – Ming, yes, but there were others and we can score…
John Mac, once again in charge, has a long-held belief, having lived down south, that we don’t do well in that there London. But, when things are at their darkest, Pete Sixsmith sends a seven word text up the M6 that proves him wrong…
Sixer’s Travels: day of hope at Fulham after steely Shildon derail Consett
The headline mixes up the industries that once flourished in the towns brought together yesterday in search of grassroots cup glory. Pete Sixsmith was there. Now he’s London-bound, praying that a certain other team can somehow muster a winning away performance …
Fulham on Sunday, Consett on Saturday. What a contrast. One is a cosmopolitan area full of pretty young things oozing class and sexuality while the other is in west London.
Do they mean us? A Fulham view of Sunderland
We have already heard from Philip Mison, Fulham fan and blogger, about tomorrow’s game.
Here is what he has had to say at his own pages on the ESPN site, having first picked Monsieur Salut’s brain a little …
Fulham v Sunderland: see the Thames, guess the score, win a prize
The run has to end somewhere. Could it be at Craven Cottage? This is where you tell me the answer to my question. The prize won’t change your life but it could make a slight difference to your coffee-drinking routine.
Fulham v SAFC: ‘Sunderland as a West End show is Les Miserables‘
So Philip Mison*, Fulham-supporting writer, broadcaster and much else besides, has answered our questions – see his Who are You? interview by clicking here – but that was not all he said when we fired some questions in his direction. Here’s the introduction he gave to his answers …
The Fulham v SAFC Who are You?: ‘expecting a comfortable win’
Who remembers when “Who are You?” was but a bairn and interviewees not only answered questions but wrote articles of their own to go with the responses? Our Fulham candidate – another of Monsieur Salut’s stablemates in the ESPN stud of club-by-club horses’ mouths – is Philip Mison, writer and broadcaster (see the details below*) and he volunteered some thoughts which will can be seen here. Fulham fans have reason to be a bit cocky this season; Philip’s preview of Sunday’s match suggests he sees a drubbing coming Sunderland’s way …
Sixer at Goodison: a poppy-free account of nearly beating Everton
As if watching another defeat was not bad enough Pete Sixsmith then had his finely written account of an otherwise pleasant weekend assaulted by technical gremlins (Monsieur Salut to blame). So here, again, is Pete’s description – without so much as a word on James McClean and poppygate – of an away trip that promised a pub crawl, entertaining craic with knowledgeable fans and being present at a Sunderland victory. As Malcolm Dawson put it, citing Michael Lee Aday’s philosophical response to partial failure: ‘two out of three ain’t bad.’ Still, Sixer did see the green shoots of optimism peeping out from behind the Everton induced blues …
Sunderland to Fulham via Richmond: that’s where the winning run went
Nic Wiseman, a Sunderland supporter and co-editor of the fanzine It’s The Hope I Can’t Stand (when it was published, long ago), exiled in the deep south, looks back on a mixed sporting day by or near the Thames …
Fulham-SAFC Who are You?: (2) Monty made me a 5-1 winner
A familiar problem descended this week: a game just days away and no one to do the Who are You? No sooner had I started wondering how to fill the gap than not one but two came forward with a Monty-style double save. Roger Meloy, a visitor here last season, came up trumps again with answers from actross the Atlantic, including a memory long enough to recall a canny bet on Sunderland in 1973 …