Craven Cottage is ranked fifth in the Guardian’s list of greatest British football grounds.
Safe to say Scott Murray is a fan of Fulham’s historic home:
“The likes of the Dell and Highbury may now be lost to developers and bijou flats, but at least one famous ground escaped the bulldozers. During the 1980s, it looked like the gig was up for Craven Cottage, as an attempt was made to railroad Fulham into a merger with Queens Park Rangers, then a groundshare with Chelsea. Luckily, after years of boardroom machinations, that threat was averted, and what remains is one of the most welcoming grounds in the country: stands which hug the pitch, views (albeit not brilliant) of the river, a section for neutrals – and a cottage, for goodness sake. Although technically it’s a pavilion, and not the original cottage either, but let’s not split hairs here.”
