Some thoughts from the Portsmouth game

Hodgson’s substitution in the early stages of the second half was absolutely key to last night’s result. Kelly was very poor, and had to be taken off. I couldn’t hear any of the reported booing, just a silent air of relief. Think it’s pretty...

Who will fill-in for John Pantsil?

Now that Pantsil’s off to the ACN (and perhaps for longer if his knee injury is worse than feared), who’s going to play at right-back? Whoever it’s going to be has quite a job to live up to: Pantsil was outstanding against Didier Drogba this...

Yet more thoughts on Jonathan Greening

On Sunday, I wrote this piece about Jonathan Greening. Unfortunately, my internet broke before I could upload it. Now that it is mended, I have seen a plethora of articles about this very subject, including one from the ever-excellent CCN. Nevertheless, here is...

Bobby Zamora – a striker, or a forward?

“Bobby Zamora,” a typical argument will go, “is rubbish. He can’t score for toffee. A striker’s job is to score goals, and as Zamora is appalling at doing this, he is not doing his job properly, and should be out of the team.” I...

A worse start than expected?

As it stands, Fulham lie in 17th position, just two points above the relegation zone. Is this almost a case of second-season-syndrome? Obviously we have spent longer than two seasons in the Premiership, but last season we seemed almost an entirely different team from...