Shuffling the pack

There’s been some discussion on the various Fulham messageboards today about the possibility of Roy Hodgson picking ‘a shadow side’ for the Europa League game in Sofia tomorrow night. I’m not sure that Roy will ring the changes to such an...

Schwarzer set to start in Sofia?

It might be a bit harsh on young David Stockdale – who enjoyed a fine debut against Everton on Sunday – but the main talking point ahead of Fulham’s Europa League opener is whether first-choice goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer will be fit enough to face...

CSKA Sofia v Fulham live on ITV4

Fulham’s first game in the Europa League group stages against CSKA Sofia will be broadcast live on ITV4. Our opening game in Group E in Bulgaria will be covered by the ITV digital channel, which also showed our home leg in the third qualifying round against...

CSKA Sofia abandon ‘no foreigners’ policy

In some more Europa League-related news, it looks like CSKA Sofia have abandoned one of the most interesting transfer experiments of recent years. Over the summer, Fulham’s Group E Europa League opponents announced that they would now only be playing with...

A closer look at our Europa League opponents

European fever is infectious. Plenty of people have been booking their flights out to Basel, Rome and Sofia, while others have been predicting just how we might get on in the group itself. Fulham in Europe is still a rare thing – even though a fair few media...