Why today’s not ‘a good time to play Arsenal’

It started shortly after Arsenal surrended that two-goal lead in Gelsenkirchen on Tuesday night. Another Arsenal crisis, more woeful Wenger wailing and some of publicity-hungry members of the punditocracy pounded arguably Arsenal’s greatest every manager....

Cottage Talk previews Fulham v Everton

Tonight’s Cottage Talk previews Fulham’s Premier League fixture against Everton at Craven Cottage tomorrow and looks back at a crazy afternoon in Reading last week. Cottage Talk’s host Russ Goldman was actually in London last weekend and talks about...

Grygera’s getting back to full fitness

Perhaps the most pleasing part of my afternoon in the Craven Cottage sunshine yesterday was meeting Zden?k Grygera. The Czech defender has shown tremendous courage and professionalism in recovering so swiftly from his horrible anterior cruciate knee injury sustained...

Classy on the continent

Perhaps it’s the fact that I wasn’t there or that the a weekend on the Côte d’Azurs till sounds supremely exotic to me. Maybe it’s the memories of how a French revolution transformed Fulham from a plodding mid-table team to one that stormed to...

Danny Murphy: Goodbye and good luck

Unexpected goodbyes are the hardest ones. When you have to say farewell fairly swiftly, it can be difficult to find the words that truly express how much you’ll miss the departing individual. The news this morning that Danny Murphy was heading north to complete...