Now Hughes is in talks over new contract

This is great news. With all the focus on Hodgson and Hangeland, we wondered whether the soon-to-be-out-of-contract Aaron Hughes might slip out the back door. To lose half of our most effective central defensive partnership in years on a free transfer would be...

Riise doesn’t rate fifth official experiment

Bjorn Helge Riise thinks plans to use five officials at the World Cup should be shelved. He’s got a unique way of describing the experiment in the Europa League as ineffective too. I didn’t even realise we had extra officials when we played with them, until I...

Hughes: We were out of luck

Aaron Hughes offers the same analysis that many of the people walking down Stevenage Road were sharing after the 1-1 draw with Bolton on Saturday night. He doesn’t quite go as far as the guy in front of man who said: ‘On another day, we’d have...

Contracts, contracts, contracts

Things seem to be progressing rather nicely on the pitch, but as ever with Fulham, uncertainty’s not far around the corner. Roy Hodgson has turned down overtures from international federations to concentrate on the task in hand at Craven Cottage and, while talks...

Hughes still has European hopes

Aaron Hughes certainly hasn’t thrown in the towel when it comes to reaching the knockout stages of the Europa League. Fulham’s defeat in Rome has left them needing to win their last two games – at home to CSKA Sofia and in Basel – to be sure of...