Jol: Pogrebnyak was an instant hit

Any reservations that Martin Jol had about signing Pavel Pogrebnyak were soon banished as the Russian striker scored a hat-trick within ten minutes of his first training session. The Fulham manager moved quickly to bring the Russian striker in a short-term deal from...

QPR v Fulham – Player Ratings

What a game. What an afternoon. Not as comfortable as it should have been but it was enough. Schwarzer – 7, despite QPR firing from all sorts of angles Schwarzer wasn’t really tested from crosses or shots. However he made two key saves from...

QPR 0-1 Fulham: What papers say

A selection of excerpts from the Sunday papers … Glenn Moore, Independent on Sunday: ‘Hughes’s old team look far superior to his current one. Fulham took control and scored, Moussa Dembélé’s flick releasing Pogrebnyak behind Anton Ferdinand and...

Tor’s Travels – QPR

I have a confession. Well, a few. Before yesterday I had never set foot inside Loftus Road. I’ve hated the build-up over the past week or so. I refused to think about it as a derby match and until about 2.30pm yesterday, this was just another away match from...

No problems with Fulham morale

We were beset with rumours before Christmas about the shockingly low morale in the Fulham camp and the “bust-ups” that Jol was having with ever player (or so it was made out). Jol was “cold-hearted”, “harsh”,...