Green Pole: Mighty Mitro breaks Brentford hearts

On tonight’s episode of the Green Pole, there’s only one place to start. Frankie Taylor and Max Cohen join Alan Drewett to discuss just how good Aleksandar Mitrovic’s last-minute winner over Brentford felt yesterday. It tasted all the sweeter after...

Silva showers peerless Palhinha with praise

Marco Silva says summer signing Joao Palhinha has settled seamlessly into Premier League football and feels there is more to come after the holding midfielder headed home his first Fulham goal against Brentford yesterday. Palhinha, who became a father for the first...

Mitrovic ruins Brentford’s fightback at the last

Aleksandar Mitrovic certainly knows how to pick his moments. The Serbian, deemed a flat track bully not worthy of the Premier League by the talking heads before the start of the season, offered another demonstration of his peerless penalty-box predatory with a...

Palhinha: Silva’s ‘desire’ key to Fulham switch

João Palhinha has told the Portuguese Football Federation’s television channel, Canal 11, that the influence of Marco Silva was massive in convincing him to move to Fulham this summer. The holding midfielder swapped Sporting Clube de Portugal for SW6 in a deal...

Peerless Palhinha puts Fulham on the front foot

I still can’t believe that João Palhinha is a Fulham player. The young man who caught Marco Silva’s eye when he was featuring for Sporting’s B side had plenty of offers when it became clear that his boyhood club were considering a sale to finance...