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Now I will be forever grateful to Mohammed Al Fayed for what he has done for Fulham Football Club over the past five years, but you have to wonder what is going on in his head. Here he is in last Sunday’s Observer:

Some of that is undoubtedly true, but that’s no way to get a passport now, is it? What does his PR guy do for a living?

Don’t let the size of the trophy fool you, Fulham’s first ever qualification for the UEFA Cup tonight is just about the biggest thing that’s happened in our 120+ year history.

More pictures here and reports here.

Courtesy of my friend Jon, who rightly asks, “has the world changed, or have I changed?”

So when Arsenal come back from 2-0 down to do it, its a couple of late lucky goals blamed on sloppy defending. Hmm, an over-reliance on football clichés perhaps?

Anyway, click on the much-maligned Fecundo Sava to see more…

“The last time I saw him live, he looked into the audience and said, ‘I wish I had been born Mexican, but it’s too late now.’”

Great article here on the Latino crowd from East Los Angeles who think that Morrissey and The Smiths are the bee’s knees. But then, so do I.

Click on the boy on the dock for new pictures from this month – both on Fire Island and in the city…

Let it be recorded that as of this morning, the Premier League table looked like this:

1. Fulham – 3 Pts
2. Leeds – 3 Pts
3. Arsenal – 3 Pts
4. Chelsea – 3 Pts
5. Liverpool – 3 Pts
6. Man Utd – 3 Pts

Fulham top on goals scored – 4 goals in one game when we only scored 21 goals in 19 home games last season.

That’s all about to change as Newcastle look like going top and there is another 37 games still to be played, but these days we need to take success where we can get it, even if it is fleeting and trivial.

Thanks to this man it was 2-2 – now on to the second leg in two weeks’ time….

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We had Lance Armstrong and some of his lesser contemporaries in New York this weekend for a relatively short road race round the streets north of Wall St. Some pictures linked from the one below, which have convinced me that we probably need a better camera…

Click on the picture below for more photos documenting a certain young man’s first time in New York…