Family life, funnily enough
This year’s sojourn to Florida was the first as a foursome, with the attendant baggage. But we had a relaxing time and the little lady had her first taste of a swimming pool – taste being the operative word – and I think she liked it. Anyway pictures in the March album, login here. As usual if you need a password etc, email us.
Perhaps the upcoming documentary on him on Channel 4 called ‘You’re Fayed’ and the accompanying PR he’s been doing have meant Mohammed Al Fayed (beware, it’s quite a home page 
) hasn’t noticed that his football club is in danger of dropping out of the financially lucrative Premier league. But his main focus is still on Dodi & Diana’s death and the forthcoming report on the matter that he believes will blow the whole thing apart.
There’s a great piece in today’s Independent, in which he asks rhetorically if Dodi had been alive and he had been offered an honour by the UK why he would accept it:
“I grew up with 7,000 years of history behind me. Why would I want honours from people who were wearing animal skins and carrying sticks when my people were the greatest civilisation in the world? Fug it.”
They’ve gone now and some people loved them, while others hated them. But while they were there, one small boy gave the the Gates some love:
And yes, we’re still unpacking, and will likely be for some time to come, but at least there’s a use for all those boxes:
There’s a lot more pictures like that, posted into the February & March albums, which you can get to from here. As usual you’ll have to log in to see them so if you need a password etc, email us.
Fulham v Charlton last Saturday was only my third game this season – Boro home & Pompey away being the other two in my lowest attendance in about 20 years – and we lost both of those, so at least a 0-0 draw was an improvement on that.
The day just brought home to me what so many other Fulham fans – and I suspect fans of football teams in the ‘middle third’ of the Premier League have been saying for some time – it can be a pretty santized yet highly expensive experience these days. I knew, like Charlton’s manager – or anybody else who watched us over the past few months who would be playing give or take a couple of players. And apart from Goma, Steed and Van Der Sar they were all capable of a lot more than they showed.
Brian McBride must be wondering why he bothered coming to Fulham (apart from the money of course) and Moritz Volz must be wondering what he did wrong to be dropped. I watched Volz at the end of the game running round the pitch with a ball and the subs meeting up in the centre circle for a kick about afterwards shortly to be joined by Claus Jensen looking a bit too pleased with himself for my liking (terrific player but I suspect he’s been bitten with whatever lazy bug has infected most of the others too). I then totted up the expenses on the way out: 28 quid for a ticket, 3 quid for a programme, which is basically a bit of corporate marketing puff, 3 quid for a can of Tetleys on a windy day by the river (dumb, I know) and for what? To support the club I still feel a lot of personal attachment to despite them trying to squeeze the life out of it by making it all about the Brand and badge-kissing tosh. Oh well, thankfully I don’t face the decision of whether to go every game. Although now, bizarrely I have to decide whether Columbus in July is worth the trip as Fulham become the latest team to try and tap into the Yankee dollar reserves.
It seems as if Chris Coleman is basically frightened of making a mistake at this stage of the season and that has led to this inertia his comments after the game about potentially losing 3-0 and getting sacked if he changed the formation proved that. I don’t get the impression he’s a great thinker and he hasnt exactly surrounded himself by people who would challenge him in that department either. Tigana was a stubborn git, but he at least taught the players to take risks (while making sure they were fit). Thank God Edwin stuck with us, which has enabled us to pursue this risk-averse boring strategy to its likely conclusion of a place slightly above the drop zone. But I hope this is the last season we play like that or I might struggle to come to even 3 games next season. And I never thought I’d say that.