A wonderful piece here from 1975 summing up what it was apparently like at Fulham in the 50’s & 60s during our previous glory years.
You see, to be a Fulham favorite it has always paid to be flawed in some way, preferably on the pitch:
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Earlier there was Eddie Lowe, the statutory baldy at wing-half, alleged to have lost all his hair overnight through the shock of reading one of Walter Winterbottom’s coaching pamphlets on peripheral vision. Or Jim Langley bow- legged back with convict’s crew-cut who, astonishingly, played for England and didn’t let us down (though we were terribly worried for him)… |
Anyway, Frank Keating, one of the best football journalists around, tells it better than anybody, so read on.