FourFourDrew: Changing of the seasons
It’s that time of year again – the fixtures are out. Drew Heatley casts his eye over our Premier League schedule.
It’s that time of year again – the fixtures are out. Drew Heatley casts his eye over our Premier League schedule.
So, the unbearable weather's subsided, just about, but the heat is still very much on in the summer transfer window and we have a packed second supplement for you to ingest like a 2 litre bottle of lukewarm Volvic, cradled in the passenger side foot well.
Eamon Levin takes a look at Parker's Wembley tactics to uncover just how we bounced straight back up to the Premier League.
Party time isn't over just yet, folks, in fact with all that's emanated in the press since and even before our unforgettable Tuesday evening at Wembley, this late summer shindig is only just grooving into its sensual swing.
We are Premier League. Hangovers aplenty across the breadth of the capital and beyond, we witnessed a remarkable encounter between two great rivals in the richest game of football on the planet. The stakes were as high as our blood pressures but crumbling? That's not us, it's much more of Brentford thing.
Have you come down yet? We asked our extended team to try and sum up their feelings after last night's Wembley win.
What are your Fulham player ratings for tonight's performance against Brentford at Wembley Stadium?
Cardiff City travelled easterly from Wales' capital to England's with one core motivation in mind. Humbled in their own back yard, Neil Harris encouraged his fold to take nothing for granted and to express themselves and to their credit, they conducted themselves superbly. 2-1 on the night to the Bluebirds, 3-2 on aggregate to Fulham, both squads portrayed their best and their worst in a riveting Play-Off semi-final face-off.
Cardiff City and Fulham are basically the same team. Relegated together, promoted together, vying for a return to the Premier League against one another. It's not a geographical rivalry, it's circumstantial year after year and we never like to disappoint. Andre Schurrle fizzed home a banger last term and so did Ryan Babel - blasting the target with peachy wonder strikes is simply following tradition.
There's been ups and downs for the Fulham boss this season. Jack J Collins weighs things up before the Play-Off madness kicks off.
Following weeks of will we, won't we podcasts, articles and pub talk, which has only just returned to its rightful habitat, our fate is finally signed and stamped. The Play-Offs will not be the same without a potential day out at Wembley lurking in the shadows but it's a nano-competition that's just so, enthralling.
What ratings out of 10 would you give tonight's Fulham team for their performance against Wigan Athletic at DW Stadium?
Boredom, never was there such a thing on Saturday afternoon as Sheffield Wednesday fought back at Craven Cottage. Garry Monk's touchline f'ing and blinding wasn't enough for his men to withstand Scott Parker's sharp offensive regiment, though, and now the Whites have it all to do in their final fixture of the season.
What player rating out of 10 would you give each of the Fulham team for their performance against Sheffield Wednesday in Saturday’s EFL Championship clash?
Eamon dives deeper into the 'Parker in' versus 'Parker out' debate, takes a moment to acknowledge Onomah's recent displays and questions some fan behavior.
5pm kick-offs can get laid, that's the real message behind this article, although I'm obliged to prattle on for another couple thousand characters, so I hope you're sitting very comfortably indeed.
What are your Fulham player ratings for tonight's performance against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns?
With Cam indisposed this weekend, Drew Heatley has slipped into his Total 90s to run the rule over Friday night’s victory.
There was a time when the inclusion of Josh Onomah on the team-sheet bought figurative groans to Twitter, and anguish to Craven Cottage. But, eleven months on from his arrival the midfielders inclusion on the team-sheet is met with unanimous approval from all areas.