Craven Cottage Newsround

Alright, here we go.

We’ve made a book. It’s called the Fulham Review, and inside it you’ll find:

• Match reports from all the Fulham games this year. This typically involves an overview of what happened in the same style you’re used to here, but also has the team news, referee, attendance, and basically everything you’d expect to find.
• Sixteen essays. There are a couple by me (on Jan Lastuvka, our best central defensive pairings, and a few topics relevant to the time), a whole series on general footballing issues by my friend Martin (a much more talented writer than I, Mart’s work really makes the book), one by Chopper (the longest in the book, a cracking essay on Steed and Boa) and even something by our good friend Bruce from DuNord which takes an American’s unique view of our American players. These essays are spliced in to bring light relief from all the match reports!
• Statistics. You’ve got a league table as it was every month, as well as final apps/gls/yellow/red cards.

And a load of other things that I’ve overlooked. We reckon the book’s a pretty decent overview of the season, and yeah, it wasn’t the most exciting season ever, but still, well worth having everything recorded, right? This is a record book, a diary of the season, and a lot else besides. There’s a lot in here, we’ve spent a lot of time doing it, we like it, and we think you will too!

Here’s an example of the inside. You can see the end of Chopper’s essay and the Leicester FA Cup replay report:

But you can have a proper preview here.

How do you get a copy then? Well, it couldn’t be easier. We’ve made these as Print on Demand books via lulu.com. So you can get a copy two ways. Either a printed version or an e-book. You can download the e-book for free. We want as many people reading it as possible, so we figured the e-book costing absolutely nothing might help that. But if you do like it and would like a proper, bound copy, you can buy one from lulu for a fiver. That’s under ten dollars if you’re in the US. It’s about as cheaply as we could do it and the book’s A4 size and is 84 pages long.

So go here to see it on lulu (and buy a copy!). Lulu accepts all credit cards and also takes paypal.
I don’t have a stock of the books yet (just one proof copy), but if you absolutely must have a book and don’t want to get it from lulu let me know and I can send you one when I get my stock. Contributors’ copies will be in the post as soon as I get the stock in.

So thanks to everyone who helped, and to everyone who’s read this website. As I’ve said, we’re delighted to have done this book and are thinking of making this an annual thing. We hope you like it!  And if you do, tell everyone you know!

Rich