It’s all gone so wrong – Fulham 0-1 West Ham

Well, we played well enough. Well enough to draw – at home – against another London Club. We had our chances all right. But the ball didn’t drop quite right and Dempsey didn’t pop it over the keeper and Johnson winged it high and…we could just keep going couldn’t we?

So as I wrote, we played well enough for a draw. In fact that is how the game should have ended. Salano is not marked well by Murphy and breaks free. He gets to the ball at the same time as Niemi. The ball falls, Niemi gets kicked in the face and the ball goes off the arm of Salano. Howard Webb, who wouldn’t let either team play all day as he called foul after foul for good hard play, didn’t call the hand ball. Just as he didn’t call handballs for two other Fulham shots that went off of West Ham players in their box. Such is life at Fulham.

It was hard for me to enjoy todays game. I watched on Fox Soccer Channel and knowing how important this game was, my stomach was in knots the whole 90 min. I think it’s fair to say, we are wading in deeper and deeper and there may be no coming back. At least for this year.

Feel free to post your thoughts until Rich comes in with his match report.