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This tells a story and a half. Teams were walzing through our midfield like a pair of lovestruck ramblers in a country meadow. Think about what it’s saying: if Andreasen makes 12 interventions a game and (say) Steve Davis makes four, that’s eight occasions where someone else has to step in. That someone else is probably going to have to come from the back four. This is a problem because a) the intervention will now be nearer our goal, b) it might not be successful, and c) doing this pulls the defence out of position. Great stuff, Colin!
Interesting chat with a friend of mine last night. He works with various charities doing football community work, and recently they were at Craven Cottage. He had a number of chats with Fulham staff, and got some quite interesting information.
First the good: of all the clubs they visit, he reckons the Fulham staff are as nice as they come. Very friendly lot. Also, all get two free season tickets, which is not at all common in London football.
The downside is that a there seems to be a vibe that people are fearing for their jobs. If Fulham go down there will be cost savings, and these can hit those in non-footballing roles first. Charlton, I think, let go a good proportion of their non-playing staff when they went down last year. So that would be a bad thing, obviously, particularly with the players responsible earning more in two weeks than a lot of these staff will take home in a year. But that’s an argument for another day.
Other comments: that Roy Hodgson has really impressed people with his coaching. The person my friend spoke to spends a lot of time at Motspur Park, and says that it was quite clear that Sanchez wasn’t a great coach, and that Coleman never really got his hands dirty on this side of things, preferring to let Steve Keen run things. Hodgson, by contrast, clearly knows the game and is doing some great work on the training pitch.
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