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Not Fulham but… (part2)
Quite an interesting article about choking under pressure in sports.
Latest relegation odds
If you want to bet on Fulham going down the best price is 1-3 on at Bet365. General is 1-4 on. So to get a pound you have to bet four. They think it’s quite likely we’ll go down. Watch what happens if we don’t beat Derby…
Right, I’m off to smile somewhere.
Internationals, good or bad?
I was thinking about the internationals this week and contemplating whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing to have some of our players leave Motspur Park to join their national teams for a quick midweek game. Particularly knowing that we are in a relegation battle for our premiership life. While you could certainly make arguments for it hurting the team, I’ve come to the conclusion, (in my own warped mind), that it’s indeed a good thing, as long as they’re not having to fly half-way round the world to do so.
Case in point would be this article on Simon Davies getting his 50th cap for Wales. It’s really a landmark game for him and he’ll be captaining the team. This has to be a “feel good” moment for Davies and might be a nice break from all the work and frustration at Fulham currently.
Another example would be Carlos Bocanegra and Clint Dempsey. Bocanegra is having a problem getting minutes at Fulham and will join his American teammates and feel like a wanted player again. Dempsey will join in with an attack that seems to score goals most games and he is usually in the thick of that attack.
These players have all been under a tremendous amount of pressure for a good long while now. Breaking camp, joining up with your fellow countrymen and playing under a different sort of pressure might be a bit more fun and out of the routine. In fact it might be exactly what the doctor ordered to rejuvenate some of these players after a very long season.
Sanchez buys in transfer rumour shock
These are from the Daily Mail.
Diomansy might be going to Stoke!
Stoke are trying to sign Diomansy Kamara on loan from Fulham to boost their Championship promotion bid. Fulham are reluctant to let players go as the relegation battle intensifies in the Barclays Premier League, but the 27-year-old striker is frustrated at his lack of first-team action.
Yuck. He might not be everyone’s cup of tea but he’s not a waste of space either. This would only make sense if they agree to buy him off us at the end of the spell.
There were rumours about David Healy going on loan too, but I can’t see Roy being confident enough in what we have to let that happen.
Gareth Southgate wants Steve Davis!
Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate is ready to fight Rangers for the signature of Steven Davis in the summer.
The Northern Ireland international has made a huge impact in Glasgow after arriving on loan from relegation-threatened Fulham at the end of January and is loving life at Ibrox.
But now Boro and another Premiership club have been alerted to his performances and are ready to join a summer transfer scramble if Fulham are relegated.
Well, well, well. I always thought he’d be alright in a proper midfield. Competition for his signature can’t be bad for us either.
