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If he does, let’s celebrate a bloke finally doing his job on the last week of the window after we’ve burnt through two games and in the process of overpaying AGAIN

4-5 days be a stretch. But it’s definitely worth visiting as you have the old town, the beach and the aquarium areas and that’s three distinct areas. Good food. Not too expensive. I don’t think it’s far off ideal city break category stayed near the Mestalla, so can’t speak for city centre hotels

The games v Corby last season are why. Having young kids scream Kettering is a shithole into women’s faces this arvo. That said everyone over the age of 18 was well behaved

I went Kettering Harborough. I’m sorry Daggers. It was a dreadful game. Kick and rush which made no sense given both teams had very decent wingers. Kettering clearly better team but didn’t go for the killer (albeit unlucky with a header). Harborough seem to have double downed on buying anyone over 6ft 3. Both full backs ran like rugby players. If it wasn’t for the reliance on Kettering being largely fan ran, I wouldn’t have paid the prices for the food either. £4.20 for chips and curry sauce

Btw don’t mistranslate dis-satisfaction with Cooper as approval with Enzo. It wasn’t rosy towards the end with him.

More than a few hints developing that morale isn’t great. He’s looking weak imo

Off ya pop

Personally I’d have expected more on his time at City. Moments such as Yakubu at Derby for example. I accept I’m alone here.

RIP Sven Gentleman of the game. Often forgotten how innovative he was. His initial successes absolutely unparalleled. I watched a cracking documentary recently on Derry City. They won the Irish league title in the early 90s and played in the European Cup. Drew Benfica managed by Sven. He was an absolute gent as there were worries about security and stated his happiness at playing the game in Derry. Had a bomb scare on the day of the game and Sven was still happy for the game to go ahead. He clearly was very good with players, even those not preferred because you never heard a story of a player taking issue with him.

Anthony H’s work all over. Reads like a Wikipedia entry. Very few redeeming words of his time at Leicester

Brighton use Union SG in a way which aids both clubs. It can be done effectively and at a profit to everyone.

leuven went out and targeted one this summer. Showing some benefits. So it’s not like KP don’t know the format of such a set up

I’m not. They are well within in the range of relegation rivals and a chance of a points deduction

A few words on Leicester. As stated above, the team are presently one playing in Cooper’s pragmatic image this season - defensive, reactive, competent but not spectacular. It’s understandable - newly promoted sides face a major challenge in competing in the Premier League (it took us three attempts!) and Cooper has to stabilise a ship recently robbed of its established manager. There’s some benefit to this - the experience and ability in the team gives them a far stronger prospect of survival than last year’s contenders had, and they demonstrated last week that they can take points off Tottenham. I can’t help but wonder, however, whether the approach is too cautious. Much as I would love to depict Fulham as all-conquering juggernauts, Craven Cottage is not an impossible place to get a win - at times in the match, particularly when Leicester were offering scant little but clearances and a prayer, I wondered whether a little more positivity in the approach would have punished us in the match. Vardy was completely isolated and stuck making offside runs because Buonanotte was hopelessly deep and Fatawu and BDR were nowhere in sight - this points to a lack of alertness to the attackers, and a deeper issue with defenders using the ball positively. Whilst I think Faes and Vestergaard were fairly competent in the defensive elements of the game, their distribution is hideous, and along with Ndidi were liabilities when trying to move the ball beyond their own final third. They had a tough task, of course - Kristiansen and Justin had horrible matches on the wings and made situations around the backline generally quite tense - but building play requires a positive mindset, a belief that the football is yours to use, and the sense I get is that Leicester were a bit scared of it today. Only Harry Winks looked consistently positive and forward thinking throughout the match, and played passes of any threat for Fulham to deal with. I think Buonanotte has the ability to be a great forward for Leicester but he is operating too deep, and for as much as I love Bobby he is too tame a footballer to be the main attacker on the wing. Fatawu was very poor on the ball and only started playing when he was allowed to attack in the dying section of the game - noticeably, with Ayew and Mavididi alongside him in the front three. Will Cooper reconstruct the team around these effective players, and try and put some belief into Leicester’s squad? I think he is a terrific coach, and his work at Nottingham Forest alone showcases his aptitude for the fight, but if he wants to keep Leicester up he will do well to look at his opponent today and draw upon the attacking talents in the team. From a Fulham fan in the comments of Guardian match report - so many salient points

The linesman gave the offside. So VAR had to give the goal hence the scrunity. Very strange really and an example of VAR has led to this over the top supervision of everything

We aren’t party to what they have passed onto the hierarchy above them. I’d like to think a scouting team what by the own admission of Enzo came up with Fatawu, Hermansen, and Mavididi would have some good ideas. Cooper used the term of the club signing Buonanotte as well (which also looks like good networking as well as they realised Brighton were over stocked with midfielders and he didn’t fit their new system). My gut is this summer that you can separate our transfers into two given the clues If ex England youth and PL exp, probable Cooper choices. Outside of that, scouting team choices….which is also damning on Okoli

What in the three attempts of him trying to recruit him gave him that idea? 😂 Our rep is very poor amongst ‘football people’. Enzo knew the writing was on the wall to an extent. Guillem his mate mentioned that certain obstacles existed at the club.

Btw for a midfield 3 who should be better defensively than offensive we’ve let an attacking midfield for the opposition run the game for long spells

Also fair ****s from our support for getting behind a very 6/10 performance. Fulham’s supporter culture is very weird and I do wonder what fans they had from their Third division days think about it

@Stadtmentioned at the time of his appointment, he’s not principally an attacking manager. Due to the likely points deductions, we are going to need plus 40+, that means wins. Yeah if we got a point yesterday, fair play but there needs to be a progression in how we play. I didn’t think we were that bad yesterday but I also thought we looked like a plucky cup team at times too

Wet weren’t it? Ayew’s free kick was brilliantly hilarious

Immediately came to my mind when he cocked up that second 😂

We’d hav a further six points deduction on top of what we are likely to received

We are very beige. I wonder how long the support remains behind them. We are workmanlike but the lack of quality is evident. Hoping it’s a couple of players here and there that makes it click defensively and offensively

What impresses me about Monga at 15 is how he uses his body to protect the ball, superb.