Footie Support Group: 25 days and counting . . .

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

£800 per year plus expenses - ie at least £2000 to watch that crap! I pride myself on not leaving games early (you wouldn’t leave a film early would you?) but I did on saturday.

It was a choice between another 10 minutes of ineptitude or getting a nice pint in Rudolph’s before the rush. It was an easy choice. Talking to people after the game it was obvious that patience is running out fast. I would assume that Hod has two games left.

Now we have the annual battle of Fulham Broadway to look forward to. I am not relishing this at all. And I really really hate Chelsea for a variety of reasons. Not least being that I live in SW London - smack bang in CFC territory, and am never ever allowed to forget our record against them.

Yep, I used to live off the Lower Richmond Road. Actually, I worked for a while on the Lower Richmond Road. LOng time ago . .

Can’t handle it, Owl. Just can’t.

I know Richards and King haven’t played together much but I still don’t understand how a mickey mouse outfit like Fulham rann rings around them.

Well, I do to some extent. Lack of ball-winning in midfield, not enough tracking the runners . . just lousy cover combined with statuesque defending.

This loan from Milan better bites a few legs and sharpish.

Oh, Vetch. Congratulations, excellent start. Got any defensive midfielders you don’t want ?

Southfields boy here - and its hellish.

You have put your finger on the problem. No “bite” in midfield. The Inter bloke is an attacking midfielder, in the Davies mould (at least this is what I am told). I would hope that Ledley or the South Effrikan can play in midfield.

Remember the last midfielder we got from Inter - Nicola Berti? That “Nicola” should have been a clue.

Well I hope for your sake you’re down the bottom off Replingham Road somewhere rather than up among the maze of flats with barely a sniff of any pub anywhere, never mind a decent one. It’s all ex-Church Commissioners land up there. Dreadful people.

According to Glenda, this Milan bloke is a “bit of everything with two feet” – how many times have we heard that, Acimov was the last, I think ?

Just get fucking stuck in and bollocks to the beautiful game.

Berti – another open would. Dear God!

Two games you think. I’d tend to agree. I also think the board aren’t looking for excuses not to get rid of him.

Have you read this about Launderers FC - they’ve already spent £10 million more than the rest of the Premiership combined . . .

All that aside, I 'd like John Terry to be in the England team on Saturday.

I am very handy for the pig and whsitle, Gardeners arms and the new Gastropub (!) ex the Earl Spencer - and the Park Tavern.

But I usualy drink in Putney, cos that’s where my mates are.

I too would like to see terry - but it will be ferdinand if he can at least walk.

I used to go to a school in which about 95% were Tott fans. This was in the days of Hoddle & Waddle, when they were good. I learned to seriously hate them then.

Then in the early nineties – the successful George Graham years – I was in a school that was about 80% Arse fans (the other 20% being Tott) and I learned to seriously hate them too.

So I can understand your ire.

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