This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ won the BBC Match of the Day Goal of the Season in 1973/74. It came in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup between Fulham and Leicester City and was scored by Alan Mullery. Mullery was playing for Second Division Fulham at the time. He was 32 and back in his […]
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On This Day – 18th March
Bobby Zamora scores the Fulham’s opening goal in an extraordinary night at Craven Cottage 3-1 down from the away leg in Italy against a strong Juventus team. Surely Fulham were about to be knocked out of the Europa League on this day in 2010? The Fulham fans that made up the majority of the 23,458 […]
On This Day – 12th March
It was on this day in 1973 that Pele played in London for the only time in his career. It wasn’t at Wembley Stadium though, as you would imagine. Pele’s club Santos played two games in England in 1973, one at Fulham before going down to Plymouth Argyle. They had been in England the previous […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.14
Vincent Kompany. Man mountain. Leader. Tough tackler. Own goal genius!This week’s ‘Greatest Own Goal’ comes from the former Belgian defender and Anderlecht incumbent from his eleven year spell at Manchester City. The own goal came in a six-goal thriller at Craven Cottage on 21st December 2013 and provided Fulham with an equaliser to make the […]
On This Day – 4th September
Fulham enjoyed a bumper pay day on this day back in 1976 as 21,127 fans clicked through the turnstiles at Craven Cottage for the visit of Bristol Rovers.The crowd was more than double the attendance in their previous game against Nottingham Forest due to a certain number seven making his debut for the home side. […]