Hall of Heroes
Hall of Heroes: Roy Hodgson
When I was about 12 or 13, I was playing for my local boys’ team, Sutton Wanderers, when our manager said we had a special training session arranged with a proper coach. I was already […]
Articles by John Clarke
Focus Fives
Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (1990s)
The 1990’s was a decade of extremes for the club. We started it struggling in the depths of the third division and in 1994 fell through the trapdoor into the league’s basement. The nadir was […]
Article
Matchday Programme Revisited: Micky Adams Promotion
The featured programme this time is from a League Division 3 game with Northampton Town in April 1997 which is significant as it’s the first game after Micky Adams team clinched promotion with a point […]
Focus Fives
Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (1980s)
The 1980s was a strange period in the history of the club. We started it in the Third Division yet by 1983 had come within a whisker of returning to the top flight. Malcolm MacDonald […]
Focus Fives
Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (1970s)
There was a broadly positive reaction to my five picks for the 1960’s although this is probably as much an appreciation of how difficult a task it is to choose just 5 players, rather than […]
Article
Matchday Programme Revisited: George Best’s Debut
At Fulham Focus we pride ourselves on offering supporters a wide variety of current content and now that the season is back underway, there’s plenty to talk about. But during the lockdown when games weren’t possible […]
Match Reaction
Match Reaction: Fulham 1 – 2 Palace
I approached this match in the uncomfortable state of cautious optimism. Much-improved showings at Wolves and Sheffield United suggested we were coming to terms with the demands of the Premier League. However with only one […]
Hall of Heroes
Hall Of Heroes: Les Strong
Les Strong epitomises what Fulham Football Club stands for. He was a loyal player who spent the overwhelming majority of his career in SW6 and has continued to support the club since retiring. Not only […]
Match Reaction
Match Reaction: Wolves 1-0 Fulham
Wolves away could not be considered an easy match at the best of times let alone at the end of a week that had yielded two humiliating 3-0 defeats and a social media meltdown triggered […]
Article
Focus Fives: Players of the Decade (1960s)
This is probably the most difficult article I’ve had to write since joining the Fulham Focus team; I’ve been asked to pick the 5 players of the decade for each of those since I’ve been […]
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