A blog of two halves

At the end of February rumours abounded of managerial changes at Fulham.

Liverpool’s win at Craven Cottage on Sunday was not the widely expected formality.

The team’s away record this season threatens to be the worst in the entirety of English professional football.

The first Saturday in May 2016 marked the conclusion of Fulham’s second season in the Championship.

After a fortnight’s break Fulham showed a marginal improvement against West Ham but the outcome brought further disappointment.

It is hard for a Fulham fan to extract positives from Saturday’s lunchtime match against Manchester United.

Not so long ago, before a crucial international fixture, the Telegraph sport section devoted its front page to a huge picture of Wayne Rooney with just three words of text: ‘Cometh the hour’.

William Reginald Herbert is not someone that you would expect to find mentioned in this blog.

As I walked along the riverside after Sunday’s match against Spurs I overheard a comment that caught my attention.

Despite (or maybe because of) the problems encountered in the latter part of the 20th Century, Fulham FC had some notable fans.