If you balk at beer, and Bovril just isn’t your cup of tea, Fulham FC have a new idea for your next half-time tipple – gin.
The Championship side have opened a new gin bar, called The Clubhouse, in an executive box at their Craven Cottage ground – for those who like their matchdays shaken-not-stirred.
Created with the support of Gin Foundry – the online home of gin, and overlooking the Thames – the bar will be offering a range of gins and cocktails for all tastes.
But how might the crew down at The Cottage wet their whistle on a matchday?
Craven cocktails – the gin spin for five well-known Fulham faces
- The Last Word (green Chartreuse, gin, Maraschino liqueur, lime juice) – ideal for outspoken Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic.
- The 75 (gin, Champagne, lemon juice, and sugar) – a worthy toast to Alan Mullery, captain of The Whites' 1975 FA Cup final side.
- Old Etonian (Crème de Noyaux, orange bitters, Kina Lillet or Cocchi Americano, gin) – perhaps a tipple for Fulham fan Hugh Grant, player of many an upper-crust role, though actually an old boy of Latymer Upper School.
- Texas Fizz (Champagne, gin, orange juice, grenadine syrup) – make former Craven Cottage favourite Clint Dempsey, born in Nacogdoches in the Lone Star State, feel at home.
- Poet’s Passion (gin, peach liqueur, passion fruit concentrate, fresh lime juice, peach bitters) – singer-songwriter, and Fulham fan, Lily Allen would surely love a glass.
