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* Fulham were the last team to have standing accommodation in the Premier League, as Craven Cottage included terraces in the 2001 – 02 season – eight years after the Taylor Report outlawed terraces at this level.
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The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.
It wasn't until after Fulham first reached the top division, in 1949, that further improvements were made to the stadium.
On July 27th, 2012, Fulham FC were granted permission to redevelop the Riverside Stand, increasing the capacity of Craven Cottage to 30, 000 seats.
For several seasons, national flags of the players represented at Fulham were hung from the roof.
Flags of every nationality in the Fulham squad were hung from the roofing, although they were retracted after the 2006 – 07 season commenced.
However, when Fulham were relegated in 1969, Trinder decided not to change the flags as " Fulham won't be in this division next season ".
True to Tommy's prophecy, Fulham were relegated again.
The singer, who died in 2009, was not a Fulham fan and had no interest in football whatsoever, but attended a Fulham match once, saying " Fulham fans were like people at my concerts.
Chelsea were founded on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub ( now The Butcher's Hook ), opposite the present-day main entrance to the ground on Fulham Road, and were elected to the Football League shortly afterwards.
Fulham were formed in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F. C., founded by worshipers ( mostly adept at cricket ) at the Church of England on Star Road, West Kensington ( St Andrew's, Fulham Fields ).
Fulham were also to draw with Austria in 1936 before Anschluss.
Haynes made 32 of his 56 appearances for England when Fulham were in the Second Division.
By 2002, Fulham were competing in European football, winning the Intertoto Cup and challenging in the UEFA Cup.
There were fears that Fulham would not return to the Cottage, after it was revealed that Al-Fayed had sold the first right to build on the ground to a property development firm.
Indeed, he and Fulham were relegated from the top-flight in the 1951 – 52 season, but he made his return to the First Division, four years later, when he signed for Vic Buckingham's West Bromwich Albion in March 1956.
Soon after Robson joined Fulham, the club sold Alan Mullery and Rodney Marsh, meaning Robson's chances of securing any significant honour there were substantially reduced.
The opponents that day were Fulham, and Stoke won the game 3 – 1.
Fulham and last
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska had a studio in Putney in the last year of his life after moving from 454a Fulham Road.
CCTV evidence of Dando's last journey ( mainly security video recordings from the Kings Mall Shopping Centre in Hammersmith, which she visited on her way to Fulham ) did not show any sign of her being followed.
Despite victories over Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday and Fulham, the club needed four wins out of the last four games to have any hope of safety.
After a spell at Fulham, he took charge of the England team in 1999 but resigned in the autumn of 2000, following a loss against Germany in World Cup qualification ( this was also the last game at the old Wembley Stadium ).
After leaving Fulham, Coleman was appointed manager of Real Sociedad, but resigned in January 2008, citing differences with the incoming president, even though in his last twelve games he recorded only one defeat.
Despite this, the club struggled to avoid relegation, only securing their place in Division One on the last day of the season with a win over promoted Fulham.
In the Second round of the 2005 – 06 League Cup, Lincoln narrowly lost 5 – 4 ( after extra time ) to Premier League outfit Fulham at Craven Cottage, being denied a result in the very last minute of extra time by a Brian McBride goal.
The first came in the 1998 – 1999 season when RMI defeated Winsford, Worksop, and Droylsden, the last two by the same scoreline, 2 – 1, to meet Fulham, then in Division Two, at Craven Cottage.
Gregory's spell at Villa is also notable as he became the last manager to field an all English starting 11 in the Premiership, until Steve McClaren's Middlesbrough did the same against Fulham on 7 May 2006.
Fulham eventually survived relegation, in the last game.
His last goal for Fulham came against Bolton Wanderers in a 2 – 1 loss.
Ironically his last Fulham match was the 2 – 1 defeat against Villa, in which he played a part in Villa's equaliser when an Ashley Young shot deflected off him into the net, although this was later given as Young's goal.
This would prove to be his last appearance for City as Fulham soon snapped him up.
During a match against Manchester City Rosenior made a seemingly impossible goal line clearance while the score was at 1 – 1, Fulham going on to win the game 2 – 1 with Steed Malbranque scoring in the last minute.
During his last season Bišćan scored two more goals ( against Fulham and Bolton ) and made a total of 35 appearances.
He scored on the last day of the season against Fulham, the 2nd in a 2-0 win.
Wilkins managed to take the big-spending side to the Second Division play-offs, but was sacked by chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed before the first game took place after Fulham lost the last three games of the regular season.
In June 2011 new Fulham manager Martin Jol announced that Pantsil had played his last game for Fulham and that he would not be returning for the 2011 – 12 season.
Four days after playing his last game for Leicester, Welsh was back at Sunderland, playing in the club's last two games, against Fulham and Aston Villa, under new caretaker manager Kevin Ball.
In July 2005, Unitt joined American W-League side New Jersey Wildcats for the last seven games of their season, teaming up with England and former Fulham teammate Rachel Yankey.
He played his last competitive game in the 2002 – 03 season for Brighton & Hove Albion in Division One at the age of 43, although he did spend the 2003 – 04 season registered as a player with Fulham in the FA Premier League.
He played his last game for Liverpool on 5 May 2007 against Fulham in a 1 – 0 defeat.
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Craven Cottage is the name of a football stadium located in Fulham, London, and has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F. C.
This helped his Fulham team to beat Ipswich 10 – 1 ( a club record ).
As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.
When he rejected an offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his own team to occupy the ground.
Fulham became the first British team to sell hot dogs at their ground in 1926.
Some ties took as many as six matches to settle ; in their 1975 campaign, Fulham played a total of 12 games over six rounds, which remains the most games played by a team to reach a final.
Amongst his business interests are ownership of the English Premiership football team Fulham Football Club, Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods Department Store, Knightsbridge.
* Aaron Hughes, current captain of the Northern Ireland football team and also plays for Fulham.
In terms of cup performance the club was superb, reaching the 2nd round of the League Cup losing only 1 – 2 to Queens Park Rangers, the quarter finals of the Football League Trophy losing 0 – 2 to Leeds United and the 4th round of the FA Cup losing 1 – 3 to Premier League team Fulham.
However, the proximity of other more established teams, such as Chelsea and Fulham and its small ground, meant that the club struggled to increase its fan base to the size needed to maintain a top flight team.
He was offered the chance to move Fulham to Stamford Bridge, which businessman Gus Mears had recently acquired, but Norris baulked at the £ 1500 per annum rent, so Mears subsequently created his own team to occupy the ground.
John Arne Semundseth Riise ( born 24 September 1980 in Molde, Norway ) is a Norwegian footballer who currently plays as a left wing-back for Fulham and the Norwegian national team, where he is the most-capped player.
He was appointed as Fulham manager in April 1984, though he resigned in June 1986 after a financial crisis led to his team suffering relegation.
In the following close season, Fowler helped the England under-18 team win the 1993 European Championship, before making a scoring first-team debut in Liverpool's 3 – 1 win in a first round League Cup tie at Fulham on 22 September 1993.
He remained captain and a regular in the team under new manager Jean Tigana in the 2000 – 01 season as Fulham made a successful start to the campaign.
In 1997 – 98 he took the team to the first round proper of the FA Cup where they played Fulham in a home tie that drew a crowd of 5, 100.
The transfer was notable as Charles became one of the first British professional players to be signed for an overseas team after John Fox Watson led the way moving from Fulham to Real Madrid in 1948.
Despite signing for the club in January, Litmanen was released by Fulham in May of the same year without playing a single game in the first team.
The title ' London 0 Hull 4 ' was used by various newspapers as a headline in October 2008 after the city's newly promoted football team, Hull City, beat West Ham United to take a fourth win out of four against London-based clubs ( having previously beaten Fulham, Arsenal and Tottenham ).
West Ham United complete the bottom three but their survival bid is still very much alive as they are posing a threat to Bolton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Fulham, Aston Villa and a Leeds United team who began the season among the teams expected to challenge for the title but are now battling relegation as well as huge debts.
He also scored an important goal in the Europa League against Galatasaray SK, as the team eventually won the competition, with the player appearing in the final against Fulham.
Cohen coached the Fulham youth team and the England under 23 team for a time, and also managed non-league outfit Tonbridge.
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