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Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.
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In 1910, Norris started to combine his role at Fulham with the chairmanship of Arsenal.
However, his talents lay more in salesmanship and motoring pioneering than practical engineering ; in January 1903, with the help of £ 6, 600 provided by his father, he started one of Britain's first car dealerships, C. S. Rolls & Co. based in Fulham, to import and sell French Peugeot and Belgian Minerva vehicles.
He started his journey at Fulham F. C.
However, he scored goals in the first two games that he had started, prompting Hughes to start Petrov in place of Shaun Wright-Phillips at home vs. Fulham.
Baird started the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final against Atlético Madrid ahead of John Paintsil, but on 14 September 2010, Baird signed a new contract with Fulham, keeping him at Craven Cottage until at least the summer of 2013.
On 26 January 2011, he started and played the full 90 minutes for Fulham at left-back against Liverpool at Anfield in a 1 – 0 defeat.
He started as a youth player at Arsenal before moving to Fulham in 2003 where he made a number of appearances on the Fulham bench in the Premiership as cover for senior keepers such as Edwin van der Sar and Mark Crossley, but never made the first team.
He started his career at Fulham and made a total of 21 league appearances.
He started his career at Newcastle United before joining Fulham on the January transfer deadline day in 2003.
Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Collins started his career at Swindon Town but Fulham scouts were impressed by him and he signed for the club in the summer of 2001 for a fee in excess of £ 200, 000.
Born in Fulham, London, Macdonald started out as a full back before switching to centre forward.
Aalesund, Liverpool, Roma, Fulham and Norway player John Arne Riise started his career in the club, as did his younger brother Bjørn Helge Riise, and currently plays for Fulham FC in London, England.
It started while he was playing for Brighton & Hove Albion and has since followed him to West Ham United, Fulham and his current club QPR.
Born Noreen Jean Craigie to a Russian mother and a Scottish father in Fulham, London, Jill Craigie started her career in film as an actress.
He was an unused sub against Sunderland and Bayer Leverkusen, but he started in Chelsea's first League Cup match of the season against Fulham.
Parker started his career with Fulham before joining QPR, where he made his name as a nippy and incisive defender, even though he lacked the height normally associated with his position.
Doherty started his career at Everton's youth academy before moving to Fulham in July 2001 for an undisclosed fee.
Warner's career at Fulham started well, he kept a clean sheet on his debut against Birmingham City and in a match against Arsenal at Highbury he saved a penalty from Lauren with the score at 0-0.
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' Heggy ' Hegazi, an Egyptian forward, was one of the first non-British players to appear in the Football League, though he only played one game for Fulham in 1911, marked with a goal afterwards playing for non-league Dulwich Hamlet.
An accomplished international, he made 56 appearances for his country, including 22 as captain ( many of them while playing for Fulham in the Second Division ).
His professional playing career as an inside-forward spanned nearly 20 years, during which he played for three clubs: Fulham, West Bromwich Albion, and, briefly, Vancouver Royals.
Despite being offered a contract by nearby Middlesbrough, the offer made by Dodgin was too attractive to turn down, so he signed for Fulham and moved to London, playing as a wing-half and inside-forward.
Hammersmith & Fulham RFC have been playing in the borough at Hurlingham Park for over 30 years.
* Mark Crossley ( b 1969 ), former Nottingham Forest, Fulham & Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper, currently playing for Chesterfield in League Two
Riise made his Fulham debut on 21 July 2011 playing in the Europa League against Crusaders at Craven Cottage.
With Edwin van der Sar signed upon promotion by Fulham, Hahnemann slipped further down the pecking order and to gain playing time, he was loaned out to lower league sides Rochdale, and then, Reading during the 2001 – 02 campaign.
He played for Fulham until 2001, when he was signed by Crystal Palace for £ 400, 000, the club at which he finished his playing career after 49 appearances.
The O's are the second-oldest league club in London behind Fulham, and the oldest London club playing in the Football League following Fulham's promotion to the Premier League.
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.
Zoltán Gera in action playing for Fulham F. C.
He marked his return to Premier League action in Manchester City's home clash against Fulham on 12 April 2009, playing 63 minutes before being substituted by Robinho.
But on Boxing Day 2007, King made a surprise return to the starting lineup against Fulham, playing 73 minutes before being replaced by Adel Taarabt.
Cohen spent his whole playing career at Fulham where he proved his worth as a committed and strong full back, especially adept at supporting wingers with overlapping runs.
Neville commented in the press about the first ever red cards of his long career ( he never received any playing for Manchester United ), claiming that he would perhaps not have been booked in a game against Fulham if he had been playing for United.
Kamara also get to have more playing time for Fulham after theclub has short of options following injuries to Bobby Zamora and Moussa Dembele in recent weeks.
Frustrated by not playing many games at Boro, Crossley joined Fulham for £ 500, 000 in 2003 and made his debut against Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium on 23 September 2003.
Diop finished his Fulham career playing 84 matches, scoring nine goals.
Rosenior playing for Fulham F. C.
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Fulham had had 8 previous grounds before settling in at Craven Cottage for good.
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.
One of the club's directors Henry Norris, and his friend William Hill, took over Arsenal in the early 1910s, the plan being to merge Fulham with Arsenal, to form a " London superclub " at Craven Cottage.
Between 1980 and 1984, Fulham rugby league played their home games at the Cottage.
With large spaces of land at a premium in south-west London, Fulham appear to be committed to a gradual increase of the ground's capacity often during the summer between seasons.
It is home to the more vocal, deafening Fulham fans, and many stand during games at the back rows of the stand.
For several seasons, national flags of the players represented at Fulham were hung from the roof.
* Fulham Rugby League Club, now London Broncos, played at Craven Cottage between 1980 and 1984, hosting their largest attendance.
* 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.
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.
On 1 June 2002 Baresi was officially appointed as director of football at Fulham, but tensions between Baresi and then Fulham manager Jean Tigana led to resignation from the club in August.
They play at Craven Cottage, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham which has been their home since 1896.
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 ).
They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.
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