The board seem to have moved away from their grandiose ideas of making Fulham the " Manchester United of the south " as Al-Fayed has come to realise how expensive it is to subsidise a Premiership outfit.

Fulham is the only club currently in the UK to have such an area.

* 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.

Fulham have never won a major honour, although they have reached two major finals.

Fulham have since continued to play in the Premiership, and reached the final of the 2009 – 10 UEFA Europa League.

The borough now shares a Chief Executive with neighbouring Hammersmith & Fulham, and the two boroughs have also combined a number of services and departments with one another and also with Westminster City Council.

The borough comprises a patchwork of extremely affluent as well as some less affluent neighbourhoods ; The areas of Fulham, Parsons Green, Brackenbury Village, Brook Green, Ravenscourt Park and the Riverside compose of highly expensive Victorian and Edwardian houses, contrasting to the areas of White City and Shepherd's Bush, which, though also containing gentrified areas, have a more diverse and edgy backdrop.

The front of Hammersmith and Fulham town hall is a mixture of styles, with a modern block bolted on to, and obscuring, what would have once been an architecturally consistent red-brick portico.

Hammersmith and Fulham ’ s alleged housing plans have been covered by the UK media notably in this video made by the Guardian Newspaper, 9 October 2009.

Hammersmith & Fulham RFC have been playing in the borough at Hurlingham Park for over 30 years.

On his birthday, middle-aged Henry Perkins is going home to Fulham on the underground, looking forward to his birthday dinner, for which he and his wife Jean have invited their old friends, Vic and Betty Johnson.

In May 2006, following a special Red Hot Chili Peppers concert recorded in the car park of BBC Television Centre, Hammersmith and Fulham Council ( which governs the area the centre is located ) informed the BBC that in order to legally conform to an Act of Parliament which came into force in 2004 they needed to have a special licence to continue to admit members of the public to any future performances.

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.

Putney Bridge is the only bridge in Britain to have a church at both ends: St. Mary's Church, Putney is located on the south bank and All Saints Church, Fulham on the north bank.

Coleman is married to Sally Powell, a Labour councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham, as well as a NEC member ; they have one son, Jack Coleman.

After a seemingly poor start to the League campaign, performances improved, which propelled the club into a promotion battle with Watford, Bristol City and an expensively-assembled Fulham ( at the time the only club at this level to have spent seven-figure sums on players ).

Extra sport matches featuring football clubs such as Fulham and have received additional coverage on BBC London, through its DAB Digital Radio platform, on Sky channel 0152 and on 765 kHz medium wave ( for coverage of West Ham United, normally BBC Essex's frequency ).

With the Taylor Report arising from the Hillsborough disaster being published in January 1990 and ordering all top division clubs to have all seater stadiums in time for the 1994-95 season, Chelsea's plan for a 34, 000-seat stadium at Stamford Bridge was given approval by Hammersmith and Fulham council on 19 July 1990.

Norwich City could have saved themselves regardless of what happened to the other three teams had they won at Fulham, but instead were hammered 6 – 0 in the showdown at Craven Cottage.

Cohen also bears the distinction of being the only Fulham player to have won a World Cup winner's medal while at the Cottagers.

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.

Only player to have played in all 4 Divisions of the Football League with one club ( Fulham ).

In August 1962, however, he returned to Fulham after a disagreement with Albion vice-chairman Jim Gaunt over his salary.

He was the top scorer during the 2002 – 03 season with 13 goals that helped save Fulham from relegation and was offered the chance to play for Belgium towards the end of the campaign, having not represented the full France side, however he turned it down with the hope that he would eventually break into the full French squad.

Becoming the first English-born Pakistani to don an England senior football shirt seemed too far away, however, due to lack of first team opportunities at Fulham.

In the quarter finals they were however, beaten 3 – 1 by eventual finalists Fulham.

Sarachan's second year was significantly harder, however, as star defender Carlos Bocanegra left MLS for Fulham before the season began, and he lost national teamer DaMarcus Beasley to PSV Eindhoven in midseason ; numerous other injuries plagued the team, and the Fire ended the season tied for the league's worst record, at 8-13-9.

They did, and comfortably so ; in fact for much of the 1982 – 83 season it looked as though Fulham would achieve back-to-back promotion campaigns, however, their form after the turn of the year dipped.

He did however make a contribution to their victorious FA Cup campaign, coming on as a substitute at half-time in their fifth round tie with future club Fulham.

The next day a bid of £ 3 million from Fulham activated a release clause, however FIFA regulations meant Cousin required special dispensation to complete the move.

In their first season at the top, Fulham finished fourth and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup ; however, they could not maintain their ascendance and only finished tenth the next season.

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.

They play at Craven Cottage, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham which has been their home since 1896.

A government minister from 1997 to 2005, he has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Greenwich & Woolwich since 1997, having previously been MP for Greenwich from 1992 to 1997, and for Fulham from 1986 to 1987.

The two had been joined together previously as the Fulham District from 1855 to 1886.

Fulham has in the past been a politically significant part of the country, having been the scene of two major parliamentary by-elections in the 20th century.

Munstervillage has been coined as a name for the tree-lined roads, in which Victorian and Edwardian houses are situated, that run off Munster Road which is a large residential road off Fulham Road in the northern end of Parsons Green.

She was murdered by gunshot outside her home in Fulham, West London ; her killer has never been identified.

As a manager, Coleman attained a respectable ninth place finish in the Premier League in 2004 as the manager of Fulham, who had been tipped for relegation.

He died at Fulham, London in the autumn of 1625 in apparent poverty, because his royal pension had not been paid.

The stream had two local bridges: Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road ( also recorded as Little Chelsea Bridge ) and Stanbridge on the Kings Road, now known as Stanley Bridge. The existing Stamford Bridge was built of brick in 1860 – 2 and has been partly reconstructed since then.

He died at Hampstead, having been a great benefactor to Oriel College, and is buried at All Saints Church, Fulham, London.

In 2009, there were reports that Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Catholic Archbishop of Vienna, had been meeting with Forward in Faith chairman John Broadhurst, the Anglican Bishop of Fulham, at the suggestion of the Pope.

During the Fulham period De Morgan mastered many of the technical aspects of his work that had previously been elusive, including complex lustres and deep, intense underglaze painting that did not run during firing.

The BBC had been showing live games before Match of the Day, the first being an FA Cup semi-final game between Fulham and Manchester United in 1958.

Upon his return to Fulham, Kamara revealed newly manager of Fulham Mark Hughes made him stay and has been given a fresh chance.