FFCBOY wrote:Alright i am Fulham fan because my oldman is a Fulham fan and has been all his life and if im right his old man was a Fulham fan too! it had to be a London side i followed QPR for a bit and spend a few years working there on the turnstiles but always in my heart iv been a Fulham Boy!!
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As i think you know, my dad is a Fulham fan, he's from Blake Gardens (if you or your dad know it?) a stone's throw from Stamford Bridge (he's always kept an eye on chelsea, but has always supported Fulham). A few of his mates are season ticket holders still but my dad has never really been to games, maybe in his youth? He used to play to a pretty good local league standard and hang out after games in the private bar of Hammersmith Palais!
At a barely related aunt's 80th birth in the early 80s i met Fred Callaghan (a relative of mine) whose record as Brentford manager reads Fred Callaghan 1 March 1980 to 2 February 1984 P176 W59 D52 L65 WinRatio32% Not the greatest record ever but manager of a london club in the family sounds good. Although his stewardship oversaw the fire that burnt the New stand to the ground in the '82 season. BTW In answer to the quiz above, Griffin Park has a pub at every corner of the ground.
QPR was a fixture in my football history too, my dad would often take me and a few friends to Loftus Road when they had the plastic pitch, it was great entertainment, my hazy memory has QPR beating Fulham 5-0 (maybe 6?). My embarrassed memory has me standing up at that game in my most high pitched of voices shouting "Come on QPR stick another couple of goals in the back of the net!" No one joined in with my catchy chant and i sat down dejected and highly embarrassed.
When i was old enough to go to games on me todd, me and friends were 'junior dons' (£4 membership i think) we used to walk to Plough Lane and watch the Crazy Gang from the shed, they'd just started making a name for themselves, i think they hold the record for quickest rise through the leagues something like up to div 1, climbing through 5 leagues in 7 years or something ridiculous like that (playing lavish football throughout obviously) Salopian will know the facts. They had fantastic cup runs while in the 2nd div with midweek floodlit FA Cup games against the mighty Hammers and Aston Villa if memory serves. When they made it to Div 1 i'll always remember Brucie Grobbelar in goal 3 feet from me. He had some banter with the fans and it was great to think that the Mighty Dons were playing LIVERPOOL in the league.
I watched them through the rounds of the FA Cup in '88 and went to the semi at White Hart Lane against Luton, i then flew to OZ and landed back on the day of the FA Cup final, no ticket, so i watched it at home on the telly. Dave Beasant making the first ever penalty save in an FA Cup final and Sanchez rising like a salmon at the far post to defeat the mighty 'pool. Delirium ensued and we went out in my brother's White Triumph Vitesse with the roof down waving scarves and shouting our heads off and my brothe rdoesn't even like football. Unfortunately i then passed out from over excitement and jet lag and slept for hours, i woke up the next afternoon having missed the parade through Wimbledon with 200,000+ on the streets of Wimbledon cheering the Crazy Gang home.
Merton Council even managed to nab the cup back from those pikeys in Milton Keynes a few years ago, it's proudly displayed in a glass cabinet in Morden library!
AFC Wimbledon are now attempting the same thing and have risen 2 leagues in succession.
Another London football connection, my sister and her husband are both Spurs fans! Ho Ho. Obviously i enjoy
St. Totteringham's day coming round every year. My sister doesn't.
