You know by know that I have been following what football teams are doing as their version of the Harlem Shake. The latest instalment comes from English Premier League side Fulham FC!
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Selasa, 26 Maret 2013
Minggu, 09 Oktober 2011
Fulham FC plan to expand Craven Cottage
English Premier League side Fulham FC have finalised to stay at their historic Craven Cottage ground instead of moving to a new venue in west London or build a stadium along with either Chelsea FC or Queens Park Rangers. The club will now work on plans to expand the capacity of Craven Cottage from its current 25,700 to 30,000 spectators.Craven Cottage has been the home of Fulham FC since 1896 and over the last decade the ground has been redeveloped into a Premiership suitable venue which it wasn't earlier. I remember July 22, 2000 when Fulham FC, then a first Division club, hosted India in a friendly with old terraces normal at the ground and the Cottage Pavilion, like a club house, in one corner being a speciality at the ground.
"Fulham has seen unprecedented success both on and off the pitch in recent years, and is now an established Barclays Premier League club, qualifying for European competitions and accommodating over 25,000 people on a regular basis," Fulham chief executive Alastair Mackintosh has said.
"We are confident that a redevelopment will improve the fans matchday experience, and enhance our corporate offering, whilst remaining sympathetic to the design of this historic ground."
"Naturally our core family values, and the tradition of the football club, continue to be at the forefront of everything we do."
"This investment at Craven Cottage demonstrates yet again the chairman's continued ambition to see the club prosper and grow and to continue to compete at this level for many years to come."
"We are still in the very early stages of the planning process and will be holding a public exhibition in mid-October, where we would very much welcome people's thoughts on our initial ideas."
Financially a move to a ultra-modern 40,000 seater venue would have made commercial sense for the long-term, but Fulham have decided to stay at their venue and develop it to the maximum. Something which their fans surely seem to want.
A look back at the Fulham vs India game! Remembering Fulham vs India; July 22, 2000
Jumat, 23 Juli 2010
Remembering Fulham vs India; July 22, 2000
Yesterday I happened to be once more London and remembered this day ten years ago in exactly this city. And I happened to speak about this anecdote at the Business India Forum at Christie's yesterday. Exactly 10 years ago to this very day India played its first historic match back in England after 52 long years. The last time India had been in London was in 1948 for the Olympics. We played at Craven Cottage against Fulham FC on a nice, sunny afternoon. We did lose 0-2 through two goals from German 1990 World Cup winner Karl-Heinz Riedle against a superior Fulham, who weren't then the established Premier League team as they now are, but rather an aspiring Division 1 (now Championship) club, who did gain promotion at the end of that season.
Fulham had Frenchmen Jean Tigana as their coach. The match against India was his first game in charge. And ageing stars like John Collins (Scotland), Karl-Heinz Riedle (Germany) and Bjarne Goldbaek (Denmark) plus the young Lois Boa Morte (Portugal) and Louis Saha (France), who didn't play, to name a few players. So a quality opponent and India did hold its ground as especially keeper Virender Singh had a good day under the bar plus Deepak Kumar Mondal and Mahesh Gawli in central defence.
But besides the game I especially remember the "Indian discussions" post match in the Fulham hospitality area, which was a better pub in those days.
It was the day when the late Noel da Lima Leitao came in, shouted at chief coach Sukhvinder Singh about his team selections and said, "why didn't you bring on Khalid Jamil earlier on? He would have been more effective today."
That was the passionate Noel da Lima Leitao. Not only supporting Vasco and Goan football, but also a big fan and supporter of Team India like all of us around.
The discussions followed about this with manager P.K. Banerjee, special advisor Chuni Goswami, commentators Novy Kapadia and Peter Hutton, captain Baichung Bhutia, myself and some others chipping in with their thoughts. We had the feeling and even more hope that day, a new era was to start and we were all lucky to have been there.
We all hoped this tour would be the start of a new era for Indian football. Baichung was at FC Bury, maybe other clubs would now look at Indian players and the National Football League would develop into a competitive, professional league.
10 years on I sadly have to say that we are somewhat back at the same stage, but hopefully this time around we will utilise the chances that come our way to develop Indian football.
The line-ups
Fulham: Maik Taylor, Steve Finnan, Andy Melville, Chris Coleman, Rufus Brevett (Wayne Collins, 70), Kevin Betsy (Bjarne Goldbaek, 78), Sean Davis, Lee Clark, John Collins, Karl Heinz Riedle, Lois Boa Morte (Luke Cornwall, 65).
India: Virender Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Mahesh Gawli, Roberto Fernandes, Daljit Singh, Jo Paul Ancheri (Khalid Jamil, 88), Basudeb Mondal (Hardeep Sangha, 46), Jules Alberto (Hardeep Saini, 46), Renedy Singh, I.M. Vijayan, Bhaichung Bhutia [CAPTAIN].
Fulham had Frenchmen Jean Tigana as their coach. The match against India was his first game in charge. And ageing stars like John Collins (Scotland), Karl-Heinz Riedle (Germany) and Bjarne Goldbaek (Denmark) plus the young Lois Boa Morte (Portugal) and Louis Saha (France), who didn't play, to name a few players. So a quality opponent and India did hold its ground as especially keeper Virender Singh had a good day under the bar plus Deepak Kumar Mondal and Mahesh Gawli in central defence.
But besides the game I especially remember the "Indian discussions" post match in the Fulham hospitality area, which was a better pub in those days.
It was the day when the late Noel da Lima Leitao came in, shouted at chief coach Sukhvinder Singh about his team selections and said, "why didn't you bring on Khalid Jamil earlier on? He would have been more effective today."
That was the passionate Noel da Lima Leitao. Not only supporting Vasco and Goan football, but also a big fan and supporter of Team India like all of us around.
The discussions followed about this with manager P.K. Banerjee, special advisor Chuni Goswami, commentators Novy Kapadia and Peter Hutton, captain Baichung Bhutia, myself and some others chipping in with their thoughts. We had the feeling and even more hope that day, a new era was to start and we were all lucky to have been there.
We all hoped this tour would be the start of a new era for Indian football. Baichung was at FC Bury, maybe other clubs would now look at Indian players and the National Football League would develop into a competitive, professional league.
10 years on I sadly have to say that we are somewhat back at the same stage, but hopefully this time around we will utilise the chances that come our way to develop Indian football.
The line-ups
Fulham: Maik Taylor, Steve Finnan, Andy Melville, Chris Coleman, Rufus Brevett (Wayne Collins, 70), Kevin Betsy (Bjarne Goldbaek, 78), Sean Davis, Lee Clark, John Collins, Karl Heinz Riedle, Lois Boa Morte (Luke Cornwall, 65).
India: Virender Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Mahesh Gawli, Roberto Fernandes, Daljit Singh, Jo Paul Ancheri (Khalid Jamil, 88), Basudeb Mondal (Hardeep Sangha, 46), Jules Alberto (Hardeep Saini, 46), Renedy Singh, I.M. Vijayan, Bhaichung Bhutia [CAPTAIN].
Senin, 10 Mei 2010
Remembering Fulham FC
English Premier League club Fulham FC will face Spanish La Liga side Atletico Madrid in the final of the UEFA Europa League in the HSH-Arena in Hamburg tomorrow night.
And this fact makes me a little sentimental as I fondly remember July 22, 2000; the day India were guests of Fulham FC at their home in Craven Cottage.
It was a nice English Saturday afternoon in southwest London with over 5,000 fans present.
The Indian national football team was playing on English soil after 52 long years. The last time India played in England was in the 1948 Olympics.
Aspiring Fulham
The Fulham of summer 2000 was a totally different one then today.
In those days Fulham were planning to get into the Premier League with Craven Cottage being more of an old cottage then a football stadium.
French Coach Jean Tigana had put together a squad of talented youngsters and experienced players, who would get the club promoted at the end of the season. And their season opened against our India.
Our Future had started
It was the year after Baichung Bhutia had signed for Bury FC and I had expectations like many others that Indian football was on the verge of taking off. And this exposure would be part of this process.
We all thought Baichung would make the breakthrough the coming season as he was much more mature then a year earlier when he left India. Further he would open the door to other players to follow. We didn't know then that it would take a decade more before the next player would venture out of India.
Looking at those days in July 2000 we were just naive. Football like everything else in life isn't a one way street which just goes up, but has ups and downs. Sometimes sadly more downs then ups...
The match
Fulham won the game 2-0 through two goals from German striker Karl-Heinz Riedle. India had a strong game with the defence and goalkeeper Virender Singh coming a number of times to our teams rescue.
I had the pleasure of talking to Riedle in German after the game. The 1990 World Cup winning striker was waiting for his family when I approached him. I wasn't as experienced as I am today, so was overawed by the situation still I had a nice conversation with Riedle about football as Riedle wanted chat with me!
Riedle didn't know anything about Indian football before the game, but was interested to know more about the game in our country. I gave him some facts and he said Vijayan had impressed him with his technical abilities.
Here the two team line-ups
Fulham: Maik Taylor, Steve Finnan, Andy Melville, Chris Coleman, Rufus Brevett (Wayne Collins, 70), Kevin Betsy (Bjarne Goldbaek, 78), Sean Davis, Lee Clark, John Collins, Karl Heinz Riedle, Lois Boa Morte (Luke Cornwall, 65).
India: Virender Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Mahesh Gawli, Roberto Fernandes, Daljit Singh, Jo Paul Ancheri (Khalid Jamil, 88), Basudeb Mondal (Hardeep Sangha, 46), Jules Alberto (Hardeep Saini, 46), Renedy Singh, I.M. Vijayan, Baichung Bhutia [CAPTAIN].
And this fact makes me a little sentimental as I fondly remember July 22, 2000; the day India were guests of Fulham FC at their home in Craven Cottage.
It was a nice English Saturday afternoon in southwest London with over 5,000 fans present.
The Indian national football team was playing on English soil after 52 long years. The last time India played in England was in the 1948 Olympics.
Aspiring Fulham
The Fulham of summer 2000 was a totally different one then today.
In those days Fulham were planning to get into the Premier League with Craven Cottage being more of an old cottage then a football stadium.
French Coach Jean Tigana had put together a squad of talented youngsters and experienced players, who would get the club promoted at the end of the season. And their season opened against our India.
Our Future had started
It was the year after Baichung Bhutia had signed for Bury FC and I had expectations like many others that Indian football was on the verge of taking off. And this exposure would be part of this process.
We all thought Baichung would make the breakthrough the coming season as he was much more mature then a year earlier when he left India. Further he would open the door to other players to follow. We didn't know then that it would take a decade more before the next player would venture out of India.
Looking at those days in July 2000 we were just naive. Football like everything else in life isn't a one way street which just goes up, but has ups and downs. Sometimes sadly more downs then ups...
The match
Fulham won the game 2-0 through two goals from German striker Karl-Heinz Riedle. India had a strong game with the defence and goalkeeper Virender Singh coming a number of times to our teams rescue.
I had the pleasure of talking to Riedle in German after the game. The 1990 World Cup winning striker was waiting for his family when I approached him. I wasn't as experienced as I am today, so was overawed by the situation still I had a nice conversation with Riedle about football as Riedle wanted chat with me!
Riedle didn't know anything about Indian football before the game, but was interested to know more about the game in our country. I gave him some facts and he said Vijayan had impressed him with his technical abilities.
Here the two team line-ups
Fulham: Maik Taylor, Steve Finnan, Andy Melville, Chris Coleman, Rufus Brevett (Wayne Collins, 70), Kevin Betsy (Bjarne Goldbaek, 78), Sean Davis, Lee Clark, John Collins, Karl Heinz Riedle, Lois Boa Morte (Luke Cornwall, 65).
India: Virender Singh, Prabhjot Singh, Mahesh Gawli, Roberto Fernandes, Daljit Singh, Jo Paul Ancheri (Khalid Jamil, 88), Basudeb Mondal (Hardeep Sangha, 46), Jules Alberto (Hardeep Saini, 46), Renedy Singh, I.M. Vijayan, Baichung Bhutia [CAPTAIN].
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