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My, my Gaffer. Speak for yourself. You seem as tart as an 11th grader asked to prom by the captain of the football team.
That said, Fulham have captured my cold, black heart and I think I may well adopt them as my EPL team. I will still enjoy the freedom of a neutral, but they inspired me with that magnificent climb from the drop this year.
WOuld be interesting to see just how many hearts and minds would turn out.
Good suggestion. Believe it or not as many message boards, websites and emails to my CSRN show indicate the hard core US National Team/MLS fan have now by and large adopted Fulham as "our team" in Europe. Not just in the EPL, in Europe. Fulham now can essentially close the market off for the foreseeable future which is music to my ears as sit currently in Asia, an ocean of Man U and nothing else. In N.America the non-MLS, only Euro fan will continue to support big clubs, but the MLS fan will watch Fulham. I know several people who have written me that they don't watch the PL normally but were watching every Fulham match the last few weeks even if they had to go to a pub to find it.
T, visiting DSG or Salt Lake has usually been a bad move for Euro clubs because of the altitude, and at DSG the wide pitch. Celtic looked dead after 40 minutes there last year and Everton lost to RSL simply because in the pre season you cannot keep up at altitude. So my guess is that even though Commerce City has the best football facility in the country (a stadium I so enjoy I am planning on going to another Rapids game late this year, flying cross country just to sit at that stadium) I doubt Fulham would visit after the Celtic experience last year.
I know, I was at that game (btw I can't stand the MLS All-Star vs. whichever-European-team games; they're such a sham and a joke), and of course Celtic looked bad (altitude and pre-season form). I always thought the MLS should open a franchise in San Diego.
I don't think having clubs from England like Fulham will help too much. I don't care how many Americans there are, you have the MLS anyways.
They need a team like Liverpool or Arsenal to tour, not Fulham.
...as long as its on the East Coast.
The one stop Fulham has to make is Chicago. It is the home of Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra played for the Fire, and Chicago is the home of US Soccer which may surprise many people. The US Soccer Federation is located just a few minutes away from Chicago's Soldier Field and the wonderful lake front.
How can we make sure that Fulham brings make our American players next year before we have FFC stamped on our foreheads.
Cheers,
The Gaffer