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It's a cruel world eh?
The point in football though, is to welt the leather sphere into the string bit, so that the referee notices and considers it worthy of a digit.
If you do not complete the objective more than the other chaps - you LOSE.
Fulham lost.
If winning is the only point, then it is amazing that there are any spectators at any match, given that on average teams fail to win 2 out of every three games they play.
This weekend, as the Albion were not playing away in the North, and were playing on Sunday not Saturday, I took leave of absence to go to Hillsborough to watch Sheffield Wednesday vs Brentford.
In the end nil-nil, but enjoyable to watch. Wednesday played a very physical game, and did a lot of running about, but it was difficult to see how that was enough to put them third in the table.
Brentford were very organised, knew very well where each of their colleagues were or would be on making a pass - shades of the Gus plan - and were bold enough to keep two strikers lurking on the half-way line even for opposition corners, thereby tying up 3 defenders. Seemed much better than their 9th in table place indicated.
Having not been in a 'home' stand since the pre-First Division Goldstone days, bar a couple of Cup games, and the 1983 Cup semi-final, it was great to revive memories of being a home supporter, not an away one.