Since that amazing (lucky!) 2-1 win in our final Championship season we’ve managed to conjure up some woeful performances in the PL against Fulham. Eight games, four draws, four defeats. Our record at Craven Cottage since promotion has been 2-4, 0-0, 1-2, 0-3. The home games not much better, 2-2, 0-0, 0-1, 1-1.
It snowed that day if I remember and Knocky had a golden chance to make it 0-3, which he missed.
Shite evening in the snow, one of two games ever we left before the whistle....90 minute fire drill.
Yep, I’d been at a work thing in London and had smart office shoes on. Completely the wrong footwear for snow.
I said to friends around me at half time - we’d better not concede in the next ten minutes. Well that all turned to rat shit in no time at all. It seemed that we let in two goals straight away into the second half after which we completely fell apart. How we didn’t lose 6-2. I’ve always reckoned that that game kickstarted our descent into near relegation at the end of the season. Awful night, to be followed by some appalling performances for the remainder of our fixtures.
That was Ryan’s first game back after being away at the Asian Cup, in hindsight him returning and us going to crap might not have been a total coincidence……
