{"id":879,"date":"2019-08-06T22:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=879"},"modified":"2020-04-15T07:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T07:20:32","slug":"games-for-the-weekend-10-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Games for the Weekend 10\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Our first home game of the season will be against Blackburn Rovers at 15:00 Saturday afternoon<\/em>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FulhamBlackburn.png\" alt=\"Fulham v Blackburn\" class=\"wp-image-818\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FulhamBlackburn.png 480w, http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FulhamBlackburn-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend&#8217;s opener against Burnley didn&#8217;t go the way we&#8217;d hoped but this time we&#8217;re back on home turf, let&#8217;s see if Craven Cottage will once again become our fortress?<br>We have signed Ben Ticker however at 18 he&#8217;s going to be one for the future, and Harry Arter, Scotties brother-in-law, on loan and there have been plenty of other rumours, Onomah as part of the ongoing Sess&#8217; deal, Amartey from Leicester, Jacob Murphy from Newcastle etc. but so far nothing concrete, I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;ll be another last minute rush.<br>Our front three of Mitro&#8217;, Knockaert and Cavaleiro should give most Championship teams pause for thought, especially if we can bring on AK47 for the last 10-20 minutes to run at tired defences, I hope we get to see evidence of how good they are starting this weekend.<br>Will we have strengthened the defence? we can only hope so otherwise it could be a very long season.<br><br>Back to the week-end, like us, Rovers also lost by a single goal against a newly promoted team, Charlton, and you just know that Tony Mowbray will have his team fired-up to play against us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>COYWs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Games of Interest\u2026<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Saturday 10th<\/em><br>Leeds v Forest<br>Cardiff v Luton<br>Charlton v Stoke<br>Derby v Swansea<br>Fulham v Blackburn<br>Middlesbrough v Brentford<br>QPR v Huddersfield<br>West Brom v Millwall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">come on over to the forum and join in the discussion&#8230;<br>https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/forum\/index.php?board=1.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first home game of the season will be against Blackburn Rovers at 15:00 Saturday afternoon. Last weekend&#8217;s opener against Burnley didn&#8217;t go the way we&#8217;d hoped but this time we&#8217;re back on home turf, let&#8217;s see if Craven Cottage will once again become our fortress?We have signed Ben Ticker however at 18 he&#8217;s going &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the Weekend 10\/08&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33],"tags":[159,163,160,158,156,165,164,157,123,162],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","category-next-game","tag-ak47","tag-amartey","tag-ben-ticker","tag-cavalerio","tag-fulham-v-blackburn-rovers","tag-harry-arter","tag-jacob-murphy","tag-knockaert","tag-mitro","tag-onomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}