At matches every week supporters sing "I'm Fulham till I die" and I believe they mean it. In the 1960's after we were relegated and drifted through the leagues our support dwindled from 22,000 to around 3,000. When we came back up with Al Fayed at the helm our support lifted again. What level would you drift away?
Posted before........if Fulham played in front of one man and his dog....... I would buy a dog.
Quote from: Fernhurst on April 19, 2019, 12:36:52 PM
Posted before........if Fulham played in front of one man and his dog....... I would buy a dog.
Mr Ferniest sir you'd be more than welcome to stand next to me with my dog Finn 049:gif
I was always one of those 3000 that came along in the doldrum years and I will be back next season even after this so disappointing season. Not really sure I can explain why, just something indefinable that was planted in me at a young age and is now in my make up.
I started attending regularly in 1968 and went through all the ups and down. Remember the Thames Bank Travellers. I will never give up attending until I can no longer do so. So come on you whites. 049:gif
I stayed with the club throughout the lean years. I wasn't in a position to have a ST in those days and I must admit I did miss more matches, FFC v Grimsby (or whoever) on a cold, rainy January didn't always whet my appetite!
Never, Fulham till I die. I was there when they walked a coffin around the pitch and were collecting change in buckets.
I remember standing in the Putney end sharing my Dad's brolly - we always went in the Putney end as my Dad could park in Bishops Park Road.....sometimes saw the team warming up in Bishops Park
If you truly support a club, you don't give up on them whatever division they are playing in. I saw almost every home game (and many aways) from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s, most of which were in either the old Division Two (Championship) or Division Three (League One). Rarely did we see any "success". The only reason I gave up my season ticket was when family, work and other voluntary activities mean that I had neither enough time or money to be able to go - just as we began to get good under Tigana - and I was only able to go 4-5 times a year during our Premiership/Premier League years. I go now when time and money allow, and once I have retired from work and qualify for senior citizen status, I shall consider getting a season ticket, even if we are in League Two or below. For me, it is not all about being in the top flight. It is about Fulham Football Club, and the matches away at places such as Exeter, Rotherham Ashford meant (and mean) as much to me as the games I have seen at Old Trafford, Anfield and the like.
I was also one of the 3000, and also did most Saturday away games at the time, but I was younger then.
Now, older and more cynical, I am not yet committed to a ST next season.
Not the only factor, but much depends on whether TK is still head of recruitment.
When I could afford it I travelled away from home and had a season ticket for years. Now money is a problem and as others have said the hardship of just getting to the matches now are much harder than they were when I was a kid. Travel id harder and the expense is huge.
I may occasionally fall out of love with football. But Fulham have been there since I was a kid and my Dad supported them as a kid and my family were dragged along from time to time. History means Fulham will always be part of me. No matter where or how low we fall. I have supported them in all four divisions and seen them in all four divisions. How could we ever give it up?
Quote from: Ronnief on April 19, 2019, 02:06:48 PM
I started attending regularly in 1968 and went through all the ups and down. Remember the Thames Bank Travellers. I will never give up attending until I can no longer do so. So come on you whites. 049:gif
A few stories could be written about the TBT years. Some of the best memories about supporting FFC involved TBT trips. Carlisle away overnight, Merthyr for the Ivor friendly and the friendly to raise money for Johnny Owen, , Bath City friendly which coincided with Sean O'Driscoll joining, Reseve match at Hereford when the match was brought forward by a day with a day's notice and there were only 7 of us on a 52 seater, plus all the more normal away trips. Brilliant memories made all the better by the late Fergie and many others sadly no longer with us.
The only conceivable reasons I feel I would stop would be wealth or health.
I have had a season ticketsince the early 60s, i will never give up.
The alan dicks years, don mckay years and the worst ever ian branfoot debacle.... but i am still here.
That is why i feel justified in saying all the critical things i do. Things are not right, i will always speak up andnot defend those that have so badly let us down both now and over all the years i supported.
Like most on here I have supported Fulham since 1967. I got interested in football after the World Cup. I supported Fulham all through the years and remember our first computerised electronic score board that went mad in the middle of a game and was never seen again. I remember Bobby Robson's last game as a player as well as Johnny Haynes finale. I remember being on the pitch for the half time protest with the made up signs Clay rapes Bulstrode murders. We all sang well never leave the Cottage. Thank God we never had to.
Have watched Fulham from the old top division to the bottom division and back again, and will continue to do so, though unable now through expense and location to go to every home game, but probably would if I could.
Remember the days of the old Third Division, when you could sit down on the Enclosure terracing, so few fans there, but when the familiar White shirts emerge from the Cottage the thrill is always the same as when I first went to games, and saw Johnny Haynes lead the team out - Come On You Whites.
Quote from: WhiteJC on April 19, 2019, 01:38:39 PM
Quote from: Fernhurst on April 19, 2019, 12:36:52 PM
Posted before........if Fulham played in front of one man and his dog....... I would buy a dog.
Mr Ferniest sir you'd be more than welcome to stand next to me with my dog Finn 049:gif
Can I bring my cat?
Yep as said above only money that can stop me.
Next season no ST for me as the cost of travel is too much for a whole season. Will share a ST if I can. But there have been years I haven't attended much and others where I have had a ST and its down to dosh nothing else.
Started in 1958 and no matter what Division will continue getting down as often as finances allow.No longer have a ST and this season have only managed four games. However, every game I'm either listening or watching the narrative on the Beeb.Shame that the "local" games for me (Norwich and Ipswich) won't happen next season but I will still get to a few games.
I was there during the doldrums, a greenpoler
:003: even had my DM boot mark in the wet cement. Introduced my now wife to Fulham in '94 and we were part of a small band that would travel to some away games too, 20 or 30 of us at the likes of Walsall, Cambridge, Plymouth and Port Vale, good fu
even in the dark days
I started when we were in Div 1 in the 60's, never wavered in my support since that first match, though, these days, living so far from home, my attendance at matches is only somewhere slightly up on GCs scoring rate, but then again, every match now attended is another special moment in my life when I get to walk past the Cottage again.
Give Up? Never.
I will never stop supporting FFC even if health prevented me attending. Started in 57, was there for the lowest home gate v Scunthorpe, 2,300 odd in the nineties. When I'm gone my sons will continue that support and after them my 5 year old grandson will. It's in the blood and I have no real interest in any other club other than a general football interest
I've thought it before and now reading these posts I think again that many of us would likely know each other if we were to meet.
I'm a newb...but I've planted the seed so I'm stuck for the remainder of my life (and I'm 51 now).
My support may not be as strong some years as others, and I have two other teams (not including the USA national squad) that I follow every game...but I'm a White through and through moving forward.
The Khans, Dempsey...Fulham giving US players opportunities...great pitch...good history...oldest team in London... good youth development...
Yeah, I'm in.
I went in the early 80's until I joined up. Then went again in '86/87 when I was based in Northwood (NATO base). Went in early 90's when I had a pub in Chingford. Then, '94 onwards since. I have seen some shocking games but still kept going back. Too institutionalised now to ever give up!
COYW
Been with them since 1966. Nearly gave up when we lost 2-1 to Torquay, but stayed with them and will till the end. What a journey it's been!
I was born in Fulham and taken to CC as a child by my Dad and have watched them play in all four divisions. There was never a question of another team for me, nor will there ever be. As has been said on here in other posts you never give up on your team no matter what league they are in. If you do you were never a proper supporter in the first place!
Started following in 1974 so have been a regular through our darkest hours as well as our best. That's not going to stop any time soon, and having got Burt Jr in the Fulham way when he was 5 years old (he's 21 now) there will be someone to carry it on for me when I am past it or long gone :)
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Went to my first game in 58 aged 7. Born and bred in Fulham but moved away in the late 60's. Now go 4 or 5 times a year but bring son Daughter and 4 grandkids so it's in their blood now too. Can't do more as with travel and cost of tickets, drinks and burgers the day cost more than £300. But we love our family day out rain or shine, win or lose.
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Never give up !! I became a supporter in 1962 ( it was FFC or the Stamford Bridge lot and I made the right decision). Despite living abroad for years and not getting to many matches, I've stuck with the team through thick and thin and always will.
Cannot ever foresee a time when I would stop supporting and dread the day when health &/or wealth mean that I cannot attend games in person
Fourth generation fan, dad took me when I was 6. Fulham to me is sacred and represents an attachment to the local community of the borough I grew up and still live in, despite the gentrification and multiculturalism of Hammersmith and Fulham and London. It's a continuation of my family and a big part of who I am, so until I'm not fit enough or priced out, you're stuck with me
