GoldCoastWhite / YankeeJim / LBNo11
Thank you for the welcome

, I really appreciate it.
Yep I loves my Fulham!.....I'll have to take a picture of my house (with my sign hahah) and post it as my picture on here, it looks qiute at home! My son and daughter are staunch Fulham supporters as much as me and my husband. My son always has something Fulham on hahah, either shirt, socks or shorts and he has the huge Fulham St. George Flag up in his room permanently.
We all loved it when Fulham were doing so well in the Europa, but my son especially. He went into school with a signed shirt that we arranged for him before we left and showed all his class mates and explained our journey to the final. When he started to get crap from some of the other boys in the class who support the only teams they know - Chelsea/Arsenal and Man Poo - he quickly retorted......sorry, I don't believe you are in this cup anymore are you?.....I cracked up.
It is hard being so far away and not being able to pop to the spotted horse, the Crabtree for a pint and then have a burger in the park and a plastic Heineken in the ground. Listen to the Diddy Hamilton announcements or wave at Billy the Badger and Mo hahaha.
The club is so much more than footie - I just love it. I remember standing in the Hammy end and singing my heart out - when the kids started coming it was seated.
One thing that always makes me laugh is an Aston Villa game where we could only get tickets for the "mixed end" hahah - there was all 4 of us and we were right next to a bunch of AV lads. They were screaming all the way through the match and we were all over them. They were pretty loud and my daugther must have only been 9/10. When we scored my daughter turned around looked at them and screamed HA HA IN YOUR FACE hahah - I must have shrunk in my seat - I quickly grabbed her and told her to zip it but secretly I was thinking (yeah good on ya!) hahah. The mans face wasn't impressed but he didn't have anything to say either hahah. We then had to explain about the "manners" of footie (or the ones we have at CC anyway!).
She's still the same now - Megs found out her Canadian teacher was a Liverpool supporter and one day he played the last bit of their last Europa match as some kind of lesson (so he could watch it hahah). Megs went in on the day of the final all kitted out in her Fulham stuff (just to rub it in) and they both sat at lunch break and watched what they could of the match hahah (great teacher eh!) - she didn't get to see all of it - but he did pop into her other lesson and tell her the result (with a smile no doubt).
My son - he was allowed the day off school as my husband said "if we win Nat, its like the biggest moment in Fulhams history and I want my son to remember it for being able to see it - rather than having been at school that day - I can be a cool dad for one day! hahaha). Saddo.
Anyway I am waffling but I have so many great memories and I hope to get more in the future. Next time we plan a trip home it will be during the footie season thats for sure!

Nats