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Wednesday Fulham Stuff - 20/05/20...

Started by WhiteJC, May 20, 2020, 07:15:57 AM

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WhiteJC

'I would drive him to wherever' – Plenty of Fulham fans weigh in on 26-year-old's future


Scott Parker will be keen to reshape and strengthen his Fulham squad this summer as the Cottagers look to finish the 2019/20 season on a high.

The West London side sit third in the Sky Bet Championship table and only six points off the automatic promotion places, ahead of the final nine games of the season whenever they may be played.

It has been a positive year in charge for Parker in what is his first full season in management, and if they don't go up this season, then he will be keen to ring the changes and make his squad even better next term.

This could involve getting rid of current players in order to make way for new ones, and one player whose future has emerged as a talking point on social media is Alfie Mawson.

The Cottagers signed Mawson from Swansea City for around £20m last summer, but the centre-half has flattered to deceive since arriving at Craven Cottage.

The 26-year-old has made 28 appearances under Parker this season, with Tim Ream and Michael Hector battling with him for a place in the team.



https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/i-would-drive-him-to-wherever-plenty-of-fulham-fans-weigh-in-on-26-year-olds-future/

WhiteJC

'Too raw', 'Off to Fulham' – Many Charlton fans debate future of 'top quality player'


The 2019/20 campaign has been a breakthrough season for Charlton Athletic academy product Alfie Doughty and many Addicks fans have been debating how much impact he will have next term.

The versatile 20-year-old is comfortable in a range of positions but has mostly been utilised on the left flank by Lee Bowyer.

Doughty was handed his Charlton debut in a Carabao Cup game last season but has kicked on this term – making 21 appearances for the senior side.

He was sent out on loan to National League side Bromley in September but was recalled by the club in November due to the injury crisis has become a regular fixture in Bowyer's squad.

According to Transfermarkt, there are 10 Addicks players who are set to become free agents this summer and six more on loan who will return to their parent clubs at the end of the season.

Significant summer turnover which could mean more opportunities for Doughty next season but it could also mean more competition for places.

The 20-year-old's role at the club moving forward appears to be a contentious point among the Valley faithful, with some suggesting on Twitter that he is set to be a regular in the first team and others claiming he's not ready or may leave the club.



https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/too-raw-off-to-fulham-many-charlton-fans-debate-future-of-top-quality-player/

WhiteJC

Hull City respond after leaked letter lays out desire to void Championship season

A letter circulated by Hull chiefs to the other 23 Championship clubs and EFL boss Rick Parry was leaked on Tuesday morning

Hull City have declared themselves "disappointed" that a letter to Championship clubs detailing their opposition to restarting the season has been leaked.

The Tigers said that the correspondence was "intended to remain private between the EFL and other Championship clubs".

The Championship hasn't seen any of its sides kick a ball since March 8, with English football being suspended completely five days later.

When the season was brought to a halt, Hull were 21st in the table and two points above the relegation zone.

League Two have voted to end their season after a vote, while discussions are underway in League One over potentially doing similar - albeit with six clubs having publicly stated their desire to play on.

But the Championships has held its cards close to its chest, until a letter from Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam was revealed by The Telegraph.

In it, Allam stated: "My position remains that the season should be voided."

On Tuesday afternoon, in a club statement, the Tigers issued a response to the publication of their desires.

"We are disappointed that a letter which was intended to remain private between the EFL and other Championship clubs has been leaked.

"It is our view that each club will, quite understandably, have their own view on the subject of how and when to return to play football and we fully respect that.

"The privacy of discussions between member clubs and the league is paramount to ensuring honest and open debate.

"As such, we will continue to engage in talks in the correct manner and will not enter into a public debate on the matters in hand.
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"Our primary concern throughout this difficult time has been for the health and safety of our players and staff and that will continue to be the case."

On Friday, the EFL said Championship clubs had "indicated that it is their wish to play on and conclude the season".



https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/hull-city-respond-after-leaked-22053266


WhiteJC

Southern League Managers (Part Four)
The fourth batch of renowned bosses from over the years.


BOB HOUGHTON may have only had two seasons or so as a manager in the Southern League, but he deserves to be included in this list for what he went on to achieve in the global game.

He arrived at Fulham in 1966 from Dulwich Hamlet's third string, the 'A' team, as part of a younger element brought in by new Cottagers` coach Dave Sexton.

Yet, despite his own failure to break into the first team, and Fulham's struggles with relegation he was light-years from Champion Hill where Dulwich were having a miserable time.

Houghton couldn't have had a better education on a training field, lining up alongside past, present, and future England internationals – the maestro Johnny Haynes, Bobby Robson, World Cup winner George Cohen and frontman Allan Clarke. Malcolm MacDonald and John Ryan (future Dulwich manager) were also in the ranks.

Aged just 19, Houghton received his first coaching certificate but left Craven Cottage in 1969 without making a senior appearance.

And following a short spell at Brighton & Hove Albion, he signed for Southern League Division One side Hastings United as player-manager in 1970.

United finished eleventh in 70/71 and he gave up playing to concentrate on coaching and moved to Maidstone United in the summer of 1971.

The Stones had just been switched from the Isthmian League to the Southern League after turning `professional` and appointed the young Houghton as manager.

Maidstone`s first season as a semi-professional outfit almost brought instant success as the team finished third in the Southern League Division One South, just failing to win promotion behind Waterlooville and Ramsgate.

Houghton held the record as the youngest ever coach to gain an FA Full Badge ('A' Licence) and in the summer of 1972, he joined First Division Ipswich Town as an assistant coach under his former Fulham team-mate and boss, Bobby Robson.

But it was abroad where Houghton was to make his name in the football world. His first expedition took him to a far-flung corner of the globe, and South African team Arcadia.

Then followed his first spell in Scandinavia where he revolutionised Swedish football and earned himself the coveted 'Sports Leader of the Year' award.

He joined Swedish club Malmo FF in 1974, and immediately showed he meant business by learning the native language in less than two months of night school.

In the six years, Houghton was at the helm, he steered Malmo to three Swedish championships, runners-up position twice, and the Swedish Cup on four occasions.

In building a solid and steady team, Houghton chose local players – ten of the side were actually from Malmo and had come up through the youth ranks – which built up an enormous connection with the people of the town.

In the fifth year of his leadership his side reached the European Cup Final but were narrowly beaten by Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest, with £1 million man Trevor Francis scoring his famous diving header in the Munich final.

Although Houghton was a well-established manager by then, he was actually younger than a number of the players in the final!

The European Cup put Malmo FF firmly on the map, and Sweden's first Brazilian arrived at the club. However, 21-year-old Monteiro was recruited without Houghton's knowledge, and showing his disapproval, the manager confined him to the reserves after barely 15 minutes of first-team football – and that was only a friendly!

From Malmo Houghton moved to Greek club side Ethnikos, before returning to England to take over the reins at Bristol City in 1980. However, his homecoming turned out to be disastrous and the club were not only relegated but faced bankruptcy.

Houghton caught the next plane to Canada, and Toronto based NASL team The Blizzard, which he took to two successive Soccer Bowl finals.

Two separate spells in the Middle East with the Al Ittihad club in the mid-80s and early 90s resulted in victory in the Saudi Arabian Federation Cup in 1993.

In between, he returned to Sweden with Gothenburg-based club Orgryte (OIS) and later with his old club Malmo.

A stint at FC Zurich in Switzerland and then he was back in the USA in December 1995, where he was named head coach of the newly-formed Colorado Rapids in Denver for the inaugural season of Major League Soccer.

His return to England in 1997 saw him take up the assistant manager's role at Nottingham Forest under Dave Bassett.

Forest played some outstanding football, and although Houghton left midway through the season, Forest topped the division and won promotion to the Premiership.

In millennium year Houghton was managing China, helping them qualify for the 2002 World Cup Finals.

Again, he adapted to a new culture and learned a new language. Within days he had memorised the names of all his players instilling much confidence in the squad.

He went on to manage the Uzbekistan national team, then Chinese side Shenyang Ginde before becoming the new India boss on 20 June 2006 until 2011 when he retired.

SAMMY CHUNG (pictured) started his playing career with home-town club Abingdon Town in the Reading & District League in 1949.

The young forward stepped up to the Southern League with Headington United in 1950 and helped the club now known as Oxford United to win their first title in 1952/53.

That earned Chung a move to Third Division (South) side Reading, although he had to wait until the end of his National Service before going on to make 22 appearances for the Royals and score 12 goals.

A move to league rivals Norwich City followed in 1955 but the Canaries were struggling at this time and, although he played around 50 times, scoring 9 goals, they finished bottom of the table.

In 1957, the 25-year-old Chung moved to Watford and went on to play over 230 games for the Hornets in a more withdrawn role, scoring 22 goals.

Indeed, Chung gained his first coaching experience while still a player at Watford under manager Bill McGarry.

When McGarry left to become manager of Ipswich Town, he took Chung with him as his assistant and they won promotion to the First Division as champions in 1968.

Following a short period as manager of Swedish side IFK Västerås, he returned to re-join McGarry, now at Wolverhampton Wanderers, as his assistant.

As part of the management team, they guided Wolves to victory in the 1974 League Cup.

But the club were relegated in 1976 and McGarry departed, leaving Chung to be appointed manager.

He won promotion back to the top-flight as Second Division champions in his first season and led the club to a 15th-place finish in 1977/78, but the following season began with a run of eleven defeats in fourteen games, leading to his dismissal following protests from the club's fans.

After a spell coaching in the United Arab Emirates, Chung returned to England in 1985 as assistant manager to Mick Mills at Stoke City where he spent five years and was later in the backroom staff at Blackburn Rovers.

And when he accepted his next post, he was following a club `legend`.

Graham Smith – Tamworth`s most successful ever manager – was sacked in a move that stunned the whole of Midlands non-League football.

Although there had been considerable speculation that the manager might voluntarily leave The Lamb, no-one predicted the Tamworth Board would actually sack him.

The reason the move took everyone by surprise is that seven weeks previously, Tamworth publicly gave Smith a vote of confidence.

Smith had been in charge since February 1987 and had led the Lambs to the West Midlands (Regional) League championship in 1988/89, then missed the runners-up spot and promotion to the Southern League Premier Division on goal difference and won the FA Vase by beating Sudbury Town 3-0 at Peterborough United after a 1-1 draw at Wembley.

Chung was appointed manager at the end of January 1992 from caretaker bosses Frank Dwayne and Paul Wood.

Tamworth had made a bold statement about their belief in the future by becoming one of only a handful of non-League clubs in the country to appoint a full-time manager.

Chung immediately set his sights on waking up a club he regards as a `sleeping giant`.

However, just under a year later, Chung left The Lamb having led the team to tenth in 92/93 and they were in a similar position when he left.
He was appointed manager of Doncaster Rovers in July 1994, a post he held until August 1996.

His Doncaster spell brought two promising seasons on the field, but promotion challenges gradually petered out into mid-table finishes.

In 1999, he was appointed director of football in Barbados and in 2005, he joined the coaching staff at Minehead.

DOUG HOLDEN started his career playing for Manchester YMCA.

He signed amateur forms with Bolton Wanderers in 1948, turning professional in May 1949.

He was on the losing side in the famous 4–3 loss to Blackpool in the `Matthews Cup Final` and then on the winning side in the 1958 FA Cup Final against Manchester United.

He is the last surviving player from the 1953 FA Cup final.

With five England international caps to his name, Holden was recognised as one of the top wingers of his generation, with the ability to play on either wing.

After 40 goals in 419 appearances for Bolton, he moved to Preston North End for £8,000 in November 1962.

He scored a goal in Preston`s 1964 FA Cup Final defeat against West Ham United and totalled 89 games and 13 goals for North End before he emigrated to Australia in 1965 and picked up his playing career with Hakoah FC - a Sydney-based club, until 1968.

After coaching Hakoah and then Auburn FC the following season, Holden returned to England in November 1970, and had a coaching position at Grimsby Town from January 1971.

A year or so later he took over as manager of Southern League Premier Division club Dartford.

And he laid down the foundations of the team which won the Southern League championship in 1973/74.

Holden left before the start of that season and was replaced by Ernie Morgan who drafted three or four quality players on to Holden's squad and steered the Darts to the Southern League title and a place in the FA Trophy Final at Wembley which they lost 2-1 to Morecambe.

One of the best-kept `secrets` is that former Tottenham Hotspur and England centre-forward Martin Chivers managed in the Southern League!

Okay, so it may have only been for just over half a season, but the big forward, capped 24 times by England between 1971 and 1973, was player-manager of Southern League South Division club Dorchester Town in the 1980/81 season.

Indeed, he showed he still knew where the net was too as he scored 14 goals during that time before he left the Magpies mainly due to travel and other commitments.

After several seasons with Southampton and helping them to the top flight in 1965/66, Chivers moved to Spurs for £125,000 in 1968 and he would become a two-time League Cup winner, win the UEFA Cup and score 118 goals in 278 games – enough for him to be inducted into the Spurs `Hall of Fame`.

He moved abroad to play in Switzerland with Servette from 1976 to 1978 and then had short spells with Norwich City and Brighton before joining Dorchester.

He had another spell abroad, this time with Norwegian outfit Vard Haugesund, who he also briefly managed before he ended his playing days with Barnet in the Alliance Premier League in 1983.

JOHN RYAN began his playing career in the Isthmian League with Maidstone United in the early 1960s.

He was signed by then-Arsenal manager Billy Wright in October 1964 but he failed to break into the first team at Highbury and in July 1965 he joined Fulham.

He made his League debut at Craven Cottage but his 47-game spell was unsuccessful and Fulham were relegated to the Third Division.

Ryan joined Luton and worked hard to develop his game at Kenilworth Road.

Playing as a full back, it paid off as Luton won promotion, and Ryan chalked up 266 appearances for the Hatters, scoring 10 goals.

He moved to Norwich City in 1976 for £40,000 where John Bond re-deployed him in midfield leading to his most successful goals-per-game ratio.

He made a total of 132 appearances, scoring 29 goals.

He left Norwich in March 1979 to play in the USA with the Seattle Sounders.

Three months later, he returned to England to play for Sheffield United.

Two goals in 56 matches followed before John Bond asked Ryan to join him again at Manchester City as a player and youth team coach.

Seventeen games followed before he was pushed out by new manager Billy McNeil in July 1983.

Player-coach positions at Stockport County and Chester followed but neither were successful.

In January 1984, he took on the player-manager`s position at Cambridge United but he became frustrated with a lack of funds and ambition at the Abbey Stadium and in five matches for Cambridge, he was sent-off three times!

He returned to his first club, Maidstone, was more peaceful as he could combine the player-coach and later assistant-manager role with a position in the family haulage business.

In September 1991, he became manager of Southern League South Division club Sittingbourne.

He had a successful time at the Kent club, finishing ninth in their first season after winning promotion from the Kent League and then building a good team that won the South Division title in 92/93 with players such as Dave Arter, who notched 30 of their 102 goals, as well as the likes of solid centre-back Tommy Warrilow, player of the year Neil Emblen and former Maidstone United and Welling United midfielder Phil Handford, for whom Ryan paid a £15,000 fee for in 1992.

Ryan`s three-year spell in charge of Sittingbourne ended when he took the helm at Dover Athletic from Chris Kinnear, who had just left after ten years in the job.

However, Ryan did not last long as he was relieved of his duties after the Whites lost seven of their first eight games in the 1995/96 campaign.

He later managed Dulwich Hamlet until December 1997 and set up a soccer school sponsored by the Kent Football Association.

He then moved to the Professional Football Association to become an assistant coach in the South East.

He left the PFA in 2001 to become director of youth development for the Thailand Football Association in Bangkok.

GRAHAM CARR was a hard, uncompromising defender who made 160 League appearances for Northampton Town, York City and Bradford Park Avenue, winning England Youth international caps as well.

He went into non-League football as a player with the likes of Altrincham, Telford United, Poole Town, Dartford, Tonbridge and Weymouth.

In 1971 he skippered Telford at Wembley when they beat Hillingdon Borough 3-2 in the FA Trophy Final.

After a short spell with Poole Town, he was back at Wembley in 1974 with Dartford, but the Kent side lost to Morecambe. However, Carr went on to lead Dartford to the Southern League championship.

He took over as player-manager of Weymouth in 1977 and again tasted success as the Dorset side finished runners-up in the Southern League.

He left Weymouth to re-join league rivals Dartford, again as player-manager, in October 1978 as full-time manager.

Carr was the manager of the Southern League representative side at the end of the 1979/80 season.

In December 1980, at the age of 35, Carr was appointed as manager of struggling Alliance Premier club Nuneaton Borough.

Carr moved to Manor Park on a three-year contract on a full-time basis.

He had moved to the Midlands three months previous after making it clear he was looking for a job in the area.

Although Nuneaton were relegated from the APL at the end of the 1980/81 season, a plethora of new signings in the summer of 1981, including former Kettering Town prolific marksman Roy Clayton from Barnet and Barry Lowe for £6,000 from Worcester City to go along with highly-rated striker Trevor Morley, veteran Tommy Robson and strong central defensive partnership Richard Dixey and John Glover, Boro won the Southern League Midland Division (there were only two divisions then), losing only four matches.

Back in the Alliance Premier, Boro finished runners-up two years running before Carr was lured to manage former club Northampton Town in the Football League.

He led the Cobblers to the Fourth Division title in the 1986/87 season, taking players like Morley, Richard Hill and Eddie McGoldrick to the County Ground with him.

However, leading scorer Hill was sold to Watford and his strike partner Morley to Manchester City and Carr's subsequent sides struggled for goals and he was sacked by the Cobblers in May 1990 after their relegation back to the Fourth Division, taking over at Blackpool, who had been relegated along with them the following month.

His spell at Blackpool was an unhappy one and he was sacked five months later in November 1990.

Carr then took over at Fourth Division Maidstone United from February 1991 to October 1991 but this was also an unhappy move for him at a bad time as it was only a year or so before the Stones folded.

He stepped out of the frying pan into the fire by returning to the Conference with Kettering Town in September 1992 as the Poppies were in Administration at the time.

After guiding the club to a mid-table finish in his first season in charge, in 93/94 he built a side that went to within three points of winning the title, losing out to Kidderminster Harriers in the end.

After a sixth-place finish the following season, Carr was rather surprisingly sacked.

He was not out of work for long, returning to Southern League South Division side Weymouth as manager in May 1995, but resigned in September the same year.

He was then briefly appointed assistant manager at Doncaster Rovers and spent a season in charge of Dagenham & Redbridge before deciding to quit management and go into scouting.

Since doing that he became a respected figure finding players for the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Notts County and Newcastle United.

In August 2017, Carr returned to his former club Northampton to take up a role as an associate director.

STAN CHARLTON is another former Weymouth manager and was, before he began his professional career with Leyton Orient in 1952, an England Amateur international whilst playing for Bromley in the Athenian League.

Born in Exeter, he was a near-ever present for Orient over three seasons and was part of the team which finished as runners-up in Division Three (South) in 1954/55.

In November 1955 he moved with team-mate Vic Groves to First Division Arsenal for a £30,000 fee and became the club's first-choice right back.

He played 99 games in total for the Gunners before moving back to Leyton Orient in December 1958.
His second spell with the O's lasted for seven seasons and he skippered the team to promotion to Division One in 1962.

He retired in the summer of 1965, having played 366 League games for Orient over those two spells.

Charlton was appointed player-manager of Southern League club Weymouth in July 1965 after Frank O'Farrell has left to join Torquay United.

Typical of the times, Charlton was actually secretary/manager of the Terras and he followed O`Farrell`s title-winning campaign by repeating the feat in 1965/66.

After that Charlton`s side finished third the next season and fourth in 69/70 and won the Southern League Cup but he was sacked in May 1972, despite the side finishing sixth.

After his stint at the Recreation Ground, he worked as district manager for a major football pools company and retained a close involvement in the game by coaching Dorset's county side.

PAT BEASLEY is one of those `one cap wonders`!

An outside right or wing-half, he played for Cookley St Peters in the Worcestershire Combination and then Stourbridge, then in the Birmingham League.

He was signed by the legendary Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman in May 1931, paying a £550 transfer fee to the Glassboys for his services.

After 79 league appearances and 19 goals, he joined Chapman`s former club, Huddersfield Town, in October 1936 for £750.

After 108 games and 24 goals – and his one cap for England in 1939 when he scored in a 2-1 win against Scotland - he returned to London with Arsenal during the Second World War and following VE Day, Fulham signed him in December 1945, where he made 153 appearances, scoring 13 times.

In July 1950, at the age of 37, he joined Bristol City as player-manager.

In 1955, now as just `manager after retiring as a player in May 1952 after 66 games for the Robins, he led City out of the Third Division (South) as champions before being replaced in 1958 by Peter Doherty.

Beasley became the joint manager of Birmingham City the following month and took on sole responsibility from September 1958.

He then became the team manager from January 1959 until May 1960 and led the team to the final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which Birmingham lost to Barcelona over two legs, and then resigned.

After leaving Birmingham, Beasley became a scout at Fulham from 1960 for a year, until he took up the management mantel again at Southern League Dover FC, from the middle of 1961 until April 1964.

He led the Lilywhites - pre-Athletic days of course – to eighth, sixth and tenth-placed finishes, which was a considerable improvement on their first two seasons after moving up from the Kent League when they ended in 18th and 16th respectively.

He retired from the game after leaving Crabble.



https://www.betvictorsouthern.co.uk/news/124453/Southern-League-Managers-Part-Four

WhiteJC

Manchester City tracking progress of Fulham teenager Cody Drameh

EXCLUSIVE: Premier League champions City are keeping tabs on the Fulham teenager who has emerged as yet another bright young star at Craven Cottage

Manchester City are tracking Fulham teenager Cody Drameh.

The Premier League giants have been watching the 18-year-old right back as one for the future.

Drameh is regarded as one of Fulham 's most promising next wave of young players coming through and Liverpool and Leeds have looked at the England under-18 international in the past.

City could see London-born Drameh as a young English player who could boost their home grown quota as well as potentially signing him and then loaning him out to allow him to get game time.

They did exactly the same thing with Patrick Roberts, signing the winger for £12million from Fulham in 2015 and then loaning him out.

Fulham has enjoyed a brilliant reputation in recent seasons for producing young players with Ryan Sessegnon their shining light as the England prospect left Craven Cottage for Tottenham last summer for £25m.



Drameh has been making excellent progress at Fulham and has already played for the under-23s despite his age and is seen as another one off the production line.

Sessegnon and his twin brother Steven plus the likes of England under-21 keeper Marcus Bettinelli is proof they are bringing talent through.

Drameh has one year left on his current deal and big clubs - including City - have been keeping tabs in the past few seasons on his development.
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City will have the finances to spend this summer but are also keen to build up their reserves of home grown talent while also having one of the best coaching and youth academies in Europe.

Leeds were reported to have made a bid last year while Liverpool have also been keeping tabs on his progress.



https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/manchester-city-tracking-progress-fulham-22053991