{"id":2902,"date":"2023-09-13T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2023-09-21T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T08:46:51","slug":"games-for-the-weekend-16-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"Games for the weekend 16\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>We get to welcome Luton Town to the Cottage for a 3 o&#8217;clock kickoff<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-LutonH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-LutonH.png\" alt=\"Fulham v Luton\" class=\"wp-image-2838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-LutonH.png 480w, https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-LutonH-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of our dear departed friends, Don Hymel (HatterDon), would have loved this fixture, Don was an American who started his love for football while he was based in the UK serving in the USAF. He started going to Luton home games, hence &#8220;Hatter&#8221;, but came to Fulham because of the American players. <br>Don helped found fulhamusa.com and was a regular contributor to FoF in the &#8220;early days&#8221; and he is much missed on both forums, whatever the result this games for you Don.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our players who were away on international duty had decent games, Ra\u00fal scored a couple in Mexico&#8217;s 3-3 draw with Uzbekistan. Bobby De Cordova-Reid scored a penalty for Jamaica against Haiti. Harry Wilson had an impressive game for Wales against Latvia winning a penalty and a last ditch assist for a 2-0 win. New boy, for us anyway, Timothy Castagne was involved in both Belgium games against Azerbaijan and Estonia. Jo\u00e3o Palhinha played in Portugal&#8217;s 0-1 over Slovakia and was an unused sub in their 9-0 win over Luxembourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>our recent record against Luton is 2 wins <em>(one of them 7-0)<\/em>, 0 losses and 2 draws<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assuming no injuries or late returns from international duties, my team would be&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23-LutonH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23-LutonH.png\" alt=\"Fulham v Luton Town\" class=\"wp-image-2918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23-LutonH.png 398w, https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23-LutonH-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>COYW&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Games of Interest&#8230;<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Saturday 16th<\/em><br>Villa v Palace<br>Fulham v Luton<br>Spurs v Sheff Utd<br>West Ham v Man City<br>Everton v Arsenal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sunday 17th<\/em><br>Bournemouth v Chelsea<br>Newcastle v Brentford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monday 18th<\/em><br>Forest v Burnley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>come on over to the forum and join in the conversation&#8230;<br>https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/forum\/index.php?board=36.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get to welcome Luton Town to the Cottage for a 3 o&#8217;clock kickoff One of our dear departed friends, Don Hymel (HatterDon), would have loved this fixture, Don was an American who started his love for football while he was based in the UK serving in the USAF. He started going to Luton home &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=2902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the weekend 16\/09&#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],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","tag-fulham-v-luton-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}