A blog of two halves

Jamie Mackie has not been ‘walking in a Mackie wonderland’ since making his return to QPR 18 months ago.

In the summer of 1954 I watched Fulham defender Robin Lawler and his new bride, Jean, proudly emerge from St Augustine’s RC Church.

The Gooners invented the hypnotic, if repetitive, chant ‘One-nil to the Arsenal’, but it could be commandeered by the Blues as ‘One-nil to the Chelsea boys’ after a trio of 1-0 victories.

Four defeats on the bounce is not the return QPR expected when they appointed Holloway.

I summed up the Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton matches by writing that ‘Fulham played some good football but lapses of concentration and the lack of a regular goal scorer have undermined the performances’.

A bitter London duel takes place on the hill near Selhurst station this weekend as Chelsea cling to the top of an unforgiving Premier League.

The new QPR boss will get no preferential treatment when the transfer window opens in January.

When I first started watched Fulham in 1948 I was lucky enough to live in a street very close to the Cottage.

Chelsea’s 3rd round FA Cup draw against Notts County or Peterborough offers the real prospect of progress in a trophy the club adores.

You would have thought the experienced defender would have learnt his lesson after getting away with picking up a second yellow card in the disappointing loss to Ipswich last weekend when he sent Tom Lawrence crashing into the advertising hoardings on half-time.