A blog of two halves

Hammersmith & Fulham is home to 3 major football clubs: Chelsea, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers. Follow the ups and downs of the clubs as told by local fans.

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There's a spring in the step

Tim Harrison

It’s early days, and there are much sterner tests ahead, but Chelsea’s start to the season has put a spring back into everyone’s step at the Bridge.
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Clean sheets are a lost art

Tim Harrison

A muggy night in London can’t explain away Chelsea’s laboured performance in the EFL Cup, scraping past Bristol Rovers at Stamford Bridge.
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A question for Slavisa on the transfer window goes wrong

Morgan Phillips

At the start of June 2016 the distinguished football historian Peter Lupson informed me that a young player of his acquaintance had just signed for Fulham's academy. He suggested my interviewing the youngster for this blog.
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Forget Rio, the action is in SW6

Tim Harrison

Who needs Special Ones when you’ve got Animated Ones? With touchline sprints, pirouettes and long jumps that wouldn’t have disgraced Rio, Antonio Conte instantly endeared himself to Blues fans as he managed a winning start to the new season.
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Ted Freeman's 50 goal season

Morgan Phillips

Many Fulham fans will have seen the photograph of the 1897/98 first team wearing the red and white shirts adorned with the now familiar club badge.
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Bring on the dark horses

Tim Harrison

If Chelsea found last year’s Premier League tough going, this campaign adds different challenges.
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Fans mull The Special One's new role with rivals

Tim Harrison

Leaving aside the disrespectful way cup-winning manager Louis van Gaal has been treated by Manchester United, with his sacking common knowledge days before he was officially told, news that Jose Mourinho is returning to Premier League management is bittersweet for Chelsea fans.

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