Barclays Premiership - Match 26
 

Season 2006-2007

FULHAM

2 v 1

NEWCASTLE UNITED
  Heidar Helguson 49
Brian McBride 73		   Obafemi Martins 90
 		  
     
  Date: Saturday 3rd February 2007
  Venue: Craven Cottage
  Kick Off: 3:00pm
  Australian Live TV: None
  Attendance: 24,340
  Referee: P Dowd (Staffordshire)
     
   

Fulham: Lastuvka, Rosenior, Christanval, Bocanegra, Queudrue, Routledge (Dempsey 78), Brown, Volz (Diop 67), Davies, Helguson, McBride (Montella 80)

Subs Not Used: Knight, Radzinski
  Booked: Bocanegra
   

Newcastle: Harper, Carr, Bramble, Onyewu, Taylor, Milner, Parker, Butt, Duff (Sibierski 68), Dyer (Solano 85), Martins

Subs Not Used: Srnicek, Huntington, O'Brien
  Booked: Butt, Bramble, Milner
     
  Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder said:
"Nicky has been brilliant for us this year and I will be the last person to criticize him. It wasn't on purpose, it's just one of those things. I thought we shaded the first half but gave them a goal and from that point on we were very much on the back foot. We didn't get service in to Obafemi Martins and Kieron Dyer at all." 		 
     
 
Aussie Mags Phil and Dave have enjoy a pre-match drink with Brett and Tom.		  
     
  Match Report:  
  This weekend I travelled to London for the first time. To be honest my expectations were pretty low, surprising for some but for some reason the I was just excited to go watch the Toon. Brett and I left at about 6.30am Saturday morning to get the train. It was one of those high speed overland trains, took about three and a half hours to get to there. On the way it was really foggy and saw my first snow covered fields, which was something special in itself really.
 		  
 

Onyewu makes his debut
 		 Arrived at London Eusten at about 11am and took the underground to London Bridge. The crowds were so big at Euston that they let us all through and told us to pay at our destination. The security guard on the barrier at London Bridge let us through for free, so it was already a good start.

The city itself is amazing. The old architecture mixed with modern ground breaking designs puts a nice spin on the city. After dumping our bags in the hostel we jumped on the tube out to Putney.

We arrived at Putney with a whole bunch of people, mostly dressed in black and white. Brett mentioned that he hadn’t seen a Fulham fan yet! I met up with Dave (Row 'S' Army's Mate) at the station. He didn’t have any trouble finding me as I was wearing my beanie like usual. We went back to the pub where we met a couple more of his mates and had a pint. Daves a legend. Sorted us with tickets and pretty much looked after me as I wouldn’t have had a clue what direction the ground was in anyway!
 
  The walk there was really good, plenty of black n white and people singing the Blaydon races etc. Sunny day and a nice stroll along the river made it perfect. If only the match was as good as the day itself! The atmostphere was pretty good, the home section was like a graveyard until they scored the first goal. In the end it didn’t matter what the score was, I was always going to be happy to just be there.After the match we went back to a couple of pubs for a few more drinks. Was good to have a chat about anything and everything, including the football. Brett continued his trend of stealing glasses. I think he’s made it a hobby so he doesn’t have to spend lots on souvineers for people hahaha

Saturday night we went into the city centre (cant actually remember where we were, one of the big squares) and it was packed. Like walking down rundle mall in peak hour except it was 1am. The cheapest Pints we could find were about 3 pounds (about 7.50AUD!!) and the cheapest door fee on a nightclub we could find was £10 ($25 bucks!). Pretty safe to say the nightlife here is expensive as hell.
 

  
   By Phil  
 

AUSSIE MAGS