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Would be a smart signing in Jan.

red card. penalty to roma.

bye bye brende..


edit: given to kelly instead. brende stays on, roma miss the penalty. hodgeson has gotten fulham playing well i must say.

Thought the thread would be about him getting the red card.

What a farce that was. Completely proves that the additional officials in the Europa leage are a total waste of time.

The fucker only has one/two decisions to make per game, and they even get that wrong from 5 yards, unbelievable.

Just wonder though, if the culprit hadn't owned up to the foul, would both him and Hangeland have escaped a ban for the next Europa league game?

Where was the extra 30 seconds added after Roma's goal?
The way i remember it being was that if a goal was scored in time added on an extra 30 seconds was played,the way i saw the end tonight,was Roma scored,celebrated,the ref restarted,then blew the final whistle.

Oh i remember now,the game was played the original rules and not bent swamp rules.

I thought it was an extra minute per goal.. but i mean unlucky for Fulham to concede that late to Roma.. good penalty save by schwarzer who again proves why he one of the premier keepers in the epl but anyways back to hangeland he seems like a very good player and would be handy to have someone like him to defend corners

Was gutted when he scored as just taken him out of my Dream Team and fighting for points near top of my mini league, ha he got a red?, not as arsed.

lets all have a disco wrote:Where was the extra 30 seconds added after Roma's goal?
The way i remember it being was that if a goal was scored in time added on an extra 30 seconds was played,the way i saw the end tonight,was Roma scored,celebrated,the ref restarted,then blew the final whistle.

Oh i remember now,the game was played the original rules and not bent swamp rules.

the way I understand it is that if the goal was scored with 10 seconds to go, the game would be restarted and stopped after the 10 seconds that remain. The 30 seconds added on for the celebration, would have been used up celebrating. I didn't watch the game so don't know how it finished, so as an example, 3 mins get added at end of game, goal scored at 92:50 players celebrate, game re-starts at 93:20 for 10 secs finishes at 93:30 so the 30 seconds have indeed been added, even though they only played 10 of them

He'd have been a better signing than Lescott.

funnily was thinking hed be a good signing for us, i thought it last year too, he has a real presence about him, afterall look at the shit beside him and they had one of the best defence's last year cant be a coincidence!

yeah that combination of schwarzer and hangeland seemed to really help fulham i mean with the addition of those 2 players they went from 17th to 7th in one season..as i said before if he was playing for bigger club he could be in top 5 cb in england, because the defenders at big clubs always seemed to get rated higher.. same with keepers

I'm sure I heard during the summer that according to Prozone statistics he was the top performer in the Prem last season, according to headers won, tackles success-rate etc. I was really surprised how few big clubs were going after him, considering us, Everton, Villa, Arsenal were all chasing centre backs. Maybe he's just very loyal to Fulham?

As a Norwegian myself - here is my opinion. Lots of positives with Brede. Roy Hodgson knew him from there time together in Norwegian club Viking, currently bossed by a certain Uwe Rösler, and brought him to England. Arsenal rumoured to be after him in the summer. He captains Norway, always seem very professional, good positional sense and has impoved and delivered for every step up he has made so far. His weakest link must be lack of pace. Not that he is slow, but lacks that extra bit to make him a top player in the Premiership.

Fulham are a very defence oriented side who almost always have cover for their defenders. The job Lescott & Toure have to do in our side asks a lot more of the CB's as they often have no cover. Whether he could operate like that hasn't often been tested but he's not looked very good at all when it has. My jury's still out on him.

Ted Hughes wrote:Fulham are a very defence oriented side who almost always have cover for their defenders. The job Lescott & Toure have to do in our side asks a lot more of the CB's as they often have no cover. Whether he could operate like that hasn't often been tested but he's not looked very good at all when it has. My jury's still out on him.

Agree. A bit like Dunne, who was very good for us for so long, but exposed limitations when we were pushing forward, e.g. home leg against Hamburg last season.

This guy is a massive defender and in fact can defend very well. Would be a great signing but would surely be nothing else than a backup?

Unless he can play right back or left.

he would be our worst defender if we signed him, very over rated