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Fulham's Comedy of Errors: Celebrating Three Points with a Side of Laughter! · Team of the eighties

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  Taylor.
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  Oh, what a goal by Peter Taylor.
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  Ah, welcome to team of the 80s.
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  My name is Gary Spencer.
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  Okay, on with the show for this week.
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  Yesterday, Fulham 2, Palace 3.
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  I don't know about you, but I'm very, very happy with the three points.
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  Who wouldn't be?
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  Three points are very hard to get in the Premier League.
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  They're very hard to get in any division, but in the Premier League they're specifically difficult to get.
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  So I'm happy that we got the points.
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  But apart from that, the performance was rough.
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  Very rough.
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  Now I gauge and maybe I'm wrong for doing this.
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  I gauge fans temperature from Twitter and it was a kind of a mixed bag on Twitter.
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  Sometimes I feel that the guys can be a little bit too optimistic and I get it.
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  You know, I get accused of being negative.
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  I'm.
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  I would always counter that with that.
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  I'm not negative, I'm just a little bit realistic.
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  What could we take out of yesterday's game?
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  Well, we got three points and I think that's what we can take out of it.
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  I thought Mitchell did excellent for the first goal, was a great finish.
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  He managed to get in around the back there.
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  Fantastic.
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  The second goal was a comedy and the third goal was also a bit of a comedy, really.
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  I'm just happy that it fell to Chewell because he didn't take a touch.
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  He just didn't really think about it much and put his foot through it and he managed to scuff it in the corner.
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  I guarantee if that had been one of our forwards right now, they'd have taken a touch there and I don't know what would have happened.
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  That's how much faith I have in our forwards right now.
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  Yeah, I get it, Sarah.
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  Matata's not playing, but Mateta's had his problems in.
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  If he was playing.
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  He's been having problems for us and Sar.
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  It's going to take a.
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  A bit of time, I think, for him.
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  I.
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  I've got zero sympathy, by the way, with SA under contract, under a good contract.
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  Very happy to sign it when he needed a substantial contract and for him not to play and for.
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  For Sarge to cover for him and say he's got a groin injury.
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  I think the whole thing stinks, to be honest with you.
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  If it was me, I'd be saying that he isn't injured and I'd be fine in a month's wages and he'd have to do something about it.
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  He'd have to play.
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  Because we do not have that type of talent, particularly the type of team we are, where we run in from deep.
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  We don't have a player like SA and we're paying him.
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  I don't think probably privately that Parish is paying him or he's finding.
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  They just haven't gone public with that because Parish is no mug.
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  He's not going to be paying.
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  I don't.
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  God knows how much sar makes.
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  Maybe 60, 70, 80 grand a week.
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  Ain't paying staff for all this nonsense.
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  I'm sure he's severely pissed off.
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  So, anyway, we need Sar back in the team and we need him in the right frame of mind.
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  Yes, we need Matata in the team also, but, yeah, not because I think he's going to bag us 20 goals.
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  He's just more of a nuisance than Strand Larson is.
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  Strand Larson got a lot of good reviews yesterday on Twitter for the second half.
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  They felt that a lot of people felt that he changed the game.
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  I'm not so sure that he changed the game.
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  There was a lot of things that were going up to Strand Larson that weren't sticking, but changed the game.
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  Now, I think that's a bit.
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  That's a bit optimistic.
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  I don't think he changed the game at all.
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  He was definitely a better option than Eddie.
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  Ed.
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  Eddie's obviously really struggling with his confidence right now, but I don't think Strand Larsen changed the game.
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  Happy for Ben Chilwell.
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  I wasn't overly enthused that he came back to the club.
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  I mean, he has.
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  He hasn't really pulled up any trees since Leicester didn't do well, at Chelsea, but he seems to be a very likable lad.
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  He seems to be very popular in the dressing room and let's face it, it was a good finish and he won us the game.
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  So I was happy for Ben Chilwell.
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  Back to the fans.
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  Yeah, please follow me.
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  If you.
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  If you don't already, please follow me on Twitter, because you can debate this with me or Instagram, or Tick Tock, but going back to the fans, they.
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  They love to get.
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  They love to romanticize.
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  There's a couple of statements put out this week.
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  One by, well, two.
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  One by Daniel Munoz and his wife and the other one by Devening, like, trust me, I.
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  As we all know, Daniel Munis can't put two words together in English, so he didn't make that statement and neither did his wife.
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  It's put out by the PR company and it's all very well and it's very easy to say once you've got your move and you've got away.
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  Very easy to say, our Crystal palace, and I'm an Eagle.
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  Once an Eagle, always an Eagle.
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  Who cares?
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  Who cares?
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  Just get on and play with your new team.
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  Take your money.
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  Gunplay with your new team.
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  You did well for us.
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  Thank you very much.
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  But all that other.
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  It's just romanticism.
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  They don't care.
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  Diveni maybe a little bit different because he's not so.
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  He's not so dyed in the wall yet.
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  And I'm sure he's very happy to be at Stoke, but again, you know, these players aren't sitting at home thinking, oh, God, what shall I write to the fans?
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  Because they mean so much to me, they're just getting somebody else to do it.
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  So everything these days is a PR exercise, trust me.
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  So let's not get too carried away with what we see from statements from players.
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  But, yeah, going back to the fans on the.
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  Being optimistic, pessimistic, cynical, I.
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  I want us to do better.
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  I want us to do a lot better.
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  I don't think we're.
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  I don't think we're gelling at all.
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  I don't really see any patterns of play.
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  People rave about Wharton.
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  I mean, Tuku was there yesterday.
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  Again, he's not going to be picking Morton anytime soon.
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  Trust me.
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  If.
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  When you're talking about players and you're talking about, well, a lot of palace players are Walton's world class.
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  Is he dominating games?
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  Is Walton saying, here, give me the ball, let me just knock it over there and lock it here and let me just.
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  He's not doing that.
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  He's not doing that.
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  You know what?
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  I tell you who does it more.
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  Hughes does it.
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  More use gets in there.
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  You see him pop up all the time.
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  He's getting it.
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  He's taking responsibility.
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  He.
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  Yeah, I get it.
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  He's not doing anything spectacular with the ball.
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  He's just knocking it off to give it to somebody that can play.
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  But at least he's saying, I'll get it, I'll get it.
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  Give it to me, I'll take care of it.
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  Walton's not doing that.
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  Walton's involved when he's involved.
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  But count his touches in the game and have a look what he did yesterday because his first touch.
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  I've seen a baby elephant with a better first touch yesterday wasn't good.
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  And he needs to.
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  He needs to do a lot, lot better.
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  Walton, a lot, lot better.
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  Looking forward to tonight's game because this will be going out Tuesday morning.
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  You know what?
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  I actually fancy us for the League cup this year.
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  I fancy us.
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  There's not many rounds.
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  We could get some luck with the draw.
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  I fancy us.
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  I think we'll put out strong sides because Sarge has got to play the team and get used to the system and all the things.
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  And I think I fancy it's way more in the League cup than I do in the Europa League, put it that way.
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  I think we're going to get hammered in the Europa League and the way we're playing at the moment, like I said in a couple of weeks ago when the season started, we're going to finish a lot closer to
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  the bottom than we are the top.
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  And I got slaughter for that at the time and I think now a few fans are beginning to realize what I meant.
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  So, yeah, optimistic about League cup and we haven't done one League cup for a long, long time, have we?
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  I can't even remember when.
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  And yeah, so that's it from me.
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  Don't forget, I've got Andy Gray coming up in the international break.
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  That'd be a great one.
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  And let's hope we win in tonight against Middlesbrough.
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  I'm sure.
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  Well, I fancy is to do it and please, if you don't already follow me on Instagram, Tick tock, Twitter X and like.
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  Thanks very much for your time and I'll see you soon.