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Roy Hodgson & the boys need a win as badly as I need a full week away from work. In other words…badly. It won’t come easy tomorrow when the Gunners invade Craven Cottage.

Fulham enters the derby match sitting in 19th place and even with a victory, they won’t be able to climb out of the relegation zone just yet. Arsenal sits at the top of the table wtih 51 points a long side Man U. On paper, you would say that the Whites have no chance in hell tomorrow. Well to that I say, games are not played on paper…and that you are probably right.

I’m going to throw out 2 predictions for this game, what my heart tells me and what my brain tells me. Let’s start with my heart. It’s been a very exciting week at the Cottage. Brede Hangeland was signed, Marlon King is close to signing and Eddie Johnson may get his work permit next week, which would allow him to sign. Brian McBride is back training with the first team and Jimmy Bullard will make his first start of the season on Saturday. Many positives! Perhaps Fulham can harness all this positive energy and shock the Gunners tomorrow. My heart says Jimmy scores twice and Fulham hangs on for a 2-1 victory!!! COME ON YOU WHITES!!!

Snap back to reality. I feel Fulham will be up for this match and it will remain close for most of the match. Arsenal is just too strong. My brain tells me Arsenal wins 2-0.

Perhaps we can meet in the middle and share the points tomorrow? I’d take that. Get a good look at the team tomorrow and take a picture, because the starting 11 should look much different when Fulham travels to Bristol on Tuesday for their FA Cup replay.

Playing well versus Arsenal will give our boys a confidence boost. The “new look” Cottagers will finally break their away losing streak on Tuesday and then the march towards escaping the drop zone begins.

For those living in the United States, the match is live tomorrow morning at 10pm ET on Fox Soccer Channel.

Well this blog is back up and running. Basically what I did was put up the posts from the last couple of days and we will go from there. I want to thank the staff at OleOle.com for helping me out with my problem. They were very concerned and I appreciate what they did for me.

Now like I said, I only re-published the most recent Fulham related news from my Try Gol blog here at Jason's Cottage. If there are any older FFC posts that you were able to see here prior to today but are no longer here, I would suggest visiting my other blog, just sift through the various rugby & U.S. soccer posts.

Thanks and COYW! 

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As a proud member of “Sam’s Army“, I always enjoy watching the the U.S. National Team in action, whether it be the Men’s or Women’s team. The only thing that sucks is, the nats only play like what, maybe 10-12 matches per year…sometimes less. Well I guess it’s a good thing I support Fulham FC because more and more, Fulham is becoming the U.S National Team. You hear people refer to Fulham as “USA FC” or “Fulham America” and to a certain extent, I think that bothered me a bit because usually there were negative comments associated with it. But now I think I’m becoming proud to hear such things said and if the rumor I first read this morning in the comments section of THIS POST is true, there will be another U.S National joining the Cottagers.

According to the New York Times, Fulham may be interested in Chivas USA’s talented young goalkeeper Brad Guzan. Brad is currently with the U.S. National Team and is expected to start in goal versus Sweden tomorrow night. The rumor is, Fulham is offering a $2.8 Million Dollar transfer fee to MLS for Guzan and that scouts will be in Carson tomorrow night to watch him in action.

Now before you get too excited about this deal, I believe if Eddie Johnson was having work permit issues, then Guzan will probably have them as well. I can’t be sure, but I’m guessing EJ had more USA caps last season than Guzan did.  Would I love to see this happen? Sure, he’s a talented keeper and I feel Fulham would be a good fit for him. Now he does have mental lapses at times, so that would need to be corrected, but he’s young and has much room to improve.

If he is signed, I’m going to assume that Kasey Keller would probably end up being let go at the end of the season. I think Keller should finish his career in Major League Soccer anyways, so it may be time for that to happen.

I love the transfer season and everyday the rumors get more and more interesting.

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We’ve all been in a state of limbo this week when it comes to Eddie Johnson being signed to Fulham. Some people felt that perhaps Johnson was just being used as a bargaining tool to eventually land Marlon King from Watford. I’ve also read where the hold up has to do with Eddie obtaining a work permit, which would make sense because if I remember correctly, Clint Dempsey had a bit of a hold up last season for similar reasons.

Well today I checked out the Daily Mirror and it was mentioned there that Eddie Johnson would be signed for a 2 million pound transfer fee and work permit issues were being worked out. So I suppose the bottom line is, It looks like there is a very good chance I will get my wish and Eddie will join best buddy Clint at the Cottage.

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When I got to work this morning, the first thing I did was check out Fulham’s official website to see if the club had any more transfer signings today and in fact, they did.

Norwegian International & FC Copenhagen defender Brede Hangeland has been signed to a 3 1/2 year deal. Hodgson seems to be pleased with the signing. I know nothing of this guy but I do know that we needed a quality defender and I’ll trust our manager’s judgement on this one.

To read more about the signing, click HERE. On a side note, Brede may play for Norway internationally, but he was born in TEXAS! USA BITCHES!!!