Tonight, An English Football Match

Tonight, we attend a professional football game--a soccer match to those of you stateside. The match was held at Craven Cottage, home of the Fulham Football Club, just down the Thames from our house. (See the picture above.) Fulham is the oldest London "first-class" (think NFL) club, dating to 1879, and it proudly claims that "England have never won the World Cup without the contribution of a Fulham player." The club's fortunes have recently been on the rise under the chairmanship of Mohammed Al Fayed, the owner of Harrods and more famously the would-be father-in-law of Princess Diana before she and his son were killed in the same car accident one tragic evening. The opponent for this evening is the Blackburn Rangers, playing a match that had originally been scheduled for January but had to be re-booked due to, what else, rain. The team has had some management challenges, so a crushing win seems likely for Fulham this evening--which is more to our American tastes in this land where the tie is a perfectly acceptable outcome to a match. Game starts at 8, so we'll be out late. Watch the site for the final score and any late-breakng news about any shocking upsets!