Pride & Prejudice…& Predictability

Mark Pougatch, the third generation of his family to grace the stands in SW6, reflects on the unique attitude of Fulham fans.

While you’re eating, sleeping, working, meeting up with friends and generally living your life, somewhere in Africa’s vast midst, Russ Cook is running. He has been running for more than 200 days – marathons, ultra-marathons in the heat, in the rain, in the dark – and he won’t stop until he reaches the northernmost tip of Cape Angela in Tunisia.

“Padel is the fastest-growing sport in the world,” Hugo says on every first date (and they’re all first dates at this point). In fact, the only thing that’s growing faster is Hugo’s ego this evening as he bandejas his way to victory over another pair of sixtysomething housewives who are only here in the first place to have a go on Antonio, the leathery club pro with the ‘miraculous fingers’.