Match day 2, our first away game in the championship this season and it's Preston another ground to tick off my list ive not done before, met up with Richard breeze at Euston a proper legend fan he finished his night shift at 5am and off to the football with me, loads of fulhamfc fans on the 08:30 train going up was really hoping we put in a performance as good as last friday when we beat the geordies, had a chat with some Blackpool fans on the train believe it or not they travel from Kent and Portsmouth to follow their club.
So onto Preston and into the Old Vic pub opposite the station for a few beers where we met up with Sam whatley we then walked through Preston town centre to Deepdale the home of Preston North End and into the St Gregorys Catholic social club were we met Kevin Eston who had been there before you put a pound in the pot and they make you more than welcome was a great crack in there with the locals.
Let's get onto the game now the gaffer picked the same team as per the Newcastle game other than bringing in Super Scottty Parker for Tunicliife which I personally think was a good shout, it's fair to say we dominated play and looked sharp and also solid at the back, and deservedly went into the lead just after the half hour with a scrambled effort from Aluko but who cares they all count, we almost doubled our lead just before half time with a Matt Smith header which was disallowed for a push.
Preston came out in the second half on the front foot and for the first fifteen minutes gave our back four a lot to contend with , having said that we were coping well and in the 67th minute Tom Cairney went on a mazy run and Matt Smith finished the move off with our second goal 2 nil Fulham, Preston did get a goal back just a few minutes later and had a goal disallowed near the end but we deservedly held on for the points.
My man of the match for us would be between Kalas and Cairney both were standout in my opinion, we got back to Preston station for our train back and it was a bonus to see the team were also on it for the journey back to London, all in all was a very enjoyable day out finishing the day level top of the championship on 6 points and looking much more organised than last season. ...onwards and upwards COYW.
© Gary Ware
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