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The Fulham Supporters’ Trust began life as the Back to the Cottage campaign, formed after Fulham Football Club announced it had dropped plans to develop Craven Cottage on the lines of the planning permission received in February 2001.
Many rumours persist among Fulham fans of past tenants of Craven Cottage. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Jeremy Bentham , Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.
The Fulham Supporters’ Trust, when formed under the campaign name ‘Back to the Cottage,’ always envisaged Fulham Football Club returning to their rightful home for good. Securing and safeguarding our long term future at Craven Cottage remains central to the Trust’s aims.
Nov 3, 2023 · Predecessor organisations of the Fulham Supporters’ Trust refused to give up on the Cottage when owners, directors and others had long since written it off as either unsuitable for their ambitions or too valuable not to be exploited for other uses (and sometimes both).
An unusual feature is that teams enter the pitch from one corner of the stadium, past the ‘cottage’. Away fans visiting Craven Cottage are located in one side of the Putney End Stand, with the rest of this stand allocated to ‘neutral’ supporters. The typical allocation for visiting supporters is around 3,000.
Oct 10, 2022 · Why is there a cottage? After Fulham’s first match in their gleaming new home there was one small problem to solve which explains why the cottage is there: there were no locker rooms built for players to use.
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Oct 5, 2022 · Joe Prince-Wright delves into one of the wackier bits of Premier League history: Fulham's Craven Cottage, which can trace some of its roots all the way back to the Tudor period.
