By Tom Sizeland
Clint Dempsey scored a hat-trick, as Fulham overcame a dreary first half performance to send Newcastle crashing to defeat.
Danny Guthrie opened the scoring on the 43rd minute, with a fantastic strike on the edge of the penalty box. A controversial penalty allowed Danny Murphy to level the game, but a Dempsey brace and a Bobby Zamora penalty quickly took Fulham to an unassailable 4-1 lead. Hatem Ben Arfa brought one back with a decent individual effort in the 85th minute, before Dempsey secured his hat-trick in the last minute of normal time. Read More
Clint Dempsey: Worth His Weight In Goals?
By Michael Timbury
Debatably, Clint Dempsey is the best player in the Barclays Premier League not playing for a team considered as one of the ‘big six’. Of course Liverpool’s occupation of seventh place in the table muddy the waters a little as to whom exactly makes up the big six so perhaps it’s clearer to refer to them as the ‘glamour’ clubs in the league. However, I digress.
Having scored his first Premier League hatrick in Fulham’s 5 – 2 victory over Newcastle this past weekend, the vastly underrated value of Dempsey was plain for all to see. His first was a typical demonstration of the impeccable timing coupled with a sheer desire to score goals that Dempsey has displayed over his five years in England. Read More »