Fulham boss Roy Hodgson will make late checks on Zoltan Gera and Toni Kallio before tomorrow’s Premier League clash at Middlesbrough.

Fulham will check on Zoltan Gera and Toni Kallio ahead of Sunday’s Premier League trip to Manchester City.

Mark Schwarzer and Clint Dempsey will play for Fulham in tomorrow’s Premier League clash with Liverpool.

Clint Dempsey is a doubt for Fulham’s Barclays Premier League clash with title favourites Manchester United.

THIS is the season when nobody can afford to feel safe. In any other campaign, a home defeat for a team nestled snugly in mid-table would generate nothing more than a few glum faces and half-hearted cat-calls.

Centre-back Aaron Hughes will miss Fulham’s Barclays Premier League trip to Bolton tomorrow after failing to complete the midweek defeat to Blackburn.

Fulham could name an unchanged side for their Barclays Premier League match against Blackburn tomorrow.

Fulham will be without Chris Baird for tomorrow’s home game with Hull after the defender suffered a leg injury at Arsenal on Saturday.

Andy Johnson is fit to lead the line for Fulham in tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League visit to Arsenal.

Fulham 2 Swansea 1

Fulham manager Roy Hodgson will contemplate big changes for tomorrow’s FA Cup fifth-round replay against Swansea after just one day between games.

SOMETIMES, it is best for managers not to bow to player power.

Fulham welcome back striker Andrew Johnson and full-back Paul Konchesky for the Barclays Premier League visit of West Brom on Sunday.

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson will give late fitness tests to Paul Konchesky and Andy Johnson ahead of tomorrow’s visit to Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester United.

Fulham manager Roy Hodgson looks certain to be without midfielder Dickson Etuhu for tomorrow’s FA Cup fifth-round trip to Swansea.

THE cold snap might be passing in England, but only now are Wigan starting to feel the pinch. Steve Bruce’s squad was decimated during the January transfer window and he is canny enough to expect a few teething problems.

Wigan 0 Fulham 0

Fulham defender Chris Baird has tonsillitis and is ruled out of the Barclays Premier League trip to Wigan tomorrow.

Fulham have signed France midfielder Olivier Dacourt on loan from Inter Milan until the end of the season.

INTER-MILAN have completed the signings of Olivier Dacourt and Brazilian duo Maicon and Maxwell.

Inter Milan have signed former Leeds and Everton midfielder Olivier Dacourt.

FORMER Leeds and Everton midfielder Olivier Dacourt has agreed to join Inter Milan from Roma this summer.

MIDDLESBROUGH emerged from a major test of their European credentials with a UEFA Cup quarter-final place after surviving a major scare in Rome.

Middlesbrough 1 Roma 0

ARSENAL continued their pre-season tour with an easy 5-2 win in Austria yesterday against SC Ritzing.

Arsene Wenger is quietly confident that Robert Pires will not follow Patrick Vieira out of Arsenal this summer.

Roma midfielder Oliver Dacourt admits if Leeds were to get back into the Premiership he would be tempted by a move back to Elland Road despite leaving the club in controversial circumstances.

France 0 Republic of Ireland 0

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Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr made one change to the side for the Group Four World Cup qualifier against France.

IRELAND will march confidently into the magnificent Stade de France tonight with spirits high and ambition soaring to face a French team reeling amid charges of mis-management.

Father-to-be Shay Given has no doubt who is the daddy when it comes to world-class strikers.

FRANCE’S coach Raymond Domenech has opted for an experimental midfield to take on the Republic of Ireland in tomorrow’s World Cup Group 4 qualifier at the Stade de France.

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Fabien Barthez will captain France in Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Ireland, after earning a recall to Raymond Domenech's side.

Brian Kerr fears France coach Raymond Domenech has wound up his new stars following his failure to recall the old guard.

BRIAN KERR yesterday moved swiftly to dampen the unrealistic predictions about the result of Saturday’s World Cup qualifying tie in Paris that have been spawned by France’s list of problems.

France coach Raymond Domenech has defended his decision to make several changes to the Les Bleus squad for the World Cup qualifiers against the Republic of Ireland on October 9 and Cyprus on October 13.

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