Beasant delighted by Fulham's Cottage return

Fulham’s Dave Beasant is looking forward to kicking off next season at Craven Cottage after local council officials approved the Londoners’ £5m (€7.1m) scheme to bring their outdated ground up to Barclaycard Premiership standards.

Builders will now move into Craven Cottage and bolt seats onto terraces, add roofing and install new floodlights, giving Fulham’s traditional home an all-seater capacity of 22,000 by August 2004.