The Big Interview: Kit Symons

Fulhamish

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4.9 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kit Symons has done it all with Fulham. He played in three divisions – and won two league titles – during his X years as a player, before returning as a scout, then a coach at various age levels in the academy, before eventually being handed the manager’s job in 2014.

Sammy and Drew sat down with Kit to talk about those heady years during our rise under Mohamed Al Fayed and discuss his time in management – what went right, what went wrong, and what he thought of his various academy graduates who made varying levels of impact during his 18-month tenure.

00:00 - Playing career

20:14 - Return to Fulham

56:50 - Thoughts on current team

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, it is showtime. Please welcome the team of the Fulamish podcast.
0:12.5	It's the Fulamish podcast, your independent voice of Fulham SC. My name is Sammy James. Welcome to
0:17.7	the show. Today, I'm joined by Drew Heatley. Hello. All right, right Sammy and we are joined by one of the very few men who have both
0:24.9	played and managed Fulham football club delighted to say we have Kit Simons
0:29.3	alongside us hi Kit welcome to the pod hello boys thanks for coming on how are you
0:33.3	yeah pretty good overall yeah just had a second hit replace so I'm limping about a little bit, but are doing very well, thanks.
0:40.0	Nice. Well, it's an honour to have you on the show today. We really want to get into kind of both sides of your time at Fulham, both kind of the playing time and also the managerial stint at Fulham, but also just a catch-up and good to find out obviously um you finished your
0:55.7	most recent job over in greece um so what kind of stuff have you been up to um kind of like
1:01.6	past few months since since that ended yeah so i did um did 18 months over with with cookie over in
1:07.6	uh in athens with a club called Tromatos in the Greek Super League.
1:11.1	That was really good fun, enjoyed that.
1:14.0	And then since then, I've come back now and been doing, do some match-delegate work for
1:20.0	the Premier League, going to games and sort of dealing with the referees and speaking with them.
1:25.1	And that's obviously very interesting at the moment with what's going on within the game.
1:31.0	A few commentary bits here and there, a little bit of coaching here and there for some
1:34.8	some private stuff.
1:35.8	So you're just doing a few things ticking along, really, getting out to a few games and just
1:40.7	enjoy myself really.
1:41.7	It's nice to be back at home for a while.
1:44.0	Yeah. And still keeping an eye on the Fulham?
1:46.7	Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
1:48.0	You know, I had all the teams that I played for.
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