Fulham F.C. of the early grounds listed below are likely to have been parks and parkland, which have now been developed. Even when the club purchased Craven Cottage and the surrounding land in 1894, they had to wait two years before they could play a game there. The Fulham mascot is Billy the Badger, who was the winning design sent in by Kyle Jackson after an online competition by the club. Billy the Badger wears the number 79 Fulham shirt, in reference to the club's year of founding, 1879. Controversy first surrounded Billy when he tried to cheer up Chelsea manager Avram
Billy May (footballer) Billy May (footballer) Billy May (26 September 1865 – 13 October 1936) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Notts County and Burton Swifts. Billy May was born in Hull, in, what was then the East Riding of Yorkshire. There is no information on when May moved south to the Midlands but, at the age of 19 he signed for a Derbyshire football club, Long Eaton Rangers. At the time May was on Long Eaton Rangers books the club were not in a competitive League. The following year, as May approached his 21st birthday May moved