Prememento #108: Season 3 Episode 32 - Andrew Johnson

Ambition comes with a price. Experience comes with a warning. As players move from tier to tier among the Premier League hierarchy, it’s never quite the same as trying to get in among it in the first place. Youthful exuberance and trying to claim a place in the company of the elite in English football is a very different prospect to simply trying to maintain. When it comes to moving on, sometimes a move up in stature is a move down in importance.

Eight seasons, seven of which away from Selhurst Park. It is the outlier for many different reasons, including one of the all time trivia questions. He was brought in to compliment an Everton side that had just achieved something really special and yet were unable to finish the job. Similarly he was present when Fulham had their grand adventure in Europe. Still, all that truly matters is that one season in 2004/05; when Andrew Johnson had the top flight on the spot. Literally.