Fulham finding life tough at the top

Fulham's Lee Clark today revealed that the Premiership newcomers are still coming to terms with manager Jean Tigana?s squad rotation policy.

The midfielder has been in and out of the team this season because of competition from summer signings Steed Malbranque and Sylvain Legwinski.

Clark played a full game on Saturday in Fulham?s 0-0 draw at Leicester but defender Kit Symons started as a substitute as 21-year-old youth team product Zat Knight was given his full League debut.

Clark said: ?It is quite hard when you are in and out of the side. We all know that we need a big squad in this League and there is a rotation policy.

?But it is pretty hard to get used to because everyone wants to play all the time. It was tough on Kit on Saturday because he had been one of our better performers against Arsenal last week.

?The manager will make many decisions like this throughout the season and it was good for Zat to get his chance. Hopefully he will be able to do as well as Sean Davis, who also came through the youth team, because that would give us a big boost.

?He was pretty impressive, but he will get some stick from the lads because he came off after about an hour with cramp.?

The result means Fulham are still to make much of an impact in the top flight. They have taken just six points from six matches and that tally is a third of the total they had amassed from the same number of matches in the First Division last season.