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Fulham boss Magath: Too many big teams in London

Fulham boss Felix Magath feels there's too many big clubs in London.

Magath believes it will be harder for Fulham to stay in the Barclays Premier League because his side do not have the added motivation of representing a one-club town.

He said: "For Sunderland, Norwich and Cardiff it might be easier for them because the whole city will put pressure on the team and the players and they will support them.

"Here in London you have too many big teams so the pressure does not come from outside. The atmosphere here is more relaxed than Sunderland so I have to do more to make the players sensitive to the situation.

"If you are playing for Sunderland and live there then every day you meet people and they say, "We cross our fingers for Saturday" and "We will push you" and the players hear it every day a lot of times.

"Here in London if you go out they say: 'Where's the Queen?'

"I am living in Battersea so there are some Fulham fans but it is another situation if the whole town has expectations and the grocery or the bakery; if everywhere you go the situation will be mentioned.

"Here (in London) there is too many different things you have to care about, not only Fulham.

"But the atmosphere at Norwich or Sunderland or Cardiff will be more nervous than here.

"We are under pressure but not so under pressure as these clubs from small towns where the whole town is behind the club.

"It will be much more interesting for the likes of Sunderland and Norwich than here in London."

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