The summer is long and the going harsh.

Saturdays are no longer filled with a trip to Craven Cottage or a journey up north to one of the many outposts, but instead with shopping trips and endless refreshing of Twitter in the vain hope something might happen.

The thought of those pre-season games can't even comfort you, because even those are eluding capture with not a single game having been announced yet.

It's tough being a football fan.

We're struggling the same as you - we find ourselves awake in the depths of night recounting every single pass that led to Lucas Piazon's goal at Bristol, or walking down one of the aisles in the supermarket wanting to curl some cabbage into the top corner of a freezer in order to recreate one of Tom Cairney's screamers.

Like you, we just want to be back at the Cottage, watching Fulham kick a ball about.

But to keep us going and stop us from going mad, we've come up with a list of things you can do to keep yourself going until normality resumes in a few weeks time.

  1. Organise Fulham's entire pre-season schedule
  2. Re-watch all 85 league goals scored by Fulham, then recreate them in your back garden using friends, children and dogs as defenders
  3. Create your own transfer saga and watch panic ensue as everyone on Twitter believes you're an 'ITK' after you've linked Messi to Fulham
  4. Design and stitch together your very own home strip for the coming season while you wait for Fulham to announce their official one
  5. Hide in the bushes at Motspur Park and religiously tick off your check list of cars that go in everyday, just in case a new signing pops up in his Bentley

  6. Compose a poem for Tom Cairney, listing every single reason why he should stay at Fulham, including but not limited to your love for his left foot

  7. Like that bloke who made the Will Grigg song, lock yourself in your room and create new terrace songs for every single member of the playing squad

  8. Annoy every single one of your friends down the pub by constantly telling them that Scott Malone is wonderful after every pint

  9. Pretend to your partner that you're taking them on a nice romantic walk, but instead recreate the walk through Bishop's Park in preparation for the first game of the season, just to make sure remember the way

  10. Take to the games console and recreate the entire season on FIFA, except this time ensure the side get promoted.

  11. Religiously study all the missed penalties for last season and come up with a list of reasons why they missed them - these can be both reasonable and spiritual

  12. Sit down and create your Fantasy Football lineup for the coming season so you won't finish last again

  13. Go to the barbers and get your hair cut like Neeskens Kebano so that no matter where you go, you'll be reminded of the DR Congo international

  14. Learn Serbian in honour of Slavisa Jokanovic

  15. Map put the entire season where you, of course, have Fulham down to win every single game and go up as record breaking Champions

  16. Buy a cottage in Cornwall just so you can say you're going to a place that at least sounds a bit like Craven Cottage

  17. Create a list like this one because the wait is excruciating and there's nothing really else to write about