We just keep meeting up with old friends from years gone by and here we are again travelling up the M4 to Reading once more.

Frankly, I'm hoping we fare better than we normally do at the Majdeski Stadium.

The awful truth is that in our last 12 visits, we have only come home with all the points twice, we've sared the spoils three times and been beaten seven times, including a dreadful second Leg Play-off where Reading played like a negative away team and snatched a lucky goal, having played like a negative away team in the first leg at the Cottege to snatch a lucky draw.

As the season stands prior to this game, Fulham's record is exactly symmetrical. we've lost one third of our games, drawn one third which obviously means that we've won the other third.

Wow, another away win, I'm going to have to watch myself or I'm going to go into orbit. I reckon I've been too accustomed to that sinking feeling as our games near the final whistle.

We've had a long-standing habit of switching off and conceding late goals and usually this means no points or as has been the recent case, three points instantly converted to just one!

This time, although true to our usual Fulhamish trend, we did concede right at the death, fortunately by the time this occured we had a handy four goals in the bag so this time we had little cause to curse.

Obviously Tom and Mitro rightly received plaudits for their scoring mastershow but the whole team purred along rather pleasingly and all deserve a mention in despatches.

Joe Bryan in particular was outstanding throughout. Joe has been consistently getting better and better since joining us and has deserved his regular place. The defence as a unit is developing as confidence builds and Joe's becoming a bit of a Rufus Brevett or left-sided Steve Finnan character in the team.

I won't dwell on the match, as there are ample first hand accounts out there, aside from saying that Tom's first goal was a peach and his second a thing of wonder, Mitr's two were typically Mitro.

Reading lost a player for two ridiculous fouls and essentially offered little once down to 10 men though we were well on top when he marched.

Come on you Whites, 21 points by 14:30 on Saturday has to be the aim now so we put down a marker for this season.

Another great night but even better, an away win. Something with which we've had something of a famine since the heady days of Jean Tigana, Uncle Roy and Slaviša Jokanović.
Even better was our return to scoring goals, both Tom Cairney and Alexandar Mitrović helping themselves to a brace

All in all, this was another dominat team showing and almost gave us another clean sheet. Naturally, this is Fulham so there had to be a late opposition goal and so it was!

1-4 though, I think we can forgive our usual foible this time and celebrate 2 wins on the spin.

Now let's hope we can keep this up against Charlton who are having a decent start to the 2019-20 season and currenty sit one point and three places below us but as they play tonight could be above us in second place depending on other results if they were to beat Swansea at home.

Whatever the outcome of that match, we will start tomorrow in 5th place as one point would put Swansea on 19 points to our (and Charlton's0 18.