Fulham and Swansea first met on the 31st of August 1925, in what was the second tier of the Football League, this was a home fixture for us and true to the Fulhamish Spirit, we lost one nil! A bit like our last meeting of January 28th 2014 at their place except the losing margin was 2-0 on that occasion.

Since that 1925 game, we have met in a total of 65 games, we've lost 24, drawn 10 and won 31.

To be honest, I was very nervous about this game, I accept that we have done brilliantly lately while still not really playing to the peak of our potential and, after all, we are still only in November and we all know that Fulham have been notoriously slow starters over the past few seasons, generally clicking in the post-Christmas era.

Also, this was another away game and Swansea are definitely one of those few teams that will be slugging it out for a place in the top eight come the end of the season. We haven’t actually been too great away from home of late and despite having won the last away fixture at Brum and two at home, there had been rather a lot of questions asked about our play Having said that, we’ve won three on the spin without being at our best and frankly, that has to be a massive sign of encouragement. Even so I was mildly apprehensive albeit weirdly upbeat about things when we kicked off.

My heart was right nd my head misguided because the guys played beautifully throughout the first 45 minutes. Despite Swansea needing a win even more than we did, in our negatingof their huffing and puffing they were completely unable to break us down. Rodak was magnificent and kept us in the game and when we needed to we just tore them to shreds and allowed Miro to finish them off.

Everyone in the team shone but Mitro, Odoi, Cairney and Rodak deserve a mention for their stand-out showings.

To be honest, despite the best Swansea could muster, Fulham had an answer and it’s a shame our complete dominance didn’t lead to more goals and we lost our clean sheet. Make no mistake, this was a decisive result and a superb away team performance, this Fulham Team are better even than our promotion winners of two seasons ago.

Already we are 12 points better off at this stage of the season so if they can only keep improving or even just keep on an even keel, who knows where we’ll end up.

It’s all too early in the season to make silly predictions but right now it feels great to keep the Fulhamish Flag Flying and keep hoping. For my four penn’th I just hope that we keep entertaining with bright, incisive and intelligent football so that if we fail to get out of the Championship this time around at least we’ll have enjoyed watching the attempt.

Well, that could have been more uncomfortable for us couldn't it?

I know we oughtn't to look a gift horse in the mouth but I have to admit that Derby played in the first half as iof they didn't believ they could win agaist Fulham and some of the talk coming from the Ricoh which I took to be smoke screen to big us up and give us a false sense of security, it. now sounds as if it was really sincere
That's all water under the bridge so now let's hope the Scotty and the squad can remain focussed and prepare for our visit to Wales where it's pretty sure that Swansea will provide a much firmer test than Derby County managed on Tuesday the twenty sixth.

Mitro will be available for selection but after AK's injury we'd better keep our fingers crossed that he can be fit for selection so that he can be available for this one.