Our first ever game against Birmingham City took place at the Cottage on the 19th of September 1908 held in League Division 2, the game ended in a one all draw.

The last meeting with Birmingham took place at their home ground on the 8th of May 2018 in the Championship, this time the Brummies thrashed us three goals to one.

Our record since that first contest has consisted of 90 meetings. Of these games, Fulham have won 28, we've drawn 28 and lost 34 so like Hull, we've come off worst since the earliest contests.

As I did not travel to Birmingham, I'll not attempt to write a review of the match, more a little collection of impressions.

This fixture would have been an away draw if one applied the loss, draw, win theory, as I am a right old pessemist I opted to suggest to all and sundry that no, this would be a defeat, the draw will be against QPR and the Derby game a win.

As things transpired I was hopelessly off kilter as usual, as susual Fulham dominated the possession. albeit by a narrow margin, Mitro scored hurrah! Mitro was booked pah! Mitro will miss the QPR game boo! Kamara missed a sitter, well there's a surpise!

One thing that many have touched on has been the role of Tom Cairney. I do not see him as a natural skipper though he's a marvelous player. I feel that he has a tendancy to stroll around too much and certainly doesn't appear to rally the troops when they need directing.

Much as I admire Tom, he has been slightly out of sorts lately and although illness was cited for Scotty's decsion to leave him out, I couldn't help wondering whether that was the whole story.

Parker had made three changes to the line-up, Anthony Knockaert replaced Tom, Rodák was in place of Bettinelli and Maxine Le Marchand was included in place of Joe Bryan who is still suffering from the injury he received early in the defeat at home to Hull. A part of me has a fantasy that had he not gone off injured we might have had a better outcome, silly old me!

Antway, that's all done and dusted now, the big news is that we won, away from home and against opponents who have had a slight edge on us over the years, at least of the 91 matches we have now won 29, let's hope we can win the home re-match to make it 30.

And let's hope it'll be many years before we get a chance to add to the total!

After the abysmal performance against Hull, Fulham manged to restart the leaky old four cylinder motor and get it running again.

Praise be for a very welcome three points away from home at a ground that hasn't always held happy memories for us. Maybe not a epoch-making result but t's a start and hopefully will go some way to boosting the confidence of the team following the Hull debacle.

Ok, so we have crept into the Play-Off places butlet's face it, if we are serious about making waves it's pretty obvious that we have to become much more consistent,

On the bright side, we are only seven points shy of the leading club so it's not impossible that we can stay in touch, the big question is can we make the next two games the springboard?

Let's keep our fingers crossed then.