So what did the gaffer have to say after a stunning 0-0 stalemate?

"I thought our performance for 90 minutes today was very decent. (you have a strange definition of decent then! - Ed)

"The pressure was on us at half-time because Fulham are a good passing team and there are times in a game against them that you are not going to touch the ball.

"I thought that happened just before half-time so I thought our efforts in the second-half were terrific.

"If we failed at all in the first-half I felt it was because the players tried too hard and gave the ball away too cheaply.

"But in the second period we played it easy and early and played the way we were facing and certainly opened them up more.

"We didn't have any really clear cut chances but we created chances, a couple of headers, and if one had gone in it would have resulted in a home win.

"I know that if we continue performing as we did in the second-half we are going to be OK.

"At half-time I told the players not to try and win the game on their own and that 11 of them would win the game if they played as a team.

"At times when we were defending against a very good passing team someone would try to play the hardest ball on the park, hit it straight to their centre-half and we would have to defend again.

"So in the second-half we started playing the percentage passes once we had the ball and that resulted in us asking more questions of Fulham after the break."

Well, does Einstein know what he's talking about? Shouldn't some of the above basics be obvious to a team of professionals?

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