Any hope gets a Hammering

On the miserable walk back alongside the Thames I heard a commentator on some fan's radio saying: "Fulham were very unlucky...but how often can you keep saying that?" I thought it summed up our season perfectly.

Yes we were unlucky; No we didn't deserve to lose (although we didn't do enough to earn a victory either); but we have said that after the vast majority of games this season. The simple fact is that we're not good enough - at the moment at least - to compete at this level.

We have the makings of a decent side but we need more time and that, sadly, is a commodity that is in rather short supply. After letting myself dream the impossible dream after the Villa game that we could avoid relegation, reality has finally dawned. We're going down.