Impressive Rovers call the tune

“GOODNIGHT Irene” sang the 7,000 Rovers fans when they weren’t busy taunting the home crowd.

It was almost Goodnight Vienna for Fulham, until Danny Murphy fired home the equaliser that meant the two sides will have to do it again at the Memorial Stadium later this month. Bristol may be a city where the silverware never shines but never mistake it for one that doesn’t care about its football. City, a division higher, had failed to down Middlesbrough on Saturday and League One Rovers were intent on claiming bragging rights.

Danny Coles, an ex-City boy, opened the scoring via a hefty deflection off Dejan Stefanovic in the game’s first attack and with plenty of other top flight sides having already been eliminated, Fulham must have feared the worst, especially when winger Hameur Bouazza cried off with a shoulder problem.