Mo of the same at Cottage

When Mohamed Al Fayed, standing on the Craven Cottage pitch for the last time as chairman, reached into his pocket and pulled out a giant comedy moustache for a photo shoot with new owner Shahid Khan — who has his own giant very real moustache — Fulham fans everywhere must have smiled.

In fact, just about everybody smiled; because it rather summed up the quirky, charming and slightly barmy character of a man who has saved Fulham and transformed it over a 16-year period into a Premier League stalwart. But maybe it also highlighted why during that period Fulham haven’t received the recognition and the praise they deserve for what has happened both on and off the pitch at a club that, having been established in 1879, is the oldest in London.

It’s not just that Fulham are last on Match of the Day more often than they deserve (although that is probably a bone of contention in the Hammersmith End) but that other achievements have gone unnoticed too.