Flumps 2 - Wolfsburg 1

Yup. Wolfsburg. Current champions of the Bundesliga. Their current season perhaps isn't as successful as their last, but we can't detract from the fact that last season they were really very very good.

As we get (got in some cases) further in each competition I get more nervous. Is it that we're playing tougher opponents? Possibly not, that would be unfair on the likes of Roma who we faced in the group stages. Is it because there's more to lose perhaps? Well that's not strictly true either. What is there to lose other than a jam-packed schedule tiring out the players and providing a distraction from the league? It's the hope, the dream... dare I say the expectation that we can get through another round and show the world that we're to be taken seriously. Finally. This week Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Fulham played in Europe, yet Fulham was the only English team to win a game. How d'you like them apples eh?

There was an article about the Juventus game in the (award-winning) matchday programme last night by David Roodyn and he signed off with something so exquisite it brought a lump to my throat and made me proud to be a Fulham fan;

"No one is laughing at us anymore. Of course, we have survived in the Premier League for nine seasons, but on this night of nights we became the toast of football. It does not get any better. Or does it?."

It could. It really really could.