The brass band playing Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! outside of Craven Cottage had to stop when the arrival of Bournemouth’s team bus interrupted their tribute to ABBA. It did not take long for the visitors to discover that Marco Silva’s Fulham would not be silenced so easily.
This was a commanding showing from the Cottagers, enough to make you wonder where they have been hiding amid a mediocre run of results in the Premier League.
Bobby De Cordova-Reid was at his best, scoring inside five minutes and then setting up the first of Rodrigo Muniz’s two goals.