Portsmouth were still near the relegation zone after a poor run of form that also saw Primus being sent off for the first time in his career for a foul on Fulham's Louis Saha.

When the ground became redeveloped, with the standing terraces replaced in 2003-4 ( during Fulham's exile to Loftus Road ) the club applied for a licence to have a designated neutral area, in the rows closest to the Cottage, ( affectionately nicknamed ' Little Switzerland ').

Fulham voters have, however, been leaning towards the Conservatives since the 1960s as the area underwent huge demographic change: the tightly-packed terraces which had housed working-class families employed in the heavy industry that dominated Fulham's riverside being rapidly replaced with young professionals.

With promotion to the league in the 1990s, rivalries developed with the likes of Leyton Orient and Fulham though neither reached anything like the mutual hatred felt with Enfield, especially with Fulham's meteoric rise to the Premiership.

He ended his career with 459 appearances for the club, a figure surpassed by only four other players in Fulham's history.

From then on he was only second choice until Fulham's match against Blackburn where he started the game, with Niemi on the bench.

He then went on to start Fulham's remaining games as they defied all odds and avoided relegation on the last day of the season with a 1 – 0 win over Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

Draws followed in four of Fulham's next five Premiership games against Blackpool, Blackburn Rovers, Everton and West Ham United, with a solitary 2 – 1 home win over Wolves.

The draw resulted Derby County being relegated to the Football League. Later in the 2007 / 8 season, after having a relatively dry spell in front of goal, resurrected Fulham's Premier League survival hopes with two goals in the last twenty minutes ( plus a Danny Murphy penalty ) secured a rare away win against Manchester City.

He ended the season as Fulham's top Premier League goalscorer with six goals.

For the second successive season, Dempsey ended as Fulham's top Premier League goalscorer joint with Andrew Johnson with seven goals.

Rugby union team London Wasps shared the ground with QPR between 1996 until Premier League side Fulham replaced them in 2002, when Fulham's Craven Cottage was closed for reconstruction.

It was Fulham's preferred temporary ground, with the other suggested alternative being West Ham's Upton Park.

He became a favourite amongst Fulham's supporters whilst he played for them, for his impassioned, never-say-die and sometimes aggressive style of play — although this has led to problems with referees.

Blackburn were relegated to the First Division in Jansen's first season, but he was the star of the team which won promotion back to the Premier League in the 2000 – 01 season, finishing as the league's second top scorer, after Fulham's Louis Saha, with 23 goals.

Having achieved his 32 day task of maintaining Fulham's Premier League position, with a record of one win, one draw and three defeats, he was given the manager's job on a longer contract having first to resign from his position with Northern Ireland.

The match ended in a 1 – 1 draw with the first goal being scored by Fulham's Steed Malbranque.

The club survived relegation in the 2007 – 08 season with Brede forming a formidable partnership with Aaron Hughes at the heart of Fulham's defence, a partnership that has continued to blossom during the 08 / 09 season with Fulham's average goals conceded per game at less than one.

During this period, businessman and politician Henry Norris was the club chairman and curiously he had an indirect role in the foundation of Fulham's local rivals Chelsea F. C ..

Of particular note, was Ranelagh House, Fulham's palatial home from 1886 – 1888.

This move was largely motivated by Fulham's failure thus far to gain promotion to the top division of English football.

Yet Fulham's comfortable Premier League table positions in the previous years and the fact that, for the previous three seasons the ground has been filled to capacity, means stadium expansion is a viable option.

Due to Fulham's history of having no segregation in the Putney End and having very well-behaved fans, the FA gave Fulham special dispensation to allow for this.

Shortly after the untimely passing of Fulham's greatest player Johnny Haynes ; on 27 November 2005 it was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand.

Fulham's training ground is located near Motspur Park, where the club's Academy is also situated.

Fulham's first season in Division Two turned out to be the highest that the club would finish for twenty-one years, until in 1927 – 28 when the club were relegated to the 3rd Division South, created in 1920.

Following Benítez's departure from Liverpool in June 2010, Dalglish was asked to help find a replacement, and in July Fulham's Roy Hodgson was appointed manager.

A statue of Michael Jackson was unveiled by Al-Fayed in April 2011 at Fulham's Craven Cottage stadium.

The first half of the Boat Race course is along Hammersmith and Fulham's southern border, on the River Thames.

It is on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line of the tube — Fulham's tube stations are Putney Bridge, Parsons Green and Fulham Broadway.

Coleman joined Fulham's coaching staff in October 2002 under Tigana.

He was named as Fulham's permanent manager in May 2003, beating the more experienced Klaus Toppmöller and George Burley to the post, and also became the youngest manager in the Premier League.

Many of Fulham's key players, such as Edwin van der Sar, Louis Saha, Steed Malbranque and Luis Boa Morte, were sold in the following years and Fulham did not repeat their earlier successes under Coleman though he kept them clear of relegation.

The O's are the second-oldest league club in London behind Fulham, and the oldest London club playing in the Football League following Fulham's promotion to the Premier League.

In 1975 Spencer won the inaugural Masters event held at Fulham's West Centre Hotel.

He had to wait until 22 September 2007 to score his first goal in Manchester City's sky blue colours, minutes before netting another one at Fulham's Craven Cottage.

His performance at Fulham's victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford was thought to be influential in persuading Alex Ferguson to sign him in 2004.

Saha was transferred to Manchester United for a fee of £ 12. 4 million in 2004 having scored 15 goals so far that season and impressing Sir Alex Ferguson in Fulham's 3 – 1 win at Old Trafford.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Since the break the Church of England, an established national church, still considers itself part of the broader Western Catholic tradition as well as being the " mother church " of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

King William gave the Abbey independence from its mother church and endowed it generously, including income from 24 parishes, land in every royal burgh and more.

A church was erected in 326, when Helena, the mother of the first Byzantine emperor, Constantine, visited Bethlehem.

A group of bishops and divines met first at Chertsey and then at Windsor in 1548, drawn from both conservatives and reformers, agreed only " the service of the church ought to be in the mother tongue ".

* Church of England, the state church of the United Kingdom and mother church of the Anglican Communion, also referred to as the C of E

Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.

In 1773 King Frederick II of Prussia, having conquered and annexed Silesia in 1742, had St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin built for the Catholic Upper Silesian immigrants, now the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin.

Booth's mother was Episcopalian and his father was described as a free spirit, preferring a Sunday walk along the Baltimore waterfront with his children to attending church.

On April 21, 1975, SLA members robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California, in the process killing 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, a mother of four depositing money for her church.

Beria's mother, Marta Ivanovna, was a deeply religious, church-going woman ( she spent so much time in church that she died there ); she was previously married and widowed before marrying Beria's father, Pavel Khukhaevich Beria, a landowner from Abkhazia, Georgia.

Next year, H. G. Apenzeller from North Methodist church, who arrived 5 April 1885, started to evangelize with Dr. Scranton and his mother.

Former collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, founded in 936 by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, at the request of his mother Matilda of Ringelheim | Queen Matilda, in honour of her late husband, Otto's father, King Henry the Fowler, and as his memorial

Surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers like Saint Jerome and established by Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great.

Richard Lovelace's mother was also the daughter of Anne Sandys and the granddaughter of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester ( 1559 – 1570 ), Bishop of London ( 1570 – 1576 ), and the Archbishop of York ( 1576 – 1588 ).

Ussher says that Ninian left Candida Casa for Cluayn-coner in Ireland, and eventually died in Ireland ; that his mother was a Spanish princess ; that his father wished to regain him after having assented to his training for an ecclesiastical state ; that a bell comes from heaven to call together his disciples ; that a wooden church was raised by him, with beams delivered by stags ; and that a harper with no experience at architecture was the builder of the church.

Smaller churches are autonomous and each have a mother church that is autocephalous.

Furtado's first public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at a church on Portugal Day.

* Emperor Constantine the Great gives the ancient Roman town Drepana ( Asia Minor ) the name Helenopolis, after his mother Helena, and builds a church in honour of the martyr St. Lucian.

Destouches was abroad at the time of d ' Alembert's birth, and a couple of days after birth his mother left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church.

Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother.