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THE GREAT ESCAPE

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FULHAM fans danced with delight after Danny Murphy's header 14 minutes from time kept them in the Barclays Premier League with an amazing third away win in a row.

Midfielder Murphy was left virtually unchallenged to nod in a Jimmy Bullard free-kick of a largely dismal game at Fratton Park which left FA Cup Finalists Portsmouth nursing their fourth consecutive defeat before next week's Wembley final against Cardiff.

BRI AND MIGHTY!

ROB SHEPHERD at Craven Cottage

IF Fulham retain their Premier League status next week then Roy Hodgson will be hailed as a miracle man.

No doubt, there will be few Roy of the Rovers or Houdini Hodgson headlines banded about.

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KAMARA ZOOMS IN ON SAFETY

AIDAN MAGEE at Eastlands

THE glimpse of salvation. The raging against the dying of the light. The growing belief that this is not a futile and lost cause.

Whatever is stirring in Fulham hearts, they've suddenly discovered something which had been lost to them for so long this season.

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YANKEE DOODLE!

CHRIS BASCOMBE at Craven Cottage

FOR once, Liverpool benefited from embarrassing gaffes by an American.

Kasey Keller's calamitous errors which sent Fulham closer to the drop weren't as well orchestrated as a Tom Hicks fireside chat but it had the same result.

It left his despairing fans with their hands glued to their heads.

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