So, there we were, booked on the 6am Alitalia flight out of Thiefrow last Thursday morn for Fulham's gladiatorial match against
AS Roma. Bit early, and seemed even earlier when the missus woke me up at 5.56am, the alarm having failed to do so (post mortem on who's fault that was still being played out !). So having a long weekend already booked and paid for, decided that I'd book us ...