In the time it takes to boil a kettle, Fulham went from potential FA Cup semi-finalists to boiling over, with Aleksandar Mitrovic, unsurprisingly, the man to flick the switch.
Sunday was supposed to be the club’s grand day out — their first FA Cup quarter-final since 2010. But no sooner were they setting their sights on a Wembley showdown with Brighton, than they were two men down — three if you include manager Marco Silva — and heading out at the hands of United.