IT WAS a magical victory on an historic night at Craven Cottage.
A night when one of the giants of European football was humbled.
A night with five goals, a penalty, the woodwork twice rattled, two red cards and an electric atmosphere.
Oh I say! The well-heeled at the Cottage will remember this night for the rest of their lives.
South West London still has a team in Europe and just for once, the nouveau riche up the road at Stamford Bridge have been put in their place by football's establishment.
Fulham last night exhibited everything Chelsea lacked during their dismal defeat by Inter Milan on Tuesday.
They were creative, instinctive, energetic, dynamic and, by the end, ecstatic.
And that was just the fans, who thankfully still remembered to say 'excuse me' as the 23,458 crammed into this tiny ground bundled into the streets outside to party hard with a small dry white.
History is rarely made at this genteel club, especially when money counts for so much in modern football.
This performance was pure romance and from kick-off the heart never stopped thumping until Dutch ref Bjorn Kuipers blew his whistle and sent Fulham into the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
Clint Dempsey's exquisite 20-yard chip which ultimately won the tie with eight minutes to go was spectacular but not out of place - merely the icing on the cake at the end of two superb games.
The fact he was making only his third appearance since a serious knee injury is just an aside in the context of the whole pulsating match.
Fulham looked down and out after just one minute and 38 seconds when David Trezeguet scored.
Brede Hangeland's attempted clearance only found the experienced Frenchman, who finished superbly to apparently kill off the tie. But this was Fulham at their best. Last week in Turin they gave Juve too much respect.
Last night they were written off by most outsiders and probably a few inside too - and so resumed the carefree manner in which they have approached the Europa League all season.
Within six minutes Bobby Zamora had equalised with a clinical goal from six yards.
Still the distance looked too great for Fulham with two goals needed just to send the match into extra time. England boss Fabio Capello was watching, the former Juve manager drawn in by the occasion and a chance to see England outsiders Zamora and Paul Konchesky state their World Cup case.
And pretty soon there were two Fabios spectating as Juve's defensive legend Fabio Cannavaro was rightly sent off on 27 minutes for clambering all over Zoltan Gera.
And that was about the last we saw of the two-time champions of Europe.
They opted to shut up shop and see the game out - but they certainly couldn't see what was coming.
Simon Davies hit the bar with a free-kick and Zamora was unable to react quickly enough to turn in the rebound.
Dickson Etuhu joined the attack and headed against the post. Then, with six minutes of the first half left, Juventus cracked again.
Konchesky found Zamora, whose touch fed Davies on the byline. He turned inside and found Gera to hammer the ball into the roof of the net.
Davies went close again, Dempsey came on as a sub and had a header pushed away by keeper Antonio Chimenti and Gera had another pop at goal as the evening built towards an incredible climax.
It arrived with a classy finish that triggered delight around much of Craven Cottage, despair in one quarter and perhaps concern in one particular seat.
Capello will have taken note of Dempsey's American passport as he swung the ball high into the box with perfect weight to drop perfectly into the net and clinch an epic win.
Dempsey is back from injury just in time to hit top gear for the World Cup group game against England on June 12.
Juve's misery was complete when Jonathan Zebina was sent off in injury time for lashing out at Damien Duff.
But by then, Juve were dead and buried while Fulham were dusting off the passports again.
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