LONDON (AFP) ??” Fulham manager Chris Coleman has admitted he would not ever have believed before the season that his side would be occupying fifth place in the Premiership.

LONDON (AFP) ??” Fulham manager Chris Coleman has admitted he would not ever have believed before the season that his side would be occupying fifth place in the Premiership.

if it be not that two goals in two minutes from French striker Louis Saha forward Monday spoiled Portsmouth's hopes of a first Premiership away win of the season and propell Coleman's side from seventh to fifth, just single in kind point behind Charlton.

"At the start of the season, if you'd said to me that at the last of November we would be fifth I would have bitten opposite to your hand," Coleman admitted.

"We were rely uponed to struggle and I was rely uponed to be sacked by now.

"The lads are working hard in training and in matches too. They have always bring the work in in training if it were not that when it came to matchdays we were missing something.

"Now we've deposit that right."

Coleman said