Things have got a little crazy since my impassioned plea for Marco Silva to be given a new contract on Sunday. Our genius will be barred from the Stadium of Light touchline on Wednesday after being booked for the fourth time this season. Anyone who claims to have foreseen a situation where Luis Boa Morte was the more sensible of Fulham’s management duo is lying to you. Boa was a regular in the referee’s notebook but he seems to have mellowed now that he is only allowed in the technical area – he was the peacemaker in an early stramash between Silva, the fourth official and the opposition bench on Friday night and might now be a serene presence on the sidelines in the head coach’s absence.

It is a slightly bewildering turn of events but I was pleased to hear Marco say that he must improve his behaviour during yesterday’s press conference. I’m no puritan as anyone who is near me in the away end on Wednesday will soon come to realise but the histrionics on the touchline are a little unbecoming. Only Mark Halsey gets to change his mind after he has given a decision based on the reaction of the players – and the Queens Park Rangers addict has long since retired from refereeing. Fulham probably also need to improve their on field behaviour as the Whites are currently running away with the ill-disciplined Premier League title.

Marco isn’t the only one getting a little tetchy. Over in the Walham Green, the sanctioned mob seem restless. They had the extraordinary audacity to ask people to find a better right back than Reece James in the aftermath of the derby draw, seemingly oblivious to Kenny Tete’s excellence. I do not visit the Chelsea website – and don’t wish to place viruses on everyone’s computer by linking to it – but the fanatical Fulham away following appear to have left a mark on Graham Potter. Chelsea published a piece yesterday where their beleaguered boss appears to suggest that Fulham fans sung ‘what a waste of money’ on Friday because they were jealous.

Confusion follows stress so we will have to forgive Graham. Whilst the Whites proved their was only one team in Fulham, king Kenny underlined his status as the borough’s best right back with an outstanding performance – confirming just what a good deal we got when nabbing him from Lyon for £3m. What exactly would Fulham be jealous of? It wouldn’t be the stadium Chelsea’s founders built for us, or the antics of the captain, leader, legend or how some of their senior players responded to September 11? Our fans don’t push foreigners off trains or racially abuse wingers who later come to ply their trade at Stamford Bridge. If anything, Potter should be disappointed that Fulham didn’t heed Jack Collins’ call on Fulhamish five years ago and recruit him from Sweden for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham’s biggest job.

In Shepherd’s Bush, I couldn’t help but appreciate the irony of Chris Martin finally reaching his preferred destination. We’ve all been experiencing a few delays on the real network but seven years after Slav told him that we weren’t a train station, the sulky Scottish striker has finally signed for Queens Park Rangers. One of my earliest memories of Martin was a dreadful miss against QPR at the Cottage in the game that started the remarkable season of penalty misses. I can’t imagine the grizzled veteran’s CV that so impressed Neil Critchley contains a glowing reference from anyone in SW6.

Nobody can fail to be struck by the enormity of the charges laid against Manchester City by the Premier League yesterday. There was a day of wild speculation on the social media, but the Garry Cook era might not be remembered too fondly by Eastlands regulars soon. Lots of pundits have pontificated about potential punishments, but the reckoning I’m waiting for is when the alleged betting offences committed by Ivan Toney are dealt with. Given that the Premier League has taken years to deal with City’s creative accounting, the independent regulatory commission might be due at the bus stop in Hounslow for a while yet.

Fulham aren’t immune from criticism or their own FFP frailties but the hierarchy do appear to have got a few things right this season. While I have been watching from very close proximity at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday due to it being the closest thing to a home game I’ll have for a while, I am worried that, given the effort the Whites put in on Friday, the terrestrial television audience could be treated to a classic Cup flop from Fulham. It won’t quite be Hayes 1991 or the Burnley replay that probably did for Jean Tigana, but Silva was spot on when he said his side will need to much better in the replay than they were in that sensational original tie.

I’m still very keen on a Cup run – if only to set up a fifth round meeting with Leeds United States of America. Unfortunately, their number diminished by one yesterday. One normal day of Fulham will probably never happen, but we all look forward to the glorious next instalment of our favourite soap opera.