Championship

Pulis fury as Boro pay penalty

by
The LeaguePaper Team
14 January 2018

MIDDLESBRO’ 0
FULHAM 1

SPOT ON: Fulham’s Oliver Norwood fires home the winner from the penalty spot in the fifth minute of stoppage time
PICTURES: Action Images

By Joe Thomas
IN the end it was a tale of two penalties – one that was given, one that wasn’t – at the Riverside Stadium, even if the reality was Middlesbrough should have wrapped up the points in the battle to close in on the top six anyway.
Boro had fantastic opportunities to take the lead long before Fulham snatched a late victory – their first on Teesside since 1984 – courtesy of a dr...

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