Fulham boss Roy Hodgson admits he's enjoyed a great 2008.

"It's been a great football year for me," Hodgson told fulhamfc.com, as he looked back on the past 12 months. "I got thrown into the deep end; we had a very poor start. It took us until February until we actually won a game, after five or six games we'd only taken one point and a lot of defeats.

"But to turn that around as the players did, with fantastic work and commitment, and to actually keep us in the league was a great feeling. To kick on from there and finish the year in the top half of the table, we've got to be very satisfied with that.

"But we remain humble and we remain very conscious of the fact that it can change very quickly. We've got to be careful that we don't get carried away.

"We'll congratulate ourselves to a moderate extent but at the same time, we realise there's an awful lot of football to be played in this league, we're a long way from the 40 points that we're targeting. It's important that we keep our good qualities alive and we don't, for one minute, start to believe that it's going to be an easier task than it's actually going to be."