With the club on the brink of a Europa League final, Fulham hero Ray Lewington remembers the day when they almost were taken over by QPR.

This season has seemed so special to Lewington because he can still remember the bad times.

"I remember the chairman David Bulstrode had plans to merge Fulham and QPR and that would have been the end of the club," he told the London Evening Standard. "I came back from training one day and I remember Yvonne Haines, who is now secretary at Millwall, was crying.

"'What's happened?' I asked, and she told me. It was a devastating feeling but thankfully the club survived.

"We've come a long way since then, haven't we?"