sport news Fulham 7-0 Luton: Hosts crowned as Championship champions after Marco Silva's ...

sport news Fulham 7-0 Luton: Hosts crowned as Championship champions after Marco Silva's ...
sport news Fulham 7-0 Luton: Hosts crowned as Championship champions after Marco Silva's ...

Promoted back to the Premier League. Tick. Crowned as champions. Tick. Surpassing a century of goals. Tick.

Fulham have everything their heart desires. To paraphrase that popular song they like to play at Craven Cottage, they've been just too good to be true at times this season.

Too good for the Championship in any case and so it's back to the big time, where Marco Silva will hope his Fulham can make a better fist of it than their last two visits.

There was personal satisfaction for Aleksandar Mitrovic too, their bulldozer of a centre forward, who surpassed Guy Whittingham's post-1992 record of 42 goals in a second-tier season.

His two goals took him to 43, a quite staggering number in the most demanding of divisions.

By the end, they were queuing up to score for Fulham. Tom Cairney, Kenny Tete, Fabio Carvalho, Mitrovic, Bobby Decordova-Reid, Jean Michael Seri… Hell, even keeper Marek Rodak probably fancied his chances.

Fulham were crowned Championship champions after beating Luton 7-0 on Monday evening

Fulham were crowned Championship champions after beating Luton 7-0 on Monday evening

Central midfielder Tom Cairney (left) started the rout at Craven Cottage with a confident finish

Central midfielder Tom Cairney (left) started the rout at Craven Cottage with a confident finish 

Kenny Tete (right) then doubled the Cottagers' lead within 11 minutes for a 2-0 half-time lead

Kenny Tete (right) then doubled the Cottagers' lead within 11 minutes for a 2-0 half-time lead

Match Facts: Fulham 7-0 Luton

Fulham (4-2-3-1): Rodak; Tete, Adarabioyo, Ream, Robinson; Reed (Seri 72), Cairney (Muniz 86); Wilson, Carvalho (Kebano 78), Decordova-Reid; Mitrovic.

Substitutes not used: Gazzaniga; Bryan, Hector, Chalobah.

Goals: Cairney 29, Tete 39, Carvalho 54, Mitrovic 62, 90+2, Decordova-Reid 65, Seri 79.

Yellow cards: Wilson 83, Mitrovic 90+3. 

Manager: Marco Silva.

Luton (3-1-4-2): Ingram; Burke, Lockyer, Potts; Naismith; Onyedinma (Kioso 31), Lansbury, Bell, Snodgrass (Clark 67); Jerome (Muskwe 64), Hylton.

Substitutes not used: Isted; Thorpe, Cornick, Mendes Gomes.

Yellow cards: Hylton 11, Lockyer 27, Snodgrass 35, Lansbury 37, Potts 51, Muskwe 85.

Manager: Nathan Jones. 

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Silva's team have been the best to emerge from the Championship in quite a few seasons. They've had that relentless quality but left us royally entertained at the same time. This was the third time this season they've hit seven.

Now on 106 league goals for the season, they could yet match or exceed Manchester City's total of 108 in this division from 2001-02.

The PA announcer asked the crowd three times not to invade the pitch at the end. That was a forlorn hope. They flooded on from all angles, mobbing the players and the champagne was soon flowing.

Let's not forget amid all this that Luton are in the play-off positions; hardly also-rans with nothing left to play for.

Their goal difference having taken a battering, they'll now be looking over their shoulder on the final afternoon with Middlesbrough and possibly Millwall hoping to nick their spot.

It was scarf day at Craven Cottage. Every seat had a black and white bar scarf placed on it with supporters encouraged to twirl them around as the two teams took the field.

The atmosphere was expectant and they were soon roaring when Carvalho went down under challenge from Kal Naismith inside the Luton box. Referee Tim Robinson

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