Three of football’s biggest legends lined up for Fulham at home to Wolves in September 1976.

It seems almost surreal that George Best, Rodney Marsh and Bobby Moore were in the same Whites team - but at a time when mates could lean on mates with not an agent in sight, Alan Mullery first persuaded Moore to leave West Ham, and Rod the Mod in his second spell with the club, managed to get Best, by then living in the Kings Road, to have a go at Craven Cottage.

The home match against Wolves was Best’s second. He had scored 71 seconds into his debut the previous week against Bristol Rovers (how the reasonably mighty have fallen) and it proved to be the only goal of the game.

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The 0-0 against Wolves was by contrast a disappointment, but there were 25,794 to see it compared to the 9,437 that greeted the opening day of the campaign against Nottingham Forest barely a month earlier.

After Wolves, the next home match was the oft-repeated TV win against Hereford United with Marsh and Best scrapping for the limelight in an era when televised matches were at a premium rather than a constant.

But a hat-trick of the game’s glitterati in SW6 was too good to be true. They actually played as a trio only 15 times that season, although in front of the biggest crowd of the season on Good Friday, Best put Chelsea to the sword 3-1 and was one of three different scorers.

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By the end of the campaign, a disaffected Best complained about unpaid wages and returned whence he came to the USA and Los Angeles Aztecs.

Years later, Best was to say one of the most enjoyable times of his football career was that one season at Fulham - even though the club eventually finished a lowly 17th.

In truth, all three were never the same force they had been in their heyday, but fans from the era still recount a Fulham team that was actually glamorous, as opposed to being that friendly, homely bunch trotting out of a Cottage each week.