Fulham 0-0 Tottenham: The Sunday Mirror match report

Roy Hodgson’s iron-man players must now add another match to their marathon season.

This was the 45th game his Fulham side have fought their way through and all it brought them was another replay to squeeze into a crowded ­schedule.

Not that Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp will be any happier at the thought of a replay to complicate his real goal of finishing fourth and a place in the Champions League.

But both of them want a dash of FA Cup glamour this season too and neither were willing to give way yesterday.

Hodgson began the afternoon collecting the Manager of the Month award for a ­February that had seen ­Fulham go unbeaten through a demanding schedule of eight games. Goalkeepeer Mark Schwarzer, arguably the most important signing the Fulham boss has made, picked up the Player of the Month trophy.

But the prize both of them most wanted was a trip to Wembley for the club’s first FA Cup semi-final since 2002.

And nobody needed to ­remind either of them of the curse that hangs over the Manager of the Month prize – especially after Tottenham began by dominating the first 20 minutes.

Apart from one half chance for Zoltan Gera, when he couldn’t quite control a clever flicked header by Bobby Zamora, they hardly got into the other half until Zamora suddenly held off Sebastien Bassong’s challenge and hit a low shot that brought a decent save from Heurelho Gomes.

Zamora wasn’t born when Fulham last went to Wembley, led by Bobby Moore in the 1975 FA Cup Final.

But if anybody has deserved a bit of glory this season it’s the centre forward who has overcome ridicule from his own fans by hitting 15 goals from 36 games before last night – four of them in his last six matches.

Spurs, of course, also have a striker bouncing back from being labelled a misfit – Roman Pavlyuchenko, whose five goals in three games meant Harry Redknapp had the luxury of leaving Jermain Defoe on the subs bench.

And the Russian should have got another after just seven minutes when he met Nico Kranjcar’s near-post ­corner with an unmarked header which flew just over. But that was a rare moment of danger created by Spurs, for all their early possession.

Schwarzer was finally tested with half an hour gone by Kranjcar’s rising 20-yard drive.

A few moments later he was in action again tipping Peter Crouch’s header round the post then watching another from Bassong drop just over.

Crouch was full of ­confidence and threat after his starring two-goal role in England’s ­midweek Wembley win, and tried an ambitious volley from a Luka Modric centre only to sky the ball high into the stands.

Left-back Gareth Bale had been pushed into midfield and was a constant threat, forcing Damien Duff to ­abandon his own attacking instincts and scurry back to cover.

And that was making room for Modric to pull the ­midfield strings with ­Dickson Etuhu and Jonathan Greening ­working overtime to keep up.

After the break, Fulham carried more threat as Etuhu tested Gomes with a good header, and then Duff broke behind Spurs defence to go close with a low shot.

But Zamora was having to live off scraps as far as chances were concerned and the same was true of Crouch at the other end.

The Spurs striker never had a real opportunity to bring his England goals back to club level – even when Redknapp threw on Jermain Defoe with 10 minutes left in search of a winner.