Dismally lacking in continuity, the Premiership runners-up spent most of the 80 minutes going backwards but were gifted the points largely thanks to Saracens' troubles at fly-half and lack of an in-form kicker.
The Blues stopper pulled off the save of the match in the 67th minute, arching backwards to turn a clever Desiree Scott lob on to the crossbar.
Rubio's last-minute momentum is heading backwards at the moment -- and last-minute shifts often get bigger on the day of the election.
Just before half-time they had possession of the ball for five minutes, going forwards and backwards, often starting again after another errant pass.
If we stop for a minute, we will go backwards very quickly.
Fulham doggedly kept them at bay and, indeed, came close to scoring on their infrequent ventures upfield, Bryan Ruiz curling a free-kick over the bar before a misdirected cross by Stanislav Manolev in the 70th minute had Szczesny scrambling backwards to tip over the bar.
"Three characters dragged through a hedge backwards in 90 minutes," is how he described the play, and he is not kidding.
If you successfully sleep for those five hours then gradually move the window backwards in 15 minute intervals until you're getting seven or eight full hours per night.
Five minutes later, Marcelo received a short backwards pass from Hulk deep inside the opposition half, and attempted a peculiar, stepover-cum-pass, which conceded possession unnecessarily.
In addition to more than 40 first-place finishes in tower contests, Dold holds a Guinness World Record for running backwards one kilometer in 3 minutes 20 seconds.
"Oh, Dante," Chiefs Coach Dick Vermeil said to himself as the scene unfolded with Kansas City trailing Denver by 23-17 with 8 minutes 45 seconds left, "don't run backwards".
