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After a distinguished military service in the Catering Corps, Alan Tanner did well in mufti with his chamois as a window cleaner. Sadly he had to retire after falling from the fifth floor of Danny Murphy's mock Tudor home. He spends his retirement watching and writing about his beloved Fulham whom he has supported for over 50 years. The Alan Tanner Report is sponsored by Tanner Crystal Clear Ltd, Window Cleaners to the Gentry. More Posts

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Spurs 0

Normally when Fulham beat one of the big boys the story is more about the latter’s defeat than the Fulham victory but this time the press were unequivocal in their Fulham praise, as epitomised by the Telegraph line: “Spurs were not just defeated. They were thumped.” From first to last [...]

March 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 3 Brighton. 0

Brighton have never beaten Fulham in the Premiership and never looked like doing so yesterday. Rodrigo Muniz continued his good form with a superb diving header making it 5 goals in 5 games. His link up play was good too and it finally looks like Fulham have found a replacement for Alex Mitrovic. [...]

March 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Manchester United 1 Fulham 2

Next month I’m speaking at a Fulham gathering on the happiest moments of my 57 years of support. I will refer to the 3-1 victory at Old Trafford in 2003 under Chris Coleman when Sir Alex Ferguson and his United team were in their pomp. Since then we have seen the rise of their City light blue [...]

February 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Bournemouth 1

They say form is transient, class is permanent. In the case of the Fulham strikers, who have been misfiring all season, I would add confidence and availability. Raul Jimenez, who went 32 games without a goal, rediscovered his touch with 3 in 4 games. Armando Broja came in on loan and, after an [...]

February 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Everton 0

This entertaining goalless draw came as no surprise as Sean Dyche’s sides are always tough to beat and Fulham cannot score. We did indeed put 10 past West Ham and Nottingham Forest, but have managed only 1 goal in the next 4 games. We play good football on 2/3rds of the pitch but there is no end [...]

January 31, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 1 Liverpool 1

This was a decent, spirited  performance by Fulham but not one that could reverse the 2-1 first leg deficit and halt the Liverpool juggernaut. Bernd Leno, who has been the epitome of reliability as Fulham’s keeper, got a weak hand to Diaz’s shot which gave Liverpool the lead. Fulham’s best [...]

January 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Chelsea 1 Fulham 0

This dreary match reminded me of the 2002 FA Cup semi-final with our West London neighbours which ended in the same score. Chelsea just about deserved their win on Saturday but we Fulham fans were incensed that a violent challenge by Gusto on former Chelsea favourite Willian was only punished by a [...]

January 15, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Liverpool 2 Fulham 1

Fulham will not be too disappointed by either the result or performance and everything is still to play for in the return leg at Craven Cottage in a fortnight’s time. Fulham took the lead thanks to the twinkling feet of Willian, who dribbled through the Reds’ defence and placed his shot [...]

January 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Arsenal 1

The old telegram address of Fulham was “Fulhamish” and that is still used to describe Fulham’s inconsistency – i.e. our capacity to beat and to lose to teams unpredictably. Thus coming into this Arsenal fixture, which we have not won for 12 years, we lost by the odd goal in [...]

January 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Bournemouth 3 Fulham 0.

After beating both Nottingham Forest and West Ham 5-0, Fulham have lost by that aggregate score to Burnley and now Bournemouth. It would be entirely Fulhamish (the old telegram address for Fulham) to get a result against Arsenal in our next game on New Year’s Eve, especially as Raul Ramirez will [...]

December 28, 2023 // 0 Comments

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