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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 1 Liverpool 2

Fulham’s run of defeats has extended to eight, and 70 goals conceded and, although performance levels have improved under Scott Parker, probably not enough to convince the powers that be that he should get the gig permanently. We rather feared playing the big boys at home but against Spurs, [...]

March 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Leicester 3 Fulham 1

The Khan regime has sacked 6 managers – Martin Jol, Rene Meulensteen, Felix Magath, Kit Symons, Slavisa Jokatovic and Claudio Ranieri. Of these six, the last five were appointed by them and only Jokatovic can be judged a success. After each dismissal one hopes for a bounce. Scott Parker is [...]

March 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Chelsea 2

Fulham fans were much heartened by this performance. For long periods we took the game to Chelsea though I always felt- as happened – that if we did score Chelsea would speedily do the same. We conceded our normal 2 goals, making it 69 in total. However there were encouraging performances [...]

March 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report / Ciao Ranieri

The departure of Claudio Ranieri yesterday did not come as any surprise. The taunts from the Fulham fans of “You don’t know what you’re doing” at the last two games indicated that he if he might have lost the dressing room he had certainly lost the confidence of the fans. Some of his [...]

March 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: West Ham 3 Fulham 1

The relegation trap door is becoming more open and Fulham are stumbling towards it. Claudio Ranieri can claim with some justification that the West Ham equaliser by Hernández was a blatant and calculated handball. This view does not alter the fact that keeper Sergio Rico flapped at the cross which [...]

February 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 0 Manchester United 3

Although we had two scoreable chances in the first 10 minutes, the new look Manchester United ran out easy winners. It was the same old, same old defensive lapses, it’s now 58 goals conceded. It’s time to assess Claudio Ranieri and the place to start is his first game against Southampton. He [...]

February 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Crystal Palace 2 Fulham 0

This was a game that Fulham had to win – or at very least not lose – to maintain the momentum of the second half recovery against Brighton. Three points would put us within striking distance of the group just above the relegation zone. It was a sterile performance with one shot on goal. [...]

February 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 4 Brighton 2

At half time on a freezing, wet night Fulham seemed doomed to relegation as supreme goal poacher Glenn Murray put the visitors two ahead. A second half revival which will live long in the memory resulted in an epic 4-2 win. Two goals down, Ranieri changed the system taking Tim Ream off switching to [...]

January 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Arsenal 4 Fulham 1

Although Arsenal ran out easy winners, we had two chances to score before Arsenal did – both falling to Ryan Sessegnon who muffed them even though they fell on his more reliable left foot. Arsenal scored first with the now familiar sight of the opposition scorer having as much time and space [...]

January 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Huddersfield 0

Bob Tickler’s godson Jamie was mascot and will remember this game for the right and wrong reasons. The right? He met and was photographed with the team, led them out hand in hand with his favourite player Tom Cairney, shook hands with the opposition, his name was on the scoreboard … an [...]

December 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

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