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Will the real Quins show up?

Recently Bordeaux Bègles put 100 points past Saracens in the Investec European Challenge Cup, whilst Sarries put 51 points past Quins;  so what chances if any did Quins have at the Chanan Delmas stadium in Bordeaux yesterday? As it happened, quite a lot – as in a thriller – they ran [...]

April 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

More Daphne du Maurier/Radio 4 drama

The second Daphne du Maurier dramatisation by Paula O’Shea on Radio 4 (broadcast yesterday) was not an adaptation of one of her stories but rather a chance meeting late in Daphne’s life on one of her coastal Cornwall walks between her – played excellently by Helena Bonham Carter – [...]

March 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Aston Villa 2

It was a bizarre experience at Fulham yesterday. I invited an old friend who had a season ticket a few years ago. He had the great misfortune to be sitting next to an Aston Villla supporter who had acquired a ticket in the Home end of the Putney Stand. He made no secret of his loyalties and was [...]

February 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Glass Pearls/Emeric Pressburger

This novel is absorbing but troubling. The writer Emeric Pressburger was a distinguished film maker who, with Michael Powell, made such classics as Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus and A Matter of Life and Death. He wrote this novel in the 1960s and it has just been republished by Faber. The subject [...]

February 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Newcastle 2

Fulham lost this cup tie for two reasons. Firstly, with an attendance of 19,000 and empty seats it did not feel like a home tie – especially with the Newcastle fans in full voice. Secondly, Marco Silva had dropped seven of the team that drew with Liverpool in midweek, including such integral [...]

January 28, 2024 // 0 Comments

Two unwatchable films/Maestro & Saltburn

If Maestro and Saltburn are acclaimed as two of the best films of 2023 I would not like to see the two worst. I thought Maestro was the biopic of Leonard Bernstein but it is not; it is the story of his marriage his wife played by Carey Mulligan. She occupies the film stage front, left and centre [...]

January 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

West Ham 0 Brighton 0

The only person that could have been pleased by this dull goalless draw was our own Pargie who backed it. Brighton – down to the walking wounded because of an ever-lengthening injury list, not helped by Asian Cup and African Cup of Nation calls -arguably had the better against a luck-lustre [...]

January 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brighton 4 Spurs 2

This was arguably Brighton’s best performance of the season , achieved with 10 players out through injury and after 26 games played. Spurs, too, have many injuries but possess a deeper squad, the resources to replenish and less games played. So little excuse for them. Danny Welbeck led the line [...]

December 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/St James Park Newcastle and Basel

For those thousands of Fulham fans who read my column I have some good news after the 3-0 defeat at St James Park for – at another St James Park – 14 years ago Fulham recorded one of their most significant victories in the Europa League without which the better known triumphs over [...]

December 19, 2023 // 0 Comments

AEK Athens 0 Brighton 1

Brighton’s first European campaign in the Europa League has been steady rather than spectacular. In their first game against AEK Athens at the Amex they lost 2-3. However they recovered in the febrile, hostile atmosphere of the Stade Velodrome against Olympique Marseilles (OM). At one stage [...]

December 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

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