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The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Reading 2

I have a wholly irrational view that my build up to a match somehow affects the result. Thus on arrival at Victoria I learned the Circle and District lines were down and I would have to take a convoluted route to Parsons Green where I meet friends for lunch and this meant Fulham would not play [...]

September 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

The dawn of a new (rugby) season

English rugby’s Premiership 2021/2022 kicked off last night at Ashton Gate, the home ground of Bristol Bears, last year’s “winners” of the regular (league) season and favourites to win the Final who then suffered a Devon Loch-like failure in their semi-final play-off against the Harlequins. [...]

September 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Pending the return of my art courses next week, my art week concentrated more on two arts programmes on BBC4. The first was called Ego and was presented by Observer art critic Laura Cumming. She featured the art of self/portraiture. She started with a 1500 self portrait by and of Albrecht Dürer [...]

September 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

A hard life-lesson

It is about this time of year that I traditionally begin my latest annual fitness campaign and earlier this week I opted to visit a physiotherapist in advance for a “look-see” session and perhaps some advice. I cannot shy away from part of my motivation for this move: both my thirty-something [...]

September 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

A day spent travelling by train

Last Sunday, of all things, it fell to me as the possessor of a senior Railcard to travel by train from Richmond in Surrey to Bicester – ordinarily a 90 minute drive up the M40 beyond Oxford if one is allowed to make it – which I am currently not, the court authorities having recently [...]

September 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Birmingham 1 Fulham 4

After the defeat at Blackpool, which was merited, the boys were back on track and atop the Championship with a decisive thumping of Birmingham. Blackpool deserved their win and chief coach Marco Silva did not blame the international break. Our American players Tim Ream and Antonee Robinson had to [...]

September 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Seagulls soar

Whenever I look at the Premier table, which I admit to doing quite often, what do I see? Brighton in sixth place. Above Spurs and well above Arsenal, both well supported down here. Admittedly our 3 wins over Burnley, Watford and Brentford could not be classed as against top opposition – and [...]

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

White Lotus

White Lotus, a HBO production on Sky Atlantic, has been the success story of the summer and I can see why as it’s topical, well-observed and funny. The White Lotus is a high end hotel in Hawaii which attracts privileged, self -absorbed white American guests varying in their awfulness. The [...]

September 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

Let battle commence

Padraig Harrington announced his team after Billy Horschel won the European flagship event, the BMW at Wentworth. In a perfect world he would have hoped that Bernd Weisberger would not have been an automatic qualifier and Shane Lowry would. The end result was that the Open winner of 2018 would be a [...]

September 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

US Ryder Cup team

US captain Steve Stricker has picked his team:- Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Xavier Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka, Bryson Dechambeau, Danny Berger, Jordan Spieth, Harris English, Patrick Cantlay. He has gone for PGA form over Ryder Cup experience as 6 of them are [...]

September 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]