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The Tanner Report: Middlesbrough 0 Fulham 1

This was always going to be a stern test. Middlesbrough – resurgent under new manager Chris Wilder – had won 7 consecutive home games, taking the scalps of Spurs, Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth in the process. It was also the archetypal ‘wet night in Middlesbrough’ with [...]

April 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Elmer Bernstein

Donald Macleod’s Composer of the Week on Radio 3 this week is the film composer Elmer Bernstein. His most famous score is The Magnificent Seven but he also  composed the scores for The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Sweet Smell of [...]

April 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

Muhammad Ali/Ken BurnsBBC2

Ken Burns, the American documentary maker, is a man much admired on the Rust.    You pretty much know that any documentary by him will be well-researched, non judgmental and have excellent footage and interviews. This 8-parter on arguably the biggest figure in sport ever was no exception. The [...]

April 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

London Irish 14 Harlequins 41

This was another bravura performance by Quins. Typically they fell seven points behind to a Paddy Jackson try from London Irish. Quins rallied with 4 tries to get bonus point. In the second half they added a fifth, sixth and seventh try. It seems churlish to criticise the performance but these [...]

April 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

For me, it’s one Bridge too far …

Regular visitors to this organ will be aware that we have previously covered the case of the transgender Emily Bridges which is currently a cause celebre in British – and to some extent also now world – cycling. Today I return to it because of the latest development. Emily issued a [...]

April 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Photo session at Hove & Peter Shilton Dinner

Yesterday was a full on sporting day with a photo session of our Players Club at Hove Cricket Ground and a football dinner at the RAC where Peter Shilton was the guest of honour. I arrived at Hove at 8-50. Although I turned 68 recently I still get a kick out of seeing the ground albeit empty. [...]

April 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Communication in the modern era

Earlier this week I read somewhere that these days spoken phone calls are becoming less popular than alternatives such as texting, instant messaging or video calls. Apparently a new survey conducted for Sky Mobile found that 80% of people contacted said they preferred messaging or video calls to [...]

April 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Root & Branch?

The dominant view appears to be that Joe Root should give up the captaincy but I do not share this. It should wait for a new Director of Cricket (yet to be appointed) and Head Coach (yet to be appointed) and Chairman of the ESB (yet to be appointed). There is talk of Ed Smith coming back after he [...]

March 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hotel Mamounia and Fowey

Two of my favourite places in the world were featured in programmes I watched yesterday. The first was Fowey in Rick Stein’s travelogue on Cornwall on BBC 2. In the early 80s I travelled to North Cornwall a lot and enjoyed many a meal at Rick Stein’s first restaurant The Seafood Restaurant at [...]

March 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

My golfing weekend

After a few frustrating weeks when my pick just finished outside the each way positions I was delighted to record a win on Scottie Scheffler in the Dell Matchplay championship in Austin Texas. I had backed Frenchmen Matthew Pavon and the in-form Romain Langasque for the Qatar Masters but neither [...]

March 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

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