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Jeff Beck – RIP

Time stops for nobody but sometimes a passing touches upon fond memories and thoughts. The overnight news that guitarist Jeff Beck, 78, had died suddenly after contracting bacterial meningitis has come as a considerable shock. In all forms of popular instrumental music – classical, jazz, [...]

January 12, 2023 // 0 Comments

RIP David Duckham

Any sports fan – particularly any adherent of rugby union – over the age of fifty will be sad to have learned overnight of the passing on Monday 9th January of the great England centre/wing David Duckham, winner of 36 England caps – 3 with the British & Irish Lions – a [...]

January 11, 2023 // 0 Comments

Hull 0 Fulham 2 – FA Cup 3rd Round

Hull v Fulham was never going to be one of the stand-out ties but was of keen of interest to both sets of fans because of connections between the two clubs. Hull’s manager Liam Rosenior played for both Fulham and Hull in his time and – as his father Leroy also played for the Whites – [...]

January 8, 2023 // 0 Comments

Stonehouse

Whilst I enjoyed this three-part series broadcast over 3 nights on ITV, there are two problems with this genre. Firstly, they require not much writing creativity as you already have a story with characters and secondly, how can you differentiate between what is fact and what is faction? Apparently [...]

January 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Arsenal 4

Brighton were good but league leaders Arsenal better. The Seagulls had World Cup winner Alex Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo absent – as well as defenders Adam Webster and Joel Veltman – and it showed. We have a stronger squad these days but you want to field your best team against such [...]

January 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Crystal Palace 0 Fulham 3

In season 2018-19, after Fulham were promoted to the Premier, we met Crystal Palace at home and were well beaten 2-0. It proved a wake-up call as we were eventually relegated and Palace – a middle of the table side at best then – beat us comfortably. Under Roy Hodgson they established [...]

December 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

George Cohen

The passing of George Cohen was certainly felt by all Fulham supporters and beyond. We only have 11 World Cup winners and of them – George – was the only one-club man, totting up 450+ games for the Cottagers between 1959 and 1968. Fulham, in terms of trophies, are not one of the most [...]

December 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Elite female sport 2022: a year of big advances but also some complications

Over time it has become a bit of a cliché, but “back in the day” – when comic Frankie Howard (1917-1992) was a British household name milking his “conspiratorial” relationship with his stand-up audiences and/or television viewers – he often compounded the effect by chiding them for [...]

December 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

World Cup/final thoughts

There is quite a divergence in the assessment of the Qatar World Cup pre and post the final. In the build-up all the talk was of migrant deaths in the building of stadia, the unsuitability of the location weather-wise, the lack of human rights and the corruption of FIFA in the selection process. [...]

December 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Mac Allister & Farbrace

The title of my post sounds like a firm of solicitors.  In fact both are connected to Sussex sport. I am delighted for Mac Allister who plays a different role as foil to Lionel Messi for Argentina. At Brighton he plays up the field as we have no striker who can score. He is a beautiful striker of [...]

December 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

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