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The welcome rise of Ipswich Town

The cliche ‘back where they belong’ is too often bandied about, but no club has a divine right to the top table. However, I am so pleased that Ipswich – promoted from Division One – are now challenging for automatic promotion to the Premiership. They have had a torrid time in [...]

March 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fulham 3 Brighton 0

Why have Brighton gone off the boil? 5 games without a win. In short the squad has been stretched by campaigning in the Europa League and Premiership and key injuries. Kouru Mitoma now joins Solly March in being out for the rest of the season. Also in the absence of Joao Pedro we lack a consistent [...]

March 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 3 Brighton. 0

Brighton have never beaten Fulham in the Premiership and never looked like doing so yesterday. Rodrigo Muniz continued his good form with a superb diving header making it 5 goals in 5 games. His link up play was good too and it finally looks like Fulham have found a replacement for Alex Mitrovic. [...]

March 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

Rugby Union – van der Merwe’s second try for Scotland yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, as it happened for the first time in this season’s Six Nations rugby union tournament, I settled into my favourite armchair shortly before 4.30pm in order to watch the BBC’s live television coverage of the match between Scotland and England that took place at [...]

February 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brighton & Sussex

With their best ever victory 5-0 away at Sheffield United last Saturday the Seagulls go from strength to strength in the Premiership and Europa League. It’s a magnificent achievement given the players sold and injured. Also we play elegant attractive football under Roberto de Zerbi who is top [...]

February 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on a great Test victory in India

In an era of Test match decline Ben Stokes has done so much to restore its status. The final day, resulting in an improbable England victory, was as exciting as it gets. So much so that I dared not leave the TV transmission for fear of missing something. Ollie Pope’s 196 put England back into [...]

January 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

American dynasties/The Kennedys – PBS

PBS produces outstanding documentaries and I have particularly enjoyed the one broadcast this week on the Kennedys. There have been innumerable films and documentaries on President Kennedy’s assassination so it’s interesting to see all the Kennedys in context. Joe Kennedy the patriarch was [...]

January 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

Critique of Channel 4

My post today would get me into serious trouble at many work places and on many organs less liberal than the Rust.   Channel 4’s board has criticised itself for its own lack of female representation. This has set me thinking about the achievements of women in high political office or [...]

January 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Smith v Farrell

There was an interesting debate in The Sunday Times at the weekend between Stephen Jones and Stuart Barnes on Marcus Smith. Jones is no fan and doubts whether Smith should ever be selected for England, whilst Barnes is. It’s no longer such an live issue as, with Farrell reportedly in negotiations [...]

January 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Arsenal 1

The old telegram address of Fulham was “Fulhamish” and that is still used to describe Fulham’s inconsistency – i.e. our capacity to beat and to lose to teams unpredictably. Thus coming into this Arsenal fixture, which we have not won for 12 years, we lost by the odd goal in [...]

January 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

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