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The Tanner Report : Middlesbrough 0 Fulham 0

The noose supposedly round Kit Symons’ neck would have loosened after this goalless draw at The Riverside against high flying Middlesbrough. There has been talk of an assessment by the analytical boys after 12 matches and if such a review shows statistically on previous season’s [...]

October 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Jurgen Klopp

Paul Hayward of the Telegraph is one of our more insightful sports correspondents. I remember hearing him on some football programme discussing the dismissal of Big Phil Scolari from Chelsea. He admitted that journalists had been lazy in their research as Scolari’s record in club football was [...]

October 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton sport update

Last week we received a memory stick from the Albion with the information on renewal of the 1901 Club. My granddaughter Chloe had to explain to me how to use it. I had spent much of last season trying to convince my neighbour that we would better off in more standard seats. The Seagulls were having [...]

October 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Some worthy reading

Here are links to two sporting articles spotted on the websites of respectively The Independent and The Guardian this morning (10th October 2015) that readers of the National Rust might enjoy and/or find rewarding. Not long ago a fellow Rust contributor noted that The Independent seemed to have [...]

October 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Fiorentina beat Atalanta 3-0 on Sunday to stay on top of a serie a. Much of the praise must go to manager Paolo Sousa. I spoke of him when he took the job to Rex, Alan and Ivan. They said that he had managed at Swansea with success, less so at QPR and even less at Leicester City. Just as some [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Charlton 2 Fulham 2

Once again we were unable to close a game out and conceded two lateish goals to deprive us of a deserved win. Charlton, who had not won in 7 matches, looked a poor side and after Tunnicliffe and McCormack had put us two up I thought a win inevitable. We are always vulnerable to crosses and one from [...]

October 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dinner For Dennis Turner

Last night I went to a dinner to celebrate the contribution of the late Dennis  Turner to Fulham FC.  Dennis was programme editor, club historian, author of definitive and polished books on Fulham and in 2009 appointed a director.  In January 2014 he dropped dead in his kitchen. The evening was [...]

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina File: Inter 1 Fiorentina 4

It was a good weekend for the football group on the Rust. On Friday Fulham produced their best performance for many years in beating QPR, on Saturday Ivan’s Brighton are still top of the Championship and last night we beat Inter, the league leaders at San Siro 4-1. This is the first time that [...]

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: a night to remember

Fulham’s defeat of local rivals QPR was much more than winning the local bragging rights. It was the best performance since the new owner took over, the best under Kit Symons and if this form is continued we can be hopeful of the play-offs. Even more than that the passing game and interplay [...]

September 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign Of The Times

Not all my Rust colleagues are reactionary old coots. However, besides raging against the dying of the light and chronicling our personal observations upon the passing of time – and without ‘doing a John Major’ by being erroneously nostalgic for periods of our youth when life [...]

September 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

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