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Sharks triumph & Seagulls still to appoint.

Whisper it softly to Duggie Heath, but I’m beginning to warm to T20 cricket. Last week, in the “red ball” championship, Middlesex and Sussex played out a bore draw in which neither side had a second innings. In contrast, the T20 Vitality Blast match between Sussex Sharks and [...]

June 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Olympiakos 1 Fiorentina 0 / Conference Final

for the second year running Fiorentina lost the Conference Final in a dull , disappointing game. Our problem is a weak strike force. Nico Gonzalez was average and a mistake to prefer Bellotti to Beltran the match was played in the impressive stadium of AEK Athens and therefore the home city of [...]

May 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

Two cup finals

Of the two Cup Finals I watched on Saturday Leinster v Toulouse was much the more gripping. As a kid the F.A. Cup Final was always the epicentre of the sporting year. Typically I would go round to a mate in the morning and we would watch on telly the road to the Final, the actual coach journey, the [...]

May 27, 2024 // 0 Comments

Atalanta 3 Bayer Leverkusen 0

When there is talk of the great managers Gian Piero Gasperini of Atalanta is rarely mentioned – certainly less so than Alonso of Bayer Leverkusen who have won the Bumdesliga and came to the Europa League Final in the Aviva Stadium Dublin on a 51 game unbeaten run. Yet it was Gasperini’s [...]

May 24, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win and ciao de Zerbi

The real sporting excitement in Brighton and Hove yesterday was not at the Amex where fans said goodbye to Roberto de Zerbi but at the county ground where Sussex CCC won a low scoring thriller by 21 runs over Yorkshire. At tea, Yorkshire only needed 25 runs with Adam Lyth and Revis installed at the [...]

May 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Manchester City 4

There is no disgrace in losing to Manchester City even though it was a thumping defeat containing only one Fulham attempt on goal. Nor should this defeat disguise the fact that Fulham have had a creditable season in which we reached the semi-finals of the Carabou Cup, beat Spurs, Arsenal and [...]

May 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina reach Conference final

On Wednesday evening “il mio babbo” (my dad) and I settled down to watch Club Brugge play la Viola in the second leg Conference semi-final. We had a 3-2 lead but Club Brugge, who numbered Fulham’s ex Dennis Odoi and a talented striker in Thiago, would be a tough match. Indeed they [...]

May 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

Ipswich: now for the hard bit

“Pleasin’, most pleasin …” an Ipswich fan messaged me on their automatic promotion, mimicking their greatest manager Alf Ramsay’s difficulty with ‘g’s and use of ‘most’ instead of ‘very.’ When I say “greatest manager”, Ipswich have a few to pick [...]

May 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file: Fiorentina 3 Club Brugge 2

Art business took me to West Sussex. An art collector in Petworth may be interested in selling a Giorgio di Chirico. Collectors always say they are not interested in selling but, if the price is right … The tactic is not to disclose the net price. An auction house deducts a premium, VAT and [...]

May 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Crystal Palace 1

I did an unusual thing last Saturday. After speaking to Pargie I backed the draw he had predicted as “nailed on”. Actually Crystal Palace had enough chances and possession to win. I did recall – after a promotion under Scott Parker – Fulham ‘s ‘welcome to the Premiership ‘ [...]

April 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

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