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The Tanner Report

The decision to sack Magath and replace him with Kit Symoms as temporary manager must have been received with 100% approval. However whether it restores our fortunes is open to question. Kit is an extremely likeable bloke, I have done his windows for years and he is a pleasant a footballer as [...]

September 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Football update

ALAN TANNER With Fulham lying bottom below Blackpool, a team that going into the season had only 6 registered players, the description shambles is the one most fans apply. I would like to know the answer to these questions: 1) Why did Shahid Khan buy the club? 2) Why, when he knew so little about [...]

September 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

It was forever thus

In the morning papers prior to the Swiss Euro qualifier we read that Roy Hodgson’s job was on the line. There were numerous references to his outburst using industrial language with a little dig that he was supposed to be a man of letters. One article commented  that he would lecture Ashley [...]

September 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Fiorentina opened their season with a defeat at the Olimpico to Roma. Hardly a surprise as Roma were one of the form teams last year, finishing second to Juventus with sufficient points to win the scudetto most seasons. We have been relatively passive in the transfer market over the summer, the [...]

August 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner report: the Mo retort

Felix Magath gave a message to Fulham fans on the website. He began by praising us fulsomely probably to soften us up for the lowering of expectation to preserve his job. He stated that in a period of transformation the upper echelons of the championship were likely. Such transformation was [...]

August 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Brighton briefing

I continue to be in both a state of awe and excitement in being invited to contribute to the National Rust. Alan Tanner explained to me that the sports editor Tom Hollingworth believes that real fans know much more about their club, and in some cases soccer, than journalists so if I am a bit [...]

August 28, 2014 // 2 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham fans would have received the victory over Brentford with mixed feelings. If we lost they hoped it would mean the end of Magath. In fact it would not. Chairman Khan publically supported him. Magath  has convinced Khan, to whom he has a direct line, that his project and bizarre methods will [...]

August 27, 2014 // 1 Comment

Open letter to Felix Magath

Dear Herr Magath,   Since Boxing Day 49 Fulham players have been selected. Most of them by you. After the debacle at Derby you say you are making more changes. We only need the one: you… grussen.   Alan [...]

August 25, 2014 // 1 Comment

The Tanner Report

With four successive defeats and only three victories in 15 games Magath is fighting for his life. He pleads for time, his argument being that the side needed radical surgery to introduce youth and we must be patient. That he has not been sacked is less due to do with his own incompetence and more [...]

August 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: beyond a crisis

Had Wolves converted their penalty then we would be in bottom place. This is ridiculous given two years ago we were a settled Premier side and four years ago we were in a European final. The beleagured Magath seems to hold responsible the team he inherited for the demise. The only one who gets a [...]

August 21, 2014 // 2 Comments

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