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Two finals

Football, as the cliché goes, is a funny old game. Both finals were characterised by very late goals. Atletico Madrid seemed to have consummated an unbelievable season by winning the league and Champions League, only for Real Madrid to equalise. Their manager Diego Simeone must have been thinking [...]

May 25, 2014 // 1 Comment

Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson passed away a few years ago and is much mourned and missed by the Fulham faithful. In many ways he resembled all that the club represented with his eccentricity, intelligence, whimsical books about the club and his steadfast support. He never pretended to be otherwise than a public [...]

May 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Meeting a legend

Yesterday I attended a football symposium at the Argentine embassy. It was moderated by Jimmy Burns, who wrote a biography of Diego Maradona, and attended by panelists journalist Jim White, Victor Morales, the doyen of football commentating in the Argentine, Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa and Angelo [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

On the National Rust we know the editor will only publish two offerings a day and, if you write on a conventional topic covered in the media, you have little chance. I was initally going to defend Richard Scudamore – who has done so much to take the Premier global – in the face of [...]

May 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner End of Term Report

There was a good article on www.hammyend.com which went beyond highlighting the appalling errors made this season to consider a faulty management structure. The great thing about Mohammed al Fayed was not just his love of the club and its supporters, but that he had a vision, not necessarily the [...]

May 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

The play offs

Most supporters and Sky Sports love the play offs but that does not deny their intrinsic injustice. So when Derby, who finished 11 points ahead of Brighton and beat them twice, won at the Amex last night justice was done – but not totally the job. The Amex is a rousing place and whilst the [...]

May 9, 2014 // 1 Comment

The Tanner Report

I’m enjoying a couple of days off on the south coast with my missus and decided not to journey back to Stamford Bridge for the second leg of the Youth Cup Final. I could say that I was still angry about the weak-kneed way we left the Premier, but the truth is the game was on ITV 4 and I [...]

May 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

I do not know who had the worse Saturday, Alan Tanner or me. I was in the Stadio Olimpico for the final of the Coppa which Fiorentina lost 3-1 to Napoli. Before the game there was a serious shooting incident which delayed the kick off for some 45 minutes.  The Napoli fans did not want the game to [...]

May 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

20 Reasons why Fulham were relegated

1) dismantling the old Fulham board of Cole, Collins and Turner when Khan took over; 2) believing Alastair Mackintosh the CEO could  run the club without the input of a Fulham board; 3) not having an adequate left back all season; 4) getting rid of Aaron Hughes, without whom Brede Hangeland was [...]

May 4, 2014 // 4 Comments

The Tanner Report

As worshipful master of my lodge I cannot easily drop out of Masonic dinners, even when they clash with a Fulham game. So, last night, I was resigned to missing the Youth Cup Final between Fulham and Chelsea. The dinner finished at 9.00pm, so I jumped into a taxi to catch the second half on [...]

April 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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