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When the authorities defy common sense

Most sporting fans would begin from the stance that nothing in football ever surprises us. The English Premier League is a fast-moving, multi-faceted, soap opera that dominates the world of sport like no other and controversies – some inadvertent, some deliberate – continuously come with the [...]

February 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

One of my earliest Fulham memories was a fourth round cup tie against Sheffield United in February 1967, almost 46 years ago to the day. The first half was so bad that BBC did not show it on Match of the Day. It ended 1-1 with the Blades winning the replay. In yesterday’s match, the [...]

February 5, 2014 // 3 Comments

Mourinho’s winning ways

You have to hand it to Jose Mourinho. When it comes to achieving results away from home against expressive high flying teams he is in a class of his own. I nearly said ‘grinding out’ but this would be uncharitable to a display at the Etihad which overwhelmed Manchester City. It’s [...]

February 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Although I was asked, as a window man, to set out my views on the transfer window, I thought it best to see whom we got in and, as important, whom we shipped out. We did good business: most of us are as pleased to say goodbye to Berbatov and Taarabt as we are sad that Aaron Hughes has left. Aaron [...]

February 2, 2014 // 1 Comment

The Tanner Report

Lets start with three statistics. I like statistics as they don’t lie, contrary to what Disraeli says, or rather they do so less so than the average Premier manager. Fulham have now conceded 50 goals in 23 games; we have the worst goal difference in all 4 divisions; Berbatov and Bent have [...]

January 29, 2014 // 2 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham made 11 changes with the trip to Swansea this Tuesday very much in mind. It’s always instructive to see our talented Academy kids and to speculate whether and what grade they will mature. Four started, Tankovic, Plumain, Passley and David. The absence of Anglo Saxon names reflects how [...]

January 27, 2014 // 1 Comment

My team/ Goole Town

People adopt a football team for all sorts of reasons. A few years ago I was on a club med holiday with my then boyfriend. We met a man called Eric, who worked for Marks and Spencers. He said their most popular dish was duck a l’ orange in every store ” from Sidmouth to Goole”. [...]

January 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

The FA Cup does not brimmeth over

Many reasons are given for the decline in status of the FA Cup. Once it was the only televised game; overseas players are unaware of its traditions and their domestic Cup competition is not taken so seriously ; the financial imperative of staying in the Premier and European cup competitions lead to [...]

January 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Dennis Turner 1946-2014

Every club has a historian and archivist, but not too many like our Dennis Turner who died suddenly yesterday. Now that Mr Al Fayed has retired and Johnny Haynes passed on, Dennis has a credible claim to be Mr Fulham: he edited, and was a programme contributor, for 34 years; he wrote definitive [...]

January 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

The kindness in not rubbing salt in wounds

The well-worn joke is that the overwhelming bulk of Manchester United supporters hail from the south-east – or indeed, anywhere but Manchester. As a case in point, when I go across the road this morning in order to collect my usual from the newsagents, it is inevitable that Bob – the [...]

January 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

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