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The Tanner Report: Southampton 1 Fulham 2

Fulham were expected to beat already-relegated Southampton and duly did so. All the Saints had to play for was beating Derby’s relegation record of only 11 points. Their’s was a textbook on how not to stay up.  They sacked Russell Martin, who achieved promotion, and then his successor. New [...]

April 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Chelsea 2

Fulham missed the opportunity to do the double over their SW6 rivals. We simply do not have the spending power of Chelsea and that shows on the bench. Fulham introduced Tom Cairney, now getting to the end of his contract and career; Harry Wilson who, despite a flurry of goals, looks a championship [...]

April 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Bournemouth 1 Fulham 0

Once again Fulham lived up to their billing of beating a big boy (Liverpool) but falling short to a team below them (Bournemouth). The home side got off to the best possible start with Semenyo capitalising on an uncharacteristic error by Antonee Robinson to score. The Cherries might have added a [...]

April 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Liverpool 2

Fulham maintained their inconsistency with a deserved but tense win over soon-to-be-crowned champions Liverpool. Our defence – in which Calvin Bassey was outstanding – was heroic, dealing with everything Liverpool threw at them. The Liverpool defending was sloppy. Liverpool took the [...]

April 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

Brighton falter & new cricket season starts

Brighton were badly beaten 3-0 at the Amex last night by Aston Villa. We played well without creating too many chances. The number 10 position poses a problem for Fabian Hürzeler since Pascal Groß departed back to Germany. Six players have been tried there but the most obvious candidate is [...]

April 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

Personal attendance versus watching on TV: the debate continues …

Having spent my normal weekend sports-watching on TV I am going to add two critical logs to this fiery debate, namely adverts and pundits. Like many, I suspect the ad break in sports coverage is an opportunity to visit the loo, fetch a beer or a cuppa and do chores. Yet if you stay by the TV you [...]

April 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Crystal Palace 3 ( FA Cup quarter final)

Fulham have had different ownerships, players, coaches and managers but one feature of the club always persists: inconsistency. This season we have beaten Manchester Utd at Old Trafford, Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, Spurs at home and also drawn away but only achieved 2 points from Ipswich and [...]

March 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

Weekend TV sport

With no Premiership or Championship soccer taking place you might have thought some of the internationals between European titans (e.g. Netherlands v Spain or Italy v Germany) might be broadcast, but the powers that be apparently imagine that we prefer women’s football or Scotland or Wales [...]

March 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 Spurs 0

The back stories to a dull game – the type you tend to get on an early Sunday kick off at 1-30 – were more interesting than the game itself. Fulham and Spurs’ best option for European competition is the Cup. Fulham might qualify if there are 8 European places in the Premiership but [...]

March 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Brighton 2 Fulham 1

I was Ivan Conway’s guest for this match.  In 9 games Brighton have never beaten Fulham in the Premiership and did so yesterday with virtually the last kick of the match. The traffic was bad and the car parks full so we arrived late-ish. Necessarily I had to be ‘deep cover’, sitting amongst [...]

March 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

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