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Gleneagles Hotel

Bob Tickler had it right. After the student accommodation, the Rust Group felt they were entitled to some pampering and where better to get it than the Gleneagles Hotel? It’s the place where the Gleneagles Agreement – effectively banning apartheid South Africa from sport – was [...]

July 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting this and that

On the way from St Andrews to Gleneagles I asked our driver to take us to Tannadice Road Dundee which houses not one but two football stadia 200 yards apart – these being the homes, respectively, of Dundee (Dens Park) and Dundee United (Tannadice). Dundee Utd under Jim McLean in the 1980s had [...]

July 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks won’t surface

Losing last night to Kent Spitfires ended Sussex Sharks’ T20 campaign as they now have no chance of reaching the quarter finals. There was a slim chance after the victory on Thursday against leaders Surrey ending the latter’s unbeaten record. In truth it was a match that Surrey lost rather [...]

June 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/Fulham past & present.

A local Fulham supporter who was moving entrusted me with his programme collection which went back to the 1950s. I had a scant recollection of games in the past 10 years but those in the 70s were crystal clear. Of particular interest was the Handbook for season 1971-72. In a column called Looking [...]

June 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/fixtures announced

It’s always an exciting moment when the fixtures are released. Fulham open their account entertaining Liverpool, as stern a test as we might wish. At this stage I only pencil the fixtures into my diary as so many will be altered for television. In the first few months we play Arsenal, Spurs, [...]

June 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

The place of sport in life

Some might argue that the belief held by some that world sports constitute little more than contests between power-hungry nations vying for global pride, supremacy, power, influence and control continued by means other than war has been somewhat undermined by events over the last 100 days in [...]

June 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

Sam Burns  won the Charles Schwab US PGA at Colonial Texas and – in another play-off – Victor Perez bested Ryan Fox the Dutch Open. I salvaged some self-respect and moolah with a each-way win on Davis Riley. Riley came on the radar a few months ago. He is a youngster who did well on [...]

June 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Saturday Sport

The Heineken final – in which La Rochelle beat Leinster 24-21 – offered much better fare than the other final in Paris. The rugby final was enthralling, reflecting and showcasing the superb state of French rugby. Leinster under Stuart Lancaster are no mean side and led till the end. La [...]

May 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

One size does not suit all.

Watching John Daly tee off to launch the PGA dressed in psychedelic trousers with a logo of skulls and an overhanging gut, flowing blonde hair and beard, I was reminded of a cross between  a superannuated surfer and a wizard in Lord of the Rings. Yet at 54 the 1991 winner at Crooked Stick still [...]

May 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file: Fiorentina 2 Roma 0

Fiorentina easily disposed of Roma last night. We were awarded a penalty in the opening minutes, converted by Nico Gonzalez and later Giacometti Bonaventura added a second. Roma – managed by Jose Mourinho and with some well known Premiership names in the team  (Chris Smalling, Rui Patricio [...]

May 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

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