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The Tanner Report: QPR 1 Fulham 2

Fulham’s victory at Loftus Road last night was more necessary than convincing. In the first minute we fans and Fulham were one-down after once again failing to deal with a cross and Jordan Hugill too easily out jumping Tim Read to head home for QPR. Alex Mitrovic had been suspended [...]

July 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting week

My tactic of betting against the favourite in football – on the basis that empty stands equalise the odds – did not pay as I lost out on the victories of Leeds, Wolves and Lazio over Fiorentina. At the time of writing my man Victor Novlund looks like to have every chance of an each-way [...]

June 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Leeds 3 Fulham 0

Over my 50 years of support of Fulham I have seen many an away game which Fulham dominated only to lose and this was another of them. In the first half we had 65% of possession and plenty of chances but went in at half time a goal down. The Fulham defence played poorly. We conceded too much space [...]

June 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport evaluated.

Every Friday I speak to a friend who holds a senior position in Sussex CCC. Like most including me his sporting support extends to the Albion who have started the resumption well. No such good news for cricket when Boris Johnson dispatched all hopes of a speedy resumption with a Viv Richards-style [...]

June 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Roy Keane and punditry

I share Tom Hollingworth’s admiration for Jonathan Liew as one of more original and wittier sportswriters but unlike Llew I certainly had a view about Roy Keane’s rant at half-time in the Spurs v Manchester United game. As with many of the games since resumption behind closed doors the first [...]

June 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Football is indeed back but not necessarily as we know it, Perkins

Following the resumption of football’s Premier – and other – league seasons there has been much discussion of how playing in empty seasons due to the current post-lockdown restrictions has impacted teams, back-room staff, broadcasters and the game generally. Opinions are somewhat [...]

June 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting week

It’s so good to have live sports back on our screens even if the atmosphere is so weird. I enjoyed Ascot. It’s a difficult event to call so I stuck to my tried and tested formula of laying the favourites. This means at worst you will break even as Stradivarius in the Gold Cup  aside, most [...]

June 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Brentford 2

I had the privilege of cleaning the windows of my 70s FA Cup run hero John Mitchell. Twenty years on we watched  a game together in the grim early 90s. “The problem with this side as opposed to ours,” observed Mitch “is there are not enough players on whom you can rely.” I will spare [...]

June 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sport returning to TV

Last night I watched the US PGA event at Colonial and Sevilla v Real Betis both behind closed doors. Golf does not need spectators though Harold Varner III, who had earlier kneeled in the Blacks Matter protest (he is one of the few black players on the tour), would have expected come crowd reaction [...]

June 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Ciao from Florence

We had a more severe lockdown than you maybe because we Italians are not too good at respecting the law! Messaging  my friends and colleagues on the National Rust, I understand  that at every level English lockdown is a matter of interpretation, usually in favour of the person deciding. As with [...]

May 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

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