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Dealing with the media

Something that has always fascinated me is the relationship between people – of whatever status, be they ordinary members of the public, celebrities, agents, PR spokesmen, CEOs and/or chairman of public bodies or business organisations or (wash my mouth out) even politicians – and the media [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

The Cup Final as already observed by Gerald Ingolby was a dull affaire that did little to enhance a competition that has seen better days. The reasons for the decline of the FA Cup are well documented: the plethora of televised football; the lack of a Champions League place for the winner; the [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast …

I’m currently staying with my elderly father, primarily engaged upon combining mowing the lawn in between the rain showers and watching sport on television. On Friday we watched an hour or two of the first cricket Test Match between England and Sri Lanka at Headingley – with eight wickets down, [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Old Fulham Meets

Yesterday I had lunch with 2 fully paid up members of old Fulham. They soon established their Craven Cottage cred by stating they had skived off school to watch the 1958 semi final replay with Manchester United which, as it took place after Munich, the whole of the country  except our fans wanted [...]

May 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1

So for the third time in 4 years Brighton are eliminated in the semi-final of the play offs. It may sound like sour grapes but this time it was to a team that finished 3 places and 15 points beneath them. Put another way had Brighton lost 2-0 , not 3-0, at home to Middlesbrough they would have been [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sheffield Wednesday 2 Brighton 0

That Brighton had 4 players seriously injured in one match compounds the injustice that a team 15 points higher than their opponents, and who missed out on automatic promotion by 2 goals difference, should be subject to the vagaries of two matches on level terms. The Seagulls lost Tomer Hemed, [...]

May 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

I was in London recently for an Art fair and decided to take the short rail journey to Brighton to meet up with Alan and Ivan. We had an interesting conversation along the lines that supporting your team is about management of expectations. Ivan, for example, after a season in which Brighton spent [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Middlesbrough 1 Brighton1

So Brighton have to satisfy themselves with a play-off place with 89 points- enough for automatic promotion most seasons- the same as Boro but with a goal difference 2 less. No point doing ‘if only’ – over the season, Boro had a perfectly good goal disallowed in their penultimate [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: To renew or not to renew

Yesterday I received the renewal forms for my season ticket. I was informed we had our “share of high and lows”. I can’t recall too many highs except for victories over QPR . As for lows, well we are one place outside the relegation zone and but for the goals of Dembele and [...]

May 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t ever feel sorry for bookies

No I’m not one of the 47 that laid Leicester at 5000-1 at Ladbrokes to win the Premier. an article in the Racing Post coveredthe damage to bookies.   The upside is  the publicity and the coupon (accumulator) busting that Leicester did.   This said it’s clear the bookies misread the [...]

May 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

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