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Fiorentina file

Like the Premier League the top of the sere a is tight with Napoli leading, Juve second, Fiorentina third and Inter fourth. After a couple of defeats to Lazio and Milan, Fiorentina put their season on track with a solid win over Torino last Sunday morning ( 2-0). We have strengthened the squad with [...]

January 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Seagulls swoop

Brighton made it two wins in a row and, with 2 winnable home games up next against Brentford and Bolton, have every chance of consolidating their play-off position. Brighton won 2-1 but it was not a great game. Huddersfield, managed by Jurgen Klopp’s number two at Dortmund David Wagner, [...]

January 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Liverpool 3 Arsenal 3

I am not a huge fan of modern Premiership soccer. The analysis on tv and radio is poor and under informed, the coverage in the press has reached saturation point, the whole social media thing grates on me.  Every year teams change as if dealt a fresh deck of cards. I found that I could name the [...]

January 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

I can easily recall a conversation with a Fulham supporter some 22 years ago. There were only 2500 of us then, so we were all on first name terms. Justin, in assessing our chances in the forthcoming season, said ruefully but correctly: “Just like every other season. Out of every competition [...]

January 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fulham finally appoint

Seven weeks after Kit Symons was predictably dismissed for not meeting the targets set Fulham finally appointed a head coach. In that period not one win was recorded and a transfer embargo imposed for falling foul of the Financial Fair Play rules. There was was a notable absence of club [...]

December 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Klapp trap

On balance overseas managers have improved our domestic soccer. Men like Arsene Wenger have improved the training, diet, fitness and attitude of his players and transformed Arsenal from a team known for its dull, percentage football (one nil to the Arsenal) to a fluid attractive side that have [...]

December 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton lose record and we lose Jimmy Hill

When John Pargiter, bereft of any decent golf, called for advice on Seagulls’ chances before the match I could not be optimistic. We had conceded 4 goals in the last two matches and were playing the league leaders Middlesbrough without Solly March, Liam Rosenior, Gaetan Bong, Sam Baldock and [...]

December 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Big Match revisited

Retro seventies ITV televison is all the rage in the Rust and these past few days I’ve been tuning into The Big Match Revisited broadcast at 6am. It’s being shown chronologically and we are now at December 1979. Two things interested me: how has football changed and how has its [...]

December 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

QPR 2 Brighton 2

The Seagulls are still unbeaten in a demanding cycle of games of Derby away, QPR away and next Saturday the big one when first placed Middlesbrough meet second (us) at the Amex. This is our fifth successive draw on the road so when Pargie called up for advice that is the obvious bet. The last three [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

A rewarding evening

Due to a prior engagement up Oxford way, I began driving home to London at about 9.00pm last night and did so accompanied by Radio Five Live’s live coverage of the second half of Leicester City 2-1 victory over Chelsea, commentary by Guy Mowbray and Robbie Savage. I’m not a huge [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

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