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Perfection – or glorious uncertainty?

Yesterday sports editor Tom Hollingworth posted an early-morning instant personal reaction to the impact of that super-typhoon Hagibis had wreaked upon the hitherto admirable smooth running of the 2019 Rugby World Cup even before it had hit land. Having, like all good and true followers begun my [...]

October 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Blown away

Overnight I was listening to Rhod Sharp’s Up All Night programme on Radio Five Live when it cut at 4.00am (UK time) live and direct to Rugby World Cup press conference at which it was announced that two games on Saturday have been cancelled – one of them the Pool C shoot-out between England and [...]

October 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Turning up the volume

Make no mistake, thanks to the choice of host nation and the party atmosphere generated by the fans, this is already a great Rugby World Cup despite the on-pitch controversies over new high tackle rules and the ‘slippery ball’ handling errors caused by the temperatures, humidity and dew. At the [...]

October 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

I haves been off the air these past weeks after my big win on Danny Willett at Wentworth. Good to see the Sheffield slugger back to winning ways and nice few quid in my coffers. I duly noted Jeremy Chapman’s tips for the Spanish Open and the US PGA Shriners Children Hospital in Las Vegas without [...]

October 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

With half-time approaching …

As the Pool stage draws to its conclusion this week it seems to me that the Rugby World Cup has served primarily to highlight some of the sport’s strengths and weaknesses as it seeks to develop its global reach. Whilst its special qualities have ticked the boxes as a festival of athleticism, [...]

October 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reviewing the situation.

As Fagin said and sung in Oliver! I am reviewing the situation as we approach the business end of the competition. Unless there are some extraordinary surprises like Fiji beating Wales and Canada the Boks , the final eight look like Japan, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, England, France, Wales [...]

October 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 Charlton 2

In an entertaining derby Fulham once again failed to beat their peers thereby supporting my view that Fulham look a formidable side but only against inferior opposition like Millwall and Reading. Recently promoted Charlton, under the stewardship of Lee Bowyer, could not be classified as inferior [...]

October 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Vindication

In a recent article I criticised the World Athletic Championships. Since that time, Lord Coe lambasted Gabby Logan for her interview with a high-ranking official and generally being negative about the staging of the games. After that Alberto Salazar – a good friend of Coe – the coach of [...]

October 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Doing it right

It is an inalienable fact of life that every sport known to man comes with a series of principles that define its culture and to an extent attracts participants that respond to them on one level or another. There are also inherent differences between those which one might describe as individual [...]

October 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Reading 1 Fulham 4

Let’s not get too carried away. Reading were a poor side even without being reduced to 10 men for the majority of this match. Fulham looked best this season against another poor side Millwall. We failed to beat neither Nottingham Forest nor WBA who are above us. We can say that the Parker [...]

October 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

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