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The Tanner Report: Manchester City 3 Fulham 2

Manchester City have gone 50 games undefeated at home and 16 games undefeated (home and away) against Fulham winning the last 12 on the trot. Though few had given us much hope at the Etihad, had Adama Traoré been able to finish more lethally, we might have won. The head coach chose a more [...]

October 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Northampton Saints 33 Harlequins 29

Although there were tries aplenty in this clash last night between the reigning Premiership champions and the always entertaining Quins I was underwhelmed. Quins had a massive injury list (Tyrone Green, Caden Murley, Alex Dombrandt, Luke Northmore and Cassius Gleaves) causing Marcus Smith to play [...]

October 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina File: Fiorentina 2 New Saints 0/Conference League

I had never heard of the Welsh side New Saints. I had to google them to discover they have won the Cymru  Premiership League 16 times.  They are based in Oswestry, Shropshire, and must be the first Welsh team to visit the Artemio Franch. I was anticipating an easy victory but it was anything but. [...]

October 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

Aston Villa 1 Bayern Munich 0 (a punter’s view) …

I have a confession to make, namely that I’m going off golf betting. It’s always been my sport and I have been attracted to the betting element because of the odds and the fact it’s largely a clean sport where luck plays little part. The problem is that it’s a big field and the best winning [...]

October 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham are 6th in the Premiership. After disappointing results against Manchester Utd and West Ham we have beaten Newcastle and Nottingham Forest – both previously unbeaten- and are playing well. The new signings Emile Smith Rowe and Joachim Andersen have bedded in well and Raul Jimenez has [...]

October 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex crowned champions

Sussex had to score 250 runs yesterday – only the second day of four – against third-placed Middlesex. James Coles They did so – when play was possible – to achieve the bonus point needed for promotion as Champions, thanks to centuries from both John Simpson (my player of [...]

September 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

The state of Rugby Union in England

It is a well-known fact that the sport of Rugby Union across the board is in plenty of financial and other trouble at the moment. There is talk of making it a “summer sport” in the UK – and even the floating of the idea of it trying to create a merger with Rugby League in order to [...]

September 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cricketing national identities

Reading articulate and well-informed books on post-War Caribbean cricket led me to the scarcely original theory that cricket is not played in that many countries but each has an identity  and style of its own. The West Indies dominated cricket for 20 years under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards but no [...]

September 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Newcastle 1

Newcastle came to Craven Cottage unbeaten with the aspiration that that their third successive defeat of Fulham away in the Premiership would take them top. Conversely, Fulham had a poor week as we were unlucky just to draw with West Ham and lost in a  marathon penalty shoot out (16-15) to Preston [...]

September 22, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win in the cold

I went to Hove yesterday and left at midday as I could not take the icy wind. The championship has been book-ended with a chilly spring and autumn. Still, Sussex easily beat Glamorgan by an innings and 87 runs and now top the second division with 200 points – 37 clear of Yorkshire and 52 of [...]

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

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