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I cannot remember the  last time England produced two golf winners on the same day. Matt Wallace won the Indian Open after a play-off with Andrew “Beef “Johnston and Paul Casey only his second PGA victory at the PGA. However the big story, especially with the Masters 3 weeks away, was [...]

March 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

And so, the final curtain …

Now just six days away from its conclusion, the 2018 version – already won by Ireland – of the annual Six Nations tournament has yet again provided a welcome early spring diversion for both devotees of rugby union and general sports fans. As with all of the physical contact variety, [...]

March 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Preston 1 Fulham 2

Fulham extended their winning run of 16 points out of 18 – all against teams in the top ten – with another win but this was the most hard-fought and least-deserved of them all. Still, we have to credit a defence that stuck to their job – Dennis Odoi replacing the injured Tomas [...]

March 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more …

There has been a period of relative radio silence from me over the past two months – primarily about my ongoing fitness campaign – and so today I thought I’d provide an update. In short, recently there hasn’t been one (a fitness campaign, I mean). As sometimes happens with the careers of [...]

March 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Two great amateurs pass on

I was sad to see the passing of Sir Roger Bannister and Hubert Doggart. I can claim a personal connection with both. Sir Roger attended the same Oxford College, Exeter, as my uncle Paul and at the same time. I broached this with Sir Roger a few years ago. He said he remembered my uncle as “a [...]

March 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 3 Sheffield United 0

Fulham were in cruise control last night in disposing of Sheffield United in one of the finest performances of football we have witnessed since the Jean Tigana era. In the second half – and allow this long suffering fan his moment of exaggeration – it might have been Barcelona or [...]

March 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

It’s complicated …

Hands up all bog-standard average guys born before 1965 like me – sports loving, liberal with a small ‘L’, tolerant (‘live and let live’), likes a drink down the pub on a Friday night and the odd bet on the gee-gees, grew up in the days when men and women behaved like [...]

March 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

Drug-taking in sport – a comment

As regular readers will be aware, one of the guiding principles of the Rust‘s editorial policy – indeed some might say its purpose for being – is that we leave straight reporting and journalism to the professionals who (for the most part!) do it better than we do anyway … [...]

March 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Arsenal 1

The  BBC computer predicts that 37 points will be enough to survive and if so Brighton only need one more win. Yesterday in an enthralling match the spirit of the Seagulls over-powered a directionless Arsenal team full of skilful individuals but no esprit de corps. This was epitomised by the [...]

March 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Well, whaddya know? ….

More reports on one of our hardy perennials – performing-enhancing drug taking in sport. See here for links to three reports in The Guardian by the excellent Martha Kelner, two of them upon cycling’s Team Sky – SKY ONE and SKY TWO – and the last upon our dear old friend LORD [...]

March 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

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