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Putting Barca/PSG In perspective

The superlatives will certainly fly after Barcelona’s comeback in a sport dominated by hype and little feel for its history but for me – for a match to acquire the greatest tag – you need more of a contest. I think of the three greatest games I was privileged to witness when only [...]

March 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

So it’s not just me, then …

As it happens yesterday evening I popped out for a quiet drink with a couple of pals before dinner and after about half an hour by chance we found ourselves sitting within earshot of some Quins fans I’d never met before who were discussing the club’s current fortunes. Stuff inevitably happens [...]

March 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Leeds 1

The match will be remembered for a moment of controversy when Neeskens Kebano’s shot struck the underside of the Leeds bar and appeared to land over the line( the video highlights suggested it did) but the referee did not award a goal. I will examine this in greater detail but first the match [...]

March 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

Once again Jeremy Chapman in the Racing and Football Outlook came up trumps by predicting Dustin Johnson as winner and tipping young Jon Rahm who ran him close finishing third. He did not quite fare so well in South Africa where none of his picks featured, the Tshwane Open was won by Dean [...]

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 3 Preston 1

Fulham’s comfortable and complete victory over in-form Preston, only one place below us, keep us in the play-off race. The three teams above us -Sheffield Wednesday, Reading and Leeds – all won so there is still a gap in points to overcome. It was a good week for Fulham with Stefan [...]

March 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

One I didn’t see or even hear

Saturday 4th March: Aviva Premiership Round 17; Gloucester v Harlequins at Kingsholm:  Result – Gloucester 27 Harlequins 30, Gloucester 0 league points, Harlequins 5 (1 four-try bonus point). Gloucester now 9th in table on 35 points, Harlequins 7th on 42. As per this column’s avowed policy, I [...]

March 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

SKY GOLF COMMENTATORS

Rust contributors like to work up a fair old head of steam on female sporting broadcasters, the view of some being that they are there not because of any indigenous talent but because they are women. To take a contrarian view I would like today to champion the cause of Henni Zuel, the youngest ever [...]

March 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The whiff of rotting fish

For organisations such as British Cycling and Team Sky – who have both wallowed in the reflected glory of their supposed legendary attention to detail, pursuit of ‘marginal gains’ and savvy media relations all based around their avowed core principle of seeking to be a beacon of [...]

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Newcastle 2

This game lived up to its top-of the-table-billing in a high octane encounter but it was a measure of luck that swung the game the Magpies way. The Seagulls took an early lead from a penalty. It seemed harsh but the referee said he had warned the players about holding in the box and then penalised [...]

March 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Caught on the hop

For some of those who worship at the altar of the monotheist religion of Saint Eddie Jones, England’s rugby coach – and I admit that for a while I was a fan teetering on the point of submitting to conversion – the England v Italy Six Nations game on Sunday may have been a sobering event. [...]

February 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

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