Sport

A Passage to India

Sitting in the departure lounge at Heathrow waiting for my Air India flight, I had two thoughts: (1) Does the England team care that thousands of fans are spending their hard-earned cash to follow England where now the most hopeful and unlikely result is a drawn series? (2) Does the England side [...]

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Park your indignation and simply wallow in it

It’s that time of year again. This week has seen the publication of the shortlist (or is it nominees?) for the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year charade that takes place every December and already we’ve got a raft of holier-than-thou journalists, representatives of B-list sports and inevitably [...]

November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phew! Another close call …

Aviva Premiership Round 9: Sunday 27th November 2106: Harlequins v Bath Rugby at the Stoop, kick-off 3.15pm: Result – Harlequins 21 Bath Rugby 20: League points – Harlequins 3 Bath Rugby 1: (New league positions – Bath Rugby third in the table on 31 points, Harlequins 6th on 21 points, five [...]

November 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Talk is cheap at the business end

In family circumstances yesterday in which I watched the whole of England’s 24-17 victory at Twickenham against Argentina and then the first half of Ireland’s 27-24 win over Australia in Dublin on television, it is fast becoming a moot point as to which of these home nations will be favourite [...]

November 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Brighton 2 Fulham 1

Ivan Conway, with whom I watched the game, was sweet enough to say that a draw was the right result but if you do not capitalise on your dominance – as we failed to do in the first half and Brighton did in the second – then you will not get even a point. Fulham started the better and [...]

November 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Oh what bad luck

Almost every gambler I have met blames his bad luck: what has he done to deserve this(?) is a frequent cri de coeur. Conveniently they forget when Lady Luck is on their side as happened to me last weekend. Late goals in the Milan derby and Manchester United v Arsenal game provided a result when all [...]

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s just about okay, if you don’t take it all too seriously

20th November 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 8: Leicester Tigers v Harlequins at Welford Road, kick-off 3.15pm: Result – Leicester Tigers 25 Harlequins 6. Overnight yesterday it had rained with something like a vengeance and in the morning, as I discovered when I nipped across the road to collect [...]

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report; Fulham 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1

For the third weekend Fulham emulated the Brighten result – and the performance was not much different. After two inspiring wins over Huddersfield and Brentford, once again our home form was unreliable and Sheffield Wednesday deserved their draw. They came with a plan to frustrate Fulham by [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Aston Villa 1

Brighton were not exactly outclassed by the resurgent Villa side unbeaten since the appointment of Steve Bruce but we were grateful to come away with a point. From the start Villa harried and pressed the Seagulls. Villa took the lead from a glancing header from Nathan Baker which David Stockdale [...]

November 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Wasting my time, but not as much as I might have …

Wednesday 16th November: Harlequins v Maori All Blacks at the Stoop (part of the club’s 150th anniversary celebrations), kick-off 7.45pm: Result: Harlequins 10 Maori All Blacks 26. About three weeks ago, both because I was being repeatedly reminded of it by the club and felt something of an [...]

November 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]