Sport

Fulham 2 Middlesbrough 1

Fulham maintained their fine start to the season with our fourth victory, last night over a Boro side from the Premiership and unbeaten since March. As is the way with the League Cup, both sides played scratch sides but Boro’s looking the stronger than the youthful Fulham one who had [...]

August 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Certainty is all, whatever it is

Today I wish to begin with a disclaimer and/or warning/explanation. As a contributor to this august organ, I do not regard myself as being under any obligation to be balanced, ‘modern’ in outlook, PC-correct or indeed pay lip service (or more) to any notion of fairness, equality or positive [...]

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

UFC is a whole new ball game

Last night, having got up in the wee hours to go upon my computer and organised to have the BBC’s television coverage of the Olympics on in the background, I happened to notice a report upon one of the newspaper websites that they would be providing live updates upon the grudge rematch UFC (mixed [...]

August 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/ Fulham 2 Cardiff 2.

Fulham could not produce the same level of performance of their first three matches and in the end were more than satisfied to earn a point in this 2-2 draw with Cardiff. Cardiff, managed by Fulham old boy Paul Trollope, an early Ray Wilkins/Kevin Keegan signing at the beginning of the Al Fayed [...]

August 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t hold your breath, anyone …

Saturday 20th August 2016. The Stoop, Twickenham. Second and final official pre-season match: Harlequins v Glasgow Warriors. Result – Harlequins 22 Glasgow Warriors 17. These days the Harlequins club chooses to call its season ticket holders ‘members’ and bombards them with emails and [...]

August 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Equestrian gold: expert view

Yesterday afternoon was my admin session with Polly. She was held up at the dentist and I started to watch the equestrian event knowing she would want to watch this. I was soon absorbed and when she arrived my enjoyment was enhanced by her expert knowledge of the sport. Dressed in smart livery, the [...]

August 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympics watching

There is another way of watching the Olympics other than staying up all night which I know a fellow Ruster and I adopt – namely to go to bed at 9 and arise in the early hours. Yesterday morning at 3am I settled down for the woman’s 68 kg freestyle wrestling contested between Dosho of [...]

August 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

BO66Y

Last night I watched the dvd of Bo66y a documentary produced by Matt Lorenzo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of World Cup victory. Matt Lorenzo and his father before him are massive West Ham fans so I did not expect anything too critical. I did expect to learn something I did not know but long [...]

August 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buying a pup

Yesterday I was called by the trainer of my greyhound to say that after a couple of months of treatment and rest for a tendon injury he was now irretrievably lame. He would never run again. For sometime I thought I had in every sense bought a pup. I never thought that I had acquired a dog that [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex close to victory

Sussex CCC have only won one match all season drawing the other eight. League leaders Essex have lost two but won three. Still with six games left after this match against Gloucestershire and with Sussex having a game in hand a late winning run would mean promotion. Sussex had Gloucestershire [...]

August 16, 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 [...]