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My aspiration of a whole day as a couch potato sipping a Desperado lager was destroyed by the six-hour disappearance of our cat Maisie. As I was the last to see her when I slipped out to buy the papers I was held responsible by daughter Carla and wife Emma. Maisie is our fourth cat and each one [...]

September 8, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks reach finals day

Sussex Sharks made easy work of beating Lancashire Lightning to reach the final. Lancashire Lightning could not call upon Jos Buttler but still fielded T20 regulars Phil Salt and Liam Livingstone. When Ollie Robinson bowled Phil Salt (recently of the parish) first ball you felt this was Sussex [...]

September 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fulham programmes over the years

Over the past few weeks I have been clearing out my  garage. In one corner is my collection of Fulham programmes over my years of support, nearly 55 now. These were exactly the sort of stuff you amass in a garage: you don’t want to throw them out but you rarely read them. So I decided, before [...]

September 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport triumphant

It was hot by the coast and both cricket and football teams of Sussex enjoyed their moment in the sun. Brighton earned a creditable draw at the Emirates against Arsenal. New Head Coach Fabian Hürzeler is bedding in well and the Seagulls were active in the transfer marker. Sadly £30m signing Matt [...]

September 2, 2024 // 0 Comments

My sporting Saturday

Although there was no breakfast match , the Southern Hemisphere game between South Africa and New Zealand, which ended 31-27, was worth waiting for. I have already said the All Blacks are a work in progress under new Head Coach Scott Robertson – with no Brodie Retallack or Aaron Smith – [...]

September 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

A day at Arundel

Yesterday I attended a “friendly” cricket match at Arundel’s Castle Ground between Sir Tim Rice’s Invincibles XI and the Weekenders. I have put “friendly” in inverted commas as the Weekenders were taking the match seriously and competitively. I say this as I was in [...]

August 31, 2024 // 0 Comments

Joe Solomon and the Spirit of Mourant/Clem Seecharan

Port Mourant, a sugar plantation on the Corenyne Coast of Guyana, is a remarkable place as it has spawned 4 famous West Indian cricketers – Basil Butcher, Rohan Kanhai and Joe Solomon –  and later Alvin Kallicharan, a political leader Cheggi Jagan and the author Professor Clem [...]

August 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Leicester 1

Fulham made hard work of defeating Leicester in a game they largely dominated. On the market Jaoa Pahlinha, a tower of force as an enforcer, left for Bayern and tricky winger Willian also departed. The most exciting signing was Emile Smith Rowe. Two years ago, when he broke into the Arsenal team, [...]

August 27, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brighton and Sussex CCC top their leagues

I am still in cricket mode and one of the reasons I swerved the Brighton v Manchester United game –  the deluge being the other – was that I wanted to see how top of the table Sussex fared against third-placed Yorkshire at Scarborough. We lost on the fourth day having failed to amass [...]

August 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

Natural talent versus coached

Prior to the beginning of the First Test, on TMS that know-all Michael Vaughan was holding forth on his view that the primacy of Australia, England and India enabled them to coach their best talent and thereby it was not a level cricket field. I agree with the first contention – but not the [...]

August 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

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