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Just another nail in the coffin …

Saturday 13th February 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 12: Gloucester v Harlequins at Kingsholm: Gloucester 28 Harlequins 6. Regular readers of my column will know that I have been enduring having a hard time of it recently. Given Quins’ propensity to blow hot and cold – best expressed in [...]

February 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Jimmy Hill memorial service

Yesterday I was privileged to attend the memorial service of Jimmy Hill at Coventry Cathedral. It’s often said that you invariably find out something about a person you never knew at such an event and this was no exception. Surprisingly so as his achievements and legacies are so well [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

They will never pay so much again

My sympathies lie with the Liverpool fans who demonstrated last Saturday against the £77 highest ticket price. That most of the tickets had not risen and this is the price of a best seat was significantly lower than London Premier prices was not so much the issue as the reluctance of clubs awash [...]

February 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Couch potato

With my recent betting successes swelling the household budget I was able to negotiate with my missus a generous time in front of the telly on Sunday. I watched 2 golf tourneys, 2 Premier matches, some of Ireland v Wales and the Superbowl till sleep claimed me. If I was to ask you which sporting [...]

February 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Derby 1

Although Fulham have yet to record a win in their first three games under new head coach Slavisa Jokatovic there are encouraging signs of improvement. Only 3 goals have been conceded by a defence that was the worst in the divsion and could be relied on to concede two a game. Getting the central [...]

February 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so now the wheels come off …

Saturday 6th February 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 11: Harlequins v Northampton Saints at the Stoop: result – Harlequins 23 Northampton Saints 27. Yesterday I had a near-perfect rugby day in prospect, having bought four additional tickets to the Saints game upon request for a cousin, a [...]

February 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 3 Brentford 0

The fellow who collects and delivers our laundry, a keen Albion supporter, correctly predicted the 2-1 score against Huddersfield so last Thursday I asked him what he thought the score might be v Brentford. He said he was going to be outlandish as the Seagulls score few goals and never won by more [...]

February 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

It all comes to this in the end

Yesterday I sent an email to my brother, five and a half years my junior, about our theoretical plans for playing golf this year and was slightly taken aback when he replied saying that he hadn’t been enjoying the game for some time and had decided to stop playing it – well, save for making a [...]

February 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Transfer window

We asked our various football correspondents to comment on the transfer window: Rex Mitchell I  never enjoyed the last day of the window. Working on a national daily, I hated sucking up to agents, pulling favours from managers and hanging around the car parks of  cold, wet training centres for a [...]

February 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

The road to Damascus

An extraordinary thing happened yesterday – I placed a bet on a horse and won money as a result … well not quite. I should perhaps explain. There is no particular reason for this, but horse racing and betting are two pastimes to which I have never been attracted, even before I learned how the [...]

February 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

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