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When I was a kid and became interested in football in the sixties, Charlie Buchan’s Football Monthly was required reading. It had big colour photos of our heroes but some interesting copy as well. Basil Easterbrook, a football writer for 35 years would recall great games he saw with a style [...]

April 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

English golfing triumphant

Justin Rose, who the Zurich Classic in Louisiana, and David Howell very nearly took the Volvo China Open at Shanghai where he finished second to Wu Ashan. Both Englishmen had been chosen by the Racing Post team and therefore backed by Pargiter. Steve Palmer I like to think was absent from duty [...]

April 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton beached

Brighton’s defeat by Watford followed predictable form. We scuffed an early chance, the game became an attritional midfield battle which we might have won if we had a goalscorer. Watford did and broke the deadlock. We had better chances in the second half which we did not convert and Watford [...]

April 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Only two more to go now …

Yesterday I was unable to watch the Harlequins’ away Premiership match against Sale (a 23-25 victory). This was because, although I’ve been to see Quins play away against Sale twice before [at their old ground, a bit of an ordeal because it was in a pretty primitive state], I wasn’t in the [...]

April 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The weekend golf

Both the PGA RBC Heritage at Hilton Head tourney and the European Shenzchen International Genzon, China, went to play-offs won by Jim Furyk and Kirakach Aphibarnrat respectively in exciting contests. There was also some impressive forecasting by Steve Palmer who advised Aphibarnrat, Peter Uhlein [...]

April 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Yesterday I received my renewal package for my season ticket. The theme- spin would be a better word – was that Fulham is a “club like no other”: one of the attributes of this is is ‘resolve’. It’s a quality our defence might envy but does not possess; they have [...]

April 17, 2015 // 2 Comments

Brighton 0 Huddersfield 0

It’s now over 8 hours since Brighton scored a goal. Last night in one of the dullest football games I have ever seen there seemed precious little chance of a goal spectacular. The Seagulls hit the bar and post, once fortuitously, and that was the sum total of the excitement. I found myself [...]

April 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Masters reviewed

I kept my Racing Post Masters Supplement as there are few more satisfying things, other than winning, for the punter than to boast of his success. Steve Palmer selected McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Ryna Palmer, Gary Woodland and Paul Casey. Only Rory finished in the top five and that at a unattractive [...]

April 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Progress of sorts

Yesterday afternoon the Harlequins beat Gloucester 29-26 at the Stoop in the Premiership and now lie in 8th place (on 43 points) behind Sale Sharks in 7th (on 47), who play London Irish away this afternoon, and Wasps in 6th (48 points). Therefore there is still a mathematical chance of Quins [...]

April 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Kit, let’s be fair

I may make no bones about it that when Kit was made permanent manager I had deep reservations. However I’m not going now to say “Yah boo, I told you so” as I fully understood why the appointment was made. Kit had many things going for him. He was not Felix Magath but a popular [...]

April 11, 2015 // 4 Comments

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