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TV-happy and proud of it

I’m relatively unapologetic about the fact that, over the decades, I have gradually become less and less inclined to attend sporting occasions in person. When my brother announced with excitement that he had secured tickets to three different sports at the 2012 Olympics, including – depending [...]

February 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

The Indian golfer Lahiri won the European Tour Malaysia Open though it would be more accurate to say Bernd Wiesberger lost it. When he birdied the first two holes in the final round he was surely home and hosed but his game collapsed when he then bogeyed five holes. Charl Schwarzel and Martin [...]

February 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Albion assessed

There is an old joke in the rag trade that goes like this: “How is business?” “It was bad a few months ago but now it’s tailing off.” Speaking to Alan T post match, that seemed to sum up the plight of our two teams. Both Brighton and Fulham had a mini revival under new [...]

February 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Yesterday I had lunch at the Indigo restaurant at the Ardington Hotel in Worthing ,where I have a bungalow, with a local Fulham fan. Both Barry and I are old Fulham, our support started in the sixties. All his boys are supporters and I mentioned that on February 14 Jamie, Bob Tickler’s [...]

February 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Does it always have to come to this?

It ill bodes anyone to write off one of the all-time sporting greats, not least for fear of one’s words coming back to bite one on the bum. However, today I read about Tiger Woods’ ignominious retirement with a back injury from the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines after just ten holes [...]

February 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

When a mid-to-lower championship side comes up against a mid-to-lower Premier side the difference in class is usually palpable and it was last night when Sunderland beat Fulham 3-1 to remove us from the FA Cup. The game turned on a grotesque error by Marcus Bettinelli, our keeper, whose transition [...]

February 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

The sporting and betting weekend

As when Rory won his first Major, the U.S. PGA, which was over shadowed by the London Olympics, his fine performance to dominate the Dubai tourney was eclipsed by Andy Murray contesting the Australia Open. I flitted between the two but when the Murray challenge faltered and failed, I concentrated [...]

February 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reaching your limit

Like probably millions of others, I spent a couple of hours yesterday morning flicking through the Sunday papers whilst tuned to BBC1, watching Andy Murray’s enthralling but ultimately futile attempt to win the 2015 Australian Open. In truth, Murray’s loss in four sets – ending with him [...]

February 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Super Bowl

Let me say straight away that I do not follow American football. I have never mastered the tactics nor rules and have a problem spending 4 hours watching a game that takes one. I like sports like football where there is both simplicity and continuity of action and the staccato nature of grid iron [...]

February 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Roger, over and out

There’s not much to be said – or indeed remembered – about my visit to the Stoop to see the Harlequins host Bath in the LV= Cup yesterday. I’m not even sure why I went, to be honest: the weather forecasters were not wrong when they predicted it was likely to get bitterly cold after lunch [...]

February 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

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