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The Tanner Report

I don’t much like football on Friday nights and nor do Fulham. Aside from a crushing defeat of Manchester City some 16 seasons ago when a German striker Dirk Lehmann who looked like a porn star bagged a brace I cannot recall a decent performance. I remember an all time low when Hayes dumped [...]

December 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Farewell to a man

In the small hours of Wednesday morning I listened to a ‘live’ relay of the funeral service of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes taking place in the small town of Macksville in New South Wales as broadcast by on the Up All Night programme hosted by Rhod Sharp on Radio Five Live. Hughes, as [...]

December 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Supporting your team

Yesterday I had a meal with a Spurs supporter and his wife. He never misses a game at home and enjoys traveling away, especially in Europe. I said to him that Spurs is a team that had its best days some 55 years ago but is still rooted in their past. His wife added that throughout their marriage [...]

December 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

More questions than answers – maybe

It’s December and therefore time for those interested in rugby union to analyse and draw their lessons from the Northern Hemisphere’s slew of autumn internationals – a task given added bite this year by the fact just ten months remain to the start of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. As with all team [...]

December 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Fulham 2

So the honours went to Alan Tanner who I have to say behaved most graciously and thought a draw would be a fairer result. The generous comments made about their former club by Alan Mullery, David Stockdale and Aaron Hughes in the programme epitomised the good spirit in which the game was played. I [...]

November 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sliding down the table

I’m beginning to get fed up with my version of every true fan’s eternal quest to keep his pecker up and see the positive side of things when they just aren’t going in his team’s direction. There’s no two ways about it – Quins are playing rubbish this term and there’s no end to it in [...]

November 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Brighton v Fulham

The two fixtures I was most looking forward to, Brentford and Brighton have come in successive weeks. Ivan Conway will be reporting on the game but I have been allowed to do the preview. With our old boys, Aaron Hughes, David Stockdale and Darren Bent in the Brighton side, it’s very much a [...]

November 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Dubai Classic

Once again we were treated to some compelling golf and drama on Sunday morning on the final day of the Dubai Classic on the Earth course. Henrik Stenson started the day as leader by one stroke. Cabrera Bello had played a brilliant round on the third day and was in contention whilst Mcilroy and Rose [...]

November 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Dave Whelan’s remarks

Brighton has one of the biggest Jewish communities outside the big cities and the 1901 club where I sit has many Jewish supporters. So we have been discussing Dave Whelan’s much publicised comments. My initial reaction was that they were highly offensive. Racial stereotyping was a feature of [...]

November 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Kit ‘s up for it but is he up to it?

Last night’s defeat by Brentford made it two unsatisfactory performances on the trot. Last night’s was all the more galling as the West London bragging rights were conceded rather gutlessly. We took a somewhat undeserved lead after a frenetic first half but the Bees pulled one back and [...]

November 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

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