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The Tanner Report : Sunderland 2 Fulham 3. FA Cup 4th Round

The Bench is important. A player coming off it can make an immediate impact. It gives the team needed depth in case of injury or suspensions . The success of Brighton, Brentford and Fulham is the more remarkable as these clubs cannot afford a costly bench. In this replayed Cup Tie Marco Silva made [...]

February 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

Scotland 29 England 23

It was less of a new dawn, more of a gloriously sunlit game with rain falling at the end on Steve Borthwick’s parade. There were some bright new conditions: Ollie Chessum had a fine game at lock which he needs to do as Maro Itoje is not the force he was and Lewis Ludlum was a mobile flanker. Max [...]

February 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Chelsea 0 Fulham 0

The story will inevitably be that the expensively-assembled Chelsea could not beat Fulham. I doubt if there will be any forensic analysis of a league table showing Fulham, Brentford and Brighton above Chelsea and Liverpool. There are many reasons for this: less fan expectation, intelligent [...]

February 4, 2023 // 0 Comments

South Africa v England – the recent ODI series

This series has somehow slipped under the radar with all the spending in the football transfer window and the forthcoming Six Nations. Yet it was an important series to assess the fitness of Jofra Archer and England’s chances of retaining the World Cup in India this October. The South African [...]

February 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Yesterday a Fulham supporter whom I have known for many years – and began his support a year after me – treated me to lunch at the Reform Club. I am not a gentleman’s club man, but even so was impressed by its portals, salons and traditions. It was founded after The Great Reform Act [...]

January 31, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Spurs 1

The story was always going to be Harry Kane beating Jimmy Greaves’ Tottenham goal-scoring record. It took a knowledgeable friend of mine to point out that Jimmy Greaves scored 124 goals in 157 appearances for Chelsea and – in an unhappy time at AC Milan – 9 in 10 games. Jimmy [...]

January 25, 2023 // 0 Comments

Harlequins 39 Sharks Cell C 29

The game was billed as the last game of Nick Evans, the Kiwi ex-fly half & Quins coach, before joining the England set up for the Six Nations but in truth it was more about South Africa. The Durban Sharks travelled economy class from 34* to 3* temperatures with Kolisi and Eben Etzebeth but no [...]

January 23, 2023 // 0 Comments

Rugby union’s new “waist and below” tackle rule won’t work

Sometimes one could be forgiven for forming the view that some newsworthy developments just couldn’t be made up if one was writing fiction. It’s just been announced that – in effect – in the the amateur version of rugby union in England, tackles must now be made at waist [...]

January 21, 2023 // 0 Comments

Sunday TV sport

Sunday I watched some 7 hours of sport on tv. Rather than report on the event itself I thought I might comment on its coverage. First up was the encounter between Newcastle United and Fulham, one of three involving the top six of the Premier over the weekend, which perhaps surprisingly includes [...]

January 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

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