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The Tanner Report: Nottingham Forest 2 Fulham 3

There are 4 main reasons why Fulham have got off to such a good start in their Premiership campaign – now being in 6th place with 11 points. Alex Mitrovic has confounded his critics by showing he can score in the Premiership with 6 goals to date though none on Friday (his 28th birthday); The [...]

September 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tribute to Ted Dexter

Yesterday I attended a MCC tribute in the Long Room at Lords to Ted Dexter. I felt honoured to be invited as – although I had got to know Ted well these past few years and his charming wife Sue too  in Nice-  I had not expected to be invited to such a gathering of cricketing luminaries. I [...]

September 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Rugby’s Premiership – a commercial head-case?

When it comes to one’s specialist subjects, interests and hobbies (not least favourite sports) over the course of decades one’s perceptions of the pertinent issues of any specific moment, as formed by one’s personal impressions and attitudes – taken together with media reports, [...]

September 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

New Zealand All Blacks 37 Wallabies 34

Rarely have I experienced such a dramatic and controversial end to a rugby international. After trailing by 19 points at one stage, the Wallabies came back to 34-32 and – with the klaxon about to sound – the All Blacks mounted their last attack. The French referee Matthieu Reynald [...]

September 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

An absorbing day at the Oval

Yesterday I travelled up from the coast to watch an always thrilling day’s play in which England batted twice and set up victory. I confess I had my doubts about Ben Stokes as captain: a brilliant cricketer indubitably, but not a shrewd enough tactician and probably another Freddie Flintoff or [...]

September 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Newcastle Falcons 31 Harlequins 40

Quins had some stellar absentees for the start of the Premiership – Danny Care, Marcus Smith, Andre Esterhuizen – and young lock Hugh Tizzard has moved to Saracens. We only saw glimpses of vintage Champagne Quins: 2 penalties that they elected to run rather than convert, a cross-field [...]

September 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Fitness campaign report

A while back now – to be honest as I type I can’t remember exactly when – during a WhatsApp chat with my 39 year old daughter, of all things I had cause to mention that I had just amassed forty days’ worth of consecutive “10,000 steps per day” (a “standard” that many fitness gurus [...]

September 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Spurs 2 Fulham 1

2-1 was not a bad result. However only poor finishing, great goalkeeping by our Bernd Leno and tenacious defending by Tim Ream and Tosin prevented a bigger defeat. I was especially interested to see the new Spurs stadium. I had been told that it took stadium design to a whole new level (9 levels to [...]

September 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks and Seagulls falter

Yesterday I went to Hove for the semi final of the Royal London Cup between Sussex Sharks and Lancashire Lightning. Lancashire won the toss and surprisingly elected to bat. It seemed a strange decision as there is moisture in the air off the sea at Hove in the morning which favours the bowling [...]

August 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Reunion

The Reunion on Radio 4 is a much admired programme on the Rust and last week it featured and reunited those primarily involved in the May 1997 chess encounter between World Champion Gary Kasparov and a IBM computor called Deep Blue. Kasparov, who won 2-1, was contemptuous of the computer – [...]

August 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

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