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Worcester Warriors 21 Harlequins 29

This was a significant victory for Quins given the absence of Marcus Smith, Luke North, Joe Marler, Alex Dombrandt and Joe Marchant. Danny Care continues to play out of his skin, Tom Lawday was made man of the match but my stand-out player was second row forward Hugh Tizzard. At at 6 feet 5 inches [...]

February 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

The invasion of Ukraine – the chess angle

Yesterday was spent in front of the television watching events in Ukraine unfurl. I opted for Sky News. The adverts were irritating – and the photo footage repeated – but they pulled in the important personalities, starting with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, and were across the big [...]

February 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Peterborough 1

The score-line might suggest a closer match than the reality as, but for some excellent keeping by Peterborough’s Stephen Benda, the final result might have been 5-1. Time and time again Benda produced world class saves often in one-on-one situations. Alex Mitrovic scored a brace. The first came [...]

February 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sport- the great leveller

Yesterday I had two morning visitors both by coincidence called Phil. The first Phil owns a glass company and – like me – is a member of the Sussex CCC players club whose does very nicely thank you when a lusty-hitting batter smashes a glass window or door as happens not infrequently. [...]

February 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

My golfing weekend

The Genesis at the Riviera  Course Los Angeles was won by the young Chilean Joaquin Niemann by two strokes from Collin Morikawa. Niemann, like the Mexican Abraham Ancer, reflects the youthful upsurge in Central and South American golf. He impressively hung onto his lead for 4 days. I was on Victor [...]

February 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Huddersfield 2

Is there cause for concern after Fulham’s third defeat at home? I read a post in one of the more incisive Fulham websites [www.hammy.com] that in 1982-83 season we had a 6 point lead over Leicester at this stage of the season but it was the Foxes who gained promotion. Huddersfield came to the [...]

February 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Champions League

The most significant aspect of the round of 16 of the Champions League partially played out this week was the dominance of the English teams – Manchester City winning 5-0 at Sporting Lisbon and Liverpool 2-0 at Inter. Barcelona, after 17 consecutive seasons in the Champions League, played [...]

February 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

Manchester United 2 Brighton 0

Curiously this match postponed from December because of covid was not televised. BT Sport was committed to the Champions League whilst Sky was showing the Championship match between Cardiff and Coventry. Manchester Utd/ Brighton was on Radio 5 Extra, commentated by Connor MacNamara with Mark [...]

February 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Saracens 19 Harlequins 10

In appalling conditions of high wind, sleeting rain and cold Harlequins slipped to their third consecutive defeat. It would be wrong to blame this on their England absentees for two reasons. Quins were let down by their established  players like Andre Esterhuizen who has lost his dynamism and [...]

February 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Hull 0 Fulham 1

This was another grounded-out win which kept Fulham on top of the Championship and 11 points clear of third place Blackburn. The only goal separating the sides was scored by Alex Mitrovic, a glancing header from a cross from right back Neco Williams – a loan signing from Liverpool – who [...]

February 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

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