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The Tanner Report/What’s not to like?

Fulham have begun their season more than satisfactorily. Now second in the Championship, a new starlet in Fabio Carvalho and a new coach who has us playing with more tempo, an owner who has enough wealth to withstand all the worst financial consequences of Covid. We also have a squad with depth. [...]

August 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

In praise of Moeen Ali

Moeen Ali was once a batter whose route to the Test team was to improve his bowling. He was never quite an all rounder but nonetheless a key cog in the team. Moved up and down the order from one to nine and filling his boots in the white ball game, he lost interest in Test cricket but thank [...]

August 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

A result

It’s not often I get a first and second in golf but I did so when Kevin Kisner won the Wyndham in the US PGA and Kevin Na finished second. As is always the case, I cannot claim I have a brilliant system – just that I read and follow the Racing and Football Outlook. Kevin Na It went to a [...]

August 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Third day of the Test

As it will all about Joe Root – rightly so – I thought I might post more about the Lords experience from the debenture level. Admission is less of a palaver as the Covid restrictions have been eased and left at the discretion of the person. However you still have to show  your [...]

August 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Second day of the Test

I suspect that most of the media coverage will lead with Jimmy Anderson’s fifer. However – in true Rust left-field style – I would like to lead off with two people who did not make a mistake all day- umpires Michael Gough and Richard Illingworth. To call a LBW correctly, as they did [...]

August 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

First day of the Test

In the course of the day I was asked if any cricket ground compares to Lords and the simple answer is no. I like the cockpit that is Trent Bridge but the Oval is too cramped and the other Test grounds in the north have become soulless, more venues dedicated to cash generation than traditional [...]

August 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Middlesbrough 1

In a sentence Fulham controlled 75% of this match but failed to convert that dominance into goals and might have even lost the game. True it was new coach Marco Silva’s first game, both in charge at Fulham and in the Championship, there were injuries to Tom Cairney and Harrison Reed and no [...]

August 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

It’s weekends like these that justify my £10 betting cap. Sunday was grey, windy and wet. A perfect day then for tv sport except we were denied by the weather an exciting finale to the Test and it was the finale too of the Olympics. The Racing Post felt that Fulham, whilst a better side than [...]

August 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

A cornucopia of tv sport

As I tucked into my Weetabix with The Times sport supplement I anticipated a wonderful array of sport on the television: the Olympics, the England v India Test, the Lions Test, the US PGA at St Jude and, although I was not disappointed, I feel obliged in true Rust tradition to criticise the [...]

August 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Oh – so that was it, was it?

For my sins – to be honest, it felt as much a duty as an imperative – I duly watched the live Sky Sports TV coverage of the Third Test between the Springboks and the British & Irish Lions in Capetown yesterday (kick-off 5.00pm UK time) which ended in a 19-16 victory, and thereby an [...]

August 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

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