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The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Crystal Palace 3 ( FA Cup quarter final)

Fulham have had different ownerships, players, coaches and managers but one feature of the club always persists: inconsistency. This season we have beaten Manchester Utd at Old Trafford, Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, Spurs at home and also drawn away but only achieved 2 points from Ipswich and [...]

March 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

Weekend TV sport

With no Premiership or Championship soccer taking place you might have thought some of the internationals between European titans (e.g. Netherlands v Spain or Italy v Germany) might be broadcast, but the powers that be apparently imagine that we prefer women’s football or Scotland or Wales [...]

March 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 Spurs 0

The back stories to a dull game – the type you tend to get on an early Sunday kick off at 1-30 – were more interesting than the game itself. Fulham and Spurs’ best option for European competition is the Cup. Fulham might qualify if there are 8 European places in the Premiership but [...]

March 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

Six Nations/all considered

With staggered kick-offs three countries led the table but most wiseacres thought France would win it – as indeed they did, beating a spirited Scotland. I did not watch Italy v Ireland but, though the latter did not live up to their “favourites” billing, they will supply the bulk [...]

March 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

Endgame/BBC 2

After a few years it was good to see chess back on our screens. The format of Endgame was a series of lightning chess matches (known as blitzes) between contestants. One of them – known as the Swashbuckler – had discovered chess in prison and was a better talker than player. David [...]

March 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations

Ireland are not as good as they think they are, England not as bad as the critics make out and France think they are good … and they are. Les Bleus  ran out easy winners in Dublin even though Antoine Dupont was badly injured and could play no further part after 30 minutes. Although Sam [...]

March 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Brighton 2 Fulham 1

I was Ivan Conway’s guest for this match.  In 9 games Brighton have never beaten Fulham in the Premiership and did so yesterday with virtually the last kick of the match. The traffic was bad and the car parks full so we arrived late-ish. Necessarily I had to be ‘deep cover’, sitting amongst [...]

March 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

Eubank v McKenna

Last night was something of a rarity: live boxing on free-to -air television. The Noble Art has suffered from satellite coverage and pay-to-view and I cannot be the only disillusioned fan. There was not much sport to watch so I switched on at 9.00pm for the undercard of Belfast Boy Michael Conlon v [...]

March 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Manchester Utd 1-1 Fulham (3 – 4 on penalties): FA Cup 6th Round

This was not a classic encounter in the great traditions of Manchester Utd v Fulham games but gosh it was exciting. The game went first to extra time, then penalties and Fulham emerged winners. Although Manchester Utd and their decline was the story, I thought Fulham deserved their win as they had [...]

March 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

Bath Rugby 39 Harlequins 28 (Premiership Cup)

Normally it’s Quins who mount a second half revival but this time Bath, who were in the first half 21 points down, who dominated the second half to win comfortably. This was principally due to bringing on a fresh  from row (Ben Obana, Tom Dunn and Phil de Toit) who totally overpowered Quins who [...]

March 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

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