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When football meets art theft…

There was an interesting article in the always excellent The Athletic on Pal Enger, a gifted young Norwegian footballer who had a second career as an art  thief. He played for Norway’s leading side Valerenga but shortly after the Winter Olympiad at Lillehammer he stole Edvard Munch’s The [...]

March 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

Last week my football wins bailed out my golf losses and this weekend it was the other way round. I backed each way for a top ten finish Sergio Garcia, Correy Connors and Daniel Berger for the Players Championship at Sawgrass a tournament won by Justin Thomas. Thomas put in a fantastic run of [...]

March 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Manchester City 3

Manchester City administered Fulham’s biggest defeat since Scott Parker overhauled the side. No real surprise as before the game City led the Premiership by 14 points and are favourites to win the Champions League. They could afford to leave Kevin De Bruyne, Alex Foden, Riyad  Mahrez, KyleWalker [...]

March 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

The physicality of female sport

In recent months I’ve occasionally posted on the Rust about issues affecting women and sport. As I begin today I must declare the usual caveats that I self-identify as a male – and a pretty ancient one at that – which facts probably contribute to my somewhat old-fashioned views, such as my [...]

March 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

Bryson DeChambeau won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, fighting off the challenge of Lee Westwood. Lee Westwood’s resurgence of form makes European Ryder Cup captain Pod Harrington’s job easier as he has only 3 discretionary picks. DeChambeau’s driving did not destroy the course [...]

March 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Liverpool 0 Fulham 1

No doubt about it this victory will long be remembered as one of the great ones. It was as decisive as it was necessary. We are still in the relegation zone but we have momentum, self-belief and a mean defence. There were so many heroes  in a white shirt but I’m going to start with a man in a [...]

March 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

A “Road to Damascus” moment?

Yesterday (Sunday), probably mentally unbalanced by the effects of prolonged lockdown, I gritted my teeth and built my day around BT Sport’s ‘live’ coverage of the Premiership rugby match between Harlequins and Northampton Saints at the Stoop [commencing at 2.00pm, kick-off 3.00pm]. Having [...]

March 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Leicester City 2

Once again  Brighton delivered a fine performance only to lose. In the first half in which Adam Lallana was supreme and might have had a hat-trick they only had his well-taken goal to show for their supremacy. In the second half Leicester played much better to run out winners. As with the Crystal [...]

March 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Tottenham 1

Points not praise are the keywords. Once again Fulham produced a performance to admire but not 3 crucial points. We started well, lost our grip of the game and, despite a second half in which we took the game to Spurs, ended up the losers and still in the relegation zone. Some fans will be [...]

March 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Crystal Palace 0 Fulham 0

The way you view this result depends on whether you are a glass half-full or half-empty Fulham fan. The half-empty one might say that this was 3 points lost – that a draw and 1 point is no longer good enough, we have a tough cycle of games ahead – and once again superiority was not [...]

March 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

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