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Middlesbrough 1 Brighton1

So Brighton have to satisfy themselves with a play-off place with 89 points- enough for automatic promotion most seasons- the same as Boro but with a goal difference 2 less. No point doing ‘if only’ – over the season, Boro had a perfectly good goal disallowed in their penultimate [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: To renew or not to renew

Yesterday I received the renewal forms for my season ticket. I was informed we had our “share of high and lows”. I can’t recall too many highs except for victories over QPR . As for lows, well we are one place outside the relegation zone and but for the goals of Dembele and [...]

May 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Derby 1

Automatic promotion is getting simpler: Brighton must win their final game at Middlesbrough. Going into the Derby game a win and a draw at Middlesbrough would have sufficed, but now only the victory. Nothing could be resolved yesterday though Burnley’s 0ne-nil win over QPR meant they had [...]

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham with one game left are one place above the three relegation places. Once this would be a cause for celebration as Fulham the great escapologists of the sixties and of  season 2008-09 might evade relegation once again. Although we were mathematically safe after yet another inept performance, [...]

May 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

A difficult expedition

This is a true story. On Wednesday afternoon I travelled to the south coast to stay overnight with my 90 year old father, this in advance of travelling yesterday to Fulham for the 10.30am funeral of one of his oldest pals – they had first met at school in 1939 and had been in pretty much regular [...]

April 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Brighton 5 Fulham 0

This is always a difficult game for more ways than one. I watch it as Ivan’s guest which means I have to endure the barbs of Fulham fans walking in the opposite direction to the away end and suffer the critique of Seagulls fans who thought little of our performance. Interestingly enough [...]

April 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Last Supper

Yesterday was my last full day in Nice. It seems ages ago that I arrived at the airport expecting the waiting smiles of the advance party Grania and Polly and the booked taxi driverbut none of them were there. You can only go uphill from there and indeed I did. Rather than pick out memorable days I [...]

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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Bilan

Michel di Vacri Bilan is a financial word and I guess the best translation would be “reckoning up” or “taking the account” so with Robert Tickler and his entourage leaving Friday I would say the bilan of the stay has been very positive. Yesterday I walked through the flower [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice 3 Rennes 0

It was very kind of Michel di Vacri to organise a trip to the Allianz Riviera stadium to see the key clash between Nice lying sixth and Rennes fourth but only one point spearmint them. The third Champions League place is up for grabs with Olympique Lyon second and Monaco currently third also in the [...]

April 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner report: Preston 1 Fulham 2

It does not seem to matter who the manager is or the regime but over the 50-odd years I have followed Fulham we invariably finish the season well. In most seasons we need to. Last night’s victory at Preston gave us 44 points and a cushion of 7 points as all the other results went our way. Two [...]

April 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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