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The Tanner Report : Middlesbrough 0 Fulham 0

The noose supposedly round Kit Symons’ neck would have loosened after this goalless draw at The Riverside against high flying Middlesbrough. There has been talk of an assessment by the analytical boys after 12 matches and if such a review shows statistically on previous season’s [...]

October 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Fiorentina beat Atalanta 3-0 on Sunday to stay on top of a serie a. Much of the praise must go to manager Paolo Sousa. I spoke of him when he took the job to Rex, Alan and Ivan. They said that he had managed at Swansea with success, less so at QPR and even less at Leicester City. Just as some [...]

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: a night to remember

Fulham’s defeat of local rivals QPR was much more than winning the local bragging rights. It was the best performance since the new owner took over, the best under Kit Symons and if this form is continued we can be hopeful of the play-offs. Even more than that the passing game and interplay [...]

September 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Stoke1

Fulham were unlucky not to get a draw against Stoke in the Capital Cup. It’s a competition too far and Mark Hughes of Stoke selection reflects many team’s attitude to it by playing the also rans. One was our old boy Steve Sidwell. When you hear or read the play sheet the opposing fans [...]

September 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Building momentum

You can call it lazy journalism if you wish but that wouldn’t bother me. A few days ago, writing on this website, I suggested that the recently-published list of new peers was either a perfect example of extreme uncaring Establishment folly … or (alternatively) a deliberately [...]

August 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Ladies Ashes

I went to the second game at the Hove for the Ladies Ashes with an open mind. Perhaps I have been too harsh in criticising the BBC for promoting women’s sport in general and cricket in particular. My conclusion was I have not. Why do spectators attend a sporting event? One obvious reason, [...]

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

a full day at Hove

I have an old friend, a barrister, who over the years has been kind to me and offered first rate advice and judgment in property matters in which he specialises. Earlier in the summer I invited him to choose a Sussex CCC match as he is an aficionado of county cricket and the one he selected was [...]

August 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Oval

Compared to the patrician Lords, The Kia Oval is the “people’s ground”… and they are welcome to it. I consider it one of the least attractive, untidiest sporting venues anywhere. As with many inner city stadia including Lords, Stamford Bridge or Craven Cottage, access too it [...]

August 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

A wedding party

Yesterday I travelled from the coast to Newbury for a party to celebrate an old uni friend’s daughter’s wedding. There was an interesting article in the week on the pressure put on the modern wedding guest in terms of time and money. Polly is in deepest Devon with Grania  as part of [...]

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Progress is a matter of opinion

I have a general ‘love/hate’ relationship with modern life and in particular computers. Back in my schooldays we used to Roneo off an alternative school magazine on a typewriter, a species which had the advantage (then and now) of doing only exactly what you asked it to do. You typed onto a [...]

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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