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Fiorentina file: Fiorentina 0 Juventus 2

Last night was the big one, the visit of Juve. The hatred goes back to 1982 when both teams were mano and mano going for the title. Juve were awarded a penalty at Catanzaro converted by Liam Brady but Fiorentina were refused one at roughly the same time at Cagliari. “Better second than a [...]

February 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Brave new shopping

In my Italian class I noted the teacher had a lead from his laptop transferring the film to the big screen. I decided to acquire one and spoke to my tv guru, a most affable young man called Tom who bears startling similarity to my p/a Polly. Tom said this could readily be acquired from the Apple [...]

February 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Seagulls see goals

Whilst Manchester City with their 13 point lead are turning the Premier race into a procession there is much excitement in the lower half where 7 points separate 10 teams. Two of them Brighton and West Ham met at the Amex and the Seagulls emerged as clear winners 3-1. Unified under a pragmatic [...]

February 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Barnsley 1 Fulham 3

Fulham are now in the play-off positions but we seasoned Cottage watchers whose glass is half empty still have concerns. True we have on our last 3 games but victory against Middlesbrough was undeserved and in the other two – versus Ipswich and Barnsley – Fulham were trailing until a [...]

January 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Chelsea 4

When Pargie called in the morning asking me whether he should lay Chelsea at 8-11 I advised not. Ok, they are not in good form of late and went into the match without Morata, Pedro, Fabregas, Drinkwater, Cahill and Courtois but these big Premier sides have deep squads and pockets. It was Willan and [...]

January 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 6 Burton 0

I was going to title this “What do I know?” as when the line up was announced and I saw Cairney and Kamara were on the bench I feared another repeat of the dreary 1-1 draw of last season. Instead in a terrific  team performance we defeated Burton 6-0. The injury list has lessened (only [...]

January 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Another day

Guy de Maupassant, in his novel A Life, ended with the observation that life is neither as bad or as good as you anticipate. I thought of this yesterday in reviewing a day in which I had an unexpected highlight and something I was looking forward to proved a disappointment. The highlight was the [...]

January 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE TANNER REPORT/Cardiff 2 Fulham 4

Last season Fulham beat Newcastle home and away, Huddersfield too, with an aggregate of 9-1 and even the most fanatical Brighton is gobstruck that their team won all 6 points. We have maintained the excellent record against the top teams by winning at Bramall Lane against Sheffield United and over [...]

December 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

County cricket – the solution not the problem

As a lover of county cricket you will not be surprised to learn that I agreed wholeheartedly with this article written by George Dobell as appears on the website – CRICINFO  Paul Hayward also wrote an interesting piece reflecting on the disparity of Ashes performance in both teams home or [...]

December 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Birmingham 0

In a scrappy match not unlike the 1-0 victory over Millwall, Fulham at least achieved 3 points, our third home win and a second consecutive clean sheet. Birmingham were a very poor side with nil firepower. Our pleasing but sometimes over-intricate passing game resulted in an early goal when Kebano [...]

December 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

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