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The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Liverpool 1

In all the years of my support of Fulham this performance – especially the first 30 minutes of it – was as fine as I have ever seen. Fulham took the game to Liverpool from the start and the League and Champions League winners were on their heels. Two scoreable chances fell to Ivan [...]

December 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting weekend

Before I boast of a successful betting weekend I would like to pay tribute to 47 year old Lee Westwood for winning the Road to Dubai. For 2 years Westwood was once  world number one but because he has never won a Major and his name is not Rory McIlroy he has never got the recognition. Remember [...]

December 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections on the weekend’s football.

I have watched 3 games so far with varying degrees of enjoyment. First up was Leeds v West Ham on Friday night. John Pargiter called for my views which actually means he has decided his bet and wants my approval. He felt Marcel Bielsa and his side were overhyped whilst David Moyes, after a [...]

December 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Great Art/Renoir

None of the great artists divide opinion as much as Renoir. On one hand he is lauded as King of the Impressionists, others find him too sentimental, whilst his later works of female nudes have attracted the opprobrium of feminists for being sexual objectification. One who did not find fault was the [...]

December 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

Just as the Roaring Twenties followed the Spanish Flu I predict by the middle of next year a real upswing in the hospitality sector. In the last week I have visited 3 quite different restaurants: a high end popular restaurant in London, a local pub and a neighbourhood Trattoria and the vibe in each [...]

December 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Great Art/ITV

Observant readers might have noticed that Sky Arts is normally my channel of choice for art. However ITV have been running a series every Tuesday night on an artist by reference to an exhibition.  This week the subject was Henri Matisse. Normally with Matisse any review concentrates on his time in [...]

December 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

In the Garden of Beasts/Erik Larson

This is the true story of the American Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, appointed at the time of Adolf Hitler’s ascendancy to total power in 1933-44. Erik Larson (author) William Dodd was a mild-mannered history professor from Chicago who studied in Leipzig. He described himself as a [...]

December 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Southampton 2

On the Rust we are encouraged to highlight what we believe are the crucial issues not necessarily those that the media do. Thus for me the crucial issue is that Brighton have now gone 10 games without a home win. We play good football and in Tariq Lamptey and Ben White have two youngsters with [...]

December 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Peter Alliss

Before reporting on the weekend golf I must pay my tribute to Peter Alliss. I admire anyone who has two successful careers, most of us cannot manage one, but Peter Alliss was both successful golfer and broadcaster. As a golfer I  would classify him as very good. Not a great though he might have [...]

December 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Manchester City 2 Fulham 0

Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have continued to moan about subs being limited to three. Were it increased to five the biggest boys like Liverpool and Manchester City would have a distinct advantage. You only have to compare the City bench to the Fulham one to appreciate this. On the City bench [...]

December 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

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