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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: Charlton 2 Fulham 2

Once again we were unable to close a game out and conceded two lateish goals to deprive us of a deserved win. Charlton, who had not won in 7 matches, looked a poor side and after Tunnicliffe and McCormack had put us two up I thought a win inevitable. We are always vulnerable to crosses and one from [...]

October 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Hotel du Vin/ England v Australia

For the England v Australia match husband Ollie had invited the chaps round for lagers and take-away pizza to watch and, not feeling like any of the last four, I organised a girls’ night. Ivan Conway called to say as he was going to the Amex and therefore not taking up his 4 places at the [...]

October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rebecca/Theatre Royal Brighton

To dramatise on stage a fine novel and film is never going to be easy and Emma Rice’s production is a brave but flawed attempt. I went with Alice Mansfield, an authority on Daphne du Maurier, who wondered beforehand how a play necessarily finite and constrained to the proscenium would cope [...]

October 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Internet v shop visit

A debate raging over the sports pages of the Rust is the relative  benefits of attending  a sporting event or watching it at home. The same factors of convenience v social contact apply to the issue of Internet or personal shop visiting. I was asked to participate in a survey and rather than base [...]

October 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s the same old song

I was walking along the seafront at Brighton yesterday. At the point by the pier where normally street theatre types are to be found I saw a curious collection of straggly bearded scruffs whom I assumed to be geography teachers attending a druid convention. I discovered they’re old new Labour [...]

September 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Jordan Spieth trousered a cheque for $9m from FedEx by winning the U.S. PGA event at East Lake, Augusta. He and Jason Day with 5 wins respectively and 3 of the 4 Majors dominated the year. Day didn’t really feature on the  leaderboard but Henrik Stensen who always comes good this time of [...]

September 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina File: Inter 1 Fiorentina 4

It was a good weekend for the football group on the Rust. On Friday Fulham produced their best performance for many years in beating QPR, on Saturday Ivan’s Brighton are still top of the Championship and last night we beat Inter, the league leaders at San Siro 4-1. This is the first time that [...]

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sweet caress/ William Boyd

A friend of mine, an astute book reader, has a theory on the popular William Boyd that he apes very genre of modern writing : his early works set in Africa are redolent of Waugh, Restless of the spy genre, he has even produced a James Bond novel. In Sweet Caress he however returns to a formula he [...]

September 24, 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

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