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The Tanner Report on Fulham 1 Brighton 2

New season, new hopes, old problems.The chairman tells us in the programme for the first time in three years he is enjoying quiet confidence. I wish I could share  this. The cornerstone of a successful side is not always the glamourous striker but the the two central defenders who put in the hard [...]

August 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Goodmans

My mother used to say when she went to a restaurant she would never order anything she could serve or cook at home, citing smoked salmon and steak. Steak features strongly on the menu at Goodmans whose Canary Wharf restaurant I visited on Thursday. I went with a friend of my husband Olly, who had a [...]

August 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sickert in Dieppe

On the National Rust we pride ourselves that we bridge sport and art both of which feature prominently. I cannot recall why I became a WBA  fan, it might have been that the first soccer game I watched was the 1968 Cup Final when Dad bought a colour tv and we watched Albion beat Everton 1-0. I [...]

August 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex by the edge

Good old Sussex by the Sea is the song that heralds the cricket and football teams in Hove and the Amex.  It’s a rousing, cheerful, marching song but sadly in the case of the cricket season not reflective of our dire position. We are out of the T20, bottom of the Royal London and one from [...]

August 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Adventures in Human Being/ Gavin Francis

When I was a GP I was always amazed how little my patients understood their bodies. The odd heavy drinker had undue faith in the regenerative powers of his liver but to most you had to explain that the heart was a muscular pump. Thus Gavin Francis, a Scottish doctor, has done a service in his book [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

The test of time

Firstly let me begin by saying how delighted and honoured I feel to be chosen as the National  Rust‘s athletic correspondent. I know Grania from the Thames Valley Harriers and through her met Polly, a keen amateur runner, and then Bob Tickler. At one of his parties I met some of the Rust [...]

August 11, 2015 // 2 Comments

Shane Lowry wins Bridgestone

Shane Lowry became the  first non PGA player to win one of their events since Martin Kaymer in 2010. The Irishman won the Irish Open as amateur and is living proof that being overweight is no bar to winning tourneys. You would expect him to be a big hitter but he is a elegant and accurate chipper. [...]

August 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

New season, new hopes

Two years ago Cardiff played Fulham in the Premier, yesterday they met in the Championship and drew 1-1. One of the fascinations of the Championship, as opposed to the Premier, is that you cannot write the league now as it would stand in May. Last season no one predicted Bournemouth, few Watford. [...]

August 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sir Roger Bannister : a legend and thoughtful man

A month or so ago I wrote to Sir Roger Bannister as my uncle Paul had passed away and was at Exeter  College Oxford at the same time as Sir Roger. He wrote back by return of post saying he remembered my uncle as a spirited member of college. When I spoke of this to family and friends there was [...]

August 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Aussies fall on their Broadsword

Walking to the first day of a Test is to share the excitement of the crowd and it was palpable. Crossing the railway bridge I saw English fans lagering up at 9-30 at Hooters pub. The crowd was now more numerous as we passed the first of Nottingham’s stadia: Meadow Lane, the home of Notts [...]

August 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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