kewpie aaaaaarrrrghh

http://i.imgur.com/mmF8unj.jpg?1

1629:
GOAL- Swansea 4-1 QPR - Michu (67 mins)

He scored two against them on the opening day, and he has got his brace again today. Michu pokes home from Pablo Hernandez's throughball. QPR respond by sending on Shaun Wright-Phillips for Jermaine Jenas.

just wanted to start a thread for that sentence of (probably accidental) pure crystalline sotto voce brutality from whichever bbc livebloggah drone

The Anzhi director German Tkachenko, however, revealed that no one there could quite believe what QPR were willing to pay to get their man. Speaking to the Russian news site www.sports.ru, Tkachenko said: "At QPR he will earn almost as much as he did at Anzhi. In my view QPR have lost their minds.

"When they agreed to pay his release fee we wept. He [Samba] wept. Everybody says that he ran away from the club, but that's not true. He didn't put any pressure on the club until we received an offer from QPR for £12.5m, the amount required by his contract."

TEARS OF A BIG

QPR boss Harry Redknapp remains convinced his team can survive the threat of Premier League relegation

does anyone think they're not already pompeyd

http://i.imgur.com/m1xbEUi.jpg?1

“Everyone thinks we’re gone but we’re not,” he added.

“You can change it so quickly. At Portsmouth I had a crap team and we got 20 points or something in the last 10 games and we stayed up. It’s not impossible. I’ve said to the players we can do it. I still fancy us.”

crap team

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg/245px-Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg

“Maybe Junior Hoilett might come alive now,” said Redknapp.

“We might see something from Junior, who since I’ve been here has been injured or not played. Maybe the time is now for Junior to come to the front.”

kind of surprised even a charmless cunt like redknapp just described a previous team as crap explicitly, and current team as crap implictly

arry of bongani khumalo renown?

he loves shitting on players but the whole team is an interesting development

it's not even like he is saying they lack cohesion or effort or whatever, just straight saying they are crap

Portsmouth: Kiely, Priske, Primus, O'Brien, Taylor, D'Alessandro, Pedro Mendes, Davis, O'Neil, Mwaruwari (Todorov 57), LuaLua.
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Karadas, Pamarot, Routledge.

not one for the ages but would still sodomise our illustrious lot with ease

yeah, the defence is shitty but the rest of it is solid mid 00s epl midtable with andres d'alessandro adding a little extra

"You can talk about tactics and analysis all you like," Neville said on Monday Night Football. "You can potentially say, 'Okay, Clint Hill, you maybe should have gone in there'. You can maybe say, 'Samba, you should have adjusted your position.'

"They are tactical, football points - players maybe not seeing the danger early enough. (But) I cannot understand what Bosingwa and Mbia have done.

"They are things which go beyond football analysis, because, to walk away from the game, which is something Mbia has done, is unexplainable."

[...]

"But I sense that, two or three months out, this thought is going deeper into the back of this thick skull that QPR still could, and may, get out of it (relegation).

"Southampton could almost put QPR to bed on Saturday. But if QPR win and bring Southampton back into them, they could potentially go on a run."

¯\(º_o)/¯

yeah can't believe neville would absolve epl establishment samba or real british realness queen clinty hill in order to trash some effete foreign fucks nobody cares about

real british realness queen clinty hill

ikr, even though realness queens are technically devotees rather than avatars of realness, it's probably safe to assume clinty and shaun derry engage in some sort of consensual realness play while in camera

nb not neglecting my vow to give certain texts a second readthrough when not under the influence of orcadian whisky or afrikaaner wine but they are proving very influential these days

http://i.imgur.com/NbCeoUd.gif

I think I need to give that heroic epithet a second readthrough while under the influence of both

oh wow, ok scratch the beverages

[Redknapp] says he always knew [Southampton] had the wherewithal to recover.

"OK, they had to take a couple of steps backwards, they went down to League One, but you knew when you looked at it that they were going to come back. They've always had a good infrastructure … great stadium, fantastic training ground, great youth setup producing kids like a conveyer belt, they've always done it. They were never a club that was to disappear with no foundation."

Asked whether QPR are equally equipped to recover if they are relegated, Redknapp's reticence is telling. "It's different," he says. "I'm not going to say something that's going to cause a problem for me, I don't need that. It's different."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QKlmMT8II

PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH A PLAN B MISSIN

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/qpr-players-lift-lid-five-1738275

http://i.imgur.com/SIJKvaS.jpg?2

“We had an offer of more money than what we paid for Samba. Swear to God, it was a big offer. The chairman asked me, ‘What do you think?’ I said: ‘It’s up to you, it’s your club, it’s your decision.’ I would have had no problem. Whether he would have gone, I don’t know. I left it to the chairman.”

yeah that is totally believable

“There’s not a lot you can do, you can’t change the way people are,” said Redknapp.

“It is very difficult. We were unfortunate to come in 1-0 down, but we started the second half sloppily, giving free-kicks away. We got done last week against Wigan through lack of discipline.

“If you look at QPR’s record over the last two years they have probably had more players sent off than anyone else in history. That’s a lack of discipline.”

[...]

“People say they are talented players but I don’t know. Are they that talented? I don’t know really. You have some experienced players but what you need is a good group of characters, a good group of people together and you have not got any problems when you have that.”

“They won’t go. They all have contracts. Who is going to pay them what they are earning here? It is going to be very hard to shift them.

“It is not a case of players wanting to leave suddenly. I hear that all the time, that if they get relegated they want to go because they don’t want to play in the Championship.

"But if they f****** played better, then they would not be in the Championship so that’s a load of cobblers."

[...]

"I don’t know the financial situation of the club at all. Only the chairman would know. I’ve not spoken to anyone about my position, to be honest. I’ve not even thought about it."

Hot damn, realest of talk from Redknapp. If he carries on like this I might start liking the old duffer.

he's been dishing out similar real talk since he joined though, doesn't seem a great motivational technique.

Almost certainly not. Good for a laugh though, and it's all basically true.

http://www.westlondonsport.com/features-comment/qpr-owners-stay-committed-because-their-eyes-are-on-the-prize

different take on "doing a portsmouth" and the £15m loan alarm bells ringing right now

The only thing the QPR boss wishes he had done differently is to have brought in Odemwingie, who saw a January move to Loftus Road collapse after his bizarre deadline day actions.

'I would not have changed an awful lot, really,' Redknapp said. 'I'd have probably tried harder to get the boy from West Brom, Odemwingie.

'He might have really given us something up there with Bobby Zamora not being 100 per cent fit. He might have scored four or five goals that make the difference.

otm

what you need is a good group of characters
what you need is a good group of characters
what you need is a good group of characters

redknapp has been beyond the pale this last week, dunno how much more of him i can take tbh

i mean he's only probably due about 15% of the total blame for this season but the extent to which he's thrown anyone and anything under the bus to get out of being anywhere near it is counting triple right now

QPR boss Harry Redknapp reckons a new pitch can’t come quick enough at Loftus Road.

It’s costing Rs, according to the man in charge, and the team’s natural team is suffering as a result.

He added: “Getting a new pitch to help our passing game will make a difference.

“It’s an old pitch, and it’s not ideal right now.”

Park Ji-sung and his English Premier League club Queens Park Rangers will come to Korea in July for a friendly match with Gyeongnam FC, according to the K-League Classic club.

The Gyeongnam FC president, Ahn Jong-bok, said yesterday at the club’s headquarters, Changwon Football Center in Changwon, South Gyeongsang, that the match will take place in the province on July 19.

Park’s future with QPR is uncertain, with some media speculating that he will leave the team once it is relegated to the League Championship next year. QPR is almost certain to face relegation, trailing the 17th-place Aston Villa by 10 points with only four games left.

Ahn, however, said that Park will come to play regardless of his prospects with the team. “Even if his transfer is decided [before the friendly match], he will attend the QPR’s Korean tour under the agreement,” Ahn said, adding that if an injury renders Park unfit to play, he still will make an appearance with the team.

“To Korean football fans, Park Ji-sung weighs differently. It is not important whether his club, QPR, is in the first division or the second division,” Ahn said.

lol please let that be true

lol at the suggestion that they will go easy (whatever) on newcastle next week cuz they'd rather not have to compete with them next season

Tony F's tortured soliloquy the other day was astonishing.

"This has been a tragic season in many ways. It is a Shakespearean play in the making."

gl with that

Fernandes's attempt to recast himself as some kind of Learesque feeb is pretty ambitious actually.

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/fulhamchronicle/jan2012/1/6/mark-hughes-image-2-280419857.jpg

Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' door
Even when their sorrows almost was forgot,
And on their contracts, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters
'65 grand a week.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful transfers
As willingly as one would kill a fly;
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

https://twitter.com/OfficialQPR/status/333519766331465728

Reminds me of Bayern doing something similar, with similar results:
http://metro.co.uk/2012/01/26/bayern-munich-score-social-media-own-goal-with-new-signing-facebook-stunt-297704/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/10105012/Harry-Redknapp-left-furious-after-Queens-Park-Rangers-bid-for-free-agent-Wayne-Bridge-is-hijacked-by-Reading.html

and so another fiasco of a season begins. kill me now

There was no shortage of flak, including from Neil Warnock, the manager Hughes replaced at Loftus Road in January 2012. When Warnock stepped down as the Leeds United manager towards the end of last season, at a time when Hughes was being linked with the job at Elland Road, he said: "I personally hope Mark Hughes follows me again and destroys another team of mine."

Hughes has kept his counsel until now. "Neil, I think, sometimes engages in what he would say is banter that will get a reaction. I think that was one of those occasions where he engaged his mouth before his brain. He was probably trying to make a joke but the insinuation was still there, so I thought it was unnecessary.

Jose Mourinho would not have kept QPR up last season. The squad I inherited in November last year was poorly balanced, undisciplined and short of confidence. The directors and owners were nice people but they were naive in football terms and I think certain people they had trusted — agents and advisers — had let them down quite badly.

joe moran would not get a chance at a club like chelsea

http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=433129

Gonçalo Lopes ‏@_GoncaloLopes 5h
"Thinks he's like ferguson, but there is a difference: in his long career, just won a title" #qpr #redknapp #bosingwa

Gonçalo Lopes ‏@_GoncaloLopes 5h
"Doesn't seem to know what he says. It's confusing.Must be the age or the wine he drinks every morning" #bosingwa #qpr #redknapp

Gonçalo Lopes ‏@_GoncaloLopes 2h
A little detail: Bosingwa says Redknapp drinks wine with "salty crackers"

Dicks denies Redknapp claims / Knees up Mother Brown 13:21
Fans flock to Harry Redknapp's book signing / Sports Mole 12:28
Claridge: "Redknapp's had a memory lapse" / SportsDirect News 11:45
Steven Gerrard: I didn't text Harry Redknapp / Liverpool Echo 08:20
Bosingwa: Redknapp is a 'bit confused' / ESPN FC 01:37

shaun teale ‏@ShaunTeale 18h
@FootballRamble he says my wife tried to run him over the truth is my wife didnt learn to drive till years later

shaun teale ‏@ShaunTeale 17h
@andyhuntpfc @pn_neil_allen @FootballRamble im not worried andy just think the man is a cunt

“This book has been a nuisance for me the past week, I’ve got to be truthful,” he mutters. “If they sell it, great.”

BEST-PAID FOOTBALL MANAGERS

26 Diego Simeone, Atletico Madrid, £2.09m
26 Harry Redknapp, QPR, £2.09m

Tony Fernandes ‏@tonyfernandes 17 hrs
Seen some fairly stupid press reports. There is no way Harry is going to be sacked. The only person who should be sacked is Me.

http://i.imgur.com/QmzPc.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/10680315/QPR-made-losses-of-65.4m-last-season-as-they-failed-to-avoid-relegation-from-the-Premier-League.html

and the picture editor winner is

Fernandes played down fears QPR might struggle to cope with their mammoth losses, saying:

“The directors, based on cash flow projections prepared by management and through confirmation of continuing support from the groups’ main shareholders and creditors, have a reasonable expectation that the company and the group have adequate resources to continue in existence for the foreseeable future.”

Reasonably sure that they can continue in existence for the foreseeable future. How convincing.

Should Queens Park Rangers secure promotion via the play-offs then Joe Cole and Darren Bent are two players who will be on their summer wanted list.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/qpr-higher-wage-bill-than-atletico-madrid

what a fucking scoop

graun plebs

yeah the headline is cheap shit but that 128% figure is dreadful

well naturally but from my embittered pov there are fresher aaaarrrrghhs than this, a gag already made wrt dortmund when they were in the brit eye

redknapp getting the same payslip as simeone would have been a timelier bump i'd not begrudge however

as lumpen supporting goes this has been the weirdest, most hateful-family-xmas season i'll likely ever know

still not sure if and how i will reignite the old tribal fires when the playoffs finally hove round

hey one of your players just scored to send his team to a European Cup Final #silverlining

did the redknapp simeone comparison last year
conflicted between wanting qpr to fail but not wanting them to be bankrupt or for tony fernandes to kill himself

yeah adel frolicking in the meadows of relative no-strings success felt like a sweet epilogue but mbia doing actual professional achievement stuff just seems like a cosmic prank idk

mildly happy for him i guess, the useless clown

"Hopefully that’s another one we can get done.”

Armand Traore has signed a new two-year contract at Queens Park Rangers.

"The new season is an extremely important one for me, added to the fact we're back in the Premier League," said Traore.

"I want to show what I can do in the best league in the world. I'm 24 now - it's time to wake up and do something serious."

caulker link tho

'You have to do your homework on people. If they are a t****r you find out don't you? You talk to people and there is always someone in the game you know, who might be a good player and played with them. You say 'What's he like?'. You find out.'

oy

Rio Ferdinand has all the qualities to be 'another Michel Platini' and take up a role running the game, according to Harry Redknapp

Rio Ferdinand has ruled out joining Fifa next year after it emerged he was on a shortlist to become its British vice-president. Ferdinand was a surprise inclusion among candidates being considered by the Football Association for one of the most senior roles in the game.

But the former England and Manchester United defender, who joined Queens Park Rangers this summer, said working alongside Fifa president Sepp Blatter was not on his agenda – for now.

“Sepp’s not called me yet, so I don’t think now’s the time,” Ferdinand told the Today programme on Radio Four.

“All my eggs are in one basket with playing for QPR and trying to stay in the Premier League. Who knows in the future?”

The 35-year-old added: “I’d have the conversation, definitely.”

http://i.imgur.com/DBRWg1j.png

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
Look at the stats. The goal was never a goal .took the wind out of us. The second goal was against the run of play. No excuses. We still should ha e dine better.

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
I don't think the players didn't try yeatersay

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
Yeah I can pull out a striker in 24 hours .we tried hard with borini. So pls tell me me what you would have done .dammed easy to be arm chair critics.

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
I love the remy comments. Remy was staying ,he was in my house for dinner to sign the extension. Then Chelsea called. What back up pls

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
I'm not stupid or a quitter. All I can assure fans is as always we will be transparent and leave no stone unturned to stay up and build .

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
When we lost remy 48 hours before deadline day it was huge huge blow. Huge blow. But we fight on. Stop sendind me ridiculous tweets

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
Is sacking the answer. When we met mark hughes go we still went down. Is it tactics ,is it players ,is it coaching ,is it fitness,

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 2h 2 hours ago
That's it .there should be no more excuses from anyone especially me .buck stops at me . I'm up for the battle .

fuck everything at this point imo, lets have clint hill/shaun derry joint player managers

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WE RIDE TOGETHER
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send this GUN to everyone you care about including me if you care. C how many times you get this, if you get a 13 your A TRUE HOMIE

HARRY REDKNAPP EXCLUSIVE: If Munich happened now, players would call agents first to ask if it was OK to save their mates

Roy Keane is working in the game at Aston Villa and Ireland, but it seems a real shame to have a man of his stature outside United. Would they have come seventh last season if Keane had been around to pull the players up?

Traore suggested the problems run deeper after seven games gone in the season.

“I think we don’t work hard enough, if I’m honest,” he said.

“We need to use the two weeks of the international break to work on our fitness.

“Every week, I say the same things. If there’s one thing we cannot lack, it’s fitness. I don’t think we lack desire. I think in certain areas we lack some fitness and sharpness.

"We need to work on this - and on everything, really.”

“I think we need to gel as a team,” Traore added. “There’s a few players that came in. We need to bond. On and off the pitch. If it means going out for a bowling night or whatever. The captain (Ferdinand) needs to organise this, it’s always good for the team.”

“I like Roy but what he is saying is rubbish. I don’t have to prove myself to anyone, because I’ve been a manager for three decades.”

another fun day

But Redknapp said: "The only reason he has lost weight is because he has had tonsillitis. That’s the only way we could get any weight off of him.

“He is not fit to play a game, that’s the truth. He is the worst professional I have ever come across and I have been his only ally at QPR for the past three years. He doesn’t try and I have protected him for too long.

“Even I could suck my stomach in for a picture and look OK.”

Campbell, who built up a formidable partnership with Ferdinand at the heart of the Three Lions defence in the 1990s, still believes the former England captain has plenty to offer at the highest level.

When speaking to Sportsmail at the London Sports Writing Festival he said: ‘I have no doubt in my mind that Rio can still compete at the top.

‘I came back to Arsenal when I was 35 and played at the highest level for six months so why can't he?

‘At that time I felt I was the best defender around in the second half of that season (2009-2010) too and should have got to the World Cup, so there’s no reason why Rio can’t have a similar impact to that at QPR.

charlie austin.xls?

just assumed he was another nugent/chopra type of oaf who gets sold for £6m and scores 3 in the epl

christ he's much, much, much better than that

didn't you see his sublime goal vs southampton a few weeks back

that is the only one of his goals i have seen

the southampton oaf scored an even better goal

never ever going to respect charlie austin but id like to know more

charlie austin has twice scored the only goal in 1-0 defeats of charlton, from a combined total of getting on for 60 yards

the last actual fitba player to have played a league match at charlton was dimitar berbatov though

only last week lee chung-yong was strutting his stuff. we won but he was the best player on the pitch by miles obv

he is indisputably an actual fitba player

maybe not but he was one of the better wingers in the epl a few years ago before some nonleague ape fucked him up in a preseason friendly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcWZM16yzg

300,000 lachrymose south koreans watched that video

anyway i was just thinking of this goal, you wll be pleased to know i felt slightly sad for charlton's relegation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ke-P46CnY&feature=player_detailpage#t=54

that's the berbatov spin right. didn't even have to look it up. the moment i realised everything had changed forever

the lux aeterna of goals

obviously the lee injury is well-known here as an act of super-shawx thuggery, almost nonpareil in the history of friendly football, also probably the reason he's still at bolton

there was that time when people compared berbatov with ibrahimovic and the contrast is best seen between that goal with its deftness, wiry strength and composure and this more extravagant and explosive version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8w0TC07BuE

oh my word I hadn't seen that one, sick

Samuel Osei Kuffour (born 3 September 1976) is a Ghanaian retired professional footballer who played as a defender.

Known for his great physical power, he is best remembered for his time with Bayern Munich, whom he represented for over a decade, winning a total of 17 major titles, and playing in nearly 250 official matches.

sure zlatan is hench enough too but every time i see that i assume sami knew, if only subconsciously, that falling over in the most ridiculous fashion would just add the perfect final touch to another ludicrous zlatan goal

imago's ott tendencies will have been noted

forever former brickie charlie austin is v much one of ur classic "knows the value of a hard days graft" top bloke big bottom realness totems but in mitigation for a club like us the last few years it is all tearfully meaningful and i make no bones about embracing the sentiment as with the derry/hill axis

the southampton goal and the first last night to some extent were sort of surprisingly technical for him, he is competent but not especially talented in any all round interplay sense (danny ings partnering couldnt buy a goal for burnley until he'd left), can't beat a man, not great back to goal, isnt physically out of the ordinary and in truth had appeared to be struggling badly these first few games (albeit stuck on his own without support). and yet he always delivers as a classic #9 striker, one of those arousing unequivocal meaty ones who when necessity demands has a knack of momentarily exceeding his limits in all kinds of risibly heroic ways

gauging his empirical quality is therefore difficult, comparison to nugent doesnt scan all that wrong on the face of it but he has so much more in terms of x factor... streetwise improv proficiency of the uncultured lower league parvenu i suppose. time has a tendency to smooth these things out in easily digestible hindsight too, kev phillips is remembered as having had nous, lambert acknowledged as a capable technician after all etc, austin is still minorly rough round the edges unpredictable and that's fun

would suggest yun suk young is becoming a player of perhaps greater interest, small nippy tenacious s.korean cliches but also a calm and technical attacking full back who reads the game well

also idk if i wasnt just ignorant of his true self these past few years or if as i'd sooner suspect it's down to our cultivation but leroy fer is mutating into something amusing (and completely maddening), an awkward yaya / armand traore hybrid dragbacking his way to circular oblivion

that goal vs chelsea suggests a level of craftiness and quickwittedness

hes also 6'2 and fairly hench which should help him get to a level above yr nugent types

a well executed chest-off to vargas aside he once again looked nothing much like a toplev threat until the goal lightbulb suddenly came on

he is basically a poacher in a misleading frame, the physique allows him not to be beasted but without being timid he's not especially minded to impose himself on defenders either

even before saturday's game there was a lingering school of thought that we might be better off leaving him out and having a more holistically functional unit but a goalscorer is a goalscorer is a goalscorer etc

heartening performance from the lads altogether, tbh slightly inept not to have got more out of it, hard not to feel confident about an early evening ko at home to city next even tho it'll prob finish 2-3 again

maybe he just needs to be starved, maltreated, threatened etc to get that inner staffie out of his placid bernese mountain dog frame

he had no trouble showing appropriate ire when he assaulted someone in a swindon nightclub who accused him of insufflating coke in the toilets

i restate that he has a long-shot on him and a good deal more craft on the ball than he ever seems to have, but qpr's wage structure and lack of competition for places is probably as mollycoddling as any epl environment right now

the robbie fowler comparisons are doubly evident with that latest revelation. maybe what austin needs is an empire

james beattie?

oh that's a sound comparison. beattie had subtlety, scored a memorable chip and a few long-range strikes, had a good fk, but was big

austin seems a bit more mobile than beattie, without quite attaining robbie fowler's level

lol u don't say

true enough about mollycoddling, idk tribal self-mythologising nonsense probably but i've long felt there to be an interesting frisson whenever a top bloke geezer comes under the fannying aegis of the kewpie platonic poodle kennel. and now austin is becoming a hybrid fancyman

plus look no further than former petty thug karl henry now a responsible asthmatic piano playing chessmaster with a penchant for orlebar brown swimwear

thought occurred during wolves birmingham and reminiscing about blues ledges of the mid 90s who i could never tell apart but were thoroughly of the grim piece - grainger, devlin, tait, legg... all unthinkable in a hoops shirt

like hill and derry are the types who anywhere else would do their two year bid or month's loan and become a footnote, here as ott realness darlings we clasped them to our bosom for 5 years until their ears fell off and button eyes came unsewn

Description

Martin Grainger warming up for Brentford v Walsall, 24 February 1996.
Source

I took this photo myself during the warm up at Brentford v Walsall
Date

1996-02-24
Author

Beatpoet

beattie was a lump and self-identified as target man even if he did have other talents for a spell

in this world of big men and little men it's quite hard to come up with a textbook medium man to compare austin to even just physically

clive mendonca wouldnt be the worst shout come to think of it

mendonca was a bit smaller but had similar levels. also went bankrupt and an attempt by charlton fans to help him failed. now he works at a car plant in sunderland where apparently he is ribbed every day for his role in the 1998 play-off final

redknapp was a bit neggy calling vargas 'our little man' when he knocked their little macropygous wallonian man

vargas looks too big for a little man

http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/clive-mendonca/67/489/738

lol at 'experience'

http://cdn.vanillaforums.com/charltonlife.vanillaforums.com/FileUpload/27/f5326c088b93a3389c8fc413c80433.jpg

probably belongs on Real England but w/e

also lol @ his linkedin

“Somebody is trying to cause me a problem here, by talking to the papers,” said Redknapp. “I know what the score is: I’m not silly, I’m very streetwise.

“Someone’s trying to cause me a problem I’m sure. I wasn’t born yesterday. Someone has said something, but it’s not a problem.

“I’ve never had it before, I’ve never been at a club before where someone has said I’m going to get the sack.

“And I don’t see why, who puts it in the paper. Someone’s put it in the paper.

“If I win it’s all forgotten. I’m not silly. There’s always someone trying to put the spoke in. They should check everyone’s mobile phones and find out.

“That’s the best way, it’s easy.”

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach 11m11 minutes ago
I understand #WHUFC winger Matthew Jarvis' proposed loan move to #QPR has collapsed due to Premier League rules. Zarate will now be staying.

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach 10m10 minutes ago
PL rules means Zarate cannot return to #WHUFC in the same window in which he moved to #QPR, who can't have two loans from same club at once.

Sky Sports News HQ ✔ @SkySportsNewsHQ

BREAKING NEWS: Harry Redknapp tells #SSNHQ QPR's lack of transfer activity played no part in his decision to resign.

ilx other resident aaaaargh has posted a told you so piece in the guardian

A rather good one too, I think.

predictable shambles one?

yes, it's p much plain and indisputable. the point of interest within the fan discourse is where you take position between

"The club has taken good managers and players and turned them into dross, giving them the footballing anti-Midas touch [...] The obvious conclusion from the last few years is that there is a deep-seated problem within the culture, whereby failure is tolerated"

and

"Could anyone succeed at this cursed club?"

because idc what redknapp and hughes have done before and may do in the future, i just cannot satisfy myself how things like infrastructure and club culture have directly resulted in some of the senseless drivel i've seen with my own eyes committed by 1x manager presiding over 11x men over 90x minutes, errors more basic than any hungover sunday league rabble. not saying they may have not been dealt a messy hand - but they also still had equally rich opportunity to change it, arguably more control of their fate than any qpr managers have ever had in history. it's no one else's fault that when presented with carte blanche they forgot everything they'd ever learned and let their worst excesses run amok. never forgive ever imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKIaS0lh-uo

quality post, rtc

http://talksport.com/sites/default/files/field/image/201404/sherwood2.jpg

I can't really talk about QPR because I don't know much abut them (or their personel really) but I do end up having arguments with Exeter fans who insist that the manager is making obvious mistakes, when it seems to me that it's quite possible that players aren't doing what they've been asked to do. How can you tell from the stands? I know I can't, although I don't pretend to know much about football.

It strikes me as extremely unlikely that a manager will do something utterly unaccountable for no good reason; seems more likely that they're trying to do a thing and they can see it *nearly* working all the time and they think when it clicks it'll be brilliant and will be a system which will work perfectly for the personal at the club; because it's nearly working (but not yet working) it's unlikely to be understood by us.

Our bloke was treated to a chorus of "you don't know what you're doing" the other week when, at 1-0 down, he withdrew our top scorer and replaced him with an AM. Two swift goals later, the singers shut up, and what's more it later emerged that the withdrawn striker was injured. Our lot should have been singing "we don't know what you're doing".

None of which helps when yr team keeps losing games in the same stupid way, I know.

Hughes is at his best taking a team of shitkickers and gradually adding footballing elements on a budget, it's worked at both Blackburn and Stoke and that's about his level. Never again should he be allowed to believe he's a natural megaclub manager and certainly not put in charge of a club prepared to throw money at any problems that exist.

Ultimately clubs like QPR make it too easy for managers to take the easy way out of problems, which is fine until they get on the pitch. Lest we forget Redknapp is the man who decided to bolster our final push towards the Champions League with Louis Saha and Ryan Nelsen. Doesn't help that they tend to employ managers who are sharply on their way down, either.

There was also interest in the Marseille boss Marcelo Bielsa.

“Apart from the legacy players – and most of their contracts have finished – every player has relegation clauses,” said Fernandes. “We’re wiser every time."

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sigh w/e. steward otm

weeks leading up to this i was in tearful fury at the thought of ending up here, limited battered-wife-syndrome pragmatism over the fresh idealistic opportunity of as near a clean slate as we're likely to have for another generation, but slowly i've given up the ghost

in comparison to redknapp/hughes he conducts himself with a degree of dignity (spinnable as stability), in comparison to redknapp/hughes he played a player in his position omg (phillips, will leave anyway), in comparison to redknapp/hughes his side sometimes made an inept plucky go of losing games rather than fucking them off entirely. dealt a crap hand but played it with very little nous, basic football and slow to react in games if at all

successive relegations maybe, maybe not, could hang in there, but any progress will be slow, imo slower than it could have been. no clue what ideas ferdinand and ramsey have for transfers (bits sherwood doesnt pick up i suppose) no idea what the money available will even be

meh i'm numbed fronting tbh this is another huge fuck-up

http://i.imgur.com/jWZT521.jpg

tbfttls if they can recreate the success of the 46th best rap 12" of 1989 we'll be alright probably

QPR FC @QPRFC
ITALY: Chris Ramsey has named his 24-man squad for #QPR's pre-season trip to Italy: http://qprng.rs/RsInItalySquad #RsInItaly

Sandro Raniere ‏@sandroraniere 51m
Can someone let me know about my situation please !!!!!

kevin blackwell in as interim #2

lambert and pearson heavily linked

where will the pain end

The final nail on Ramsey's coffin came at Pride Park when Warnock stormed into the Rangers dressing-room and lambasted the players over the manager's head.

A stunned Ferdinand wanted Ramsey, a close friend, to seize control but he failed to do so, and his departure was announced with the club convinced he had lost his authority.

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lol that's the spirit

Jimmy Floyd ‏@jf9hasselbaink 1h1 hour ago
I feel absolutely privileged to be handed the opportunity to manage Queens Park Rangers #QPR

Jimmy Floyd ‏@jf9hasselbaink 1h1 hour ago
It is my intention to leave no stone unturned to ensure this club move forward and meet with success. #QPR

Jimmy Floyd ‏@jf9hasselbaink 1h1 hour ago
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the owners for giving me the opportunity to manage this great club. #QPR

Jimmy Floyd ‏@jf9hasselbaink 1h1 hour ago
They are a club steeped in history and one I have always taken a keen interest in and privately harboured dreams of managing one day #QPR

nurse the screens we got a live one

QUEENS Park Rangers Football Club is delighted to announce a ground-breaking, multi-year kit partnership deal with DRYWORLD.

The independent sportswear brand has been unveiled as the club’s new technical kit suppliers on a ten year deal, replacing Nike, with whom our partnership will officially end at the conclusion of the current season.

The partnership with QPR signifies DRYWORLD’s first step in a UK and Europe expansion over the next few seasons.

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Fernandes's attempt to recast himself as some kind of Learesque feeb is pretty ambitious actually.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 5 May 2013 15:03 Bookmark

QPR FC ‏@QPRFC Sep 1
The transfer window is closed. Sum up your feelings on #QPR's summer business in three words. Go, go, go!

Tony Fernandes ‏@tonyfernandes 9h
Sense and sensibility. Couldn't move all out. Couldn't bring all in but thought long term