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Thread | Lineker dropped from MOTD
at 16:54 10 Mar 2023
David Attenborough show kicked sideways to iPlayer
What times we live in |
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Thread | Lyndon Dykes
at 21:56 29 Oct 2021
Quite a good player
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Thread | Euro Semi Final at Wembley
at 14:16 1 Jul 2021
Hello all
Does anyone no if any further tickets will be available if England progress and if so when and how yoiu can buy them?
Cheers |
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Thread | Madness in methods of Mark Warburton’s QPR entertainers
at 12:36 20 Jan 2020
From today's Times......for your delectation......
The Journeyman
Gregor Robertson
Are Queens Park Rangers, in the wacky world of the Sky Bet Championship, the most madcap of the lot? Granted, it is a crowded field. Leeds United are gripped by a seemingly interminable neurosis. Derby County’s various off-field transgressions will surely be chronicled one day, perhaps even used to make a feature film. A handful of teams are about to feel the wrath of the EFL for circumnavigating profit and sustainability regulations. The Championship could soon be an indecipherable sea of asterisks. But on the football pitch? Well, this season QPR may just be the most crazy of them all.
The west London club, after Saturday’s hectic 1-0 home win against Leeds, reside in an underwhelming 14th place. Yet they have somehow managed to score 46 goals, more than every team other than West Bromwich Albion, who are top, while at the same time conceding 51 goals, a figure exceeded only by Luton Town, who are bottom. They are the entertainers and the infuriaters. Even in a division as capricious as the Championship, no team segues from the sublime to the ridiculous with quite such frequency.
This year began with the 6-1 shellacking of Cardiff City at Loftus Road on New Year’s Day. Four days later, the assault on Wales was completed with a 5-1 defenestration of Swansea City in the FA Cup. Last weekend, however, QPR were 3-0 down after little more than half an hour in a 3-1 defeat against local rivals Brentford. Then Saturday yielded only a third clean sheet of the season against second-placed Leeds, no less.
You see an average of 2.67 goals a game in the Championship; in QPR games, that figure is a league-highest 3.46. There have been four or more goals scored in 46 per cent of their games, including the 4-0 thumping by Nottingham Forest at Loftus Road in November and the 5-3 defeat by then rock-bottom Barnsley at Oakwell last month. In a 3-0 defeat at Cardiff City in October, QPR had 72 per cent possession and took more shots than in the 6-1 win in the reverse fixture on New Year’s Day.
So, what is behind these wild oscillations? And, is there any method to the madness?
Mark Warburton, who replaced Steve McClaren as manager in May, is the kind of coach who, rather than reverting to a Plan B, simply talks about performing Plan A better. The former City trader, who previously led Brentford from League One to the Championship, shipped out 17 players in the summer and signed 15, all on free transfers or on loan. Having previously fallen foul of EFL financial fair play rules, QPR have not paid a seven-figure fee since January 2017.
While the madness ensues, Les Ferdinand, the director of football, and Lee Hoos, the chief executive, have stuck to their guns, reducing the wage bill, identifying and developing young players. That is the plan but this is the result. It can be thrilling to watch and a triumvirate of young attacking midfielders represent the best of what QPR are trying to do.
Warburton sends Marc Pugh into the fray against Leeds
Warburton sends Marc Pugh into the fray against Leeds
Rex Features
Eberechi Eze, 21, was released by Millwall in 2016 before a successful trial shelved plans of enrolling at college and a part-time job at Tesco. Ilias Chair, 22, joined the development squad from Lierse SK, the Belgian second-tier club, after a trial later that year. Bright Osayi-Samuel, also 22, joined from Blackpool for an undisclosed fee in September 2017. Eze is a joy to watch, roaming from the left into pockets of space, gliding past defenders with ease and unerring poise. Just how much longer Loftus Road will get to enjoy his virtuoso talent is unclear. Spurs are among a number of Premier League clubs casting glances Eze’s way.
Just imagine if QPR could defend. As it is, 51 goals conceded prompted a series of mischievous adverts in the latest issue of A Kick up the R’s, with the fanzine touting the QPR defence as a the “World’s Greatest Charity”, a “cure for constipation”, and “Comedy of the Year”. No team have conceded more goals from big errors (10), or from set pieces (20), including six penalties. In mitigation, the experienced Yoann Barbet, Toni Leistner and Àngel Rangel, have all been struck down by injury.
“It feels like we’ve been punished every time we make a mistake,” Warburton said, although, given Leeds’s profligacy, perhaps QPR’s luck is changing.
Just seven points shy of the play-offs, could they make a late run? Truth is, your guess is as good as mine.
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Thread | Crown & Sceptre last night
at 17:30 29 Oct 2019
How come you used to have to show your season tkt or prove that you were an R to get in but last night any tw@t wearing red and white was allowed in to give it large on our patch?
W@nkers
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Thread | Tw*ts
at 22:50 12 Feb 2019
Unprofessional
Stand over the ball
Regroup
Don’t let them have a quick free kick.
Tw*ts
Fcked off.
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Thread | World Cup Next Round
at 11:14 27 Jun 2018
Morning all
Thinking of traveling out for the next round,are any more tickets being released?
If so how do you do about getting them?
Might go out anyway chance my arm with touts if its not possible.
Any suggestions ( or tickets !! ) gratefully received on either option
Cheers
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Thread | Windrush
at 19:08 23 Apr 2018
Fckin shameful the way these people have been treated after they came to work here as commonwealth citizens and help rebuild Britain after WW2.
They also made up 15% of the population at the time. |
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Thread | Red Monday
at 22:04 17 Oct 2016
vvankers |
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Thread | Goodnight Chelscum....
at 19:13 12 Mar 2016
Never felt more like singing the blues....
Early bath for Costa too....lol |
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