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Alan McDonald's QPR career lasted 15 years and he made nearly 500 apperances. Only 2 players in the entire history of our club have played more.
Nobody loves Jimmy Dunne more than me but he has been here 3 and a bit years, played about 130 times. He is clearly a lovely bloke who cares about our club, and he is the heart of our team. But he's not the new Macca.
When Minnie Riperton recorded her hit song "Lovin' You" she sang it to her baby daughter who was in the studio with her that day. Her daughter is the actress / comedian Maya Rudolph.
Malcolm Messiter who plays the oboe on Tanita Tikaram's Twist In My Sobriety is the son of Ian Messiter who invented the radio panel game Just A Minute.
lots of drinks (including porter) mentioned in this Christy Moore cover of the Elvis Costello song "Deportees Club" a.k.a. "Deportee" on Elvis's own version.
Never ceases to amaze me how Clive spends a lot of effort writing these match reports, and pretty much every time the first replies are from people quibbling about the marks given to the players. It's ok, Clive is allowed to have a slightly different opinion to yours.
Exclusive footage of Clive on a Sunday night below....
Love that. The Mrs lived on Harvist Road when I first met her and I was working in Ladbroke Grove at the time. Spent most of the late 90s in the Corrib Rest, the North Pole, the Salusbury, The Elgin, Paradise bar, William IV, the Western Arms etc etc etc. Then get a post-pub curry at Curry Nights with a complimentary sambuca at the end and a rose for the lady.
If I’m going anywhere near the Thames I’ll always get off the tube / bus on the other side from where I’m going so I can walk across one of the bridges.
Top 5 favourite bridges to walk over Blackfriars, Hammersmith, Lambeth, Albert, Putney,
When I was a kid and we were driving to see my Nan & Grandpa in Essex, I’d nag my dad into driving over a different bridge each time.
Mention of Albert Bridge gives me an excuse to post one of The Pogues greatest songs.
I was there protesting against Thompson too, but when you look at how badly the owners have run the club since 2011 it makes you realise how the system, as much as it frustrated us, was actually working back then.
As mentioned earlier in the thread Sinton, Parker, Ferdinand, Sinclair, Peacock, Impey all bought from clubs in the divisions below. All sold on for a handsome profit. Some of which went into balancing the books and some of which was re-invested in more players from the lower divisions. Impey, Ferdinand, Peacock would hardly have been on anyone's radar before joining us so there must have been something going right with our recruitment back then.
The big problem was that when it went wrong (spending the Les Ferdinand money) it went REALLY wrong & we were relegated.
But I still think we were really unlucky with some of those signings. They could have worked out.
Simon Osborn a very decent midfielder, as is proven by how well he did at his next club Wolves.
As for Ned Zelic, anyone remember the midweek home defeat to Wimbledon when he came on as a sub? We lost the game comfortably but that wasn't much to do with Zelic. He looked more than capable in that match. He had a fairly good career in Germany both before and after his short spell with us. Is it Thompson's fault he couldn't settle? Is it Ray's fault? The other players? (there have been persistent stories of them not making him very welcome) Zelic himself's fault? Who knows but, like Osborn, I think it unlucky rather than a terrible signing.
I won't try to defend the signing of Hateley though. He was a very good target man in his Pompey / Milan days. But a past it old crock by the time we got him. That one really was a terrible signing but I'd wager that signing was more like Super Ray's decision than the owners.
Look what happened when the next owner Chris Wright took over. Took his eye off the ball in terms of keeping the books balanced & then left us in administration while he ran away with the training ground!
Thompson quite right to identify in that interview that his PR and his communication with the fans was well below the standard required but in terms of keeping the club running without making massive losses then he did a competent job.
Fast forward to November 2024 and we are losing more money every month than mid-90s QPR lost in a year. And what are we getting in return for that? Not a club that's holding its own in the Premier League, that's for sure. We are a million miles from that.
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