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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 17:20 22 Jan 2026
If I'm 'jaundiced', according to you, I'm searching in vain for any sign of balance in your post pleading for balance. The irony of this, however, seems to be lost on you.
I never claim to be 'balanced', and I call things out as I find them - in fact, I have repeatedly explained that a 'fanatic' is, by definition not reasonable. Sh/e is an enthusaist, immoderate, excessive, exaggerated. For me, the main advocacy in life is devil's advocacy, one advantage of which is it can draw other the bile and hypocrisy of others. In life, however, I'm actually, if anything, too nice, as I've often been told, believe it or believe it not.
If you don't like my opinions, so be it - a minority of people agree with me, regardless, both on the site and, from time to time, in kind private messages that encourage me not to be browbeaten by the haters.
Where I can, I give data, reasons, history, and context to what I write, but posters like you choose to disregard this to prosecute an image of me that is a matter for you, not for me. If this antagonises you, it isn't intended to - it's simply (paradoxically) a calm statement of happy equanimity on my part.
At the end of the day, it's only football.
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Reply | Things to hate about football #2714
at 17:02 22 Jan 2026
I like your site name, long suffering one!
Apaprently, I'm not allowed to hate people or things by some happy/unhappy sweeties here, so I'll just say I hate the fact that I can't think of anything new to hate about football/QPR today.  [Post edited 22 Jan 17:59]
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Reply | Tony Fernandes back in football
at 15:35 22 Jan 2026
The road to hell is paved with them, as the saying goes - which is why, as my (Russian) tattoo artist told me, you should never fully trust yourself. |
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Reply | Sam field
at 15:34 22 Jan 2026
If only he could be coached to make a few more risky/forward passes, he'd be a hands-down starter. I wonder how Sam sees this. |
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Reply | Gallen’s strike floors Wrexham, keeps play-off hope alive – History
at 15:28 22 Jan 2026
Out of interest, do any old-fashioned (or just older) fans remember the 0-1 defeat in October 1980? Venables had taken over two weeks before. As it was my birthday, my dad got me and a friend top price seats in SA Road, and I procured an autograph from a stony-faced, wordless Tony Currie by the director's box. Terrible showing, barely 9,000 in the ground.
Of course, things picked up dramatically after that, with a proper coach, and we only lost once in the next 21 games, finishing 8th. [Post edited 22 Jan 15:32]
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 15:19 22 Jan 2026
I think it's the other way round, Wilkins. The better/deeper Cooke and Dunne sit, the worse we play as a progressive entity (passing, moving through the thirds, shooting etc. etc.). I agree that, in the continued absence of our glass-limbed CB, Edwards is likely to be vital in bringing the ball out and getting us up the pitch. [Post edited 22 Jan 15:20]
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 15:17 22 Jan 2026
So, you'll be directing your POV to every other poster on here (including Clive) who has 'bitched and moaned' about the horroshow at Stoke (and to a marginally lesser extent, Oxford), will you?
Presumably, you'd like a message board where everyone just comments favourably and quietly on all things QPR, and no one ever ventures any opinion because they're not 'qualified'.
If so, to repeat, why are you shovelling all this at my door? |
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 15:13 22 Jan 2026
You see, Bklyn, I don't always feel there's some occulted 'other side'. As Roy Keane puts it, your eyes don't lie to you. If we can't string three passes together or have a shot in goal or are coached to sit down for 10 minutes to cheat QPR fans and game of football, because the manager feels we can't win playing properly, that doesn't require some kind of professional meta-analysis. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably, and unsurpsingly, a duck.
I'm also not sure what decent 'sanity' is in these things. For me, as I've argued, fans are irrational, immoderate nutjobs - not just me ;-). For those of us whose works is led by language, the clue's in the word:
fanatic(n.)
1520s, "insane person," from Latin fanaticus "mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god," also "furious, mad," originally, "pertaining to a temple," from fanum "temple, shrine, consecrated place," related to festus "festive" (see feast (n.)). Meaning "zealous person, person affected by enthusiasm" is from 1640s. As an adjective, in English, 1530s, "furious;" meaning "characterized by excessive enthusiasm," especially in religion (of Nonconformists), is from 1640s. |
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 12:13 22 Jan 2026
Which is fine, I guess, if you want to basically 'win' every (away) match 0-0, but it's mostly a case of Football 0, QPR 1. |
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Reply | Hoopsa on Oxford point and Wrexham preview
at 01:44 22 Jan 2026
Something needs to change for sure - these last two away games have been unacceptable. I would like to see Sam Field reintegrated for Hayden with licence to get forward. Not a revolution, I realise, but it's something.
The trouble is very few players are earning their starts right now. Perhaps Obiku will literally hit the ground running . . . |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's draw
at 01:36 22 Jan 2026
I'm accused of being a 'xenophobe' by someone who doesn't know me, I defend myself accordingly, and express my view on the manager's interview, and I'm the problem in your mind?
Mind-blowing! |
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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 01:31 22 Jan 2026
I'd be interested to know what people make of what is becoming an entrenched dichotomy between JS's verdicts on these games and how some of us, Clive included, are assessing them - 'borderline unwatchable', or for me at Stoke, actually unwatchable.
Is the truth somewhere in the middle, or is there no 'truth' and it's all a matter of where one's expectations are? [Post edited 22 Jan 1:46]
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Reply | Modicums of comfort
at 19:55 21 Jan 2026
But of course when I'm the done-to one from the likes of the endlessly laughing at himself Chef and the usual suspects you won't say a word, will you? That's your 'thing', if you like. |
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