QPR Snippets: Sunday's Ref...5 Goals in 5 Games for Ex-QPR....Birthdays...Flashback: Holloway Praising Buzsaky...Football Costs...Richest Owners

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Sunday's Referee - Queens Park Rangers vSouthampton ( 4:00 )
K A FRIEND G S Evetts and R G Vaughan Fourth Official T M Kettle - Football League


Kent News/Glenn Pearson - Sittingbourne Manager, Garry Abbott on Assistant Manager and Striker, Richard Brady (Once of QPR)
"SITTINGBOURNE manager Gary Abbott believes he has the squad in place to challenge for the Ryman South play-offs.
"....However, it is the form of striker, and assistant manager, Richard Brady that is getting all the Brickies fans excited.
The former Queens Park Rangers man has netted five goals in five games for Sittingbourne and is forming a leathal partnership with Elie Kayembe. Abbott said: “I think Richard is the top scorer in the league with five goals. I have played with him before and I know that he is the best goalscorer I have ever played with. When he is fit and has had some games in him there is no-one that will be able to stop him scoring.” Kent News


Two Ex-QPR Birthdays
Former QPR Goalie, Simon Royce, now with Gillingham Turns 37: - Born September 9, 1971. Spent two periods on loan at QPR, before signing for QPR. Was also at Southend, Charlton, Leicester. Royce . See Also Simon Royce/Wikipedia Also Royce talking this week about Gillingham this season.


Former QPR player, Kevin Brock Turns 46 - Born September 9, 1962.
Signed by Jim Smith from Oxford in August 1987(a year after he helped destroy QPR in the League Cup Final), Brock played a year and bit for QPR, before following Jim Smith to Newcastle, when Smith took over as Newcastle manager in December 1988. Brock. See Also Kevin Brock/Wikipedia


Two Years Ago Today: Ian Holloway's Plymouth drew 1-1 against Gary Waddock's QPR and Holloway was lavishing praise upon Plymouth star,Buzsaky! - Reports and Comments
After this result, QPR dropped to third from bottom. The two teams:
QPR (4-4-2): 13 Paul Jones (gk); 7 Matthew Rose (capt), 25 Damion Stewart, 5 Zeshan Rehman, 3 Mauro Milanese; 28 Egutu Oliseh, 8 Marc Bircham (16 Steve Lomas 77), 9 Nick Ward, 17 Lee Cook; 32 Dexter Blackstock (31 Ray Jones 89), 30 Marc Nygaard (10 Kevin Gallen 90). Substitutes (not used): 12 Jake Cole (gk), 24 Patrick Kanyuka.
Argyle (4-4-2): 23 Luke McCormick; 22 Paul Connolly, 13 Mathias Kouo-Doumbe, 6 Hasney Aljofree, 20 Lee Hodges; 7 David Norris, 15 Paul Wotton (capt), 4 Lilian Nalis, 8 Akos Buzsaky (11 Nick Chadwick 75); 9 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (27 Reuben Reid 76), 10 Barry Hayles. Substitutes (not used): 14 Tony Capaldi, 18 Gary Sawyer, 29 Luke Summerfield.
Holloway on Buzsaky: Plymouth had 14 Corners...QPR had 2 (from Sporting Life)

Plymouth Official - Holloway Evaluation NOT TAKING CHANCES
".... The sight of Hungarian midfielder Akos Buzsaky in the starting line-up was a happy one for the Green Army, and he showed glimpses of his magical skills.
Holloway obviously rates Buzsaky very highly but replaced him in the second-half after the magnificent Magyar started to drift out of the game.
"He (Buzsaky) ran out of steam a bit," said Holloway.
"We have got some wonderful attacking players and, if you saw the reserves the other night we scored five goals, but let in five as well.
"I think Akos is one of them players I have not seen the likes of.
"Roy Wegerle was a terrific player with fantastic ability, and I think Akos has got some of the things that excite football fans and they wish they could see it and it won games every week.
"I would pay money to see some of the things he does but what I have to do is make sure he gets back in shape when we have not got the ball.
"I believe the boy is desperately trying to do it because he has had so many sacrifices for his career.
"It is all he eats, sleeps and drinks and I can see it in him.
"He missed all of pre-season and he has only played about four games in the reserves, and two sub appearances for the first-team.
"I believe in the boys' talent and I have always wanted to surround myself with players who are more talented than I was, and rub off on them.
"I just want him to play like he did against me when I was QPR manager, scoring from 30 yards out.
"Today, he was trying so hard and it was not quite working for him.
"In the playground, I was never the best player but I wanted to be a player more than anybody else, and I want this team to be the best I have ever seen." Plymouth


What watching QPR may cost QPR Fans (possibly next Season): Increasing Premiership Football Costs and
Telegraph "Football fans ditch the pitch to save cash in credit crisis as match cost tops £100 "...A survey discovered that costs, including ticket, transport, food and drink are pushing the weekly past-time out of the budget of most supporters.
And as Britain's economy slides towards recession many fans say they can no longer afford to support their local team regularly.
The average cost of watching a match is now £106.21 according to a poll by Virgin Money. And more than a quarter of fans say they will be forced to go to fewer games because of the rise." (Telegraph)


Goal.com - My Say: Mirror Mirror on the Wall – Who’s The Richest Club Owner Of Them All - With foreign investment and big takeovers being in the news, Avnish Anand discusses as to which club owner is the richest of them all.
Goal.com ("The following are the views of the author and not necessarily of Goal.com.")
"For a long time the owners of Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan were the richest owners in football. Technically, Barcelona and Real Madrid had no owners but had purses which were just as deep.
Then Roman Abramovich came in. He took the battle to the Spaniards and the Italians giving Chelsea more financial muscle than any other club. The likes of Man United, Liverpool, West Ham, Aston Villa and Man City have since got billionaire owners of their own but nobody has quite matched the Russian oligarch.
This was followed by the part ownership of Queens Park Rangers by Laxmi Mittal. Mr Mittal is the richest man in Britain and has more billions than Roman but unlike the Russian he hasn’t quite got down to throwing his millions around. While his disinterest in football is bad news for the club, people in India don’t mind – as long as the Mittal Champions Trust continues to be endowed magnanimously. There are other super-rich part owners as well – but minor compared to Mr Mittal – the likes of Alisher Usmanov and Bernie Ecclestone.
Now a real challenger has emerged – in the form of the Abu Dhabi group which has bought Manchester City. While the full extent of their money power will be known only during the January transfer window and much beyond that, they have already shown a glimpse of their ambition and their recklessness. Their last-ditch signing of Robinho can beat anything that Abramovich has expended for thus far.
And then there are more pretenders. Anil Ambani – the fourth richest man in the world lurks. The Ambani has great ambition and will hold nothing back (meaning no expenses will be spared) in his quest for success.
Paul Allen is another – Microsoft’s co-founder has been linked to Southampton in the past and can be counted upon to make an entry if some other club becomes available. He has less money than Mittal or Abramovich but is far more profligate – has already contributed to changing the money dynamics in the NBA and the NFL.
While the likelihood of the richest man in the world – Bill Gates – jumping in the fray is quite slim, we cannot rule out two others – men who have more money than any of the current owner or the pretenders – the Mexican Carlos Slim and Anil Ambani’s brother Mukesh. Carlos Slim could do on a far larger scale what Thaksin Shinawatra dreamt of - use a premiership club to boost his own popularity in his football-mad homeland. Mukesh Ambani has already tasted blood with the IPL and always loves to take on his younger brother. So Anil’s entry into European football could quickly lead to a purchase by the elder brother as well.
The battle of Britain could be like no other. That there is a fair correlation between spending and foot balling success has already been proved and is a fact known to all the rich guys. The coming times could well become a battle of the purses. I now wonder - If it ever comes to a ‘let the richest man win’ win kind of situation - then who will be the winner? What do you guys think?" Goal.com



Ex-QPR Director, Dunga, breathes again - World Cup Qualifier: Chile 0 Brazil 3