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Snippet from the Financial Time - By Emiliya Mychasuk and Emiko Terazono QPR team mates
- Steel baron Lakshmi Mittal might be spending less time on the Formula One circuit now that his friend Flavio Briatore has quit as Renault boss. Mr Mittal joined Mr Briatore as a 20 per cent investor in Queen's Park Rangers, along with F1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone. Mr Mittal's son-in-law Amit Bhatia is QPR vice-chairman. Mr Bhatia recently raised about £23,000 for the QPR in the Community Trust, in a sprint triathlon, and Mr Briatore was among those who made donations, as were eco-Tory supporters Ben and Zac Goldsmith." Financial Times


- One QPR Player in Actim Top 100 Players in Championship: - Wayne Routledge (who moves up to #44)


- Updated Briatore/Crashgate/Impact-on-QPR stories

- SATIRE "News" Stories re Briatore and Ecclestone

Charls Smith/BBC Blog - Review of the Week
- There could be a vacancy at Loftus Road's very own Comedy Club if Jim Magilton doesn't get his act together soon - 15 weeks is like a lifetime in the QPR hotseat. Of course in the unlikely event that Flavio Briatore is not deemed to be a 'fit and proper person' to run a football club in the wake of 'Crashgate', he may not even get the opportunity to fire boss number three (or is it four)?
- Mind you, according to F1 supremo and QPR co-owner Bernie Ecclestone: "Sometimes good things come out of bad. At least (Flavio) will have more time to pick the team now." Yikes.
- My eminent colleague Goughie, who has the misfortune to sit next to me in the office, remarked five minutes before the Briatore story broke that it had been a slow news day. It was swiftly followed by the announcement that Peter Kenyon was stepping down from his role at Chelsea and Karren Brady was leaving Birmingham. I haven't heard a peep from him since..." BBC

- It's War Between Gillingham's Chairman and Leeds Chairman, Ken Bates!


- Next Cardiff - Preview and Recalling QPR's Last Visit to Cardiff Under Sousa in February of this year)

- BBC Cardiff-QPR Preview
- "....Controversial QPR supremo Flavio Briatore has been keeping a lower profile at the club, but his departure from Renault potentially leaves him with more time to focus on matters at Loftus Road.
- That might not bode well for current manager Jim Magilton, whose last three predecessors were left in no doubt about which players and formation their bosses in the boardroom preferred...." BBC


- Bad Cardiff!

- Ex-QPR Ben Askar Update


QPR Official Site - Two Out on Loan "YOUNG PROS JOIN SALISBURY"
- Young professionals Lee Brown and Joe Oastler have joined Salisbury City on loan.
- The duo have penned one month deals with the Blue Square Conference outfit and could go straight into their squad for the trip to Tamworth tomorrow (Saturday). The deals run until Saturday 17th October 2009.QPR


- Two Years Ago: Bernie Ecclestone Sees his First QPR Game!

- Today's QPR Birthday: Dean Coney

- Record Number of Football Hooligans Arrested on Trains Last Year

- Shittu Doesn't Want to Go Out on Loan

- Year Ago: QPR Ticket Price Increases Announced, criticized and Defended

- QPR Played Spurs on Wednesday!

- Dean Parrett Goes Out on Loan

- Chelsea Appoint a Kenyon Replacement


Chris Charles Blog/BBC - Review of the Week
"...There could be a vacancy at Loftus Road's very own Comedy Club if Jim Magilton doesn't get his act together soon - 15 weeks is like a lifetime in the QPR hotseat. Of course in the unlikely event that Flavio Briatore is not deemed to be a 'fit and proper person' to run a football club in the wake of 'Crashgate', he may not even get the opportunity to fire boss number three (or is it four)?
- Mind you, according to F1 supremo and QPR co-owner Bernie Ecclestone: "Sometimes good things come out of bad. At least (Flavio) will have more time to pick the team now." Yikes.
- My eminent colleague Goughie, who has the misfortune to sit next to me in the office, remarked five minutes before the Briatore story broke that it had been a slow news day. It was swiftly followed by the announcement that Peter Kenyon was stepping down from his role at Chelsea and Karren Brady was leaving Birmingham. I haven't heard a peep from him since..."
BBC


BBC - Briatore's QPR future seems safe
- Flavio Briatore's position as majority owner of QPR appears secure in the wake of the Formula 1 race-fixing saga.
- Had the ex-Renault team boss been found guilty of fixing the Singapore Grand Prix, he would have failed the Football League's fit and proper person test.
- But the Italian, 59, can no longer be charged now that he has left Renault.
- The FIA, F1's governing body, charged Renault after Nelson Piquet Jr claimed he had been asked to crash in order to help team-mate Fernando Alonso.
- Renault chose not to contest the charges and will discover their fate when they appear before the World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Monday.
- Briatore left his position as team principal on Wednesday after the team decided not to contest charges of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
- Executive director of engineering Pat Symonds also parted company with the F1 outfit.
- Renault director general Patrick Pelata has since laid the blame for the scandal at the feet of both Briatore and Symonds.
- But the FIA could still impose sanctions if Renault are found guilty at Monday's hearing.
- The team could even be excluded from the championship, although that must be considered unlikely given that Briatore and Symonds - the two people Piquet Jr said were responsible - have now left.
- Briatore is co-owner of QPR along with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
- He is also chairman of the holding company that owns the club and a director on the board of the Championship side.
- The qualifying conditions for the fit and proper person test state that nobody can be a director or hold a majority interest in a club if they are "subject to a ban from a sports governing body relating to the administration of their sport" BBC


Nottingham Evening Post - Dexter happy to play Forest rotating game
- BILLY Davies might not be able to get away from the problems of his overstretched Nottingham Forest rearguard at present.
But up top, the Reds boast an abundance of riches.
With Robert Earnshaw now up and running following his strike from the substitutes' bench against Ipswich on Tuesday night, manager Davies has the six strikers he craved battling it out for a starting role.
- Rotation has been the theme so far with the chances of starting game after game very limited for any Forest forward.
But Dexter Blackstock has no complaints, as he knew the situation when he arrived at the City Ground, following a successful six-match loan spell at the end of last season.
What the 23-year-old striker has done is make sure when his chance arrived, he took it.
- The former Southampton and QPR man has started in both Carling Cup victories, netting in the first round against Bradford.
But more crucially, he has begun four Championship games out of seven for Forest and scored in three of them – his goal in the 1-1 draw at Sheffield Wednesday last Saturday his fourth of the campaign.
So, as Forest's early top goalscorer, does Blackstock expect to get the nod again when Blackpool roll up this Saturday?
Not really. He is taking nothing for granted.
- Despite getting among the goals, Blackstock knows it guarantees nothing.
"I am delighted to be playing my part," he said.
"But we have a very good strike force and there are goals all around the team.
"If we can all play our part, all chip in and push forward for what we want, and that is promotion, hopefully we will be in a good place come May.
"Every player would like to play every week and every game.
"If you don't want to do that, then you shouldn't really be a footballer.
- "But when you come to a big club like this that wants to move forward and you know the squad will be good with games coming thick and fast, like Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday in this league, you know it is something you have to deal with.
"It is not a case of players being dropped.
- "You have to get the fresh legs and it is about the squad if we want to win the league or make the play-offs."
With Earnshaw, Dele Adebola, David McGoldrick, Nathan Tyson and Joe Garner to fight it out with, Blackstock knows a regular starting place will be hard to come by.
After all, he accepts the manager assembled such a varied frontline in order to give him the arsenal to cope with any opposition and in all situations.
- But, at QPR, he went out on loan towards the end of last season to the City Ground after voicing his discontent at being restricted to the bench.
That is why he left in the summer. And while he understands the situation he has walked into at Forest, it will not stop him doing everything in his power to become a regular figure.
To achieve that, he has to score goals. So far, so good. Now he just wants to keep it going to make it difficult for Davies to leave him out.
- In the meantime, he accepts his early performances and strikes are not enough to make him an automatic first choice.
He said: "It is all about rotating and using the squad the best you can.
"The manager is looking at everyone, assessing the squad and seeing who is best in which positions and we have changed formation quite a bit this season.
"He has players for different occasions and to do certain jobs and everyone is chipping in.
"So credit to the squad and the manager in picking certain teams to play certain teams.
"The manager is very thorough with his plans before games so it is good we have a big squad to do that."
- After seven games in the opening 21 days of the new season, including an eighth for the likes of Chris Gunter on international duty, Blackstock welcomed the early fortnight pause for World Cup qualifiers.
It gave Forest the chance to try to bolster their defence but after securing their first win against the Rams at the end of August, he is confident for the future.
- He said: "You need a break and we have played loads of game in the first few weeks and it will bode well for the future.
"We have not had great luck in the first part of the season but I am sure it will come.
"The luck will balance out over the course of the campaign.
"The first win of the season was massive, especially coming against Derby, and now we want to kick on. But it is looking good" Nottingham Evening Post

- Compilation of yesterday's stories re Briatore/"Crashgate" and QPR

- Oh oh: Hull City!

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