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Saturday, April 24, 2010

TEAMS: Barnsley vs QPR

QPR Report Saturday...Warnock's Weekly Column

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- On This Day....Almost Thirty-Five Years Ago: April 24, 1976: QPR Defeat Leeds 2-0 to End their Season top of the English First Division - A look back at 1975/76

- Today: Barnsley vs QPR

- Neil Warnock Urges Fan Attendance at Player of Year Dinner...And Flashback Report of last Year's Dinner (and Players' early departure)

- Flashback: "QPR Show How to Lose 27 Million Pounds in Four Years"

- Portsmouth Entire Squad up for Sale...How they Equalize the sports Leagues in America...Hull spending Next season's cash already...Birmingham financial leagues

- Crystal Palace Announce Pre-Season Game With Chelsea

- Ex-QPR (and previouslylinked-to-QPR) DJ Campbell Arrested

- Court Rules: Fixtures are Copyrighted

Independent - Neil Warnock: Coach trips can be good for team spirit – but you need to play your cards right

What I Learnt This Week
- I had the best night's sleep since I arrived at QPR this week, and it was not because we are now safe from relegation.
- Living under the Heathrow flight path, as I do now, I certainly noticed it when the planes stopped flying. I think when they restarted they were lower than normal, I'm sure the chimney pot shook a little bit. We noticed it at training too. Our training ground is so near Heathrow I'm told it could be paved over by the third runway if that ever gets built – at times you think the planes are preparing to land on it already.
- Of course, the volcano wasn't so good for Liverpool and Fulham, what with the journeys they had to make to play in the Europa League. Having played at Hartlepool, and managed Torquay, I know what it feels like to spend hours on a coach.
- I was only at Torquay for 17 games and one of them was at Carlisle. We were trying to avoid dropping out of the league and it was such an important game I managed to persuade a sponsor to pay for a hotel. It paid off because we won, and eventually stayed up. It was one of the best days in my football career. The players there were so genuine, they were only on £100 a week but they'd go through a brick wall for you. One of them, Paul Trollope, is now doing well managing Bristol Rovers.
- I made the journey in reverse when I was at Hartlepool in the early Seventies. There weren't so many motorways then so it took for ever. We were three hours from Doncaster if you were lucky. As Torquay used to play Friday night the players voted to travel on the day of the game. That meant we could stay overnight after the match and go out on the town.
- There were no videos, no PlayStations, no Walkmans or iPods in those days, no TVs on the coach either. The main activity was cards. I remember a trip to Gillingham in which the card school finished with one player gambling away his Ford Anglia. He'd run out of cash, so he threw the keys in. You might think being a team-mate the winner wouldn't take it, but he did. That experience meant as a manager I've always kept my eye on card schools. You can't tell me losing a car to a team-mate will do any good before a game.
- The one good thing about long trips is the adversity gets the camaraderie going, and it won't have hurt Liverpool to be on Runcorn station with the punters for a change.

2. I was guilty as charged, but was glad of a fair hearing
- I was at Wembley on Thursday, attending an FA hearing into comments I made after Crystal Palace were beaten by Aston Villa in the FA Cup. I was still Palace manager at the time. You may recall I was unhappy they scored a goal from a corner which should never have been given, and said so on live TV.
- I intended to plead guilty, but wanted a hearing to explain the circumstances. The match came when I was in the middle of the most trying situation I've endured in 30 years of management – Palace were in administration and I was trying to hold the club together. A place in the sixth round would have meant so much to the club, so to be undone by a mistake was difficult to take. Along with John Duncan, the former Ipswich and Chesterfield manager who accompanied me as a representative of the League Managers Association, I explained this, and added it can get very intense during a match and it often takes a while to cool down. So when a manager gets a microphone under his nose within minutes of the final whistle he often speaks from the heart.
- I have to say I got a super hearing. A lot of people think the members of these panels don't know anything about football and just come up with punishments, but they listened to what we had to say. I received a warning as to my future conduct and was fined £1,000. Having pleaded guilty, I don't think they could have done anything less.
- It was great that they understood the pressure managers were under. I also think they took into account my reaction to a previous controversial incident this season, the "ghost goal" at Bristol City, when Freddie Sears scored but the officials missed the ball going into the net. We were then beaten by a late goal. Most managers would have said a few things in those circumstances but, believe it or not, I felt sorry for ref that day and said so at the time.

3. The 'ghost goal' could yet come back to haunt Palace
- Looking back at the "ghost goal" I just hope that afternoon at Ashton Gate has no bearing on whether Palace stay up. It is going to be tight and it looks as if their match at Sheffield Wednesday on the last day of the season is not going to be one for the faint-hearted.
- We are now safe and looking forward to the end of the season and a chance to make some changes. I have abandoned plans to go to the World Cup – I had been offered some punditry work – because I feel I need to spend time gearing up for QPR. Last summer I did not have a break because I had my hip resurfaced so I need to recharge, then get the squad sorted for next season. The first job will be to replace all the loan players who are going back.
- Being safe, in normal circumstances I would have loved to have played one or two of the kids on Tuesday against Watford so I could have a look at them, but knowing what is at stake for the other teams down there, and my past criticism of managers who have fielded weakened teams against relegation rivals when I was fighting to keep Sheffield United in the top flight, I felt I had no option but to play a strong side. Although it did not help Malky Mackay and his boys, we came out with a win so no one could accuse us of taking it easy.

4. Victory tastes all the sweeter on special occasions
Our match meant I was unable to watch the Special One beating Barcelona 3-1 but when I watched the highlights I had to smile because it is just the type of game I have relished all my career. Unfortunately, it's not been at the level of Inter v Barça, more like Hartlepool v Darlington, but all managers like a challenge. I am sure Jose's glass of red wine after the game tasted even sweeter knowing the likes of Messi had been dealt with. Barça can score a lot at home, but I still have that feeling for Mourinho to come through.

5. One style fits all when it comes to boys in uniform
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6. Feeling safe is a picnic in the park with no more worries
Last weekend was Amy's birthday. My oldest two, Natalie and James, came down with James's wife Sarah, and Amy had some friends round on Saturday. It was after our defeat against Cardiff. Having been warned straight after the game by Sharon we still needed a point my face was long as we got home. Sharon told me if I didn't buck up, and change my face, I were in big trouble. I didn't want to receive another of them looks so after that I was the life of the party.
Sunday was the Sheffield derby and I was rooting for United to get at least a draw as that would make us safe. I started listening to it but when Wednesday scored that was it; Amy and Sharon said, "Come on Dad, turn it off", and dragged me out to Richmond Park. We ended up having an impromptu picnic while waiting for that dreaded text message. Imagine my relief when it came through that it had finished 1-1. It doesn't matter what anyone tells you, about being calm, everyone in football is worried until they are out of danger.
- Today we go to Barnsley, one of my previous clubs where I really enjoyed playing. It'll be nice, but strange, to have a match in which there is nothing at stake for either side. I wonder what the atmosphere will be like." Independent

- John Gregory in Israel, ProfiledCNN

- QPR's Lakshmi Mittal Ranked as World's Richest Football Club Owner

- Tony Ingham (RIP)

- QPR1st Postpone Their AGM (and Flashback to The Birth of QPR1st)

- "Play The Ground Location Game"

- Flashback: Dave McIntyre Compares QPR Transfer Dealings with Other (more successful) Clubs

- Three Year Flashback: New QPR Contract for John Gregory

Friday, April 23, 2010

QPR Report Snippets...Ex-QPR DJ Campbell Arrested...Neil Warnock Urged Player of Year Attendance...Ex-QPR John Gregory Profiled

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Mail - Blackpool striker DJ Campbell arrested over stabbing outside London nightclub
- Blackpool striker DJ Campbell has been arrested in connection with a stabbing outside a night club.
- Lancashire Police led Campbell away from Blackpool's training ground in front of astonished players and management. He was allowed to change from his kit and was formally arrested.
- Campbell, who has played in the Premier League with Birmingham City, was held in the cells at Blackpool Police station before being handed over to detectives from the Metropolitan Police.
Blackpool's DJ Campbell scores against Nottingham Forest
- Bailed: DJ Campbell (centre) was released pending further police investigations
- He was taken to London and questioned at Hammersmith Police station by officers investigating the stabbing of a 24-year-old man outside The Crescent Club, West Kensington in the early hours of a Sunday morning in January.
- The victim was stabbed in the side and rushed to hospital but has since recovered.
- Club-goers fled from the scene before police arrived but now over two months later London-born Campbell - real christian names Dudley Junior - has been arrested. He was granted police bail pending further inquiries.
DJ Campbell (centre)
- Blackpool would only say that Campbell is fit to play against Peterborough on Saturday. The game has been described by Seasiders' boss Ian Holloway as the most important match of his career with a place in the Championship play-offs beckoning the seventh-placed club.
- Campbell is on loan at Blackpool from Leicester City who bought him for £2 million. He joined Blackpool desperate for first-team football and scored twice against Nottingham Forest last week.
- A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that a 28-year-old man had been arrested in Blackpool at his place of work in connection with a stabbing incident.
- Campbell has represented his country at a junior level. The Crescent Club had been staging a special Paparazzi night on the night of the incident. Mail
- Ex-QPR DJ Campbell Arrested in Stabbing Incident

QPR Official Site - NW: 'LET'S MAKE IT A NIGHT TO REMEMBER'
- Neil Warnock has called on the R's faithful to make this year's Player of the Year event a 'night to remember.'
- The annual bash takes place at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith, on Sunday 2nd May 2010 and Warnock is looking forward to the evening's events.
- "It's a great opportunity for us to meet the fans and show them our appreciation for their support this season," he said.
- "The lads will be sitting on two tables and they'll be available to pose for photos and sign autographs.
- "It should be a great evening."
- Amit Bhatia and Ishan Saksena will both be on hand to address the R's faithful, whilst Gordon Jago, Stan Bowles and Steve Wicks are amongst the confirmed guests.- Tickets for the event - which will be hosted by Tom Watt - are still available from just £69.00.
- To purchase your ticket online click here or call 08444 777 007
- Please call the commercial department on 020 8740 2588 or e-mail commercial@qpr.co.uk for further details. QPR

re John Gregory - CNN - From England to Nazareth: The hardest job in soccerBy James Montague, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Former Aston Villa coach John Gregory is now in charge of Israel's Maccabi Ahi Nazareth

Once touted as a future England manager, he had been out of work since 2007

Nazareth is battling relegation, but went two months without paying players

Israeli soccer clubs divided along political, religious and ethnic linesLondon, England (CNN) -- John Gregory used to be a contender.

When the former England international took charge of Aston Villa in his first big coaching job, few expected him to transform the fortunes of the former European Cup winners.

But by the end of 1998 Villa stood (albeit briefly) at the top of the English Premier League and was openly touted as the next England coach.

Two years later he was leading Aston Villa out at the 2000 FA Cup final, the last to be held at Wembley stadium before it was demolished and rebuilt.

It seemed a matter of if, rather than when, he would lead his country. "Everything I touched turned to gold," he told the English tabloid press at the time.

And then his Midas touch deserted him. By 2007 he had been sacked from second division Queens Park Rangers before disappearing from the game, his early promise evaporating amid relegation and recriminations.

The fans had stones and boulders, there were rockets going off. We had to be smuggled out of the town

But last December he stepped out of the managerial wilderness in unconventional style. Gregory took charge of Israeli Premier League side Maccabi Ahi Nazareth, an Arab team facing racism, violence and bankruptcy whilst being rooted to the bottom of the league. He had, in short, chosen to resurrect his career with arguably one the toughest jobs in soccer.

"We love the underdog"

"People were saying it was a bad career move, but the more people said that the more I wanted to come," recalled Gregory, who was contacted about the job by Nazareth coach and former Israeli international Najwan Ghrayib, whom Gregory had signed for Aston Villa in the 1990s.

"I'm an Englishman. We love the underdog. Money wasn't an issue. If you're a singer you need to sing, it doesn't matter who your audience is. You sing in front of your grandad, your pals on karaoke. I needed to get on the coaching pitch and get my fix."

He couldn't have hoped to find a more of an underdog.

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth are a modest outfit, even by Israeli standards. They only gained promotion after the Israeli Premier League decided to expand the league from 12 teams to 16.

The club from the Galilee, which has both Jewish and Arab players, only attracts a few thousand home fans. As Gregory explains: "They are a third or fourth division club playing in the Premier League."

Video: Starting over in Israel Money has been tight too, so tight in fact that the players hadn't been paid for over two months.

"They come off the training pitch and you have no wages to give them, they have no money for food, to pay rent, food for the kids," he said. "Players had their electricity cut off. I was getting phone calls from players saying that they didn't have petrol to get to the game."

Video: Arabs fighting for Israel "I was almost acting as a psychologist and a CEO. We had some bad results but we got paid on the Thursday, and they won the next Saturday. I've had to keep a stiff upper lip."

Political hatreds
Then there's the political situation. Israeli football is a microcosm of the country's fractious political landscape. Each team still retains a distinct political identity and, when they play, the fissures in Israeli society are laid bare.

Teams like Hapoel Tel Aviv have traditionally been owned by, and aligned to, the unions and identify with the left.

At the other end of the spectrum you have teams like Beitar Jerusalem, Israel's most popular club, who have strong links with the Likud party and whose terraces boast a large, hardcore of right-wing religious nationalists.

But Maccabi Ahi Nazareth, along with fellow league side Bnei Sakhnin, represents the country's much maligned Arab, largely Muslim, minority. They provide a rare, symbolic bastion of identity for the Arab community.

Games against teams like Beitar Jerusalem, which has never had an Arab play for the club, are often explosive affairs. When it was suggested four years ago that an Israeli-Arab was to sign, riots broke out outside the ground. Beitar eventually pulled out of the move. The club has also had to play games behind closed doors as well as having points docked for racist, anti-Muslim chanting.

"The first time I came here I was shocked by the security, every shopping mall and café has got a security guard with a gun outside," Gregory said. "In England you rarely saw a gun; I suppose that was a little bit of a rude awakening seeing loaded guns on the street."

Arab v Arab

But the worst violence, surprisingly, has followed when Maccabi Ahi Nazareth has played fellow Arab club Bnei Sakhnin. Arab fraternity was conspicuous by its absence when the two played earlier this season in one of Gregory's first games in charge.

"They don't get on with each other at all, it's worst than when we play Beitar!" he laughed. "When we played at Sakhnin we had a police escort in and out. The fans had stones and boulders, there were rockets going off. We had to be smuggled out of the town."

But Gregory has won plaudits for managing to take Maccabi Ahi Nazareth off the foot of the table and giving them hope of survival following victories against the likes of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel's most successful club.

"He is completely different to any other manager here," explained Jeremy Last, sports editor of the Jerusalem Post. "Football managers in Israel wear scruffy T-shirts and jeans, but Gregory wears training tops and looks like a coach. In interviews, he even talks in English football clichés! But he comes across very well on TV and knows what he's doing, is genuine and honest and stuck with them through their money problems. Which is incredible really."

Relegation playoff

Now attention shifts to the relegation play-offs, where Maccabi Ahi Nazareth will face five games to save themselves from dropping out the Premier League, and almost certain financial oblivion.

If he succeeds, few outside of Israel will pay any attention. And it certainly won't put him back on the path to replacing current England coach Fabio Capello. But for Gregory, ushering his team to safety now means much more than that.

"I can categorically say it is the hardest job without any question; we had no salary and we had a team made up of cast offs, players no one else wanted, but the players I have have been a pleasure to work with," he said. "It has been exceptionally hard. If we stay up this season it will rank as my greatest achievement in life, not just football."
Tom McGowan contributed to this feature. CNN

- Article on Indian Sports briefly notes re Lakshmi Mittal Involvement

- Next: Barnsley vs QPR

- QPR's Lakshmi Mittal Ranked as World's Richest Football Club Owner

- Tony Ingham (RIP)

- QPR1st Postpone Their AGM (and Flashback to The Birth of QPR1st)

- "Play The Ground Location Game"

- Flashback: Dave McIntyre Compares QPR Transfer Dealings with Other (more successful) Clubs

- Three Year Flashback: New QPR Contract for John Gregory

FA - Commission hearings Thursday, 22 April, 2010 - Neil Warnock and Paul Lambert both fined for improper conduct.
...." FA Fined

Ealing Gazette/Paul Warburton - QPR star set to open contract talks
Ealing Gazette

QPR Official Site -WARNOCK'S XI v CURLE'S XI - Ever fancied playing at Loftus Road? Well now is your chance.
- On Saturday 8th May at 2.00pm, a Neil Warnock XI will lock horns with a Keith Curle XI, as the two men do battle in a competitive match for the very first time in W12.
- The duo will be joined by Amit Bhatia and Ishan Saksena, as well as a couple of other QPR staff members - and the good news is you could join them.
- We've got 16 places in each squad up for grabs for supporters over the age of 18 - and all you have to do is place the highest bid to claim your position in the squad.
- All proceeds from the auction will go to QPR in the Community Trust.
- On Monday morning, bidding will begin on the coveted goalkeepers positions, before we open the defender, midfielder and striker positions later in the week.
- The day itself promises to be one to remember.
- After arriving at the ground, the players will be taken to a hospitality suite to meet the rest of their team, before being ushered down to the First Team dressing rooms to get changed into their kit.
- Then it's out onto the hallowed turf to get warmed up before playing a unique 90 minute match, with Messrs Warnock and Curle bellowing instructions from the sidelines.
- Post-match awards will be presented after the game for both man-of-the-match and moment-of-the-match.
- Details of how the bidding process will work will follow on www.qpr.co.uk on Monday morning. QPR

- Next Season's Ball and the World Cup Ball

- Nine Years Ago This Month: Founding of QPR1st - Their Initial Activities

- No Paulo Sousa to Sporting Lisbon...Linked to Hull
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QPR Report Friday: Tony Ingham RIP....Warnock Fined...Faurlin Contract Talks...Play at Loftus Road for Charity...Barnsley Previews

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- Ex-QPR DJ Campbell Arrested in Stabbing Incident

- John Gregory Profiled and Interviewed

- Article on Indian Sports briefly notes re Lakshmi Mittal Involvement

- QPR's Lakshmi Mittal Ranked as World's Richest Football Club Owner

TONY INGHAM RIP

QPR Official Site - TONY INGHAM
- It is with great sadness that Queens Park Rangers Football Club has learned of the passing of former player and Director, Tony Ingham.
- Tony, who made a record 548 appearances for the Club, died on Wednesday afternoon following a recent illness.
- After serving his apprenticeship at Leeds United, Tony's QPR career began on November 25th 1950 in a home fixture against Doncaster Rovers.
- He went on to make 514 League appearances and 34 Cup appearances, scoring three goals.
- To this day, he holds the Club record of making 273 successive League (251) and Cup (22) appearances between February 25th 1956 and September 12th 1962; including five seasons as an ever-present.
- He played his last match for the R's against Halifax, before retiring in 1963.
- However, his love affair with the Super Hoops continued thereafter, assisting on the commercial side of the business.
After fulfilling a variety of roles off the pitch, he became a Commercial Director in 1981 - a role he enjoyed at the Club he always called his own.
- His son, David, said: "Tony was QPR through and through. This was his Club and he enjoyed some of the finest moments of his wonderful life playing for the Hoops."
- If you would like to send a message of condolence to Tony's family, please e-mail mr.ingham@hotmail.co.uk
- Details of Tony's funeral will follow in due course.
- The thoughts of the Club are with Tony's family and friends at this sad time.
- Tony Ingham - R.I.P
- *The Club will be paying its respects to Tony Ingham at our fixture against Newcastle United on the final day of the season. Further details will follow in due course. QPR
- Tony Ingham

- QPR1st Postpone Their AGM (and Flashback to The Birth of QPR1st)

- "Play The Ground Location Game"

- Flashback: Dave McIntyre Compares QPR Transfer Dealings with Other (more successful) Clubs

- Three Year Flashback: New QPR Contract for John Gregory

- Further Updates re Portsmouth's Unbelievable Size of Portsmouth's Debt: Almost 120 Million Pounds

- "Groundsmen of The Year" Winners

FA - Commission hearings Thursday, 22 April, 2010 - Neil Warnock and Paul Lambert both fined for improper conduct.
- A Regulatory Commission hearing today heard charges issued against QPR manager Neil Warnock and Norwich City manager Paul Lambert.
- Warnock was fined £1,000 and warned as to his future conduct. He admitted improper conduct in relation to post match comments made whilst manager of Crystal Palace following Palace’s FA Cup match against Aston Villa on 14 February...." FA Fined

Ealing Gazette/Paul Warburton - QPR star set to open contract talks
- QPR will sit down on Monday with Alejandro Faurlin to persuade the midfielder his future is with them – and not two top clubs trying to lure the £3.5million Argentine away.
- Rangers are set to dangle the carrot of a hike in wages on his three-year deal provided he ignores the overtures from Celtic and an unnamed Premiership club.
- Faurlin’s agent, Lucas Cominelli revealed the midfielder’s rise to prominence has courted outside attention.
- Cominelli said: “There are things to discuss with QPR, and in the next week or so we should know more.”
- However, the 23-year-old is more than happy to commit to Rangers, after a first season when he got better and better despite playing under five different managers.
- But for once, Faurlin's background was actually a bonus in dealing with the constant stream of departures.
- He said: “In Argentina it’s normal. When you lose three or four games, he (the manager) is gone.
- “But every new manager has different ideas of how to play – and that’s not always easy to understand straight away.”
- Despite the rollercoaster that has been QPR’s season, Faurlin does not regret leaving his home country for a second.
- In his first-ever interview since arriving from Instituto El Cordoba last summer, the Argentine reckons he owes a debt of gratitude to Rangers – and is looking to repay the faith shown in him by the club.
- He said: “Yes it was difficult at first with the language and different football.
- “And it’s true we didn’t have as good season as we wanted. But I thank Gianni Paladini (chairman) for bringing me here and giving me the chance to prove myself in England.
- “Personally I think I got better, and I am very happy and comfortable here – and Neil Warnock is a very positive manager. He knows what he wants, and he trusts me.”
Ealing Gazette

QPR Official Site -WARNOCK'S XI v CURLE'S XI - Ever fancied playing at Loftus Road? Well now is your chance.
- On Saturday 8th May at 2.00pm, a Neil Warnock XI will lock horns with a Keith Curle XI, as the two men do battle in a competitive match for the very first time in W12.
- The duo will be joined by Amit Bhatia and Ishan Saksena, as well as a couple of other QPR staff members - and the good news is you could join them.
- We've got 16 places in each squad up for grabs for supporters over the age of 18 - and all you have to do is place the highest bid to claim your position in the squad.
- All proceeds from the auction will go to QPR in the Community Trust.
- On Monday morning, bidding will begin on the coveted goalkeepers positions, before we open the defender, midfielder and striker positions later in the week.
- The day itself promises to be one to remember.
- After arriving at the ground, the players will be taken to a hospitality suite to meet the rest of their team, before being ushered down to the First Team dressing rooms to get changed into their kit.
- Then it's out onto the hallowed turf to get warmed up before playing a unique 90 minute match, with Messrs Warnock and Curle bellowing instructions from the sidelines.
- Post-match awards will be presented after the game for both man-of-the-match and moment-of-the-match.
- Details of how the bidding process will work will follow on www.qpr.co.uk on Monday morning. QPR

Next Barnsley:

Barnsley Official Site FINAL HOME GAME: ALL ABOUT THE Rs
ALL about Rangers.
ONE TO WATCH - AKOS BUZSAKY
A player with outstanding individual ability, Akos Buzsaky made an immediate impact following his move to W12 from fellow Championship outfit Plymouth Argyle.

The Hungarian international, who initially joined on loan prior to making the deal permanent in January 2008, scored six goals in his first 13 appearances, and ended the campaign with ten goals to his name.

Buzsaky's taste for the spectacular also saw him scoop the Kiyan Prince Goal of the Season award, but his first full season in W12 proved to be a frustrating one, with the talented ace notching just a solitary goal in his five league starts.

The midfielder suffered an Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury in the R's Carling Cup tie against Manchester United in November, which ruled him out for the remainder of the season.

THE GAFFER - NEIL WARNOCK
Born in Sheffield on December 1 1948, Warnock spent most of his playing days as a winger at clubs in the north of England.

He began his career in 1967 at Chesterfield prior to spells at Rotherham United, Hartlepool United, Scunthorpe United, Aldershot and Barnsley.

In 1978 Neil had a taste of professional football management at York City, where he took charge for one game after joining as a player.

A year later he made his 326th and final career appearance having signed for Crewe Alexandra.

His first full managerial job was with Northern Premier League side Gainsborough Trinity in 1981, before taking charge of Burton Albion.

Neil's next assignment saw him manage Scarborough in August 1986. Within a year he he had led the North Yorkshire club into the Football League for the first time in their history.

This achievement, as well as stabilising Scarborough's position as a professional club, alerted Notts County, who made Neil their manager in January 1989.

Neil led County to promotion into the old Division Two at the end of his first full season at Meadow Lane, and he repeated the feat a year later as they made it into the top flight in the a season that also saw them reach the FA Cup Sixth Round.

Neil left County in 1993 and took charge of Huddersfield Town. After getting the club to Wembley in the Autoglass Trophy in his first season, Neil took the Terriers to the second tier a year later. He then joined Plymouth and, once again, within a year he had spearheaded a promotion campaign, hauling Argyle out of the bottom flight via the play offs.

Spells at Oldham and Bury followed, before Neil was appointed manager of Sheffield United in December 1999. In his seven years at Bramall Lane, Neil led United to FA Cup and League Cup Semi-Finals, the First Division Play-off Final and then, in May 2006, promotion to the Premier League.

After leaving the club the following summer, Neil released his autobiography, 'Made in Sheffield'. He joined QPR in 2007 before making the move across London earlier this season.

LAST TIME OUT
QPR 5 (Leigertwood 8; Buzsaky 15, 39; Watson 67; Foster OG 79)
BARNSLEY 2 (Foster 50, Gray 54)

BARNSLEY made a real fight of it in the second half but let QPR off the hook after battling back from three down at the break.

Despite an impressive performance in midweek against Burnley, Reds boss Mark Robins rang the changes at Loftus Road with Nathan Doyle, Ryan Shotton, Carl Dickinson and Andy Gray all coming into the starting eleven. Julian Gray and Rob Kozluk dropped to the bench while injury kept out Darren Moore and Jon Macken.

Barnsley were on the back foot inside the first two minutes when Wayne Routledge managed to dig out a cross from the right that skipped off Stephen Foster's head and dropped nicely for Akos Buzsaky at the back post. The midfielder smashed the ball well but Shotton was in the right place to make a telling block.

The Reds responded well and Iain Hume's third minute corner caused absolute chaos in the Rangers area. The ball bounced around and eventually fell to Anderson but the Brazilian could not find the top corner and blazed high over.

Barnsley went even closer two minutes later as Anderson's first time pass sent Hume in behind the QPR defence. The striker hit his shot well but the ball just curled wide of the far post with Radek Cerny at full stretch.

QPR grabbed the lead on eight minutes but the Reds really only have themselves to blame after allowing Mikele Leigertwood to run half the length of the field and smack a low drive past David Preece from the edge of the area.

Things went from bad to worse on 15 minutes when Ben Watson picked out a fine pass to split the Reds defence wide, wide open and send Buzsaky through on goal. Buzsaky did not need a second invitation to plant a deflected shot past Preece and into the far corner.

Rangers were rampant and almost had a third on 18 minutes as again Watson picked open the new-look Barnsley defence to put Routledge through and the winger beat Preece from a tight angle only for his effort to cannon away off the foot of the far post.

Barnsley slowly found their feet and Hugo Colace saw a shot cannon away for a corner on 19 minutes after Rangers had failed to deal with Shotton's long throw.

Good play by Doyle then caught Rangers flat-footed on 23 minutes as he found Anderson on the edge of the box but the midfielder was denied a goal as Cerny dove to grab his curling effort. Butterfield then lashed a volley high over the bar moments later as the Reds enjoyed their best spell of the game in QPR territory. It was the right reaction from the visitors.

Barnsley were still looking shaky on the counter attack and good play by Rowan Vine and Jay Simpson gave Martin Rowlands the chance to shoot on 28 minutes but the ball crashed in the Colace and away. Buzsaky then hammered one a foot or so over the top from 22 yards seconds later.

The Reds finally got in behind QPR on the half hour as Jacob Butterfield never gave the ball up and ended up at the byline after Gary Borrowdale had missed his clearance. Butterfield put a goal on a plate for Andy Gray but Damion Stewart was in the right place to put the striker off and the chance went begging.

Adam Hammill then had Cerny scrambling as he curled one from 25 yards on 31 minutes but his effort just flew wide of the post.

Rangers forced to play again on 33 minutes as Watson put Barnsley under pressure from Watson's corner. Stewart saw a header deflect over the top of Preece's goal.

It was a case of one tackle, one booking for Shotton on 36 minutes as the on loan defender went in hard on Leigertwood. It was a nothing tackle but referee Karl Evans was quick to show a yellow card.

Barnsley crafted another fine chance on 38 minutes as Doyle's long ball gave Gray something to attack in the area. Gray knocked the ball down to Hume, who's quick feet found Anderson but Borrowdale appeared from nowhere to stop the Brazilian rolling a shot past Cerny.

QPR ended Barnsley's brave fight in spectacular fashion just moments later. If the Reds' defence had been at fault for the opening goals, there was nothing they could have done about Buzsaky's audacious strike from 35 yards which flew over Preece and into the top corner.

Anderson picked up a booking practically from the restart while Rowan Vine almost added a fourth on 42 minutes when he tricked his way into the area before bringing a fine one-handed save from Preece.

Barnsley started the second half with purpose after an interval rollicking from manager Robins. It was QPR though who crafted the first chance on 48 minutes as Jay Simpson turned well and shot into the sidenetting.

The Reds got a foothold back into the game just two minutes later when Hume swung over a fine free kick from the left and Foster rose highest to nod past Cerny from 12 yards out.

Hume went close again on 52 minutes as he reacted quickest after Shotton's long throw had bounced around on the penalty spot. Hume smashed his shot into a crowd of players but the ball flew clear.

Barnsley had the chance to get right back into it on 54 minutes as Hammill raced towards goal only to be checked in the area by Stewart. The referee pointed straight to the spot but Andy Gray's penalty was saved by Cerny. Thankfully the ball came back out and Gray was able to smash it into the back of the net.

Again Barnsley paid the price for the referees one foul, one booking policy as Kozluk, who had only been on the pitch a matter of moments, held off Buzsaky on half way line. Buzsaky hit the deck and Kozluk picked up a yellow card.

It was turning into a real cracker in the early autumn sunshine at Loftus Road. Simpson hit the sidenetting on the hour mark after finding a yard behind Dickinson. Buzsaky then hammered one high over the bar on 64 minutes after a lightening counter from the home side.

There was almost more drama a minute later after Hammill took on QPR single-handed before curling a shot towards the top corner that brought an outstanding one-handed save from Cerny.

Daniel Bogdanovic then managed to get in behind QPR on 66 minutes and crossed for Gray but the ball just skipped in front of the striker and a golden chance went begging.

Rangers grabbed a killer fourth goal they simply did not deserve on 68 minutes. Buzsaky did well down the left to cross and Vine knocked it down to Watson who crashed a volley goalward. Preece managed to get both hands on the ball but it agonisingly squirmed out of his grasp and across the line.

Preece had to work again on 70 minutes as he saved well from Adel Taarabt, who let fly from the edge of the box.

Rangers grabbed a fifth on 79 minutes as the Reds failed to deal with Buzsaky's right wing corner. Kaspars Gorkss nodded the ball back across the six-yard box and a combination of Foster, Stewart and Simpson turned the ball over the line.

Still the chances came for the men in red and Hammill swung over a fine free kick on 83 minutes that gave Shotton a great free header at the back post but the defender completely missed the ball and the opportunity went begging. Hammill then crossed on 88 minutes to give Colace half a chance but the midfield volleyed well wide of the mark.

It really summed up the Reds day in stoppage time when Campbell-Ryce looked to take a quick free kick only to smack the ball into Watson four yards away. The referee waved play on - rather inexplicably - and Rangers almost crafted a sixth as Rowlands burst into the area only to be halted by a combination of Foster and Preece.

QPR: Cerny, Stewart, Leigertwood, Routledge (Faurlin 68), Vine (Taarabt 68), Buzsaky, Gorkss, Rowlands, Watson, Simpson (Pellicori 79), Borrowdale.
Subs: Heaton, Ramage, Mahon, Ephraim.

BARNSLEY: Preece, Doyle, Foster, Shotton, Dickinson, Anderson, Colace, Butterfield (Kozluk 56), Hammill, Hume (Bogdanovic 59), A. Gray (Campbell-Ryce 75).
Subs: Rusling, Devaney, J. Gray, Thompson.

Referee
Karl Evans (Lancashire)
Assistant Referees
John Farries (Oxfordshire) and Eamonn Smith (Surrey)
Fourth Official
Barry Holderness (Essex)

Attendance - 12,025

REDS boss Mark Robins gave his thoughts following today's defeat at QPR.

Mark said: "It was a costly first ten minutes or so and we really shot ourselves in the foot. We gave ourselves a mountain to climb and were not good enough defensively.

"We allowed them took much room and conceded some very poor goals. We created one or two things ourselves as well and it could have been seven six to either side. We came within a whisker of equalising but then pushed forward and forgot to defend again.

"Darren Moore missed the game through injury, Rob Kozluk had a groin problem and Jon Macken was struggling with a side-muscle strain. We have to be better away from home and we conceded some needless, poor goals". Barnsley

QPR Official Site - THE FRIDAY PREVIEW: TYKES

Rangers are on the road this weekend for their penultimate fixture of the 2009/10 Coca Cola Championship campaign.

Oakwell - the home of 18th placed Barnsley - is the destination, as the R's look to build on Tuesday night's 1-0 victory over struggling Watford.

That win lifted Neil Warnock's men up to 14th place and just two points adrift of the top half of the table.

The Tykes, meanwhile, are without a win in eight Championship matches, having failed to register a victory since their triumph over Nottingham Forest in mid-March.
Star Man
Daniel BOGDANOVIC - Striker
Fourteen goals in all competitions this season tells you everything you need to know about Barnsley hit-man Daniel Bogdanovic.

The Maltese striker, who currently tops the Tykes' scoring charts, has had a season to remember at Oakwell.

However, his fine heading ability, coupled with his finishing prowess, have seen him linked with moves away from the Yorkshire-based Club.

And the bad news for Tykes fans is that he could soon be on this way, having reportedly turned down an improved contract offer for next season.

Numbers Up
1887 - The year Barnsley Football Club was formed, as Barnsley St. Peter's.
23, 009 - The capacity of the Tykes' Oakwell stadium home.
1898 - The year Barnsley formed the Football League.
1912 - The year Barnsley won the FA Cup, defeating West Bromwich Albion 1-0.
15 years & 45 days - The age of Barnsley youngster Reuben Noble-Lazarus when he became the youngest ever player in the history of the Football League.
35 - The number of Northern Ireland caps won by former Barnsley defender Gerry Taggart.

£4,500,000 - The record transfer fee paid to Blackburn Rovers for striker Ashley Ward in December 1998.

Classic Encounter
QPR 5, Barnsley 2
Coca Cola Championship - Saturday 26th September 2009

Akos Buzsaky was the star of the show, notching a double, to help an irresistible Rangers overcome Barnsley in a pulsating encounter at Loftus Road.

The R's - who were three goals up at half time - had to halt a Barnsley revival though, after the visitors notched two quick-fire goals after the break.

Mikele Leigertwood gave Rangers the lead, as he sent home an unstoppable, low effort from fully 20-yards.

The R's didn't rest on their laurels thereafter, as Buzsaky - finding much joy from his role down the left - tucked the ball away from close-range after a devastating pass from Ben Watson.

This was arguably Buzsaky's best performance in an R's shirt since his lengthy lay-off with a knee injury, and just before the interval, he got a second goal of the match with a stunning effort from fully 30-yards out.

But Barnsley - who were mere spectators in the first period - were much better, to their credit, after the break.

And after Stephen Foster headed home an Iain Hume free-kick, Andy Gray put the hosts right back into the affair when he finished from close-range, after his initial penalty was saved by Radek Cerny.

Though Rangers' blushes were spared soon after, as Watson and Jay Simpson made sure their side would clinch a first home league win of the campaign.
Match odds with Bet365
Barnsley win - 6/4
Draw - 23/10
QPR win - 7/4
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

QPR Report Thursday: Ten Richest Soccer Billionaire Owners - #1 QPR's Lakshmi Mittal & #10. QPR's Bernie Ecclestone

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FORBES Magazine - Soccer Valuations 2010 Soccer's Billionaires
Michael K. Ozanian and Peter J. Schwartz, 04.21.10,
Most had a better year than their teams.
- The world's 10 richest soccer club owners grew a lot richer over the past year. But their escalating wealth had little to do with the finances of their soccer clubs. The $36 billion gain in their total net worth--without a single billionaire declining--was driven largely by higher commodity prices and a sharp rebound in global stock markets.
- The top soccer billionaire, India's Lakshmi Mittal, is a prime example. His net worth increased $9.4 billion to $28.7 billion on our March 29, 2010, billionaires ranking. Mittal owns 20% of London's Queen's Park Rangers, a controversy-engulfed club that has posted an aggregate operating loss of $25 million over past five seasons on revenues of $71 million playing in England's second-tier Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people ) Football League Championship. The loss is chump change for Mittal, whose steel producer ArcelorMittal has a market value of $65 billion and a share price that's up 47% during the past 12 months.
- Other winners from the commodities boom include Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov. Abramovich made his money in oil and now has it heavily invested in steel. He owns Chelsea, the world's ninth most valuable soccer club. Chelsea is worth $646 million but had the biggest operating loss of the top world's top 20 soccer clubs--$73 million--during the 2008-09 season. But Abramovich's net worth rose $2.7 billion to $11.2 billion as his investments in commodities have paid off big in the past year. Usmanov became rich through steel and iron ore mines. The Russian saw his net worth go up $5.6 billion, to $7.2 billion, over the past year. Usmanov is now the second largest shareholder in Arsenal, at 26% behind fellow billionaire American property developer and sports investor E. Stanley Kroenke. Arsenal is now worth $1.18 billion, the third-most of any soccer club in the world, and earned $102 million last season.
- U.S. billionaires continue to believe in Major League Soccer. Paul Allen's wealth increased $3 billion, to $13.5 billion. Allen paid $30 million for the expansion Seattle Sounders and in its inaugural 2009 season the Sounders sold the most tickets in MLS. The Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) cofounder has the bulk of his investments in shares of the software company, whose stock price jumped 60% the past year.
- Philip Anschutz, one of the founders of MLS, has investments in two U.S. soccer clubs as well as one in Sweden. Anschutz grabbed headlines when he signed David Beckham three years ago to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Although Beckham was injured most of the time and did not provide much on the pitch, he created a lot of press for the league and was responsible for boosting attendance wherever the Galaxy played. Anschutz lost big on real estate when the bubble crashed in 2008 but came back strong last year as his net worth increased $1 billon, to $6 billion.

Our list of soccer billionaire owners is plagued by its share of scandals, the most publicized of which surround Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The allegedly mad bedder of women enjoyed a $2.5 billion increase in his fortune, to $9 billion. Berlusconi, a passable amateur player in his youth, owns three analogue television channels, various digital television channels, as well as some of the larger-circulation national news magazines. Together these account for nearly half the Italian market. The married Berlusconi, who has denied sex with escorts, controls A.C. Milan, the world's seventh most valued soccer club at $800 million. The club won the Champions League in 2007 and posted operating income of $41 million in during the 2008-09 season.
- [b]The other soccer club owner hammered in the press the past year is Bernard Ecclestone, the president and chief executive of Formula One motor racing. Ecclestone has been criticized for battling racing team owners as sponsors have fled the world's largest and most lucrative open wheel auto racing circuit. Ecclestone and fellow Formula One executive Flavio Briatore bought the soccer club three years ago for $23 million. But in 2008 Briatore, who stepped down as chairman of the Queen's Park Rangers this past February, was banned from Formula One for more than three years for attempting to fix the Singapore Grand Prix. Ecclestone's net worth rose $300 million, to $4 billion[/b].
- And before you ask, the billionaire owners of the world's most valuable soccer club, Manchester Untied, don't make the list of the 10 richest club owners. We estimate the Glazer family's fortune to be $2.4 billion, 60% of Eccelstone's. But it tops that of Florentino Perez, president of the second most valuable club, Read Madrid, which we put at $1.9 billion.

[b]In Pictures: Soccer's Billionaires [/b]
[b]#1. Lakshmi Mittal[/b]
Net worth: $28.7 billion, up $9.4 billion.
Team: Queen's Park Rangers
The Indian-born U.K. resident runs ArceloMittal, the world's largest steel company, with sales of $65 billion during the past 12 months. Mittal, who bought 20% ownership in the Queen's Park Rangers in late 2007, was rumored to be looking to acquire the 54% stake of the team owned by former chairman and part-owner Flavio Briatore, who resigned from his post this past February. Mittel may want to think twice about upping his ownership: Queen's Park has stumbled on the pitch amid a constant turnover of managers and has posted an operating loss each season since 2005

[b]10. Bernard Ecclestone[/b]
Net worth: $4 billion, up $300 million.
Queen's Park Rangers
Ecclestone, the president and chief executive of Formula One, has seemingly had to weather one media firestorm after another in recent years, including allegations of sexism, anti-Semitism and most recently an attempted auto race-fixing scandal. Still, he averted catastrophe last year by avoiding a split in Formula One after prominent teams like Ferrari threatened to start their own circuit. Ecclestone's fortune grew 8% last year, while his soccer club finished 11th in the 24-team Football League Championship, England's second-tier of competition.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

QPR Report Wed: QPR Defeat Watford - Reports and Comments...Flashback: QPR Relegated - Nine Years Ago Today QPR Lose at Huddersfield

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QPR Defeat Watford 1-0 - QPR Official Site

QPR claimed bragging rights with a 1-0 win over local neighbours Watford that does little to ease the Hornets' relegation woes in the Coca Cola Championship.

With their safety assured in the second tier for another campaign, Akos Buzsaky's first-half penalty - his 11th goal of the season - for Rangers was enough to see off Malky Mackay's charges, as the R's clinched another welcome victory that pushes them ever-closer to the top half of the table and into 14th spot.

Rangers were ahead on 38 minutes, with Buzsaky blasting home from the spot after Adrian Mariappa was deemed to have brought down Dusko Tosic inside the box.

The R's had to endure sustained periods of Hornets pressure in the second half, and had Radek Cerny to thank for an excellent save when Danny Graham looked certain to level matters from close range.

However, despite the Watford barrage, QPR held firm to collect the points in W12.

R's boss Neil Warnock made two changes for the visit of local neighbours Watford.

Antonio German came into the side to replace Jay Simpson, while Rowan Vine was also handed a starting berth at the expense of Tamas Priskin.

Cerny was once again between the R's sticks, with skipper Mikele Leigertwood, Peter Ramage, Kaspars Gorkss and Tosic lining up in defence.

Hogan Ephraim and Adel Taarabt started out wide in midfield, with Buzsaky and Alejandro Faurlin in the middle.

Vine partnered German up top.

Buoyed by a vivacious Loftus Road crowd, the R's created the first opportunity of the half to find the net.

It was a clever move that almost paid dividends, with Taarabt deceiving everyone from a corner kick on the left when he stroked the ball to Buzsaky on the edge of the area - but the Hungarian playmaker could only smash wide of the goal.

Moments later, the R's went even closer.

Martin Taylor was adjudged to have felled German some 30 yards from goal, and from the resultant kick, Scott Loach had to be aware to beat away a ferocious low shot from Buzsaky.

Soon after, Faurlin was unlucky to see his smashed effort from distance go just over the crossbar, after he latched onto a weak clearance following Buzsaky's initial cross into the box.

Play then switched to the other end, and after the Hornets won a free-kick around 35-yards out, Henri Lansbury's dangerous cross missed everyone as the ball was caught by Cerny in the R's net.

Minutes later, Tosic's long ball was only headed back as far as the onrushing Ephraim 25-yards out, before the R's wide man blazed high and wide of the target.

Chances were not exactly at a premium - especially clear-cut ones - though Ramage had to be alert enough to guide the ball to Cerny while holding off Lansbury, after Graham's flick looked to have put the Arsenal youngster through one-on-one with the keeper.

Moments later, the game burst into life when the R's took a 38th minute lead from the penalty spot.

Faurlin, Vine and Tosic all combined down the left before the Serbian international's darting run into the box was adjudged to have been unfairly halted by Mariappa.

Buzsaky took hardly any run-up to the kick but finished in emphatic style, staying calm as he blasted the ball into the bottom left-hand corner of the net.

Just minutes after the start of the closing period, the R's went in hot pursuit of a second goal.

German swept a pass out to Vine on the left-hand side of the box. The striker twisted and turned his marker before sending a low centre across the penalty area that somehow missed a host of R's bodies before Mariappa eventually cleared the ball for a corner.

The game was turning in to a somewhat scrappy affair, with opportunities few and far between as the R's fought to hold on to the lead, and Watford pushed for an equalising goal.

Mackay's Hornets soon went closest yet to finding their first goal of the night.

Loach's long ball was misjudged by Ramage who slid to clear the ball, before substitute Marvin Sordell crossed for Graham, who somehow missed the ball as he attempted to head home just six yards from the target.

Rangers were hanging on, and moments later only a miracle save from Cerny prevented Watford from notching that equaliser.

Youngster Sordell was again involved, sliding a precise centre into the direction of Graham. The frontman looked odds-on to net from just a few-yards out, before his shot was superbly diverted wide by the trailing leg of a diving Cerny for Rangers.

Soon after, the R's almost grabbed a second with time running out at Loftus Road.

Vine received the ball out on the right, sliding sub Jay Simpson through on goal at an acute angle on the right, who saw his shot superbly parried to safety by Loach in the Watford goal.

QPR: Cerny, Ramage, Leigertwood, Vine, Buzsaky (Oastler 71), Gorkss, Faurlin, Ephraim, Tosic, German (Simpson 73), Taarabt (Cook 41).

Subs: Putnins, Simpson, Brown, Parker, Priskin.
Goals: Buzsaky (pen) 38
Bookings: Buzsaky, Cook, Ephraim
Watford: Loach, Mariappa, Lansbury, McGinn (Sordell 46), Graham, Jenkins (Bryan 82), Harley, Bennett (Doyley 46), Taylor, Eustace, Hodson.
Subs: Lee, Hoskins, Henderson, Sordell
Bookings: Mariappa
Referee: Mr P Miller
Attendance: 13, 171 (2299) QPR

QPR Official Site - WARNOCK: A PROFESSIONAL DISPLAY
Posted on: Tue 20 Apr 2010
Neil Warnock was honest enough to admit the R's weren't at their free-flowing best, but nevertheless praised his charges for a 'professional display' against struggling Watford.

Akos Buzsaky's first half spot-kick proved to be the difference, as Rangers climbed up to 14th place in the Coca Cola Championship.

"I thought we were quite professional," Warnock told www.qpr.co.uk.

"It's tough when you're safe and you play against a team fighting for their lives.

"We didn't create too much, but I thought we deserved the win.

"We owed it to our supporters first and foremost, and of course the other teams in the relegation fight.

"No-one can point any fingers at us tonight."

Warnock added: "We couldn't hold it up-front for 20 minutes and that gave them momentum.

"But I can't remember them having a shot on target to be honest.

"I thought we defended quite well and Peter Ramage was absolutely outstanding again.

"Gorkssy had a good second half, heading everything clear too.

"The centre-halves were vital and I thought we coped with what they threw at us very well."

Warnock is looking forward to the R's last two games of the season against Barnsley and Newcastle United, adding: "Every game I'm learning.

"We tried a few different permutations tonight and I gave a young lad his debut.

"That's what I've got to do now, but I still want to finish undefeated and if we could get another four points I'd be very please QPR

GUARDIAN
Guardian

Akos Buzsaky's blast for QPR leaves Watford on the precipiceQPR 1-0 Watford
Barney Ronay
League One football remains a distinct possibility for Watford next season after a low-key 1-0 defeat and a performance of impressive energy but little attacking guile or incision. "We threw everything we had at them in the second half," was the manager Malky MacKay's verdict afterwards, but on this evidence that doesn't amount to a great deal. Watford are now two points above the relegation places and without an away win in 16 matches.

In December Queens Park Rangers' Hungarian playmaker Akos Buzsaky was spotted wandering about in tears outside the away dressing room after a 3-1 defeat at Watford that ended with him allegedly being head-butted by the then manager Jim Magilton. Here Buzsaky had a happier time, scoring the only goal from the penalty in what for Rangers was a dead rubber, safety having been achieved via results elsewhere at the weekend.

Neil Warnock's Rangers settled the quicker, Buzsaky drawing an awkward lunging save from Scott Loach with a swerving free-kick from 35 yards after seven minutes.

This match had been postponed in mid-February after Biblical-style deluges and Watford in particular still looked like a team playing through heavy mud in a first half of few chances.

It came as a genuine surprise when the Serbian Dusko Tosic produced the first real moment of thrust in attack after 38 minutes, cutting in from the left and beating two men before appearing to be dragged down by Adrian Mariappa. The referee took a moment and then awarded the penalty, and Buzsaky buried it.

Watford pushed forward with intent at the start of the second half, the substitute Marvin Sordell providing a muscular and purposeful presence in attack alongside the previously isolated Danny Graham. It was from Sordell's excellent cross from the left on 64 minutes that Graham failed to connect with his header from six yards out. Moments later Sorvell crossed again and Graham's point-blank shot was blocked by Peter Ramage on the line.

Watford's best efforts at a late aerial bombardment were easily repelled by Kaspars Gorkss. "The players need to show the character they showed in the second half [when we play] against Reading on Saturday," MacKay said, but he will be hoping for a little more devil too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/20/qpr-watford-championship

THE TIMES
From The Times April 21, 2010
Akos Buzsaky calls tune to leave Watford looking down
Queens Park Rangers 1 Watford 0 - Russell Kempson

Sir Elton John, Watford’s honorary life president, is doing a “Playing for Players” gig at Vicarage Road next month to raise money to improve the squad. Unless Watford pick up sufficient points from their last two Coca-Cola Championship matches, the pop legend could be playing for players of League One standard only.

Relegation, indeed, beckons. Watford need three points from their two remaining fixtures — at home to Reading on Saturday and away to Coventry City on the final day of the season — to guarentee a fourth year in the second tier of English football.

To judge by their performance against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road last night, that might just be beyond them. From the start, Watford were nervous and unadventurous. Even a late rally near the end failed to make any lasting impression and a record of one win in nine matches, at the business end of the season, is enough to have John wailing a lament come May 29, the day of his concert. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road might be appropriate.

”I was disappointed with the first half,” Malkay Mackay, the Watford manager, said. “Both sides looked to be sizing each other up. But we threw everything at them after half-time. I told the lads to go out without fear and they did.

On Saturday, Reading may have nothing to play for but their players will be playing for contracts there and maybe at other clubs. No one’s got a right to stay in this division but we’ve got to make sure we do.”

In stark contrast, QPR played with a rare freedom that was born out of Championship safety. It had been confirmed on Sunday, when the Sheffield clubs — Wednesday and United — had fought out a 1-1 draw in the Steel City derby at Hillsborough.

Not that Neil Warnock, the former United manager, was popping the champagne corks. “Let’s be perfectly honest,” he wrote in his programme notes. “It’s not exactly something to celebrate. We should be competing towards the top end of this division with the players we have.”

Watford will vouch for that, having spent most of the first half chasing shadows. Adrian Mariappa chased Dusko Tosic a shade too recklessly in the 37th minute and brought him crashing to the ground in the area.

“There was very little contact, if any,” Mackay reflected ruefully. Akos Buzsaky stepped up to send Scott Loach the wrong way from the penalty spot. It was Buzsaky who walked out of the dressing room after a row with Jim Magilton, then the manager, following QPR’s 3-1 defeat at Vicarage Road in December.

Watford lay in sixth place after that victory but a sorry sequence of only four wins in 24 had seen them plummet to earth. They may plummet even farther, all the way into League One, if they are not careful. At least an improved second-half display gives them some hope in their final two fixtures. If they do not secure the three points necessary for survival, they will have to rely on the other strugglers — Wednesday and Crystal Palace — to falter.

For all Watford’s huff and puff, honest endeavour and frequent forays forward, Radek Cerny, the QPR goalkeeper, hardly had to make a save. He would not have been able to had Danny Graham connected properly with Marvin Sordell’s fierce cross but the ball flashed past Graham’s diving body and away to safety. “On another day, that might have gone in,” Mackay said.

Neil Warnock, the QPR manager, feels for Mackay. “It’s horrible for him, being in the position he is,” Warnock said. “I’ve got a lot of time for Malky and his team had a right go at us in the second half. It’s also been hard for us over the past few weeks. I can’t wait for the summer, to have a break and then get going again.”

For QPR and Warnock, they can rest easy. For Watford and Mackay, as for many at this year, it’s squeaky-bum time" The Times

Watford Official Site - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Tue 20 Apr 2010
A first-half penalty was the difference between the two teams in west London this evening (Tuesday) as the Golden Boys lost out 1-0 to Queens Park Rangers.

The first 45 minutes saw few chances created by either side but the Golden Boys only really got into their stride after half time.

Speaking after the game, Malky Mackay said: "We both looked as if we were sizing each other up in the first half, I don't think we were on the front foot in the first half.

"There is no reason why it should have been a tentative start from us.

"Sometimes that comes with inexperience and there is an inconsistency with inexperience and I think that showed tonight.

"We had to come out with real character in the second half."

Watford did just that after the break but despite greater pressure and chances created they couldn't find a way to net the all-important equaliser.

Marvin Sordell made a real difference in attack, while Lloyd Doyley returned to defence as well after half time.

"Marvin came on and put some great runs in and put in some chances that we should have scored from" added Malky.

"I certainly think we were on the ascendancy in the second half - the three chances we had in the box, we've got to be putting those away at this level and we've got to be clinical.

"We've got to take the courage we showed in the second half into our match on Saturday against Reading."

The 'Orns have two games remaining, firstly against The Royals at Vicarage Road before they travel to face Coventry City in the Midlands.

However, the manager takes heart and belief from the second half showing at Loftus Road.

He added: "To go and play the second half the way we did and show the courage we did to get into the goalscoring chances, being in and around the box and testing their goalkeeper - that gives me hope."

We have to start on the front foot on Saturday then we can be a team to be reckoned with." Watford

Newcastle 44 98 54 87
West Brom 44 89 41 87
Nottm Forest 44 75 22 60
Cardiff 44 73 20 70
Leicester 44 70 13 58
Swansea 44 68 5 40
Blackpool 44 66 15 72
Middlesbrough 44 61 10 57
Reading 44 60 5 64 2-2 FT v Sc*n*horpe
Sheff Utd 44 59 2 57
Bristol City 44 59 -10 53
Doncaster 44 56 0 55
Ipswich 44 55 -8 48
QPR 44 54 -7 57 1-0 FT v Watford
Preston 44 54 -11 57
Derby 44 53 -11 50
Coventry 44 53 -13 46
Barnsley 44 53 -15 52
Sc*n*horpe 44 51 -21 57 2-2 FT v Reading
Watford 44 48 -14 54 0-1 FT v QPR
Crystal Palace * 44 47 -3 47

Sheff Wed 44 46 -19 45
Plymouth 44 41 -21 42
Peterborough 44 31 -34 44 - BBC

- Flashback: Toyo Become QPR Sponsors

- No Paulo Sousa to Sporting Lisbon

- Club-by-Club Championship Average Attendances This Season

Crystal Palace Look to QPR

- Kilburn Times - Rangers seek stronger Community ties - Kilburn Times

- QPR Quit Combination League

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

QPR Report Update: Watford Previews...No Balanta Tonight...Club Community Scheme

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- QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER!

- Visit the football-only new-look QPR Report Messageboard throughout the day for the latest QPR Updates and discussion.

- The (Unbelievable) Size of Portsmouth's Debt

- Flashback: Toyo Become QPR Sponsors

- Warnock Transfer Talk/Speculation

- No Paulo Sousa to Sporting Lisbon

- Club-by-Club Championship Average Attendances This Season

- On This Day in Football: Oxford League Cup Final!

Watford Official Site - THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER
Tue 20 Apr 2010

AS Malky Mackay's team prepare to take on their east London rivals QPR tonight (Tuesday), the Scotsman reflects on some of the recent results for the Hornets, including Saturday's defeat to Leicester at The Walkers Stadium.

"It was a strange decision for the penalty against Jay DeMerit on Saturday" said the manager.

"I feel like we've been in this situation and I've spoken like this a few times this season and I don't want to go on about our hard luck and bad luck at all.

"But with 35 minutes of the game gone, we've had three or four chances and really looked the part.

"And then that happened and it's hard to see how it was a penalty. Even their players were bemused with the whole thing. We've looked at it on a DVD and we're even more confused.

"But, that's no excuse for the fact that we've then switched off and let in their second goal.

"It knocked the stuffing out of our guys when before we'd been through on goal and on target.

"Really disappointing that another one of those decisions that have gone against us.

"We've been nearly there on a few occasions like at Preston. Going to Leicester was always going to be difficult; there was no two ways about that.

"We've got to make sure we get wins on the road now" said the gaffer, as the first of two remaining away games comes tonight at Loftus Road.

Mackay
Malky: "We've got to go into these next games very positively"

And Malky told www.watfordfc.com that he is under no illusion that just because the Hoops are now safe from relegation they won't be pushing for the win in the clash.

He said: "We've got to go to QPR and put in a good performance, even though they are safe there are players there that still want to prove themselves to their new manager.

"There's also a new manager there thinking about what he's going to do in the summer. The fact they are safe means Neil Warnock can now be a bit random in his selection, put some youngsters in who have never been involved and play around with the shape - so anything can happen."

With most clubs in the league having one home and one away game left of their campaigns, the former Watford and Norwich defender knows all too well how important keeping focused going into the last matches of the season is.

"It's amazing how the fixtures have worked out this season with Sheffield Wednesday and Crystal Palace meeting each other on the last day of the season" he said.

"And it was a big game at Hillsborough on Sunday, but we've got to stay focused on our game and concentrate on ourselves.

"You obviously look at the other results and the games that are coming up in your league, but it is best that we look at our performances and our points tally, rather than other teams.

"It's three games to be won as far as we're concerned and we've got to go into these next games very positively" finished the boss.

SHOW YOUR COLOURS! Watford

Hemel Gazette - Mackay: 'We can't play like that again
By Christopher Armstrong
Time is running out for Watford after Another seemingly inevitable away defeat left the club only two points away from the relegation zone on Saturday evening.
On Tuesday night Malky Mackay and his players go to QPR in the first of a three game battle to retain their Championship status, after another loss on the road underlined the team's struggles since the turn of the year.

With all three of the Horn relegation rivals claiming points at the weekend, Mackay will have been desperate to make Tuesday's game in hand count and spark a revival from his faultering troops.

Saturday's 4-1 loss to Leicester once more saw contentious officiating turn the game against Mackay's men, but the defeat further highlighted the Hornets' inability to deal with adversity, which has become something of a hallmark for the team in 2010.

After referee Mr Miller awarded the hosts a controversial penalty shortly after the half hour mark, the Foxes proceeded to race into a 4-0 lead despite forward Steve Howard receiving a straight red card with the scoreline at 2-0.

While City have already secured a play-off spot and have a strong home record this season, it was not a performance from Watford that befitted a team battling for their lives, and an improved effort will have been expected ahead of the meeting with Rangers.

The Hornets did however make a positive start at the Walkers Stadium, shading the opening half hour.

Scott Loach did well to save from Paul Gallagher after seven minutes but Watford showed some attacking threat of their own.

Danny Graham saw his first effort on goal blocked but had another stab on 17 minutes, only for his shot to bend over the crossbar.

Loach denied Martin Waghorn on two separate occasions before Henri Lansbury had the Hornets' best chance, but his strike on goal was blocked away by City keeper Chris Weale.

The game suddenly swung in City's favour on 36 minutes as a penalty was awarded against Jay DeMerit despite making what appeared to be a fair challenge on Richie Wellens.

Waghorn converted before the hosts quickly doubled their lead courtesy of a Gallagher volley.

However City were reduced to 10 men when Steve Howard was dismissed for a rash and unnecessary tackle on Ross Jenkins.

This gave Mackay's men a passage back into the game but they could not make the extra man advantage count as Jay Spearing added a third past the disorganized Watford defence.

A change to an attacking formation only appeared to make things worse for the Hornets as James Vaughan beat Adrian Mariappa to the ball to add a fourth on 67 minutes.

A 77th minute header by Martin Taylor from Jon Harley's corner was nothing more than a consolation for Watford on an extremely disappointing afternoon.
"If you give good players and good teams time and procession they will hurt you and that's what happened today," commented Mackay after the loss.
"We can't do that again, we've got to try and push and get equalisers in situations like that.

"You have to go for it and that's when the game can open up like it did and then you have to get back into the game.

"It's no excuse though; we have to make better decisions on the ball and be more courageous."

Youngster Tom Cleverley was named Player of the Season at the club's End of Season Awards Dinner on Sunday night.

The Man Utd loanee has been a revelation for the Hornets this campaign, although a recent injury has sidelined him for the remaining games.

John Eustace collected Player's Player of the Season, while Scott Loach won Young Player of the Season.

Lloyd Doyley was awarded with Goal of the Season for his maiden effort against QPR and captain Jay DeMerit was named Community Ambassador.

Watford's 4-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday was given the Team Performance Award while Hornets legend Nigel Gibbs was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame. Hemel

QPR Official Site

MATCHDAY PREVIEW: HORNETS
Posted on: Tue 20 Apr 2010

It's Derby Day in West London tonight (Tuesday), as QPR play host to struggling Watford in W12.

Both sides head in to the clash on the back of defeats at the weekend, yet whilst the Hornets are still fighting for survival in the Coca Cola Championship, Rangers' place in the second tier was guaranteed on Sunday afternoon, thanks to Sheffield Wednesday's failure to beat Sheffield United.

That 1-1 draw in the Steel City derby left Neil Warnock's men five points clear of the dreaded drop-zone - a significant enough margin to confirm their status as a Championship Club for the 2010/11 campaign.

Watford, however, are still deeply entrenched in trouble, with just two points currently separating them from Sheffield Wednesday, who occupy the final relegation berth at the foot of the table.

Star Man

Scott LOACH - Goalkeeper

The subject of an unsuccessful bid from Tottenham Hotspur on the final day of the 2010 January transfer window, Scott Loach continues to impress following a string of fine performances in the Watford net this campaign.

The Nottingham-born stopper arrived at Vicarage Road after catching the eye of former boss Aidy Boothroyd while at Lincoln City.

Loach played the majority of his football for the Reserve side after he came to Vicarage Road and he played his part in a successful 2006/07 season for the second string.

His consistent performances earned him on a place on the bench for the First Team when Richard Lee deputised for England stopper Ben Foster. Loach went on trial with Leeds United ahead of the 2006/07 season, but returned as United were unable to sign players due to a League embargo.

Loach made his full debut for the Horns in the 1-0 Carling Cup win over Bristol Rovers in August 2008.

His efforts in goal caught the eye of Stuart Pearce and Loach has two international caps for the England Under-21 team under his belt.

The Stats

Queens Park Rangers

• QPR have won only one of their last nine matches, and only Watford and relegated Peterborough have a worse Championship record than them in 2010.

• The R's have kept only five clean sheets this season, and just two on home soil - fewer than any other team in the division.

• Lee Cook could face his former Club and make his 200th league start.

Watford

• Watford have won only one of their last eight league games, and two of 14.

• Their run of 15 games without an away win (four draws and 11 defeats) is the longest such sequence in the Championship this season.

• The Hornets have not finished lower than 18th in the second tier since being promoted in 1998.

Classic Encounter

Watford 2, QPR 4

Coca Cola Championship - December 29th 2007

Rangers ran riot at Vicarage Road, as goals from Martin Rowlands (2), Damion Stewart and Akos Buzsaky clinched a stunning 4-2 victory against Championship front-runners Watford.

The R's stormed into a three goal lead at the break.

Rowlands opened the scoring from the spot, before he turned provider to set up Stewart who headed home to make it two.

The outstanding Rowlands capped a cameo individual display with a third from Angelo Balanta's threaded through ball, and although a Lee Camp own goal temporarily allowed the Hornets back into the tie early in the second period, substitute Akos Buzsaky guaranteed the win eight minutes from time.

Remarkably, there was still time for R's old-boy Danny Shittu to notch a late second for the Hornets, but it was Rangers' day - and how!

Match odds with Bet365

QPR win - Evens
Draw - 12/5
Watford win - 27/10
Match Coverage
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- Crystal Palace Look to QPR

No Balanta Tonight
QPR Official Site - IN RESERVE: YOUNG SQUAD NAMED
Keith Ryan has named a young Reserve squad to face Crystal Palace this afternoon.

The Reserve Team Manager has only two players - Angelo Balanta and Matteo Alberti - with First Team experience in his ranks, meaning a number of young players will get the chance to impress.

Three trialists have been named, including defender Moritz Volz, for the match at Palace's Beckenham Training Ground.

Supporters are welcome to attend the fixture, which kicks off at 2pm.

Full address: CPFC Training Ground, Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 1RJ.

QPR Squad: McWeeney, Harriman, Olley, Trialist, Waters, Trialist, Volz (Trialist), Ehmer, Cox, Balanta, Alberti, Sanderson, Paramenter, Fernandez, Bewick, Nanetti, Molloy, Graham. QPR

- Year Flashback: QPR Announce "Off to Bahrain"

Kilburn Times - Rangers seek stronger Community ties
20 April 2010

QPR'S Football in the Community Trust have launched a new initiative in an effort to join forces with a number of local junior clubs.

'Club Partnership' is a grass roots programme designed to help and support youth teams through professional coaching, fundraising opportunities and community support.

Community Trust staff will provide partner clubs with professional coaching, tailored to any specific needs, and there is also the opportunity to run exclusive QPR Soccer Schools.

The link with QPR will help clubs to raise funds via ticket sales to Hoops matches, while the Rs are also committed to providing a first team player for one event per club each year.

QPR captain Martin Rowlands said: "It's so important that as a club we value the importance of grass roots football, and this scheme can play a big part in helping to develop players and fans of the future.

"QPR has always been a family club and the initiative will enable youngsters in their droves to get down and attend games at Loftus Road next season.

"There's nothing better than when the ground is buzzing and if all goes to plan, we'll give everyone something to shout about come next year."

Earlier this month, Rowlands formally welcomed NPL Youth FC - an FA Charter Club from Teddington with teams from under-sevens up to under-16s -as the first to join the scheme.

Nine other clubs have joined the scheme to date, including Kensington Dragons, Pinner JFC, Greenford Celtic and North Greenford United.

Rangers are keen to take the number of partner clubs to 20 by the start of next season and Andy Evans, the Community Trust chief executive, added: "All football clubs, professional and grass roots, are much more than just places to play football.

"It is a place where families and the local community come together. We hope that all Club Partnership members feel a sense of pride and belonging to the QPR family."

Clubs who are interested should contact Matthew Webb on 020 8740 2504, or email mattheww@qpr.co.uk for details. Kilburn Times

- QPR Quit Combination League

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- Video Flashback: Great Goal by Dave Clement from the Brilliant QPR Team of 1973/74

- Pat Agyemang Plays for Bristol City (who apparently are appointing Steve Coppell as manager)

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- On This Day in Football and at QPR!

- Video: A Past QPR vs Watford Game

- Video: The recent Crystal Palace vs QPR game

- Flashback: Fifty Best-Ever Football Books

- Year Flashback: Neil Warnock Linked to QPR (and Ipswich) Jobs

- Ex-QPR Chris Day Returns to the Football League -- Stevenage Arrival in Football League

QPR Official Site - NW: 'SAFETY NOT SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE' - Neil Warnock spoke of his delight this morning that his QPR side are now guaranteed Championship football next season - but insists it's not something to celebrate.
- Sheffield Wednesday's failure to beat Steel City rivals Sheffield United on Sunday lunchtime means the R's are now assured of their Championship status.
- Speaking to www.qpr.co.uk, Warnock said: "It (safety) was the first objective when we arrived here.
- "We've reached that and I'm delighted, but let's be perfectly honest, it's not something to harp on about.
- "It's not exactly something to celebrate.
- "We should be competing towards the top end of this division with the players we have, but it's been a season of upheaval for one reason or another and now we can look towards next season knowing our Championship status is assured." QPR

- QPR vs Cardiff Match Reports and Warnock Comments - Including re Very different Loan Policy Next Season Also: Brief Warnock/BBC Audio

Ex-QPR Chairmen Updates!
- One Man Not at Loftus Road on Saturday: Flavio Briatore

- Ex-QPR Chairman Caliendo on Ex-QPR Director Dunga (His Client)

- The Massive reaction/interest in India to (almost-QPR) Sunil Chhetri playing in the US MLS

- Premiership Player Forced to Pay Protection

- Notts County: High Wages Lead to Promotion

- ESPN to Discuss FA Cup Changes

- Fitz Hall Open to Newcastle Offers

- Year Flashback: Slew of Managers Linked to QPR...Follow-up QPR Statement re Sousa and Briatore Q&A re QPR Managerial Departures

- Remaining Games: Relegation Rivals (NON-QPR!)

- 2010/11 Playoffs Not at Wembley?
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

TEAMS: Barnsley vs QPR

QPR Report Saturday...Warnock's Weekly Column

Friday, April 23, 2010

QPR Report Snippets...Ex-QPR DJ Campbell Arrested...Neil Warnock Urged Player of Year Attendance...Ex-QPR John Gregory Profiled

QPR Report Friday: Tony Ingham RIP....Warnock Fined...Faurlin Contract Talks...Play at Loftus Road for Charity...Barnsley Previews

Thursday, April 22, 2010

QPR Report Thursday: Ten Richest Soccer Billionaire Owners - #1 QPR's Lakshmi Mittal & #10. QPR's Bernie Ecclestone

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

QPR Report Wed: QPR Defeat Watford - Reports and Comments...Flashback: QPR Relegated - Nine Years Ago Today QPR Lose at Huddersfield

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

QPR Report Update: Watford Previews...No Balanta Tonight...Club Community Scheme

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