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Cardiff Official Site - EARLY TEAM NEWS v RANGERS
- Cardiff remain firmly in the promotion race after picking up a well-earned point at league leaders Wolves on Sunday. Next up for the Bluebirds is play-off chasing Queens Park Rangers, who will provide a stern test at Ninian Park. Simon Glanville previews the Wednesday evening clash.
- Cardiff team news: Jay Bothroyd is boss Dave's Jones biggest selection worry after the striker limped off with a calf injury in the game against Wolves. Bothroyd's injury is not thought to be serious, but may see him miss out on Wednesday night.
- Stephen McPhail remains on the injury list but Quincy Owusu-Abeyie will be hoping to make his Cardiff City debut, after being an unused substitute at the weekend.
- QPR team news: Paulo Sousa will have new signing Jordi Lopez available at Ninian Park after the creative midfielder and free agent signed on an initial three-month deal. Lopez has previously been with Real Mallorca and Sevilla and should add to the squad at Loftus Road.
- The Hoops have also been handed a triple injury boost with the news that Patrick Agyemang has been given the go-ahead to step up his rehabilitation, whilst key duo Radek Cerny Heidar Helguson have resumed full training. Helguson came on at the weekend after recovering from his calf tear, while Cerny has recovered from his hamstring problem. Agyemang is still likely to be a while away from returning to action, but at least has some positive news on his road to recovery.
- QPR's season so far: QPR are on their second manager of the season following Iain Dowie's departure after just 15 league games. With ambitious and rich owners, the club want Premier League football and Dowie was ruthlessly dismissed after a slow start.
- New boss Paulo Sousa has come in and steadied the ship, and the Hoops will be hoping for a strong finish to the season to clinch a play-off place. The club are five points off the top six heading into Wednesday's game, and need the points just as much as Cardiff do if they are to realise their ambition.
- Last meeting: It was a day to forget for Cardiff back at Loftus Road in November, as a late Gavin Mahon headed goal earned the home side all three points, in a game which also saw the Bluebirds reduced to nine men, following the harsh sending offs of Darren Purse and Miguel Comminges. The red card to Purse was subsequently rescinded.
Teams from last meeting at Loftus Road on 8th November 2008:
QPR: Cerny, Stewart, Connolly, Hall, Ramage, Ledesma (Buzsaky 55), Rowlands, Cook, Tommasi (Mahon 67), Blackstock, Di Carmine (Agyemang 71). Subs not used: Cole, Delaney.
Bluebirds: Heaton, McNaughton, Comminges, Roger Johnson, Rae, Ledley (Gyepes 29), Purse, Whittingham, McPhail, Eddie Johnson (Parry 72), Chopra. Subs not used: Enckelman, Blake, Jonathan Brown. Attendance: 13,347.
QPR last time out: The Hoops were left stunned last time out as Ipswich ran riot at Loftus Road. The home side did take the lead through Sam Di Carmine, but the Tractor Boys hit back through Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jonathan Walters to move ahead of their hosts in the table.
QPR: Camp, Delaney (Blackstock 67), Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller (Balanta 73), Di Carmine (Helguson 55). Subs not used: Stewart, Alberti. Cardiff Official Site
- South Wales Echo/Terry Phillips - Wayne Routledge set for Ninian Park return
- WAYNE Routledge left Cardiff City in January with scarcely a glance back. Tomorrow evening he returns to Ninian Park.
The Sidcup-born midfield player signed for Queens Park Rangers, turning down a massive offer from the Bluebirds to stay.
Cardiff players were far from happy that Routledge – who scored twice in nine appearances during a loan spell from Aston Villa – left without saying goodbye to his former team-mates.
Cardiff offered to make Routledge their highest-paid player. He would have landed a pay rise from his wages at Premier League Aston Villa plus a three and a half year contract.
Villa agreed a fee for the winger, thought to be more than £300,000, and it was purely down to the player.
Rangers are believed to have offered Routledge a £200,000 signing-on fee and more than £20,000-a-week.
“It was disappointing we could not do a deal with Wayne,” said manager Dave Jones.
“The chairman, Peter Ridsdale, and directors did everything possible to keep Wayne at this football club.”
After sealing his move to Rangers, Routledge said: “I’m thrilled to be here. The manager, Paulo Sousa, has a great vision about where he wants to take the club and sees me playing a big part in that.
“The reason I am here is because the manager showed an unbelievable desire to get me to QPR and I am delighted...” Routledge: QPR and Cardiff
Football League - BLUEBIRDS ON THE MARK
- Cardiff City will be aiming to step up their promotion bid when they entertain Queens Park Rangers at Ninian Park on Wednesday evening.
The in-form Bluebirds have gone 12 games unbeaten and on Sunday came within nine minutes of beating Coca-Cola Championship leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers.
They had to settle for a 2-2 draw at Molineux, but with games in hand on the teams above them the result was not disheartening insists left back Mark Kennedy.
The former Wolves and Republic of Ireland player said: "I thought that we were the better team on the day.
"We deserved the three points, but that's football. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and go again.
"The Wolves game is gone now, we've got another big game on Wednesday and another opportunity to pick up three points.
"It will be a really tough game because I reckon that on their day QPR are as good a team as anybody in the Championship.
"They're coming off the back of a disappointing result (a 3-1 defeat by Ipswich Town ended QPR's nine match unbeaten run) so they'll be looking to put that right.
"But likewise, we'll be looking to win the game and hopefully move a place or two further up the table."After their draw at Wolves the Bluebirds are sixth, eight points below the automatic promotion places but with three games in hand on second-placed Birmingham City.
They also have four games in hand on Wolves, so they have the opportunity to shoot for one of those top two spots let alone a place in the Play-Offs.
And Kennedy, who has been impressing in defence after switching from the left wing, said: "We've got nothing to fear in this League.
"At the moment Wolves are top and you have to hold your hands up and say they are a good side - but the Championship is probably as competitive as it has ever been.
"All the teams in the chasing pack are very good teams and all the games from now on are going to be like cup finals for everybody involved.
"Given the choice you'd rather have points in the bag than games in hand, but once we get our games out of the way I'm confident we'll be there or thereabouts.
"I'm also sure that the promotion battle will go right to the wire - but we'll fancy ourselves as much as anyone else will fancy themselves in the run-in." Football League
Also: Cardiff Stats: Cardiff Stats this season --- Cardiff Results
Cardiff Squad ---
Flashback One Year - Briatore and Ecclestone on QPR
-Telegraph/Derick Allsop February 24, 2008- QPR rev up for tilt at the big boys
- Flavio Briatore had that countenance of any football fan when his team run out of ideas and almost out of luck. But then, as he says, it has to be a step at a time and at least this was another point. Behind him, in the Queens Park Rangers directors' box, Bernie Ecclestone muttered: "Told you it would be 1-1."
- Maybe he was wishing they had bought Chelsea, after all. We'll get back to that. For better or worse,
- Briatore and Ecclestone, two luminaries of the Formula One world, have committed themselves and some of their fortunes to the mission of turning Rangers into a force in the Premier League.
- They have the track record and Rangers have a pedigree of sorts. Some of the 15,383 who saw them hold on for a draw against Sheffield United will recall a time when this was a cult club: winners of the League Cup as a Third Division team, runners-up in the old First Division. Their style, bordering on arrogance, was epitomised by those Loftus Road icons, Rodney Marsh and Stan Bowles.
- There was little evidence of swagger or even hope when Briatore and his chums took over Rangers in September. "Flavio rescued them, make no mistake," Ecclestone said. The pair pledged to pay off £3 million debts and invest in the ailing
Championship team, now managed by Italian Luigi de Canio. "We [Italy] have given England and Ireland their managers but this is just a coincidence," said de Canio's compatriot, Briatore, over pre-match lunch.
- Briatore, who led Benetton and their successors, Renault, to Formula One supremacy, and Ecclestone, responsible for transforming haphazard Grand Prix racing into the finely-tuned extravagance it is today recruited three partners, including steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, whose wealth puts even Bernie in the shade.
- But despite the resources of the world's fifth richest man, Briatore insists they won't aimlessly throw money at their football project.
- "We didn't waste money at Benetton or Renault and we won't here," Briatore said. "We have a three-year plan to take the club to the Premier League, improve the stadium and facilities, but the focus is the sport."
- Briatore, a Juventus fan from boyhood, now has another club dear to this heart, although he admits he thought QPR was a restaurant. "I'd never heard of QPR," he said. "But now I am glad we don't have a restaurant! My job is Formula One. Here we have people in position to run the club properly. Football is an emotional sport and when you are involved, it matters. I get as nervous as any supporter. I don't know what will happen today."
- Ecclestone interjected: "I do. We'll win 4-0. I've had a word with the referee." Bernie is renowned for his impish sense of humour as well as his power. He was just joking…wasn't he? He goes on: "For me this is a nice diversion. Trouble is, wherever I go people want to talk about Formula One. At least I don't have to worry about every little detail and nurse-maiding boring VIPs as I do at a race. The thing about football is that it can be uncertain until the last minute of injury time. You don't get that so much in Formula One."
- So what is this about Chelsea? "We would have bought them if Roman Abramovich hadn't done," he said. "It would have cost us about £140 million. We'd have done it, but then Abramovich came in."
- Briatore said: "I like taking a small club and making it a big club, so I'm happy we're here." Ecclestone came back: "I'd like Chelsea!" Rangers are light years from Chelsea's status but De Canio brought in 10 players during January and they have edged away from danger.
- Just as Ecclestone and Briatore head for the directors' box, Birmingham score a late equaliser against Arsenal. "See what I mean," Bernie said.
Briatore studied the team sheet and pointed to No 36, Angelo Balanta. "He is only 16, one of the most talented players we have."
- His eye is caught also by United's No 6, James Beattie. "They paid £5 million for him - we bought all 11 players for that." Briatore was soon enthusing about his goalkeeper, Lee Camp. "Bravo, bravo." Both men were up on their feet when Balanta scored after 18 minutes. "It's the kid, it's the kid," Briatore yelled.
- Rangers held their lead at the break and Bernie and Flavio retreated to the chairman's suite to study the half-time scores.
- United, managed for the first time in a league match by Kevin Blackwell, resumed with greater purpose and Fitz Hall, the Rangers defender, was summoned to work overtime.
- Briatore twinged in anxiety and Ecclestone popped out to take a call and was probably grateful for the relief.
- He returned to see United claim an inevitable equaliser though the scorer was less predictable. For once Hall was unable to clear decisively and United's centre-half and captain, Chris Morgan, drilled in the equaliser. As Briatore and Ecclestone were aware, it could have been worse. Telegraph
Flasback one year: QPR drew 1-1 at home to Sheffield United and were 16th with 40 points from 33 games (6 off relegation; 12 points from playoff spot) QPR's Team vs Sheffield United: Camp 6; Mancienne 7, Hall 6, Connolly 6 (Stewart 5), Delaney 6; EPHRAIM 8, Rowlands 7, Leigertwood 6, Balanta 6 (Blackstock 5); Agyemang 6 Vine 6. Manager De Canio 6
Bottom 11 a Year Ago
Blackpool 34 42
Sheff Utd 33 40
QPR 33 40
Barnsley 33 40
Coventry 32 39
Southamptn 34 39
Leicester 34 37
Sheff Wed 32 35
Preston 33 34
Colchester 33 32
Scunthorpe 34 32
Two Years Ago, On This Day: QPR had been held to a 1-1 draw by Ian Holloway's Plymouth. ( Lee Camp; 38 Michael Mancienne, 4 Danny Cullip, 25 Damion Stewart, 27 Sampsa Timoska; 11 Gareth Ainsworth, 16 Steve Lomas (capt), 7 Adam Bolder, 14 Martin Rowlands (29 Paul Furlong 80); 32 Dexter Blackstock, 17 Lee Cook. Substitutes (not used): 12 Jake Cole (gk), 24 Pat Kanyuka, 31 Ray Jones, 37 Jimmy Smith.)
QPR were out of the bottom three only on goal difference.
Burnley 40
Ipswich 39
Norwich 38
Hull 36
QPR 35
Barnsly 35
Southen 31
Leeds 31
Western Daily Press - We're hungry to win, says Yeovil Town skipper Forbes
- New captain Terrell Forbes is calling on Yeovil Town to be strong as they head into their first away game under rookie manager Terry Skiverton.
The Glovers go to Crewe looking to build on Saturday's 2-2 draw at home to Oldham, and Skiverton has handed Forbes his skipper's armband on a permanent basis.
- "Normally I get the captaincy through the new gaffer not playing but I was captain for the last three games under Russell Slade and I am just grateful and honoured," said the former QPR man.
- Forbes appears supremely confident of victory at Gresty Road.
"It is going to be hard but we are going to go to Crewe and we are going to get three points because all the boys are hungry," he said.
The gaffer said they are going to play three up front so we will have to keep tight and strong and hopefully nick a result."
Apart from the management team of Skiverton and Nathan Jones, Forbes is the longest-serving player at the club.
"Russell Slade has done a lot for me and I respect him," said Forbes.
"It is different now. I am the only one out there from the play-off final. We have all got to be strong and keep battling away."
Skiverton's promotion to manager means the Forbes-Skiverton centre-half pairing is not likely to be seen too often any more.
"I always say we are like Danny Glover and Mel Gibson! He wins the headers and I tuck round," smiled Forbes.
"It is a change of scenery and it is good because he is a centre-half himself so he knows what he is talking about."
This season has seen the emergence of two impressive young full-backs at Huish Park – Nathan Smith and Craig Alcock.
Forbes said: "I share a flat with Nathan and he keeps me going with his pasta and he goes to bed at the right time.
"We call Craig Alcock 'everything'. That's because he is good at everything. Bowling, pool, table tennis, everything.
"He is learning every day and he never ever loses a header. He is full of energy and hopefully he can keep doing well."
Both full-backs have scored once this season but Forbes' career remains goalless as he heads into his 340th career game.
"The other day I got on the scoresheet – with an own goal!" he pointed out. "I apologise to the fans but I never go up for corners. I always stay back.
"They always say it is good for me to stay back for my pace.
"But I am 27 years old and I am getting old now and I think I need a goal before the end of my career!"
Midfielder Gary Roberts could be on the bench against his former club after recovering from ankle trouble.
Meanwhile, Derby County striker Aleksander Prijovic is set to return to Yeovil on a second month's loan tomorrow after recovering from illness. Western Mail
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QPR Player Makes Team of The Week....Snippet Q&A With Hogan Ephraim
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Congratulations to Wayne Routledge: Football League's Championship Team of the Week
[One of the more empty posts on this blog!]
Football League - 45 SECONDS WITH HOGAN EPHRAIM
If you were manager of the club, who would you sign?
Lionel Messi - he is the best player around
Best mate(s) in football?
Ryan Smith at Southampton and Elliot Omozusi at Fulham
Room mate on tour?
Dexter Blackstock
Best goal you've ever scored?
My first-ever goal for Colchester against Barnsley - I took on three or four players and scored.
Best stadium you've played at?
Either Hampden Park or Stamford Bridge
Your house is on fire…what one thing do you save?
My football manager game. I play it as Manchester United
If you weren't a footballer, what would you be doing?
I'd be a singer. I'm into music.
What is your golf handicap?
I tried golf, but I'm terrible at it
Life after football?
Hopefully, I will have a good life in football so afterwards I can just chill out a little bit
Interesting fact we don't know about you?
I was born on Arsenal's doorstep but I'm a Manchester United fan
Best freebie you've ever had?
Anton Ferdinand got me a phone when I'd just got into the West Ham team.
Pro Evo or FIFA?
Pro Evo
Who's the worst dresser at your club?
Samuel Di Carmine is shocking
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Congratulations to Wayne Routledge: Football League's Championship Team of the Week
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Football League - 45 SECONDS WITH HOGAN EPHRAIM
If you were manager of the club, who would you sign?
Lionel Messi - he is the best player around
Best mate(s) in football?
Ryan Smith at Southampton and Elliot Omozusi at Fulham
Room mate on tour?
Dexter Blackstock
Best goal you've ever scored?
My first-ever goal for Colchester against Barnsley - I took on three or four players and scored.
Best stadium you've played at?
Either Hampden Park or Stamford Bridge
Your house is on fire…what one thing do you save?
My football manager game. I play it as Manchester United
If you weren't a footballer, what would you be doing?
I'd be a singer. I'm into music.
What is your golf handicap?
I tried golf, but I'm terrible at it
Life after football?
Hopefully, I will have a good life in football so afterwards I can just chill out a little bit
Interesting fact we don't know about you?
I was born on Arsenal's doorstep but I'm a Manchester United fan
Best freebie you've ever had?
Anton Ferdinand got me a phone when I'd just got into the West Ham team.
Pro Evo or FIFA?
Pro Evo
Who's the worst dresser at your club?
Samuel Di Carmine is shocking
Football League
QPR Snippets...Cook Condemns Boos...Ex-QPR Goalie Makes 400th Appearance
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London Informer/Paul Warburton - QPR boos blasted by Lee Cook
-Lee Cook has hit back at fans that booed QPR midfielder Gavin Mahon on Saturday.
Rangers were beaten 3-1 by Ipswich in front of their own supporters and a live TV audience – but Cookie was less than pleased by second-half chants that had Mahon as the butt of their frustration.
That’s disappointing – all the boys could hear it," said Cook. "It’s sad when our own fans are booing their own players – that’s a desperate situation.
"But Gavin’s a strong character. Was already talking about Wednesday straight after the game. He knows what it’s all about and he can take it."
Rangers are away to Cardiff on Wednesday night, but the winger reckons he and the rest of his team are going to have to play a whole heap better than they did against the Tractor Boys.
Cook added: "Where we didn’t win the game against Ipswich was the first half.
"We beat Derby and Blackpool away recently and we’ve got to use that as the incentive for the next two games." London Informer
BBC - Roberts reaches Daggers milestone
- Dagenham & Redbridge goalkeeper Tony Roberts said he was "very proud" to reach his 400th Daggers appearance.
Roberts, 39, marked his landmark game by saving a penalty in the 0-0 draw with Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
Following the game, he told BBC Essex it was a moment he would treasure for a long time to come.
"I came here nine years ago and I remember my first game was Leigh RMI away, and now I've got my 400th and am very proud of what I've done," he said.
The former QPR and Wales keeper joined the then non-league Essex club as a semi-professional in 2000, after a finger injury had forced him to retire from the professional game.
Following the Daggers' promotion to League Two in 2007 he was forced to re-sign as a professional but still spends four days a week coaching with the youth side at Arsenal.
He told BBC Essex he had enjoyed every moment of Dagenham's rise up the football ladder.
"I've seen the club grow from training twice a week to full time, and we've had all the cup runs and the play-offs," he said.
"So I've seen the club go from strength to strength and luckily I've been a part of it."
And Roberts explained the reason he had been able to prolong his career was a specially designed glove, which has "splints" in it to protect his damaged finger.
"I wouldn't train or play without it because I was told otherwise I would lose my finger," he said.
"I'd rather keep all of my fingers for the rest of my life than worry about looking a bit funny." BBC
SPORTING LIFE - CLASSIC LEAGUE CUP FINALS
"...1967: QPR 3 West Brom 2
- Although the tournament began in the 1960-61 season, this was the first time it culminated in a one-off Wembley showpiece, previous finals having been held over two legs.
- It was a fitting match for the venue which had hosted the World Cup final a year earlier. The match was seemingly over at half-time with Third Division QPR 2-0 down to top-flight West Brom. But three goals in 20 second-half minutes, including a wonderful solo effort from Rodney Marsh, ensured the underdogs roared back to become the first Third Division side to win a major trophy." Sporting Life
Daily Mail/Graham Otway - QPR 1 Ipswich 3: Walters puts on a show for Fabio Capello
By Graham Otway Last updated at 3:39 AM on 23rd February 2009
Comments (0) Add to My Stories As a youth, if Jon Walters had followed his Liverpudlian father's heritage instead of his mother's Dublin roots then he would surely have made a lasting impression on Fabio Capello, who was a visitor to Loftus Road on Saturday.
Despite suffering the after-effects of a virus, the Republic of Ireland B forward appeared as a substitute to score the spectacular third goal to clinch the victory that took Ipswich to within two points of the play-off zone.
Walters, however, was unaware of Capello's presence after the England boss had dashed down the M40 to join his friend Flavio Briatore in the director's box after watching Chelsea earlier in the day at Villa Park.
And he was more interested in the potential spin-offs from Ipswich's stylish victory than the effects his goal might have on his international future.
'I am not surprised Mr Capello was here,' said Walters.
'Because there are a lot of good players in this league. But I have no regrets about playing for Ireland - I have got a lot of family in Dublin.
Small talk: QPR boss Paolo Sousa has bizarrely played down the club's play-off hopes for this season
'But, if we can reproduce this sort of form over the next couple of months, we will be in with a shout for promotion. The performance has set a benchmark for the rest of the season.'
Furthermore, Walters believes that such an impressive win will persuade Ipswich fans, who organised a protest at Portman Road at the beginning of the week, to lay off manager Jim Magilton.
'Managers come and go far too easily these days,' said Walters.
'But we are all behind Jim. The protests? He was up for manager of the month in January so it's baffling me. But that performance was the best way to shut people up.'
Magilton was not a happy man as full back Ben Thatcher failed to stop Wayne Routledge laying on a goal for Rangers' Sam Di Carmine in the third minute but, from the 14th minute when Jon Stead poached an equaliser from close range, Ipswich never looked threatened again.
Feeling good: Magilton is defying his Ipswich critics
They led after 62 minutes when Pablo Counago dispossessed the hapless Gavin Mahon to score with a delightfully placed left-foot shot and then came Walters's moment of glory as he needed only one touch to control Alan Quinn's long ball before beating Lee Camp.
Rangers followers, including Bernie Ecclestone, who left the ground long before the final whistle, will not have been encouraged by two statements from their club's manager Paolo Sousa.
First he leapt to the defence of Mahon, who had a shocker in his defensive midfield position, saying: 'It was not a good day for Gavin, but we need him in that role.'
Then he talked down their play-off ambitions, although they are only five points off the top six, saying: 'Our target this season is to build the base of a good side then make a challenge for the Premier League next season - Daily Mail
Three Ex-QPR Birthdays: Ian Dawes, Andy Gray and Juergen Sommer
Birthdays yesterday for ex-QPRs:Ian Dawes (46), Andy Gray (45) and Juergen Sommer (45) [Edit: According to Wikipedia, Sommer's birthday is February 27.
Ex-QPR fullback, Ian Dawes Turns 46: Born February 22, 1963
Former QPR Youth player, Dawes Given his debut by Terry Venables in 1981-1982, he was an ever-present in QPR's promotion season - and for the next 3 seasons as well (making up a defense of Hucker: Neil Wicks Fenwick Dawes. (1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86). Altogether he played just under 250 games for QPR. He was transferred to Millwall in 1988, wher he played 250+ games. See Dawes/QPR Stats (See Dawes' Millwall Career:
Where is he now? In October, 2005, Dawes was appointed manager of non-league Redhill. A year later, in October 2006, Dawes was sacked by Redhill. See Also: Wikipedia: Ian Dawes
Andy Gray - February 22, 1964. Signed by Trevor Francis...Sold by Trevor Francis a few months later. See Wikipedia/Andy Gray
Juergen Sommer: February 22, 1964 [or maybe February 27, 1969]-Our American goalie, signed by Ray Wilkins for 600,000 pounds from Luton in our relegation season. Wikipedia/Sommer
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London Informer/Paul Warburton - QPR boos blasted by Lee Cook
-Lee Cook has hit back at fans that booed QPR midfielder Gavin Mahon on Saturday.
Rangers were beaten 3-1 by Ipswich in front of their own supporters and a live TV audience – but Cookie was less than pleased by second-half chants that had Mahon as the butt of their frustration.
That’s disappointing – all the boys could hear it," said Cook. "It’s sad when our own fans are booing their own players – that’s a desperate situation.
"But Gavin’s a strong character. Was already talking about Wednesday straight after the game. He knows what it’s all about and he can take it."
Rangers are away to Cardiff on Wednesday night, but the winger reckons he and the rest of his team are going to have to play a whole heap better than they did against the Tractor Boys.
Cook added: "Where we didn’t win the game against Ipswich was the first half.
"We beat Derby and Blackpool away recently and we’ve got to use that as the incentive for the next two games." London Informer
BBC - Roberts reaches Daggers milestone
- Dagenham & Redbridge goalkeeper Tony Roberts said he was "very proud" to reach his 400th Daggers appearance.
Roberts, 39, marked his landmark game by saving a penalty in the 0-0 draw with Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
Following the game, he told BBC Essex it was a moment he would treasure for a long time to come.
"I came here nine years ago and I remember my first game was Leigh RMI away, and now I've got my 400th and am very proud of what I've done," he said.
The former QPR and Wales keeper joined the then non-league Essex club as a semi-professional in 2000, after a finger injury had forced him to retire from the professional game.
Following the Daggers' promotion to League Two in 2007 he was forced to re-sign as a professional but still spends four days a week coaching with the youth side at Arsenal.
He told BBC Essex he had enjoyed every moment of Dagenham's rise up the football ladder.
"I've seen the club grow from training twice a week to full time, and we've had all the cup runs and the play-offs," he said.
"So I've seen the club go from strength to strength and luckily I've been a part of it."
And Roberts explained the reason he had been able to prolong his career was a specially designed glove, which has "splints" in it to protect his damaged finger.
"I wouldn't train or play without it because I was told otherwise I would lose my finger," he said.
"I'd rather keep all of my fingers for the rest of my life than worry about looking a bit funny." BBC
SPORTING LIFE - CLASSIC LEAGUE CUP FINALS
"...1967: QPR 3 West Brom 2
- Although the tournament began in the 1960-61 season, this was the first time it culminated in a one-off Wembley showpiece, previous finals having been held over two legs.
- It was a fitting match for the venue which had hosted the World Cup final a year earlier. The match was seemingly over at half-time with Third Division QPR 2-0 down to top-flight West Brom. But three goals in 20 second-half minutes, including a wonderful solo effort from Rodney Marsh, ensured the underdogs roared back to become the first Third Division side to win a major trophy." Sporting Life
Daily Mail/Graham Otway - QPR 1 Ipswich 3: Walters puts on a show for Fabio Capello
By Graham Otway Last updated at 3:39 AM on 23rd February 2009
Comments (0) Add to My Stories As a youth, if Jon Walters had followed his Liverpudlian father's heritage instead of his mother's Dublin roots then he would surely have made a lasting impression on Fabio Capello, who was a visitor to Loftus Road on Saturday.
Despite suffering the after-effects of a virus, the Republic of Ireland B forward appeared as a substitute to score the spectacular third goal to clinch the victory that took Ipswich to within two points of the play-off zone.
Walters, however, was unaware of Capello's presence after the England boss had dashed down the M40 to join his friend Flavio Briatore in the director's box after watching Chelsea earlier in the day at Villa Park.
And he was more interested in the potential spin-offs from Ipswich's stylish victory than the effects his goal might have on his international future.
'I am not surprised Mr Capello was here,' said Walters.
'Because there are a lot of good players in this league. But I have no regrets about playing for Ireland - I have got a lot of family in Dublin.
Small talk: QPR boss Paolo Sousa has bizarrely played down the club's play-off hopes for this season
'But, if we can reproduce this sort of form over the next couple of months, we will be in with a shout for promotion. The performance has set a benchmark for the rest of the season.'
Furthermore, Walters believes that such an impressive win will persuade Ipswich fans, who organised a protest at Portman Road at the beginning of the week, to lay off manager Jim Magilton.
'Managers come and go far too easily these days,' said Walters.
'But we are all behind Jim. The protests? He was up for manager of the month in January so it's baffling me. But that performance was the best way to shut people up.'
Magilton was not a happy man as full back Ben Thatcher failed to stop Wayne Routledge laying on a goal for Rangers' Sam Di Carmine in the third minute but, from the 14th minute when Jon Stead poached an equaliser from close range, Ipswich never looked threatened again.
Feeling good: Magilton is defying his Ipswich critics
They led after 62 minutes when Pablo Counago dispossessed the hapless Gavin Mahon to score with a delightfully placed left-foot shot and then came Walters's moment of glory as he needed only one touch to control Alan Quinn's long ball before beating Lee Camp.
Rangers followers, including Bernie Ecclestone, who left the ground long before the final whistle, will not have been encouraged by two statements from their club's manager Paolo Sousa.
First he leapt to the defence of Mahon, who had a shocker in his defensive midfield position, saying: 'It was not a good day for Gavin, but we need him in that role.'
Then he talked down their play-off ambitions, although they are only five points off the top six, saying: 'Our target this season is to build the base of a good side then make a challenge for the Premier League next season - Daily Mail
Three Ex-QPR Birthdays: Ian Dawes, Andy Gray and Juergen Sommer
Birthdays yesterday for ex-QPRs:Ian Dawes (46), Andy Gray (45) and Juergen Sommer (45) [Edit: According to Wikipedia, Sommer's birthday is February 27.
Ex-QPR fullback, Ian Dawes Turns 46: Born February 22, 1963
Former QPR Youth player, Dawes Given his debut by Terry Venables in 1981-1982, he was an ever-present in QPR's promotion season - and for the next 3 seasons as well (making up a defense of Hucker: Neil Wicks Fenwick Dawes. (1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86). Altogether he played just under 250 games for QPR. He was transferred to Millwall in 1988, wher he played 250+ games. See Dawes/QPR Stats (See Dawes' Millwall Career:
Where is he now? In October, 2005, Dawes was appointed manager of non-league Redhill. A year later, in October 2006, Dawes was sacked by Redhill. See Also: Wikipedia: Ian Dawes
Andy Gray - February 22, 1964. Signed by Trevor Francis...Sold by Trevor Francis a few months later. See Wikipedia/Andy Gray
Juergen Sommer: February 22, 1964 [or maybe February 27, 1969]-Our American goalie, signed by Ray Wilkins for 600,000 pounds from Luton in our relegation season. Wikipedia/Sommer
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Sunday Mirror/Mike Allen - Match Report
-If this is how Ipswich answer calls for manager Jim Magilton to be sacked, they'll have to make it a weekly occurrence. In - form QPR were thumped at Loftus Road to make a mockery of the demands for the manager's head in a week when his team has collected six points.
After falling behind after just three minutes, the Tractor Boys recovered and then gave a finishing masterclass through Pablo Counago and sub Jon Walters, to add to the victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
They are now just two points off the play-off places - no wonder chairman Marcus Evans has given Magilton a heartfelt vote of confidence.
Qpr had lost just one of their previous 13 League games under their young Portuguese boss Paulo Sousa and took just three minutes to go ahead.
Wayne Routledge, an England prospect a few years ago before an ill-considered move to Spurs halted his development, beat Ipswich left-back Ben Thatcher all ends up before crossing temptingly into the six-yard boss where Samuel Di Carmine netted at the near post.
Qpr were full of quick passes and flicks - especially Routledge, but it all started to unravel when Kaspars Gorkss gave away a needless corner.
That was headed just over his own bar by Mikele Leigertwood and Rangers never looked comfortable as they struggled to clear the resulting set-piece, before Jon Stead eventually turned in a weak deflected shot from David Norris.
Qpr were suddenly looking frail at the back and they had a lucky escape 10 minutes before the break when Gavin Mahon attempted an over ambitious header back to goalkeeper Lee Camp.
It was intercepted by Counago, who with his back to goal, laid the ball back to Stead who somehow managed to fire wide of the unguarded net.
Magilton might ponder that on such misses are the fates of managers decided after a week in which he has been subjected to calls for his sacking.
But needn't have fretted because when Counago won the ball of the hapless Gavin Mahon, he brushed off another couple of challenges and after finding space fired past Camp.
And that was topped by Walter who, nine minutes after coming on, took a brilliant 50- yard Alan Quinn pass in his stride and with his second touch rapped it home. Mirror
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - 'WE WIN TOGETHER, WE LOSE TOGETHER'
- Paulo Sousa refused to blame certain individuals, as the R's went down to a 3-1 defeat against Ipswich Town.
- Rangers led early on thanks to Samuel Di Carmine's third minute strike, only for Jim Magilton's men to hit back with goals from Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jon Walters.
- Sousa, who saw his stand-in skipper Gavin Mahon booed during the second half, told www.qpr.co.uk: "I've always said that we win together and lose together and each and every player takes responsibility when we win and when we lose. Today is no different to that.
- "I understand the fans' frustrations, but as a Manager, when you lose, you all lose. Some players didn't play to their best ability tonight, but the way to help is to support.
- "It's a normal reaction, because they (the fans) want to see us win every match. Their frustration is our frustration."
- Sousa added: "Of course I am disappointed. We created the first goal, but then we allowed them opportunities to score and we conceded a lot of possession.
- "We made a lot of mistakes in the first and second moments and they took advantage."
- He continued: "Other than the result, I feel that the positives today were that the fans, who were very close to us. Since I arrived in this country, that has been the best our fans have been and I'm grateful because we needed that.
- "From the beginning they are important to us. We started well, but then we came under a lot of pressure and began to make mistakes and conceded through their counter-attacks. Those mistakes put pressure on ourselves.
- "At the start of the second half we changed that and I felt that we reacted very well and were coming back into it. We created chances - far more than them - but the goals didn't come." QPR
The Sunday Times/Wayne Veysey - February 22, 2009 John Walters seals Ipswich victory
QPR 1 Ipswich 3
THOSE disaffected Ipswich supporters who called for the dismissal of Jim Magilton during a pre-game demonstration in midweek should be feeling a little less agitated.
A narrow home victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday was followed by this more convincing display, which has the double-edged effect of easing the pressure on Magilton and lifting the Tractor Boys to within two points of the playoff places.
The Northern Irishman, who was given the dreaded vote of confidence by his chairman in midweek, has surely bought himself a few weeks grace, possibly until the end of the season.
Oustanding second half goals from John Walters and Pablo Counago, his 50th for the club, helped the visitors achieve the rare feat of winning after going a goal behind. This was the first time they had done so in 23 months.
Magilton, who celebrated the goals with O’Neill-esque enthusiasm, brushed off speculation about his positon. “I’m focused on the job,” he said.
It was a frustrating evening for his counterpart Paulo Sousa, the QPR manager. Sousa’s side could not come to grips with an unfamiliar 4-5-1 formation and his team selection was criticised by association, through the booing from home fans of midfielder Gavon Mahon.
Yet it had all begun so promisingly for Rangers. They took first blood in the third minute when lone and on-loan front-man Paulo Di Carmine made a tricky half-volley chance on the near post look far easier than it was with a polished finish after some neat footwork from Wayne Routledge.
Ipswich’s reply was forthright and immediate. Taking advantage of an unconvincing Rangers rearguard and the home side’s lack of familiarity with a three-man central midfield system that appeared to be running in tracle, Magilton’s side controlled the play and got their reward with a 14th minute equaliser.
Rangers appeared to have cleared a corner but when the ball came back into the penalty area, a critical deflection enabled John Stead to nip in front of Rangers keeper Lee Camp and move into double figures for the season.
That was the undercoat. The gloss came after the break from Counago, whose trickery and curling shot put Ipswich ahead, and then the coup de grace, a fabulous finish from Walters that sealed all three points. Star man: Pablo Cougano (Ipswich)
Yellow cards: Ipswich: Thatcher Referee: S Attwell Attendance:13,904
QPR: Camp, Delaney (Blackstock 67min), Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller (Balanta 73min), Di Carmine (Helguson 6, 55min)
IPSWICH: Wright, D Wright, McAuley, Bruce, Thatcher, Miller, Norris, Civelli (Walters 61min), Quinn, Stead (Lisbbie 69min), Counago (Gavan 82min) Sunday Times
NEWS OF THE WORLD/Alistair Grant - QPR 1, IPSWICH 3
Sousa on the boos as Tractor Boys have a field day
- QPR’S play-off bid imploded last night as they shipped three goals — and the fans turned on boss Paulo Sousa.
Rangers, nine games unbeaten before kick-off, went ahead — but they fell apart as Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jon Walters hit back for the rampant Tractor Boys.
Angry Hoops fans, expecting Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone’s millions to ensure promotion, chanted at Sousa: “You don’t know what you’re doing.”
Booed
They also booed out-of-form captain Gavin Mahon after some nightmare blunders.
England manager Fabio Capello, surprisingly watching from the stands, joined many Rangers fans in leaving before the final whistle.
The result eased the pressure on Ipswich boss Jim Magilton, who has fallen out with his side’s supporters despite losing only one game in nine.
Rangers had taken the lead after just 141 seconds.
Sweep
Wayne Routledge whipped in a cross from the right for Samuel Di Carmine, dashing to the front post, to sweep in a sweet six-yard half-volley.
Ipswich woke up and bagged the leveller on 14 minutes.
Striker Stead beat dopey defender Fitz Hall to a right-wing cross, prodding the ball into the bottom corner.
That was Stead’s 10th goal of the season since joining on loan from Sheffield United.
Nerves
Sousa’s side looked shaky every time the Tractors Boys aimed high balls towards Stead — and Hall’s stand-up row with team-mate Damien Delaney hardly eased the home nerves.
Rangers’ fans were getting twitchy and Mahon added to the nerves with a suicidal back-header after 37 minutes.
Counago intercepted and Stead side-footed just wide from 20 yards with keeper Lee Camp out of position.
Rangers midfielder Mikele Leigertwood claimed a penalty at the start of the second half when he felt he was impeded by David Norris as he shaped to shoot.
But referee Stuart Attwell — having one of his quieter games — waved away the appeal.
Robbed
Mahon was having a shocker and was robbed by Counago just after the hour — with the Spanish striker superbly skipping free to curl a fine goal into the top left corner.
Sub Walters cracked the third for Ipswich with a magnificent 71st-minute effort, controlling Alan Quinn’s long pass and drilling home an 18-yarder.
Rangers fans were furious when, late on, Sousa took off their best player, Liam Miller. News of the World
SPORTING LIFE/Andy Sims - PA Sport - MAGILTON SILENCES THE CRITICS
- Jim Magilton is once again flavour of the month with the Ipswich fans who were calling for his head last week following their 3-1 win over QPR.
- Pablo Counago and Jon Walters reignited Town's Coca-Cola Championship promotion hopes with superb second-half strikes.
- The two sides, with billionaire owners and lofty ambitions but currently treading water just outside the top six, were locked at 1-1 at the interval.
- But Counago pounced on a mistake by Gavin Mahon to fire the visitors into the lead and substitute Walters killed Rangers off in style to leave Magilton's men two points off the play-off pace.
- The Town boss said: "It's not about me, it's about preparing these lads, being professional and they have shone like beacons this week.
- "There is a tremendous spirit in my camp regardless of what you hear outside of it - they are a great bunch of lads and they showed their honesty and determination."
- When asked if the recent criticism surprised him, Magilton replied: "It's part of the modern game."
- While the Irishman walked off to the strains of 'there's only one Jim Magilton', opposite number Paulo Sousa incurred the wrath of a section of the home faithful.
The fans reacted angrily to Sousa's decision to substitute their best player, Liam Miller, and barracked their hapless skipper Mahon.
"It's normal, I can understand it," said Sousa. "It was not a good game for Gavin.
"When you are afraid to make a mistake, you make a mistake. But when you lose you lose together, and when you win you win together.
"It wasn't a good game for him but we can count on him in the future."
England boss Fabio Capello, fresh from watching Chelsea's win at Aston Villa, made it back to west London in time to enjoy the hospitality of QPR chairman Flavio Briatore.
And the two Italians were treated to a goal by one of their countrymen after just two minutes, Samuel Di Carmine tucking away Wayne Routledge's cross.
But Ipswich dragged themselves level in the 14th minute, Jon Stead diverting in David Norris' wayward shot.
- The visitors went ahead on the hour following a mistake by Mahon, who dawdled on the ball and allowed Counago to rob him, stride into the penalty area and curl a fine finish past Lee Camp.
And 10 minutes later substitute Walters took a stunning cross-field pass from Alan Quinn, bringing the ball down with his first touch and lashing it past Camp with his second.
"My aim is still to create a good base looking to the future," added Sousa, whose side remain five points off the play-offs.
- "I hope next season to be looking for the Premier League. But when you are very close to the play-offs you need to think about them.
- "There are five or six teams very close and each one can be up there." Sporting Life
IPSWICH OFFICIAL SITE - MANAGERIAL COMMENTS: JIM DELIGHT FOR FRONTMEN
-Jim Magilton was delighted to see his strikers get on the scoresheet as Town turned on the style in front of the TV cameras at QPR.
-Goals from Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jon Walters gave Blues a 3-1 win after Samuel Di Carmine had put Rangers ahead on three minutes.
"I'm thrilled for all the players, it was an excellent performance with moments of real quality," said the Town boss.
"I'm really pleased the forwards got on the scoresheet. They have worked very hard in recent games without getting the rewards but today they did. Pablo's goal in particular was outstanding and gave us a foothold in the game.
"There was a tremendous work ethic amongst the whole team and they have shone like beacons this week when people were writing us off.
"They were outstanding to a man. There's a real team spirit amongst them and I'm proud of every one of them." Ipswich
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - MATCH REPORT
- Despite grafting hard and playing some fine free-flowing football, QPR went down fighting 3-1 to an impressive Ipswich Town side.
Even when Jon Stead cancelled out Samuel Di Carmine's third minute opener, Rangers looked the most likely to earn the points, but Pablo Counago scored on the hour to put the visitors ahead.
With the R's pushing for an equaliser, Jon Walters added a third to steal the points away from the men in Hoops, who only looked like adding to their solitary goal through Mikele Leigertwood's long-range strike and a Dexter Blackstock header late on.
Rangers' Manager Paulo Sousa decided it was time for a change and tinkered with his defence and forward lines.
In came Fitz Hall at the expense of Damion Stewart - who dropped to the bench - to partner Kaspars Gorkss at the back. Matt Connolly and Damien Delaney filled in at right and left back respectively. Lee Camp retained his place between the sticks, covering for the struggling Radek Cerny.
Di Carmine cut a lone figure up front, supported by Lee Cook and Wayne Routledge, whilst Leigertwood, Liam Miller and stand-in Captain Gavin Mahon completed the line-up.
Ipswich handed a start to recent capture Luciano Civelli on the left hand side, whilst Stead, the man who put Rangers to the sword at Portman Road earlier in the season, began on the right.
Fans' favourite Counago began up front on his own, with David Norris keeping Owen Garvan and Walters on the bench.
Rangers raced out of the blocks and took the lead inside three minutes.
When Delaney's free-kick was only partially cleared to Routledge on the right, the diminutive wide-man beat Ben Thatcher with ease and picked out Di Carmine who buried his shot past a hapless Richard Wright from close range.
With that blistering start, the R's looked comfortable, but that man Stead put paid to any hopes of extending the lead ten minutes later.
When Norris tried a shot from the edge of the box, the former Huddersfield man nipped in to lift the ball past the exposed Camp and bring the sides level.
Counago nearly doubled the visitors lead when a whipped in corner found him unmarked inside the six-yard box, but - with Camp motionless - the Spaniard headed over.
Rangers hit back, but Leigertwood couldn't manage to connect with a decent amount of power to worry Wright.
That, however, was as close as Rangers were to come, for Town took hold of the match by the scruff of the neck. And they could, and perhaps should, have been ahead in the 36th minute.
Mahon, trying to clear the danger, headed back towards Camp unaware of a loitering Counago who, when he couldn't find a way past the R's keeper, teed up Stead who fired wide of an open net.
The second half opened in the same manner the first had ended, with Stephen Quinn trying his luck from 25 yards after robbing Miller. Camp though, happily saw the ball bounce wide.
Rangers, however, refused to lie down, and put together some neat attacking play that needed crucial interceptions from the Town defenders. In a bid to up the intensity, Sousa replaced goal-scorer Di Carmine with Heidar Helguson.
It did not work out exactly as planned however, as Ipswich took the lead just past the hour. The newly-introduced Walters was barely on the pitch before Counago picked up the ball, burst past Hall and Connolly and rifled a left-foot shot beyond Camp.
To try and find a way back into the match, Sousa switched to 3-5-2, introducing R's top-scorer Blackstock for Delaney.
Unfortunately on 70 minutes, Walters made sure of the points for the visitors. Quinn's magnificent cross-field pass found the winger racing past Gorkss, and after controlling with his chest, he guided the ball home past the onrushing Camp.
In a final throw of the dice, Sousa sent on Angelo Balanta for the hard-working Miller.
But for a Blackstock header flying into the grateful arms of Wright, Rangers could not find the goals to stage a late comeback, and Town held on to claim the points.
QPR: Camp, Delaney (Blackstock 67), Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller (Balanta 73), Di Carmine (Helguson 55). Subs: Stewart, Alberti. Goals: Di Carmine (3)
Ipswich Town: R. Wright, D. Wright, McAuley, Bruce, Miller, Counago (Garvan 82), Norris, Civelli (Walters 60), Stead (Lisbie 69), Quinn, Thatcher.
Subs: Supple, Balkestein. Goals: Stead (14), Counago (61), Walters (70) Attendance: 13,914 QPR
IPSWICH OFFICIAL SITE
own closed the gap on the Play-Offs to two points with a dominant display at Loftus Road, lit up by brilliant second-half goals from Pablo Counago and Jon Walters.
Counago put Blues ahead on the hour with a terrific individual goal and Walters put Jim Magilton's side in total control with an equally good finish midway through the half.
Rangers had taken a third minute lead through Samuel Di Carmine, who converted Wayne Routledge's cross but Blues were on level terms on 13 minutes, Jon Stead diverting the ball home for his 10th goal of the season.
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Gareth McAuley passed a fitness test on his damaged calf, with Town making one change from the team that beat Nottingham Forest in midweek, hamstring victim Danny Haynes making way for David Norris.
England boss Fabio Capello joined his fellow Italian Flavio Briatore in the directors' box as the game got underway in front of the Sky cameras and Town could have been ahead before Rangers' early goal, Stead failing to control Tommy Miller's hooked pass when clear.
It was the home side who struck though on three minutes, Routledge getting away from Ben Thatcher too easily and his cross was met by Di Carmine at the near post, leaving Richard Wright with no chance.
Kaspars Gorkss headed well wide from another Routledge cross before Town levelled on 13 minutes, Stead forcing the ball in after McAuley had won a header and Norris put the ball in the box via Counago.
Norris tested Camp with a low shot then Counago went close to putting Blues ahead with a header from Alan Quinn's corner that went over the bar.
Thatcher sent the ball out of the ground from 30 yards after more Town pressure, Civelli's cross almost finding Counago at the far post.
Blues should have gone ahead nine minutes before the break, Gavin Mahon's header was latched on to by Counago who showed great awareness to set up Stead but the striker fired wide from the edge of the box with Camp beaten.
Quinn fired across goal inside the first minute of the second-half, Rangers responding with Routledge's cross hacked clear by Alex Bruce.
Town continued to look the better side and Counago played in the overlapping David Wright and almost got on the end of the cross, Civelli denied when he latched on to the loose ball.
Rangers made a first change on 54 minutes, Heidar Helguson on for Di Carmine, Blues then following with Jon Walters replacing Civelli on the hour.
Seconds later Blues were ahead and in sensational style, Counago wriggling away from three defenders and then curling a beauty past Camp.
The Spaniard almost added a second, his header deflecting off Gorkss for a corner. Rangers making a second change with Dexter Blackstock on for Damien Delaney.
Rangers had a penalty appeal turned down when Routledge's cross hit Norris' arm but with no intent, Kevin Lisbie introduced for Stead on 68 minutes.
Town's second goal was equalled by the third, a sublime pass by Quinn and an equally brilliant control and finish by Walters putting Blues in control.
Liam Miller was replaced by Angelo Balanta for the last 15 minutes, the home fans clearly not happy with the decision, Mahon the obvious target of their frustration.
Wright held firm from Mikele Leigertwood's long range effort, Thatcher then doing well to shield Routledge away from danger.
Owen Garvan was given the last 10 minutes, Counago making way. Thatcher then picking up the first and only booking of the game.
Rangers claimed a penalty when Routledge went down under a challenge from McAuley but the Town skipper had timed it to perfection, Bruce then standing strong - as he had done all game - to head clear from Routledge's cross as Blackstock threatened.
The win ends Town's miserable run in front of the Sky cameras this season, ends Rangers' 10 match unbeaten run and extends Town's run to just one defeat in nine games, with seven victories now on the road and the Play-Offs within reach. Ipswich Official Site
TABLE
1 Wolverhampton 33 21 63
2 Birmingham 33 11 60
3 Reading 32 30 59
4 Bristol City 34 7 53
5 Preston 34 3 53
6 Sheff Utd 33 14 52
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7 Burnley 34 1 52
8 Cardiff 29 15 51
9 Swansea 33 13 51
10 Ipswich 34 11 50
11 QPR 32 2 47
12 Sheff Wed 34 -9 45
13 Coventry 33 -2 44
14 Crystal Palace 31 5 43
15 Derby 32 -3 41
16 Doncaster 33 -11 40
17 Blackpool 34 -14 38
18 Watford 32 -7 36
19 Barnsley 32 -11 36
20 Plymouth 34 -13 36
21 Nottm Forest 34 -14 34
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22 Norwich 34 -9 33
23 Southampton 33 -19 31
24 Charlton 33 -21 26
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Sunday Mirror/Mike Allen - Match Report
-If this is how Ipswich answer calls for manager Jim Magilton to be sacked, they'll have to make it a weekly occurrence. In - form QPR were thumped at Loftus Road to make a mockery of the demands for the manager's head in a week when his team has collected six points.
After falling behind after just three minutes, the Tractor Boys recovered and then gave a finishing masterclass through Pablo Counago and sub Jon Walters, to add to the victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
They are now just two points off the play-off places - no wonder chairman Marcus Evans has given Magilton a heartfelt vote of confidence.
Qpr had lost just one of their previous 13 League games under their young Portuguese boss Paulo Sousa and took just three minutes to go ahead.
Wayne Routledge, an England prospect a few years ago before an ill-considered move to Spurs halted his development, beat Ipswich left-back Ben Thatcher all ends up before crossing temptingly into the six-yard boss where Samuel Di Carmine netted at the near post.
Qpr were full of quick passes and flicks - especially Routledge, but it all started to unravel when Kaspars Gorkss gave away a needless corner.
That was headed just over his own bar by Mikele Leigertwood and Rangers never looked comfortable as they struggled to clear the resulting set-piece, before Jon Stead eventually turned in a weak deflected shot from David Norris.
Qpr were suddenly looking frail at the back and they had a lucky escape 10 minutes before the break when Gavin Mahon attempted an over ambitious header back to goalkeeper Lee Camp.
It was intercepted by Counago, who with his back to goal, laid the ball back to Stead who somehow managed to fire wide of the unguarded net.
Magilton might ponder that on such misses are the fates of managers decided after a week in which he has been subjected to calls for his sacking.
But needn't have fretted because when Counago won the ball of the hapless Gavin Mahon, he brushed off another couple of challenges and after finding space fired past Camp.
And that was topped by Walter who, nine minutes after coming on, took a brilliant 50- yard Alan Quinn pass in his stride and with his second touch rapped it home. Mirror
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - 'WE WIN TOGETHER, WE LOSE TOGETHER'
- Paulo Sousa refused to blame certain individuals, as the R's went down to a 3-1 defeat against Ipswich Town.
- Rangers led early on thanks to Samuel Di Carmine's third minute strike, only for Jim Magilton's men to hit back with goals from Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jon Walters.
- Sousa, who saw his stand-in skipper Gavin Mahon booed during the second half, told www.qpr.co.uk: "I've always said that we win together and lose together and each and every player takes responsibility when we win and when we lose. Today is no different to that.
- "I understand the fans' frustrations, but as a Manager, when you lose, you all lose. Some players didn't play to their best ability tonight, but the way to help is to support.
- "It's a normal reaction, because they (the fans) want to see us win every match. Their frustration is our frustration."
- Sousa added: "Of course I am disappointed. We created the first goal, but then we allowed them opportunities to score and we conceded a lot of possession.
- "We made a lot of mistakes in the first and second moments and they took advantage."
- He continued: "Other than the result, I feel that the positives today were that the fans, who were very close to us. Since I arrived in this country, that has been the best our fans have been and I'm grateful because we needed that.
- "From the beginning they are important to us. We started well, but then we came under a lot of pressure and began to make mistakes and conceded through their counter-attacks. Those mistakes put pressure on ourselves.
- "At the start of the second half we changed that and I felt that we reacted very well and were coming back into it. We created chances - far more than them - but the goals didn't come." QPR
The Sunday Times/Wayne Veysey - February 22, 2009 John Walters seals Ipswich victory
QPR 1 Ipswich 3
THOSE disaffected Ipswich supporters who called for the dismissal of Jim Magilton during a pre-game demonstration in midweek should be feeling a little less agitated.
A narrow home victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday was followed by this more convincing display, which has the double-edged effect of easing the pressure on Magilton and lifting the Tractor Boys to within two points of the playoff places.
The Northern Irishman, who was given the dreaded vote of confidence by his chairman in midweek, has surely bought himself a few weeks grace, possibly until the end of the season.
Oustanding second half goals from John Walters and Pablo Counago, his 50th for the club, helped the visitors achieve the rare feat of winning after going a goal behind. This was the first time they had done so in 23 months.
Magilton, who celebrated the goals with O’Neill-esque enthusiasm, brushed off speculation about his positon. “I’m focused on the job,” he said.
It was a frustrating evening for his counterpart Paulo Sousa, the QPR manager. Sousa’s side could not come to grips with an unfamiliar 4-5-1 formation and his team selection was criticised by association, through the booing from home fans of midfielder Gavon Mahon.
Yet it had all begun so promisingly for Rangers. They took first blood in the third minute when lone and on-loan front-man Paulo Di Carmine made a tricky half-volley chance on the near post look far easier than it was with a polished finish after some neat footwork from Wayne Routledge.
Ipswich’s reply was forthright and immediate. Taking advantage of an unconvincing Rangers rearguard and the home side’s lack of familiarity with a three-man central midfield system that appeared to be running in tracle, Magilton’s side controlled the play and got their reward with a 14th minute equaliser.
Rangers appeared to have cleared a corner but when the ball came back into the penalty area, a critical deflection enabled John Stead to nip in front of Rangers keeper Lee Camp and move into double figures for the season.
That was the undercoat. The gloss came after the break from Counago, whose trickery and curling shot put Ipswich ahead, and then the coup de grace, a fabulous finish from Walters that sealed all three points. Star man: Pablo Cougano (Ipswich)
Yellow cards: Ipswich: Thatcher Referee: S Attwell Attendance:13,904
QPR: Camp, Delaney (Blackstock 67min), Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller (Balanta 73min), Di Carmine (Helguson 6, 55min)
IPSWICH: Wright, D Wright, McAuley, Bruce, Thatcher, Miller, Norris, Civelli (Walters 61min), Quinn, Stead (Lisbbie 69min), Counago (Gavan 82min) Sunday Times
NEWS OF THE WORLD/Alistair Grant - QPR 1, IPSWICH 3
Sousa on the boos as Tractor Boys have a field day
- QPR’S play-off bid imploded last night as they shipped three goals — and the fans turned on boss Paulo Sousa.
Rangers, nine games unbeaten before kick-off, went ahead — but they fell apart as Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jon Walters hit back for the rampant Tractor Boys.
Angry Hoops fans, expecting Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone’s millions to ensure promotion, chanted at Sousa: “You don’t know what you’re doing.”
Booed
They also booed out-of-form captain Gavin Mahon after some nightmare blunders.
England manager Fabio Capello, surprisingly watching from the stands, joined many Rangers fans in leaving before the final whistle.
The result eased the pressure on Ipswich boss Jim Magilton, who has fallen out with his side’s supporters despite losing only one game in nine.
Rangers had taken the lead after just 141 seconds.
Sweep
Wayne Routledge whipped in a cross from the right for Samuel Di Carmine, dashing to the front post, to sweep in a sweet six-yard half-volley.
Ipswich woke up and bagged the leveller on 14 minutes.
Striker Stead beat dopey defender Fitz Hall to a right-wing cross, prodding the ball into the bottom corner.
That was Stead’s 10th goal of the season since joining on loan from Sheffield United.
Nerves
Sousa’s side looked shaky every time the Tractors Boys aimed high balls towards Stead — and Hall’s stand-up row with team-mate Damien Delaney hardly eased the home nerves.
Rangers’ fans were getting twitchy and Mahon added to the nerves with a suicidal back-header after 37 minutes.
Counago intercepted and Stead side-footed just wide from 20 yards with keeper Lee Camp out of position.
Rangers midfielder Mikele Leigertwood claimed a penalty at the start of the second half when he felt he was impeded by David Norris as he shaped to shoot.
But referee Stuart Attwell — having one of his quieter games — waved away the appeal.
Robbed
Mahon was having a shocker and was robbed by Counago just after the hour — with the Spanish striker superbly skipping free to curl a fine goal into the top left corner.
Sub Walters cracked the third for Ipswich with a magnificent 71st-minute effort, controlling Alan Quinn’s long pass and drilling home an 18-yarder.
Rangers fans were furious when, late on, Sousa took off their best player, Liam Miller. News of the World
SPORTING LIFE/Andy Sims - PA Sport - MAGILTON SILENCES THE CRITICS
- Jim Magilton is once again flavour of the month with the Ipswich fans who were calling for his head last week following their 3-1 win over QPR.
- Pablo Counago and Jon Walters reignited Town's Coca-Cola Championship promotion hopes with superb second-half strikes.
- The two sides, with billionaire owners and lofty ambitions but currently treading water just outside the top six, were locked at 1-1 at the interval.
- But Counago pounced on a mistake by Gavin Mahon to fire the visitors into the lead and substitute Walters killed Rangers off in style to leave Magilton's men two points off the play-off pace.
- The Town boss said: "It's not about me, it's about preparing these lads, being professional and they have shone like beacons this week.
- "There is a tremendous spirit in my camp regardless of what you hear outside of it - they are a great bunch of lads and they showed their honesty and determination."
- When asked if the recent criticism surprised him, Magilton replied: "It's part of the modern game."
- While the Irishman walked off to the strains of 'there's only one Jim Magilton', opposite number Paulo Sousa incurred the wrath of a section of the home faithful.
The fans reacted angrily to Sousa's decision to substitute their best player, Liam Miller, and barracked their hapless skipper Mahon.
"It's normal, I can understand it," said Sousa. "It was not a good game for Gavin.
"When you are afraid to make a mistake, you make a mistake. But when you lose you lose together, and when you win you win together.
"It wasn't a good game for him but we can count on him in the future."
England boss Fabio Capello, fresh from watching Chelsea's win at Aston Villa, made it back to west London in time to enjoy the hospitality of QPR chairman Flavio Briatore.
And the two Italians were treated to a goal by one of their countrymen after just two minutes, Samuel Di Carmine tucking away Wayne Routledge's cross.
But Ipswich dragged themselves level in the 14th minute, Jon Stead diverting in David Norris' wayward shot.
- The visitors went ahead on the hour following a mistake by Mahon, who dawdled on the ball and allowed Counago to rob him, stride into the penalty area and curl a fine finish past Lee Camp.
And 10 minutes later substitute Walters took a stunning cross-field pass from Alan Quinn, bringing the ball down with his first touch and lashing it past Camp with his second.
"My aim is still to create a good base looking to the future," added Sousa, whose side remain five points off the play-offs.
- "I hope next season to be looking for the Premier League. But when you are very close to the play-offs you need to think about them.
- "There are five or six teams very close and each one can be up there." Sporting Life
IPSWICH OFFICIAL SITE - MANAGERIAL COMMENTS: JIM DELIGHT FOR FRONTMEN
-Jim Magilton was delighted to see his strikers get on the scoresheet as Town turned on the style in front of the TV cameras at QPR.
-Goals from Jon Stead, Pablo Counago and Jon Walters gave Blues a 3-1 win after Samuel Di Carmine had put Rangers ahead on three minutes.
"I'm thrilled for all the players, it was an excellent performance with moments of real quality," said the Town boss.
"I'm really pleased the forwards got on the scoresheet. They have worked very hard in recent games without getting the rewards but today they did. Pablo's goal in particular was outstanding and gave us a foothold in the game.
"There was a tremendous work ethic amongst the whole team and they have shone like beacons this week when people were writing us off.
"They were outstanding to a man. There's a real team spirit amongst them and I'm proud of every one of them." Ipswich
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - MATCH REPORT
- Despite grafting hard and playing some fine free-flowing football, QPR went down fighting 3-1 to an impressive Ipswich Town side.
Even when Jon Stead cancelled out Samuel Di Carmine's third minute opener, Rangers looked the most likely to earn the points, but Pablo Counago scored on the hour to put the visitors ahead.
With the R's pushing for an equaliser, Jon Walters added a third to steal the points away from the men in Hoops, who only looked like adding to their solitary goal through Mikele Leigertwood's long-range strike and a Dexter Blackstock header late on.
Rangers' Manager Paulo Sousa decided it was time for a change and tinkered with his defence and forward lines.
In came Fitz Hall at the expense of Damion Stewart - who dropped to the bench - to partner Kaspars Gorkss at the back. Matt Connolly and Damien Delaney filled in at right and left back respectively. Lee Camp retained his place between the sticks, covering for the struggling Radek Cerny.
Di Carmine cut a lone figure up front, supported by Lee Cook and Wayne Routledge, whilst Leigertwood, Liam Miller and stand-in Captain Gavin Mahon completed the line-up.
Ipswich handed a start to recent capture Luciano Civelli on the left hand side, whilst Stead, the man who put Rangers to the sword at Portman Road earlier in the season, began on the right.
Fans' favourite Counago began up front on his own, with David Norris keeping Owen Garvan and Walters on the bench.
Rangers raced out of the blocks and took the lead inside three minutes.
When Delaney's free-kick was only partially cleared to Routledge on the right, the diminutive wide-man beat Ben Thatcher with ease and picked out Di Carmine who buried his shot past a hapless Richard Wright from close range.
With that blistering start, the R's looked comfortable, but that man Stead put paid to any hopes of extending the lead ten minutes later.
When Norris tried a shot from the edge of the box, the former Huddersfield man nipped in to lift the ball past the exposed Camp and bring the sides level.
Counago nearly doubled the visitors lead when a whipped in corner found him unmarked inside the six-yard box, but - with Camp motionless - the Spaniard headed over.
Rangers hit back, but Leigertwood couldn't manage to connect with a decent amount of power to worry Wright.
That, however, was as close as Rangers were to come, for Town took hold of the match by the scruff of the neck. And they could, and perhaps should, have been ahead in the 36th minute.
Mahon, trying to clear the danger, headed back towards Camp unaware of a loitering Counago who, when he couldn't find a way past the R's keeper, teed up Stead who fired wide of an open net.
The second half opened in the same manner the first had ended, with Stephen Quinn trying his luck from 25 yards after robbing Miller. Camp though, happily saw the ball bounce wide.
Rangers, however, refused to lie down, and put together some neat attacking play that needed crucial interceptions from the Town defenders. In a bid to up the intensity, Sousa replaced goal-scorer Di Carmine with Heidar Helguson.
It did not work out exactly as planned however, as Ipswich took the lead just past the hour. The newly-introduced Walters was barely on the pitch before Counago picked up the ball, burst past Hall and Connolly and rifled a left-foot shot beyond Camp.
To try and find a way back into the match, Sousa switched to 3-5-2, introducing R's top-scorer Blackstock for Delaney.
Unfortunately on 70 minutes, Walters made sure of the points for the visitors. Quinn's magnificent cross-field pass found the winger racing past Gorkss, and after controlling with his chest, he guided the ball home past the onrushing Camp.
In a final throw of the dice, Sousa sent on Angelo Balanta for the hard-working Miller.
But for a Blackstock header flying into the grateful arms of Wright, Rangers could not find the goals to stage a late comeback, and Town held on to claim the points.
QPR: Camp, Delaney (Blackstock 67), Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller (Balanta 73), Di Carmine (Helguson 55). Subs: Stewart, Alberti. Goals: Di Carmine (3)
Ipswich Town: R. Wright, D. Wright, McAuley, Bruce, Miller, Counago (Garvan 82), Norris, Civelli (Walters 60), Stead (Lisbie 69), Quinn, Thatcher.
Subs: Supple, Balkestein. Goals: Stead (14), Counago (61), Walters (70) Attendance: 13,914 QPR
IPSWICH OFFICIAL SITE
own closed the gap on the Play-Offs to two points with a dominant display at Loftus Road, lit up by brilliant second-half goals from Pablo Counago and Jon Walters.
Counago put Blues ahead on the hour with a terrific individual goal and Walters put Jim Magilton's side in total control with an equally good finish midway through the half.
Rangers had taken a third minute lead through Samuel Di Carmine, who converted Wayne Routledge's cross but Blues were on level terms on 13 minutes, Jon Stead diverting the ball home for his 10th goal of the season.
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Gareth McAuley passed a fitness test on his damaged calf, with Town making one change from the team that beat Nottingham Forest in midweek, hamstring victim Danny Haynes making way for David Norris.
England boss Fabio Capello joined his fellow Italian Flavio Briatore in the directors' box as the game got underway in front of the Sky cameras and Town could have been ahead before Rangers' early goal, Stead failing to control Tommy Miller's hooked pass when clear.
It was the home side who struck though on three minutes, Routledge getting away from Ben Thatcher too easily and his cross was met by Di Carmine at the near post, leaving Richard Wright with no chance.
Kaspars Gorkss headed well wide from another Routledge cross before Town levelled on 13 minutes, Stead forcing the ball in after McAuley had won a header and Norris put the ball in the box via Counago.
Norris tested Camp with a low shot then Counago went close to putting Blues ahead with a header from Alan Quinn's corner that went over the bar.
Thatcher sent the ball out of the ground from 30 yards after more Town pressure, Civelli's cross almost finding Counago at the far post.
Blues should have gone ahead nine minutes before the break, Gavin Mahon's header was latched on to by Counago who showed great awareness to set up Stead but the striker fired wide from the edge of the box with Camp beaten.
Quinn fired across goal inside the first minute of the second-half, Rangers responding with Routledge's cross hacked clear by Alex Bruce.
Town continued to look the better side and Counago played in the overlapping David Wright and almost got on the end of the cross, Civelli denied when he latched on to the loose ball.
Rangers made a first change on 54 minutes, Heidar Helguson on for Di Carmine, Blues then following with Jon Walters replacing Civelli on the hour.
Seconds later Blues were ahead and in sensational style, Counago wriggling away from three defenders and then curling a beauty past Camp.
The Spaniard almost added a second, his header deflecting off Gorkss for a corner. Rangers making a second change with Dexter Blackstock on for Damien Delaney.
Rangers had a penalty appeal turned down when Routledge's cross hit Norris' arm but with no intent, Kevin Lisbie introduced for Stead on 68 minutes.
Town's second goal was equalled by the third, a sublime pass by Quinn and an equally brilliant control and finish by Walters putting Blues in control.
Liam Miller was replaced by Angelo Balanta for the last 15 minutes, the home fans clearly not happy with the decision, Mahon the obvious target of their frustration.
Wright held firm from Mikele Leigertwood's long range effort, Thatcher then doing well to shield Routledge away from danger.
Owen Garvan was given the last 10 minutes, Counago making way. Thatcher then picking up the first and only booking of the game.
Rangers claimed a penalty when Routledge went down under a challenge from McAuley but the Town skipper had timed it to perfection, Bruce then standing strong - as he had done all game - to head clear from Routledge's cross as Blackstock threatened.
The win ends Town's miserable run in front of the Sky cameras this season, ends Rangers' 10 match unbeaten run and extends Town's run to just one defeat in nine games, with seven victories now on the road and the Play-Offs within reach. Ipswich Official Site
TABLE
1 Wolverhampton 33 21 63
2 Birmingham 33 11 60
3 Reading 32 30 59
4 Bristol City 34 7 53
5 Preston 34 3 53
6 Sheff Utd 33 14 52
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7 Burnley 34 1 52
8 Cardiff 29 15 51
9 Swansea 33 13 51
10 Ipswich 34 11 50
11 QPR 32 2 47
12 Sheff Wed 34 -9 45
13 Coventry 33 -2 44
14 Crystal Palace 31 5 43
15 Derby 32 -3 41
16 Doncaster 33 -11 40
17 Blackpool 34 -14 38
18 Watford 32 -7 36
19 Barnsley 32 -11 36
20 Plymouth 34 -13 36
21 Nottm Forest 34 -14 34
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22 Norwich 34 -9 33
23 Southampton 33 -19 31
24 Charlton 33 -21 26
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Today's Teams: QPR vs Ipwswich - Camp Starts. Cook Returns. And no Place in the 16 For the New Signing
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The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
Teams: QPR vs Ipwswich
QPR: Camp, Delaney, Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller, Di Carmine. - Subs: Stewart, Blackstock, Balanta, Alberti, Helguson.
Ipswich Town: R. Wright, D. Wright, McAuley, Bruce, Miller, Counago, Norris, Civelli, Stead, Quinn, Thatcher. - Subs: Supple, Garvan, Lisbie, Balkestein, Walters.
- If Interested in Old QPR Memories....QPR Nostalgia Photos - Regularly Updated
ITEMS RE QPR AND/OR GENERAL FOOTBALL INTEREST (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Micky Adams Out at Brighton
- Video Brazilians Trying to Rival QPR's China Brawl
- Portsmouth Let Kids Damage the FA Cup - Interesting Interview with Sam Allardyce (given that in the summer, Allardyce was linked to QPR as Manager)
- Everton Forced Switch Game Days Due to BNP Rally- Flashback: QPR vs Ipswich1968: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
Vital Football QPR on the QPR v Chelsea Game
- "...In 1970, Chelsea and QPR were drawn to face each other in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Chelsea's Alan Hudson described it as a 'fantastic draw', due to the rivalry between the two clubs. To add further spice, QPR were fielding two former Chelsea players, Terry Venables and Barry Bridges, as well as their star striker, Rodney Marsh.
- In an entertaining match, despite the poor pitch, Chelsea were 2-0 up within eight minutes thanks to Peter Osgood and David Webb, with a twice-taken Venables penalty putting Rangers back in contention. As Rangers threatened to equalise, Osgood scored twice more to complete his hat-trick and put the result beyond doubt, before Bridges grabbed a late consolation for his side. Chelsea would ultimately go on to win the cup that season." Vital Football QPR
Repost From Yesterday Football Fan Census - FOOTBALL FAN SURVEY
- The survey is just 6 questions long. To participate you have to be registered with the FFC which, if you haven't done previously, you can do at the end of this survey and register the team you support.
Q1. What was the biggest influence that made you start supporting your team?
My family
My friends
Memorable player
Memorable match
Memorable manager
Successful season
Location, where you live / grew up
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q2. If you selected family member, which family member influenced your choice?
Non applicable
Father
Mother
Grandfather
Grandmother
Brother
Sister
Uncle
Aunt
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q3. If you selected memorable match, which match influenced your choice?
Non applicable
FA Cup Final
FA Cup Match
Champions League / European Cup Final
Champions League / European Cup Match
League Match
League Cup Final
League Cup Match
Other
If "Other" please specify
Q4. If you selected memorable player, which player influenced your choice?
Q5. How many generations of your family support the same team?
1
2
3
4
4+
Q6. If you'd like to make any further comments please do so below:
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* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
* “Best Editor - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR Clive Whittingam, Loft for Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueenParkRangersfc.com
* “Best Writer - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR BOSH67, Loft For Words - QPR Clive Whittingham, Loft For Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueensParkRangersfc.com - QPR Jamie Sellars, A Kick Up The R's - QPR Mike, QPR Report - QPR Sandydl, Vital QPR - QPR The Blob, Loft For Words - QPR Tony Gibson, Loft For Words -
The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
Teams: QPR vs Ipwswich
QPR: Camp, Delaney, Mahon, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Gorkss, Connolly, Cook, Miller, Di Carmine. - Subs: Stewart, Blackstock, Balanta, Alberti, Helguson.
Ipswich Town: R. Wright, D. Wright, McAuley, Bruce, Miller, Counago, Norris, Civelli, Stead, Quinn, Thatcher. - Subs: Supple, Garvan, Lisbie, Balkestein, Walters.
- If Interested in Old QPR Memories....QPR Nostalgia Photos - Regularly Updated
ITEMS RE QPR AND/OR GENERAL FOOTBALL INTEREST (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Micky Adams Out at Brighton
- Video Brazilians Trying to Rival QPR's China Brawl
- Portsmouth Let Kids Damage the FA Cup - Interesting Interview with Sam Allardyce (given that in the summer, Allardyce was linked to QPR as Manager)
- Everton Forced Switch Game Days Due to BNP Rally- Flashback: QPR vs Ipswich1968: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
Vital Football QPR on the QPR v Chelsea Game
- "...In 1970, Chelsea and QPR were drawn to face each other in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Chelsea's Alan Hudson described it as a 'fantastic draw', due to the rivalry between the two clubs. To add further spice, QPR were fielding two former Chelsea players, Terry Venables and Barry Bridges, as well as their star striker, Rodney Marsh.
- In an entertaining match, despite the poor pitch, Chelsea were 2-0 up within eight minutes thanks to Peter Osgood and David Webb, with a twice-taken Venables penalty putting Rangers back in contention. As Rangers threatened to equalise, Osgood scored twice more to complete his hat-trick and put the result beyond doubt, before Bridges grabbed a late consolation for his side. Chelsea would ultimately go on to win the cup that season." Vital Football QPR
Repost From Yesterday Football Fan Census - FOOTBALL FAN SURVEY
- The survey is just 6 questions long. To participate you have to be registered with the FFC which, if you haven't done previously, you can do at the end of this survey and register the team you support.
Q1. What was the biggest influence that made you start supporting your team?
My family
My friends
Memorable player
Memorable match
Memorable manager
Successful season
Location, where you live / grew up
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q2. If you selected family member, which family member influenced your choice?
Non applicable
Father
Mother
Grandfather
Grandmother
Brother
Sister
Uncle
Aunt
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q3. If you selected memorable match, which match influenced your choice?
Non applicable
FA Cup Final
FA Cup Match
Champions League / European Cup Final
Champions League / European Cup Match
League Match
League Cup Final
League Cup Match
Other
If "Other" please specify
Q4. If you selected memorable player, which player influenced your choice?
Q5. How many generations of your family support the same team?
1
2
3
4
4+
Q6. If you'd like to make any further comments please do so below:
- To Actually Fill in/Send in this Census: Click Here - Football Fan Census Fan Survey
- REMINDERFanzine Voting FOR FAVOURITE QPR (Or Other) Publications!: Voting for your sites of choice in the Fanzine Awards
* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
* “Best Editor - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR Clive Whittingam, Loft for Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueenParkRangersfc.com
* “Best Writer - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR BOSH67, Loft For Words - QPR Clive Whittingham, Loft For Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueensParkRangersfc.com - QPR Jamie Sellars, A Kick Up The R's - QPR Mike, QPR Report - QPR Sandydl, Vital QPR - QPR The Blob, Loft For Words - QPR Tony Gibson, Loft For Words -
"On This Day" - QPR's FA Cup Quarter Final Game vs Chelsea...Football Fan Census Questionnaire...QPR Nostalgia Photos...Linked Articles of Interest
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The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
- If Interested in Old QPR Memories....QPR Nostalgia Photos - Regularly Updated
ITEMS RE QPR AND/OR GENERAL FOOTBALL INTEREST (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Micky Adams Out at Brighton
- Video Brazilians Trying to Rival QPR's China Brawl
- Portsmouth Let Kids Damage the FA Cup - Interesting Interview with Sam Allardyce (given that in the summer, Allardyce was linked to QPR as Manager)
- Everton Forced Switch Game Days Due to BNP Rally- Flashback: QPR vs Ipswich1968: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
- Flashback: February 21, 1970: QPR v Chelsea in the FA Cup Quarter Final at Loftus Road
-One of those truly exciting pre-games for QPR....as QPR had just beaten Dave Mackay/Brian Clough/Derby County previous game
- Chelsea managed by future QPR manager, Dave Sexton; and with future QPR players David Webb and John Hollins (and might-have been, QPR, Alan Hudson) ended up winning 4-2; Peter Osgood got a hatrick. Web got the other. Venables and Bridges scored for QPR. And Ron ("Chopper") Harris kept Rodney Marsh - who was aiming to into the England squad - totally quiet..
Chelsea went on to win the FA Cup! QPR vs Chelsea Programme Cover
QPR's team:
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Clement Mobley Hazell Gillard
Ferguson Venables Watson
Marsh Bridges Leach
Chelsea's probable team (might be one or two differences)
GK 1 Peter Bonetti
RB 2 David Webb
LB 3 Eddie McCreadie
CM 4 John Hollins
CB 5 John Dempsey
CB 6 Ron Harris (c)
RM 7 Alan Hudson
CM 8 Peter Houseman
CF 9 Peter Osgood
CF 10 Ian Hutchinson
LM 11 Charlie Cooke
QPR 2 Chelsea 4 - From Chelsea Official Site
- "..Several cup ties stand out too. Before the sixth round tie at Loftus Road in late February 1970, Chelsea had injury worries - a friendly against Borough Road Teacher Training College, of all teams, was arranged the Wednesday before and John Dempsey, Harris and Charlie Cooke came through.
Terry Venables had augmented the old boy contingent in Shepherd's Bush and Rangers were ascendant again, but the 'remorseless locomotion' of the visitors and a hat-trick from Peter Osgood brought a 4-2 win to keep things all quiet on the western front.
- Inside ten minutes Dave Webb had created and scored the opener, followed by Ossie's first, to ensure fans of Second Division Rangers had a very long afternoon to endure with their stars failing to shine. Rodney Marsh was so deep in Chopper's pocket it was still a surprise to see him turn up on TV's 'I'm A Celebrity' 37 years on." Chelsea Official Site via QPR Report
Vital Football QPR on the QPR v Chelsea Game
- "...In 1970, Chelsea and QPR were drawn to face each other in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Chelsea's Alan Hudson described it as a 'fantastic draw', due to the rivalry between the two clubs. To add further spice, QPR were fielding two former Chelsea players, Terry Venables and Barry Bridges, as well as their star striker, Rodney Marsh.
- In an entertaining match, despite the poor pitch, Chelsea were 2-0 up within eight minutes thanks to Peter Osgood and David Webb, with a twice-taken Venables penalty putting Rangers back in contention. As Rangers threatened to equalise, Osgood scored twice more to complete his hat-trick and put the result beyond doubt, before Bridges grabbed a late consolation for his side. Chelsea would ultimately go on to win the cup that season." Vital Football QPR
Repost From Yesterday Football Fan Census - FOOTBALL FAN SURVEY
- The survey is just 6 questions long. To participate you have to be registered with the FFC which, if you haven't done previously, you can do at the end of this survey and register the team you support.
Q1. What was the biggest influence that made you start supporting your team?
My family
My friends
Memorable player
Memorable match
Memorable manager
Successful season
Location, where you live / grew up
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q2. If you selected family member, which family member influenced your choice?
Non applicable
Father
Mother
Grandfather
Grandmother
Brother
Sister
Uncle
Aunt
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q3. If you selected memorable match, which match influenced your choice?
Non applicable
FA Cup Final
FA Cup Match
Champions League / European Cup Final
Champions League / European Cup Match
League Match
League Cup Final
League Cup Match
Other
If "Other" please specify
Q4. If you selected memorable player, which player influenced your choice?
Q5. How many generations of your family support the same team?
1
2
3
4
4+
Q6. If you'd like to make any further comments please do so below:
- To Actually Fill in/Send in this Census: Click Here - Football Fan Census Fan Survey
- REMINDERFanzine Voting FOR FAVOURITE QPR (Or Other) Publications!: Voting for your sites of choice in the Fanzine Awards
* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
* “Best Editor - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR Clive Whittingam, Loft for Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueenParkRangersfc.com
* “Best Writer - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR BOSH67, Loft For Words - QPR Clive Whittingham, Loft For Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueensParkRangersfc.com - QPR Jamie Sellars, A Kick Up The R's - QPR Mike, QPR Report - QPR Sandydl, Vital QPR - QPR The Blob, Loft For Words - QPR Tony Gibson, Loft For Words -
The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
- If Interested in Old QPR Memories....QPR Nostalgia Photos - Regularly Updated
ITEMS RE QPR AND/OR GENERAL FOOTBALL INTEREST (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Micky Adams Out at Brighton
- Video Brazilians Trying to Rival QPR's China Brawl
- Portsmouth Let Kids Damage the FA Cup - Interesting Interview with Sam Allardyce (given that in the summer, Allardyce was linked to QPR as Manager)
- Everton Forced Switch Game Days Due to BNP Rally- Flashback: QPR vs Ipswich1968: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
- Flashback: February 21, 1970: QPR v Chelsea in the FA Cup Quarter Final at Loftus Road
-One of those truly exciting pre-games for QPR....as QPR had just beaten Dave Mackay/Brian Clough/Derby County previous game
- Chelsea managed by future QPR manager, Dave Sexton; and with future QPR players David Webb and John Hollins (and might-have been, QPR, Alan Hudson) ended up winning 4-2; Peter Osgood got a hatrick. Web got the other. Venables and Bridges scored for QPR. And Ron ("Chopper") Harris kept Rodney Marsh - who was aiming to into the England squad - totally quiet..
Chelsea went on to win the FA Cup! QPR vs Chelsea Programme Cover
QPR's team:
Kelly -
Clement Mobley Hazell Gillard
Ferguson Venables Watson
Marsh Bridges Leach
Chelsea's probable team (might be one or two differences)
GK 1 Peter Bonetti
RB 2 David Webb
LB 3 Eddie McCreadie
CM 4 John Hollins
CB 5 John Dempsey
CB 6 Ron Harris (c)
RM 7 Alan Hudson
CM 8 Peter Houseman
CF 9 Peter Osgood
CF 10 Ian Hutchinson
LM 11 Charlie Cooke
QPR 2 Chelsea 4 - From Chelsea Official Site
- "..Several cup ties stand out too. Before the sixth round tie at Loftus Road in late February 1970, Chelsea had injury worries - a friendly against Borough Road Teacher Training College, of all teams, was arranged the Wednesday before and John Dempsey, Harris and Charlie Cooke came through.
Terry Venables had augmented the old boy contingent in Shepherd's Bush and Rangers were ascendant again, but the 'remorseless locomotion' of the visitors and a hat-trick from Peter Osgood brought a 4-2 win to keep things all quiet on the western front.
- Inside ten minutes Dave Webb had created and scored the opener, followed by Ossie's first, to ensure fans of Second Division Rangers had a very long afternoon to endure with their stars failing to shine. Rodney Marsh was so deep in Chopper's pocket it was still a surprise to see him turn up on TV's 'I'm A Celebrity' 37 years on." Chelsea Official Site via QPR Report
Vital Football QPR on the QPR v Chelsea Game
- "...In 1970, Chelsea and QPR were drawn to face each other in the FA Cup quarter-finals. Chelsea's Alan Hudson described it as a 'fantastic draw', due to the rivalry between the two clubs. To add further spice, QPR were fielding two former Chelsea players, Terry Venables and Barry Bridges, as well as their star striker, Rodney Marsh.
- In an entertaining match, despite the poor pitch, Chelsea were 2-0 up within eight minutes thanks to Peter Osgood and David Webb, with a twice-taken Venables penalty putting Rangers back in contention. As Rangers threatened to equalise, Osgood scored twice more to complete his hat-trick and put the result beyond doubt, before Bridges grabbed a late consolation for his side. Chelsea would ultimately go on to win the cup that season." Vital Football QPR
Repost From Yesterday Football Fan Census - FOOTBALL FAN SURVEY
- The survey is just 6 questions long. To participate you have to be registered with the FFC which, if you haven't done previously, you can do at the end of this survey and register the team you support.
Q1. What was the biggest influence that made you start supporting your team?
My family
My friends
Memorable player
Memorable match
Memorable manager
Successful season
Location, where you live / grew up
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q2. If you selected family member, which family member influenced your choice?
Non applicable
Father
Mother
Grandfather
Grandmother
Brother
Sister
Uncle
Aunt
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q3. If you selected memorable match, which match influenced your choice?
Non applicable
FA Cup Final
FA Cup Match
Champions League / European Cup Final
Champions League / European Cup Match
League Match
League Cup Final
League Cup Match
Other
If "Other" please specify
Q4. If you selected memorable player, which player influenced your choice?
Q5. How many generations of your family support the same team?
1
2
3
4
4+
Q6. If you'd like to make any further comments please do so below:
- To Actually Fill in/Send in this Census: Click Here - Football Fan Census Fan Survey
- REMINDERFanzine Voting FOR FAVOURITE QPR (Or Other) Publications!: Voting for your sites of choice in the Fanzine Awards
* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
* “Best Editor - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR Clive Whittingam, Loft for Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueenParkRangersfc.com
* “Best Writer - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR BOSH67, Loft For Words - QPR Clive Whittingham, Loft For Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueensParkRangersfc.com - QPR Jamie Sellars, A Kick Up The R's - QPR Mike, QPR Report - QPR Sandydl, Vital QPR - QPR The Blob, Loft For Words - QPR Tony Gibson, Loft For Words -
Friday, February 20, 2009
Football Fan Survey: Why You Support Your Club...Ipswich's Magilton on Sousa and Dowie and Hoping to Break TV "Jinx"
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The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
RECENT MESSAGEBOARD-POSTED ARTICLES (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Leeds Trying it on With Huddersfield: Want Huddersfield to Pay Their Expenses!
- Supposedly Amit Bhatia Comments: "Credit Crunch Is Biting" (According to another blogger - Ostensible original source for Bhatia quotes unknown)
- Recalling QPR's 1968 Match Against Ipswich: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
- Old QPR Photos
- Top Fifty Goal Poachers in English Football History - including Clive Allen
- QPR vs Liverpool - 1995/1996: The Prematch
- Police Effort to ban ALL Fans Fails!
- Italian Youth Tournament Continues Even After QPR's Exit
- Crystal Palace Official "Boycotting" Local Paper because of coverage
Football Fan Census - FOOTBALL FAN SURVEY
- The survey is just 6 questions long. To participate you have to be registered with the FFC which, if you haven't done previously, you can do at the end of this survey and register the team you support.
Q1. What was the biggest influence that made you start supporting your team?
My family
My friends
Memorable player
Memorable match
Memorable manager
Successful season
Location, where you live / grew up
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q2. If you selected family member, which family member influenced your choice?
Non applicable
Father
Mother
Grandfather
Grandmother
Brother
Sister
Uncle
Aunt
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q3. If you selected memorable match, which match influenced your choice?
Non applicable
FA Cup Final
FA Cup Match
Champions League / European Cup Final
Champions League / European Cup Match
League Match
League Cup Final
League Cup Match
Other
If "Other" please specify
Q4. If you selected memorable player, which player influenced your choice?
Q5. How many generations of your family support the same team?
1
2
3
4
4+
Q6. If you'd like to make any further comments please do so below:
Thanks for your time.Email:
- To Actually Fill in/Send in this Census: Click Here - Football Fan Census Fan Survey
- REMINDERFanzine Voting FOR FAVOURITE QPR (Or Other) Publications!: Voting for your sites of choice in the Fanzine Awards
* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
* “Best Editor - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR Clive Whittingam, Loft for Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueenParkRangersfc.com
* “Best Writer - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR BOSH67, Loft For Words - QPR Clive Whittingham, Loft For Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueensParkRangersfc.com - QPR Jamie Sellars, A Kick Up The R's - QPR Mike, QPR Report - QPR Sandydl, Vital QPR - QPR The Blob, Loft For Words - QPR Tony Gibson, Loft For Words -
IPWSWICH OFFICIAL SITE - TOWN OUT TO END TV REPEAT
-Jim Magilton is looking for Town to put on a performance in front of the TV cameras when Blues take on QPR.
- The 5.20pm kick-off at Loftus Road is covered live on Sky TV with Blues' record on the small screen not the best this season with away defeats at Watford, Norwich and Doncaster and a draw against Crystal Palace at Portman Road.
Town are above QPR on goal difference and will be looking to extend the run of only one defeat in eight League games and close the gap on the Play-Off places from four points.
- "We have not done well on TV this season so it would be nice to put that right and we go to QPR buoyed by the win against Forest on Wednesday," Jim told the Club website.
"I've always liked going to Loftus Road. It's a tight ground with the fans close to the pitch and that makes for a great atmosphere. There is always a bit of banter between the players and the supporters as well.
"They are in the same position as us, on the fringes of the Play-Offs and players being players, they will be aware of the results earlier in the afternoon and how that can affect things in the table but the focus from us will be on going there and getting the three points.
"I like the way QPR play. They have a lot of width and operate with a 433 or 451 system. It's a more European style and I'd probably be 'hung' if I did that at home!
"They have a good manager in Paulo Sousa. I had the pleasure of playing against him several times and he was an outstanding player. I'm sure if he takes that wonderful talent into management he will be a success."
Sousa replaced Iain Dowie in the Rangers' hot seat and Jim admits he was disappointed to see his close friend and former Northern Ireland international team-mate leave Loftus Road.
"I was sorry to see Iain go. He's an outstanding manager and an outstanding man and I'm not sure he was treated particularly fairly," adds Jim.
"He didn't get any time in the job but that's football nowadays. Everyone wants instant success and there is a pretty low tolerance level, driven on by the media attention but it's part of the game and we have to deal with it whether we like it or not."Town will give a late fitness test to Gareth McAuley who picked up a calf injury in the win over Forest. Kevin Lisbie is back in the squad after missing the Forest game with a back injury but Danny Haynes misses out with a hamstring problem.
Heidar Helguson, Sam Di Carmine and 'keeper Radek Cerny have recovered from injury for Rangers, who are unbeaten in nine League games, while Lee Cook has completed a ban.
They will also have Jordi Lopez available after he joined the club in a short team deal this week but Akos Buzsaky, Patrick Agyemang and Martin Rowlands will all miss out.
Kick-off at Loftus Road is 5.20pm with live commentary on Ipswich World. Ipswich
The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
RECENT MESSAGEBOARD-POSTED ARTICLES (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Leeds Trying it on With Huddersfield: Want Huddersfield to Pay Their Expenses!
- Supposedly Amit Bhatia Comments: "Credit Crunch Is Biting" (According to another blogger - Ostensible original source for Bhatia quotes unknown)
- Recalling QPR's 1968 Match Against Ipswich: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
- Old QPR Photos
- Top Fifty Goal Poachers in English Football History - including Clive Allen
- QPR vs Liverpool - 1995/1996: The Prematch
- Police Effort to ban ALL Fans Fails!
- Italian Youth Tournament Continues Even After QPR's Exit
- Crystal Palace Official "Boycotting" Local Paper because of coverage
Football Fan Census - FOOTBALL FAN SURVEY
- The survey is just 6 questions long. To participate you have to be registered with the FFC which, if you haven't done previously, you can do at the end of this survey and register the team you support.
Q1. What was the biggest influence that made you start supporting your team?
My family
My friends
Memorable player
Memorable match
Memorable manager
Successful season
Location, where you live / grew up
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q2. If you selected family member, which family member influenced your choice?
Non applicable
Father
Mother
Grandfather
Grandmother
Brother
Sister
Uncle
Aunt
Other
If "Other" please specify:
Q3. If you selected memorable match, which match influenced your choice?
Non applicable
FA Cup Final
FA Cup Match
Champions League / European Cup Final
Champions League / European Cup Match
League Match
League Cup Final
League Cup Match
Other
If "Other" please specify
Q4. If you selected memorable player, which player influenced your choice?
Q5. How many generations of your family support the same team?
1
2
3
4
4+
Q6. If you'd like to make any further comments please do so below:
Thanks for your time.Email:
- To Actually Fill in/Send in this Census: Click Here - Football Fan Census Fan Survey
- REMINDERFanzine Voting FOR FAVOURITE QPR (Or Other) Publications!: Voting for your sites of choice in the Fanzine Awards
* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
* “Best Editor - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR Clive Whittingam, Loft for Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueenParkRangersfc.com
* “Best Writer - Either Media” - QPR Adam Boxer, Vital QPR - QPR BOSH67, Loft For Words - QPR Clive Whittingham, Loft For Words - QPR Dave Thomas, A Kick Up The R's - QPR David Barton, QueensParkRangersfc.com - QPR Jamie Sellars, A Kick Up The R's - QPR Mike, QPR Report - QPR Sandydl, Vital QPR - QPR The Blob, Loft For Words - QPR Tony Gibson, Loft For Words -
IPWSWICH OFFICIAL SITE - TOWN OUT TO END TV REPEAT
-Jim Magilton is looking for Town to put on a performance in front of the TV cameras when Blues take on QPR.
- The 5.20pm kick-off at Loftus Road is covered live on Sky TV with Blues' record on the small screen not the best this season with away defeats at Watford, Norwich and Doncaster and a draw against Crystal Palace at Portman Road.
Town are above QPR on goal difference and will be looking to extend the run of only one defeat in eight League games and close the gap on the Play-Off places from four points.
- "We have not done well on TV this season so it would be nice to put that right and we go to QPR buoyed by the win against Forest on Wednesday," Jim told the Club website.
"I've always liked going to Loftus Road. It's a tight ground with the fans close to the pitch and that makes for a great atmosphere. There is always a bit of banter between the players and the supporters as well.
"They are in the same position as us, on the fringes of the Play-Offs and players being players, they will be aware of the results earlier in the afternoon and how that can affect things in the table but the focus from us will be on going there and getting the three points.
"I like the way QPR play. They have a lot of width and operate with a 433 or 451 system. It's a more European style and I'd probably be 'hung' if I did that at home!
"They have a good manager in Paulo Sousa. I had the pleasure of playing against him several times and he was an outstanding player. I'm sure if he takes that wonderful talent into management he will be a success."
Sousa replaced Iain Dowie in the Rangers' hot seat and Jim admits he was disappointed to see his close friend and former Northern Ireland international team-mate leave Loftus Road.
"I was sorry to see Iain go. He's an outstanding manager and an outstanding man and I'm not sure he was treated particularly fairly," adds Jim.
"He didn't get any time in the job but that's football nowadays. Everyone wants instant success and there is a pretty low tolerance level, driven on by the media attention but it's part of the game and we have to deal with it whether we like it or not."Town will give a late fitness test to Gareth McAuley who picked up a calf injury in the win over Forest. Kevin Lisbie is back in the squad after missing the Forest game with a back injury but Danny Haynes misses out with a hamstring problem.
Heidar Helguson, Sam Di Carmine and 'keeper Radek Cerny have recovered from injury for Rangers, who are unbeaten in nine League games, while Lee Cook has completed a ban.
They will also have Jordi Lopez available after he joined the club in a short team deal this week but Akos Buzsaky, Patrick Agyemang and Martin Rowlands will all miss out.
Kick-off at Loftus Road is 5.20pm with live commentary on Ipswich World. Ipswich
QPR - Ipswich Preview
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- The QPR Report Messageboard. Really a combination of messageboard and blog: A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard! - Articles Updated Throughout The Day
RECENT MESSAGEBOARD-POSTED ARTICLES (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Supposedly Amit Bhatia Comments: "Credit Crunch Is Biting" (According to another blogger - Ostensible original source for Bhatia quotes unknown)
- Recalling QPR's 1968 Match Against Ipswich: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
- Old QPR Photos
- Top Fifty Goal Poachers in English Football History - including Clive Allen
- QPR vs Liverpool - 1995/1996: The Prematch
- Police Effort to ban ALL Fans Fails!
- Italian Youth Tournament Continues Even After QPR's Exit
- Crystal Palace Official "Boycotting" Local Paper because of coverage
Sky Sports/Peter Beagrie - Top six appeal?
- The next two games are going to be key if Ipswich or QPR want to give themselves a realistic opportunity of getting into the play-offs.
- This is the time to show your intent. The two sides meet on Saturday evening, then QPR play fourth-placed Preston and Ipswich play fifth-placed Cardiff. Both sides need to take four out of six points if they want to make the top six.
- Saturday's game could potentially provide a springboard towards a play-off spot. I'm not saying the loser will be out of the hunt, but it would be increasingly difficult because the points clock is ticking away.
- Ipswich are 10th and QPR are 11th and there is no reason why they can't push on into the top six. But if you look at the three teams directly above them I just think they may be better equipped.
- A lot of people think very highly of Ipswich and the way they play football so I would think it strange that Jim has started to come under pressure at this moment in time.
Peter Beagrie Quotes of the week
QPR v IPSWICH TOWN
5.15pm, Sat, Sky Sports 1&HD1
I think Swansea can hit you from all angles, I think Bristol City are more strong and resolute than either QPR or Ipswich and I think Burnley are a better side as well.
- Ipswich are not as prolific or free-flowing as last year, but I do think they overachieved in many games last season. Particularly at home they put some teams to the sword and it was fantastic to watch.
- They have addressed the problem of their poor away from to a degree, but like QPR they have drawn too many games. They have been held by the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth, Coventry and Blackpool of late - and you need to be beating those teams if you endeavour to get one of those play-off places.
- Jim Magilton will be concerned that the invincibility that they had at home last year isn't there. They've drawn seven home games and I'm sure five of those would have been wins if they had last year's confidence.
- Jim has been very unfortunate with suspensions and injuries this year and it would be unfair to say he has underachieved. He has quite a young side and I'm surprised to hear some supporters are starting to question Jim's position
- I'd be more concerned if I was a QPR fan because Ipswich have had less money and are a place above them. Ipswich still have realistic play-off hopes and are yet to hit their full potential.
- I think Jim's done a very good job since he's been there and I think he's doing as well as he could be expected to. A lot of people think very highly of Ipswich and the way they play football so I would think it strange that Jim has started to come under pressure at this moment in time.
-Everybody expected QPR to be among the promotion chasers, but I never saw it like that. I thought that with all the changes they wouldn't have enough continuity or consistency to challenge.
- They have made themselves a hard side to beat but they lack the flair players we all expected to arrive when Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone took over.
- For me, they are having a very good season and are currently lying in the position they should be in. I just think too many people had unrealistic expectations over where they would finish.
- With QPR having drawn five of the last seven, a draw is maybe the likely result on Saturday. However, it is such an important game that both teams might be tempted to be a bit more adventurous in this game than the ones that follow.
A draw would not be a great result for either manager and both teams will see this as an opportunity for three points.
- That sixth play-off spot is still up for grabs and the next two games will tell us a lot about whether Ipswich or QPR have what it takes to claim it. Sky Sports
IPSWICH OFFICIAL SITE - KEVIN [LISBIE] BACK FOR QPR
- Kevin Lisbie is set to return to full training on Friday after recovering from a back injury but Gareth McAuley is a concern for Blues.
- Striker Kevin missed the win over Nottingham Forest last night after tweaking his back while warming up on the sidelines during Blues' draw with Blackpool last weekend.
- "Kevin has done some light work today and will train fully on Friday and should be fine for the QPR game," Town physio Matt Byard told the Club website.
- "Gareth is a concern for us in that he picked up a calf injury towards the end of the Forest game. He took a knock when he made that tackle that prevented them equalising.
- "It was very sore after the game but it's improved overnight and we will see how he is on Friday. It will be a late call on him I would think."
- Danny Haynes is definitely out of the trip to Loftus Road with a hamstring injury. Ipswich
Huw Turberville/Telegraph re QPR
- "...QPR are better-placed than Palace, meanwhile, with four more points.
Manager Paulo Sousa has made a promising start since arriving in mid-season, and hopes Spanish midfielder Jordi Lopez could be the final piece in the jigsaw that ensures they makes the play-offs.
Lopez, 27, has initially joined on a three-month deal, and Souza said: "Jordi is a very, very capable player and will give us great options in the middle of the park. He can play central or wide and is technically a very good player." Telegraph
- Fanzine Voting Reminder!: Voting for your sites of choice in the Fanzine Awards
* “Best Football League - Print” - [A Kick Up The R's]
* “Best Football League - Online” - QPR AKUTRS.co.uk - QPR LoftForWords.co.uk - QPR QPR.vitalfootball.co.uk - QPR QPRNet.com
* “Best Blog - Online” - lofty-heights06.blogspot.com (Lofty Heights) - qprnet.com - qprreport.blogspot.com (QPR Report)- qprtoday.net (QPR Today)
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RECENT MESSAGEBOARD-POSTED ARTICLES (UPDATES THROUGHOUT DAY)
- Supposedly Amit Bhatia Comments: "Credit Crunch Is Biting" (According to another blogger - Ostensible original source for Bhatia quotes unknown)
- Recalling QPR's 1968 Match Against Ipswich: QPR's First-Ever Division One Win
- Old QPR Photos
- Top Fifty Goal Poachers in English Football History - including Clive Allen
- QPR vs Liverpool - 1995/1996: The Prematch
- Police Effort to ban ALL Fans Fails!
- Italian Youth Tournament Continues Even After QPR's Exit
- Crystal Palace Official "Boycotting" Local Paper because of coverage
Sky Sports/Peter Beagrie - Top six appeal?
- The next two games are going to be key if Ipswich or QPR want to give themselves a realistic opportunity of getting into the play-offs.
- This is the time to show your intent. The two sides meet on Saturday evening, then QPR play fourth-placed Preston and Ipswich play fifth-placed Cardiff. Both sides need to take four out of six points if they want to make the top six.
- Saturday's game could potentially provide a springboard towards a play-off spot. I'm not saying the loser will be out of the hunt, but it would be increasingly difficult because the points clock is ticking away.
- Ipswich are 10th and QPR are 11th and there is no reason why they can't push on into the top six. But if you look at the three teams directly above them I just think they may be better equipped.
- A lot of people think very highly of Ipswich and the way they play football so I would think it strange that Jim has started to come under pressure at this moment in time.
Peter Beagrie Quotes of the week
QPR v IPSWICH TOWN
5.15pm, Sat, Sky Sports 1&HD1
I think Swansea can hit you from all angles, I think Bristol City are more strong and resolute than either QPR or Ipswich and I think Burnley are a better side as well.
- Ipswich are not as prolific or free-flowing as last year, but I do think they overachieved in many games last season. Particularly at home they put some teams to the sword and it was fantastic to watch.
- They have addressed the problem of their poor away from to a degree, but like QPR they have drawn too many games. They have been held by the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth, Coventry and Blackpool of late - and you need to be beating those teams if you endeavour to get one of those play-off places.
- Jim Magilton will be concerned that the invincibility that they had at home last year isn't there. They've drawn seven home games and I'm sure five of those would have been wins if they had last year's confidence.
- Jim has been very unfortunate with suspensions and injuries this year and it would be unfair to say he has underachieved. He has quite a young side and I'm surprised to hear some supporters are starting to question Jim's position
- I'd be more concerned if I was a QPR fan because Ipswich have had less money and are a place above them. Ipswich still have realistic play-off hopes and are yet to hit their full potential.
- I think Jim's done a very good job since he's been there and I think he's doing as well as he could be expected to. A lot of people think very highly of Ipswich and the way they play football so I would think it strange that Jim has started to come under pressure at this moment in time.
-Everybody expected QPR to be among the promotion chasers, but I never saw it like that. I thought that with all the changes they wouldn't have enough continuity or consistency to challenge.
- They have made themselves a hard side to beat but they lack the flair players we all expected to arrive when Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone took over.
- For me, they are having a very good season and are currently lying in the position they should be in. I just think too many people had unrealistic expectations over where they would finish.
- With QPR having drawn five of the last seven, a draw is maybe the likely result on Saturday. However, it is such an important game that both teams might be tempted to be a bit more adventurous in this game than the ones that follow.
A draw would not be a great result for either manager and both teams will see this as an opportunity for three points.
- That sixth play-off spot is still up for grabs and the next two games will tell us a lot about whether Ipswich or QPR have what it takes to claim it. Sky Sports
IPSWICH OFFICIAL SITE - KEVIN [LISBIE] BACK FOR QPR
- Kevin Lisbie is set to return to full training on Friday after recovering from a back injury but Gareth McAuley is a concern for Blues.
- Striker Kevin missed the win over Nottingham Forest last night after tweaking his back while warming up on the sidelines during Blues' draw with Blackpool last weekend.
- "Kevin has done some light work today and will train fully on Friday and should be fine for the QPR game," Town physio Matt Byard told the Club website.
- "Gareth is a concern for us in that he picked up a calf injury towards the end of the Forest game. He took a knock when he made that tackle that prevented them equalising.
- "It was very sore after the game but it's improved overnight and we will see how he is on Friday. It will be a late call on him I would think."
- Danny Haynes is definitely out of the trip to Loftus Road with a hamstring injury. Ipswich
Huw Turberville/Telegraph re QPR
- "...QPR are better-placed than Palace, meanwhile, with four more points.
Manager Paulo Sousa has made a promising start since arriving in mid-season, and hopes Spanish midfielder Jordi Lopez could be the final piece in the jigsaw that ensures they makes the play-offs.
Lopez, 27, has initially joined on a three-month deal, and Souza said: "Jordi is a very, very capable player and will give us great options in the middle of the park. He can play central or wide and is technically a very good player." Telegraph
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Snippets, Flashbacks, Ostensibly Bhatia on QPR and "Credit Crunch?" , QPR in The Community...Various Items of General Interest (Updated)
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- It's called The QPR Report Messageboard. In reality, it's more a combination of messageboard and blog. A site to read and discuss QPR and indulge in QPR nostalgia; and also to read some of the more significant football articles of the day. So if you're interested in a board where the focus is QPR and football - and only QPR and football, then try the very-different QPR Report Messageboard!
- Among the Articles Posted Today - Updated Throughout The Day:
- Ostensibly Amit Bhatia re QPR (taken from another blog - Not sure of original source) "Amit Bhatia "Credit Crunch Is Biting"
- Crystal Palace Official Statement "Boycotting" The Local Paper because of its coverage
- Police Effort to ban ALL Fans Fails!
- Some Fabulous Old QPR Photos (Constantly Updated)
- QPR vs Liverpool (1995/1996 Wilkins Relegation Season: The Prematch
- Recalling 1968 Match Against Ipswich: QPR's First-Ever First Division Victory
- Top Fifty Goal Poachers in English Football History - including Clive Allen (top ten still to come)
- Ebbsfleet Update/Deadline (The Web-Owned Club)
- Study of Points Deductions Shows Usually No Impact
- Slightly Ominous Plymouth Board Statement
- Platini Seeking Legal Exemption to Cap Spending
- Redknapp Faces Further Questions Over Transfers
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QPR Official Site - Amit Bhatia on QPR in The Community Trust: Giving Something Back
- Amit Bhatia is looking forward to playing his part in pushing the boundaries when it comes to the growth of QPR In The Community Trust.
- Following its launch at the House of Lords on Tuesday, the QPR Holdings Ltd Vice-Chairman - who is Chair of the Trust - told www.qpr.co.uk: "A lot of Clubs have ties to their communities and we're doing a lot already, but the idea is to be the best we can be and give the most back."
- The Trust - formerly QPR's hugely successful Football In The Community Scheme - covers a wide range of areas, and Bhatia added: "This is the smart way to do it, because if you're a registered charity it's easier for people to make donations and to apply for grants.
-"There's a lot of scope to improve as the Trust grows its own legs and generates a life of its own. It's a community service and we'd like to make a real difference." QPR
- See Also: Launch of QPR In The Community Trust...Some Words From Community Trust Chairman Amit Bhatia
Dave McIntyre/BBC606 - re QPR in The Community Trust "The House of fun"
- Even a cynic like me couldn’t fail to be impressed at the official unveiling of the QPR In The Community Trust at the House of Lords on Tuesday evening.
I must be going soft. Either that or they spiked my orange juice.
- The event marked the re-launch of Rangers’ community scheme, which has been run by Andy Evans since 1994.
- When I first heard the scheme was gaining Trust status, my initial thought was that it was about the club cutting costs and expecting the community department to fund itself.
- Hopefully that won’t prove to be the case. Andy has wanted this change for several years and when I spoke to him this week he was very enthusiastic about the scheme’s future.
- Becoming a Trust involves gaining official charity status, opening up new avenues in terms of fundraising and other benefits.
- More on this can be found on the Trust’s website along with details of the work Andy and his team will be undertaking.
That team will hopefully go from strength to strength.
- In 1994, when Rangers were of course an established top-flight club, the community department had two full-time staff members. It now has 10.
- QPR really are sitting on a potential goldmine
- And while the scheme can claim to have positively affected close to 100,000 lives in the last year, it is hoped that three years from now that figure will more than double; to around 250,000.
- The club’s community work is not just about football, but there is a definite crossover.
- Everyone with an interest in QPR can reel off the names of high-profile local footballers who ended up at other clubs, and more recently Rangers have been even slower off the mark.
- The more youngsters they come into contact with, the better their chances have to be of picking up potential stars.
- For example, Dean Parrett, who has since been sold to Tottenham where he is already on the fringes of the first-team squad, became involved with QPR via the club’s community scheme.
- Even more importantly, if QPR In The Community is vibrant and successful it will offer the club huge potential to maintain and expand its fan base.
- That isn’t just the usual drivel you hear about these schemes. QPR really are sitting on a potential goldmine, albeit an inner-city one and not the "boutique" model the owners have pursued.
- A log-term goal of the Trust is to get to the stage where it not only receives funding, but is strong enough to actually step in and assist community projects and the like.
- There is a case that football clubs have a moral responsibility to do this.
But those, including the owners, who are concerned with tangible results and the final balance sheet also have good reason to invest in a community scheme.
- When I was a kid, QPR's reaching out to young fans seemed to involve little more than handing out free tickets to the odd home match.
- Some of us already supported Rangers and others happily went along to watch a game for free – often wearing Liverpool or Manchester United shirts – with no intention of switching allegiances.
- The notion that youngsters would be so pleased to receive tickets and so smitten by QPR they’d become fans was almost as daft as believing that a green and white third kit would attract Irish fans.
- The best way to build any kind of support is to have an exciting and successful team. Gimmicks don’t work.
- But imagine a scenario where many projects and people are dependent on QPR. Where the club makes an actual difference to the quality of peoples’ lives, just like various charities we can all think of.
- On Tuesday evening the speakers included a youngster who was very frank about the direction he was heading in before his involvement with a QPR-supported initiative, since which time his studies have improved immeasurably.
- Other speakers included the mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome, who plays for the QPR Tiger Cubs’ team.
- Handing out free or cheap tickets to fill empty seats has its place, but giving people a reason to feel a genuine attachment to QPR is surely much more effective.
For that reason, expanding the Trust and reaching as many local people as possible can only strengthen QPR in the future. It’s a long-term investment and a worthy one.
Lord Burns, a lifelong Rangers fan and former club director, hosted the event and also spoke, as did Andy Evans and vice-chairman Amit Bhatia (Lakshmi Mittal’s son-in-law and representative on the board), who is the QPR In The Community chairman.
- Gareth Ainsworth then made a speech and presented a cheque from the players for over £8,000.
- Former players Clive Wilson and Kevin Gallen were also there, as was Kenny Dalglish, who is involved with community projects in Scotland.
- It was noticeable that a fair few of those attending this shindig were from companies that have been associated with QPR since last season’s takeover.
- Looking around the room, it occurred to me that although Flavio Briatore’s boutique vision is potentially disastrous for the club, there is scope to join it up with the community-based approach Bhatia is fronting.
- The corporate types I increasingly come across at home games could be prime candidates for a friendly donation or two to QPR In The Community, and the terms of last year’s deal with Lotto showed the two approaches can be combined.
- Andy deserves a lot of respect for the work he has done, and support for the work he is trying to do.
- He’s a Rangers man through and through, has worked at the club for many years and it’s about time he and his team got the credit they deserve.
And I’m not in the business of praising directors, so I’ll need to lie down after this…
- QPR’s rhetoric rarely bears much resemblance to what’s actually happening. In my view talk of building responsibly and not overspending is particularly laughable.
-If points were awarded for hot air, Rangers would be in a league of their own.
- But when I spoke to Bhatia soon after he joined the board, he talked particularly passionately about the community aspect of QPR, saying he would work with Andy Evans to develop that side of the club.
- He has been as good as his word. BBC606
Flashback: Thirty-Five Years Ago to the Day: February 19, 1974 One of the great QPR games: QPR played Coventry at Loftus Road in the replay of the Fifth Round of the FA Cup. With a couple of QPR players injured;moving into injury time with extra time set. A free kick to QPR. Stan Bowles took it. Ball in the net. Whistle blew: QPR 3 Coventry 2. QPR moved into the Quarter Final of the FA Cup for the first time, where they had a seemingly relatively easy draw against Leicester City....Unfortunately...!
The QPR team: Parkes - Hazell Mclintock Mancini Clement - Venables Leach Francis, Thomas Bowles Givens.
- Flashback to the QPR Fans Consultative Meeting of Two Years Ago "In attendance: Gianni Paladini (GP) Chairman, QPR FC ~ Nick De Marco (NDM) QPR FC legal advisor, and Chair of initial meeting ~ Akin Yilmaz (AK) Club Financial Controller and Company Secretary ~ Pat Harrison (PH) Official Supporters Club ~ Karen Hampshire (KH) Official Supporters Club ~ Tracy Stent (TS) QPR 1st Supporters Trust ~ Stephen Dedridge (SD) QPR 1st Supporters Trust ~ Victor Stephenson (VS) Friends of QPR ~ Spencer Schwartz (SS) Friends of QPR." - a href="http://www.qpr1st.co.uk/documents/Consultative%20minutes1.doc">What was Said
QPR Attendance Figures
Currently QPR have the seventh worst attendance figures in the Championship. (Not very different from last season) - See Championship Attendances
2008/09 13665 (Currently averaging 14,054)
2007/08 13,958 (Gregory/De Canio/Briatore Takeover)
2006/07 12,936 (Waddock/Gregory)
2005/06 13,440 (Holloway/Waddock - Paladini/Caliendo Replace BP)
2004/05 16,055 (Ian Holloway/BP led QPR )
2003/04 14,784 (Ian Holloway's Promotion season)
2002/03 13,206 (The Playoff Final Season)
See QPR Attendances Over Years
Eight Years Ago....QPR's Managerial Search
BBC-February 19, 2001 - Bassett snubs QPR job
Bassett does not want to succeed Gerry Francis
- Dave Bassett, favourite to take over as QPR manager, has ruled himself out of the running.
It is believed Bassett was scared off by speculation concerning the club's finances.
The former Wimbledon, Sheffield United and Barnsley manager was widely tipped as being favourite to land the post vacated by Gerry Francis.
Marsh claims denied
Bassett's withdrawal leaves Iain Dowie, Steve Bruce, Roy McFarland and Ray Graydon, who are all also believed to be on Rangers' short-list, still in the running.
But Rangers have dismissed claims by former star Rodney Marsh that the club are £20m in debt.
Speaking to BBC Ceefax, a Loftus Road spokesman said: "The accounts are there and anybody can look at them.
"As a television pundit, Rodney Marsh is paid to say controversial things. We are not £20m in debt as the accounts show."
Meanwhile, Brentford owner Ron Noades is reported to be ready to sell the club, re-invest his money and take the reins at QPR.
The former Crystal Palace supremo is believed to by eyeing a return to the limelight, and could soon make QPR chief Chris Wright an offer for the Loftus Road club, according to the Daily Star.
Wright is willing to sell, after becoming a target for fans' abuse as the team battles against the threat of relegation.BBC
BBC - February 20, 2001 - Jewell plays down QPR link
Bruce is favourite to take the helm
Paul Jewell has played down speculation linking him with the vacant manager's post at Queen's Park Rangers.
The former Sheffield Wednesday boss said he won't be rushed into a return so soon after getting the sack at Hillsborough.
I have had a quick chat with an official connected with the club which lasted two minutes at the most and that is as far as its gone
Paul Jewell
"I want to get back into the game, but I'm not going to jump at the first job that comes along," he said.
"I've read that I've been interviewed about the QPR job - but it's quite funny really because I was in bed all day on Monday with cold - so that was quite interesting.
"I have had a quick chat with an official connected with the club which lasted two minutes at the most and that is as far as its gone.
"But you can never say never, if it's right for me and it's the right job I would be interested."
Steve Bruce, Ian Holloway and Iain Dowie are all in the frame for the job with the Londoners.
Bruce has emerged as the hot favourite after Dave Bassett ruled himself out of the running on Monday. BBC
BBC - February 21, 2001 - QPR suffer Bruce snub
Steve Bruce has pulled out of the running for the QPR job.
The former Huddersfield Town boss was linked with the post following Gerry Francis' decision to stand down.
Rangers had been expected to unveil a new manager before the weekend but it now seems likely that Francis will still be in charge for the game against Wimbledon.
A statement released on behalf of Bruce said: "Further to discussions with the board of QPR, Steve Bruce has decided against having any further active discussion regarding the managerial position at the club.
I want to retire and I'm not going to change my mind
Gerry Francis
"The situation that Steve perceived as a long-term commitment seems to be clouded with uncertainty and Steve now understands that the club may be seeking a replacement only for the short term.
"On that basis Steve has decided to pull out but wishes to thank the board for their initial interest."
QPR have won twice - recording their first away win of the season against Gillingham on Tuesday - and have climbed out of the relegation zone since Francis announced his retirement from the game.
But the former England captain has made it clear that he has no intention of changing his mind despite the recent turnaround in the club's fortunes.
"I'm delighted with the six points we've gained in the last two games and obviously we are in a much better position now but my decision to go was never based on positions in the league," he said.
"I'm under no pressure from the board apart from the pressure to sign a new contract for next season but I've told them I don't want to do that. I want to retire and I'm not going to change my mind."
Former QPR midfielder Ian Holloway, recently sacked by Bristol Rovers, is thought to top the much-shortened candidate list. BBC
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- Among the Articles Posted Today - Updated Throughout The Day:
- Ostensibly Amit Bhatia re QPR (taken from another blog - Not sure of original source) "Amit Bhatia "Credit Crunch Is Biting"
- Crystal Palace Official Statement "Boycotting" The Local Paper because of its coverage
- Police Effort to ban ALL Fans Fails!
- Some Fabulous Old QPR Photos (Constantly Updated)
- QPR vs Liverpool (1995/1996 Wilkins Relegation Season: The Prematch
- Recalling 1968 Match Against Ipswich: QPR's First-Ever First Division Victory
- Top Fifty Goal Poachers in English Football History - including Clive Allen (top ten still to come)
- Ebbsfleet Update/Deadline (The Web-Owned Club)
- Study of Points Deductions Shows Usually No Impact
- Slightly Ominous Plymouth Board Statement
- Platini Seeking Legal Exemption to Cap Spending
- Redknapp Faces Further Questions Over Transfers
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QPR Official Site - Amit Bhatia on QPR in The Community Trust: Giving Something Back
- Amit Bhatia is looking forward to playing his part in pushing the boundaries when it comes to the growth of QPR In The Community Trust.
- Following its launch at the House of Lords on Tuesday, the QPR Holdings Ltd Vice-Chairman - who is Chair of the Trust - told www.qpr.co.uk: "A lot of Clubs have ties to their communities and we're doing a lot already, but the idea is to be the best we can be and give the most back."
- The Trust - formerly QPR's hugely successful Football In The Community Scheme - covers a wide range of areas, and Bhatia added: "This is the smart way to do it, because if you're a registered charity it's easier for people to make donations and to apply for grants.
-"There's a lot of scope to improve as the Trust grows its own legs and generates a life of its own. It's a community service and we'd like to make a real difference." QPR
- See Also: Launch of QPR In The Community Trust...Some Words From Community Trust Chairman Amit Bhatia
Dave McIntyre/BBC606 - re QPR in The Community Trust "The House of fun"
- Even a cynic like me couldn’t fail to be impressed at the official unveiling of the QPR In The Community Trust at the House of Lords on Tuesday evening.
I must be going soft. Either that or they spiked my orange juice.
- The event marked the re-launch of Rangers’ community scheme, which has been run by Andy Evans since 1994.
- When I first heard the scheme was gaining Trust status, my initial thought was that it was about the club cutting costs and expecting the community department to fund itself.
- Hopefully that won’t prove to be the case. Andy has wanted this change for several years and when I spoke to him this week he was very enthusiastic about the scheme’s future.
- Becoming a Trust involves gaining official charity status, opening up new avenues in terms of fundraising and other benefits.
- More on this can be found on the Trust’s website along with details of the work Andy and his team will be undertaking.
That team will hopefully go from strength to strength.
- In 1994, when Rangers were of course an established top-flight club, the community department had two full-time staff members. It now has 10.
- QPR really are sitting on a potential goldmine
- And while the scheme can claim to have positively affected close to 100,000 lives in the last year, it is hoped that three years from now that figure will more than double; to around 250,000.
- The club’s community work is not just about football, but there is a definite crossover.
- Everyone with an interest in QPR can reel off the names of high-profile local footballers who ended up at other clubs, and more recently Rangers have been even slower off the mark.
- The more youngsters they come into contact with, the better their chances have to be of picking up potential stars.
- For example, Dean Parrett, who has since been sold to Tottenham where he is already on the fringes of the first-team squad, became involved with QPR via the club’s community scheme.
- Even more importantly, if QPR In The Community is vibrant and successful it will offer the club huge potential to maintain and expand its fan base.
- That isn’t just the usual drivel you hear about these schemes. QPR really are sitting on a potential goldmine, albeit an inner-city one and not the "boutique" model the owners have pursued.
- A log-term goal of the Trust is to get to the stage where it not only receives funding, but is strong enough to actually step in and assist community projects and the like.
- There is a case that football clubs have a moral responsibility to do this.
But those, including the owners, who are concerned with tangible results and the final balance sheet also have good reason to invest in a community scheme.
- When I was a kid, QPR's reaching out to young fans seemed to involve little more than handing out free tickets to the odd home match.
- Some of us already supported Rangers and others happily went along to watch a game for free – often wearing Liverpool or Manchester United shirts – with no intention of switching allegiances.
- The notion that youngsters would be so pleased to receive tickets and so smitten by QPR they’d become fans was almost as daft as believing that a green and white third kit would attract Irish fans.
- The best way to build any kind of support is to have an exciting and successful team. Gimmicks don’t work.
- But imagine a scenario where many projects and people are dependent on QPR. Where the club makes an actual difference to the quality of peoples’ lives, just like various charities we can all think of.
- On Tuesday evening the speakers included a youngster who was very frank about the direction he was heading in before his involvement with a QPR-supported initiative, since which time his studies have improved immeasurably.
- Other speakers included the mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome, who plays for the QPR Tiger Cubs’ team.
- Handing out free or cheap tickets to fill empty seats has its place, but giving people a reason to feel a genuine attachment to QPR is surely much more effective.
For that reason, expanding the Trust and reaching as many local people as possible can only strengthen QPR in the future. It’s a long-term investment and a worthy one.
Lord Burns, a lifelong Rangers fan and former club director, hosted the event and also spoke, as did Andy Evans and vice-chairman Amit Bhatia (Lakshmi Mittal’s son-in-law and representative on the board), who is the QPR In The Community chairman.
- Gareth Ainsworth then made a speech and presented a cheque from the players for over £8,000.
- Former players Clive Wilson and Kevin Gallen were also there, as was Kenny Dalglish, who is involved with community projects in Scotland.
- It was noticeable that a fair few of those attending this shindig were from companies that have been associated with QPR since last season’s takeover.
- Looking around the room, it occurred to me that although Flavio Briatore’s boutique vision is potentially disastrous for the club, there is scope to join it up with the community-based approach Bhatia is fronting.
- The corporate types I increasingly come across at home games could be prime candidates for a friendly donation or two to QPR In The Community, and the terms of last year’s deal with Lotto showed the two approaches can be combined.
- Andy deserves a lot of respect for the work he has done, and support for the work he is trying to do.
- He’s a Rangers man through and through, has worked at the club for many years and it’s about time he and his team got the credit they deserve.
And I’m not in the business of praising directors, so I’ll need to lie down after this…
- QPR’s rhetoric rarely bears much resemblance to what’s actually happening. In my view talk of building responsibly and not overspending is particularly laughable.
-If points were awarded for hot air, Rangers would be in a league of their own.
- But when I spoke to Bhatia soon after he joined the board, he talked particularly passionately about the community aspect of QPR, saying he would work with Andy Evans to develop that side of the club.
- He has been as good as his word. BBC606
Flashback: Thirty-Five Years Ago to the Day: February 19, 1974 One of the great QPR games: QPR played Coventry at Loftus Road in the replay of the Fifth Round of the FA Cup. With a couple of QPR players injured;moving into injury time with extra time set. A free kick to QPR. Stan Bowles took it. Ball in the net. Whistle blew: QPR 3 Coventry 2. QPR moved into the Quarter Final of the FA Cup for the first time, where they had a seemingly relatively easy draw against Leicester City....Unfortunately...!
The QPR team: Parkes - Hazell Mclintock Mancini Clement - Venables Leach Francis, Thomas Bowles Givens.
- Flashback to the QPR Fans Consultative Meeting of Two Years Ago "In attendance: Gianni Paladini (GP) Chairman, QPR FC ~ Nick De Marco (NDM) QPR FC legal advisor, and Chair of initial meeting ~ Akin Yilmaz (AK) Club Financial Controller and Company Secretary ~ Pat Harrison (PH) Official Supporters Club ~ Karen Hampshire (KH) Official Supporters Club ~ Tracy Stent (TS) QPR 1st Supporters Trust ~ Stephen Dedridge (SD) QPR 1st Supporters Trust ~ Victor Stephenson (VS) Friends of QPR ~ Spencer Schwartz (SS) Friends of QPR." - a href="http://www.qpr1st.co.uk/documents/Consultative%20minutes1.doc">What was Said
QPR Attendance Figures
Currently QPR have the seventh worst attendance figures in the Championship. (Not very different from last season) - See Championship Attendances
2008/09 13665 (Currently averaging 14,054)
2007/08 13,958 (Gregory/De Canio/Briatore Takeover)
2006/07 12,936 (Waddock/Gregory)
2005/06 13,440 (Holloway/Waddock - Paladini/Caliendo Replace BP)
2004/05 16,055 (Ian Holloway/BP led QPR )
2003/04 14,784 (Ian Holloway's Promotion season)
2002/03 13,206 (The Playoff Final Season)
See QPR Attendances Over Years
Eight Years Ago....QPR's Managerial Search
BBC-February 19, 2001 - Bassett snubs QPR job
Bassett does not want to succeed Gerry Francis
- Dave Bassett, favourite to take over as QPR manager, has ruled himself out of the running.
It is believed Bassett was scared off by speculation concerning the club's finances.
The former Wimbledon, Sheffield United and Barnsley manager was widely tipped as being favourite to land the post vacated by Gerry Francis.
Marsh claims denied
Bassett's withdrawal leaves Iain Dowie, Steve Bruce, Roy McFarland and Ray Graydon, who are all also believed to be on Rangers' short-list, still in the running.
But Rangers have dismissed claims by former star Rodney Marsh that the club are £20m in debt.
Speaking to BBC Ceefax, a Loftus Road spokesman said: "The accounts are there and anybody can look at them.
"As a television pundit, Rodney Marsh is paid to say controversial things. We are not £20m in debt as the accounts show."
Meanwhile, Brentford owner Ron Noades is reported to be ready to sell the club, re-invest his money and take the reins at QPR.
The former Crystal Palace supremo is believed to by eyeing a return to the limelight, and could soon make QPR chief Chris Wright an offer for the Loftus Road club, according to the Daily Star.
Wright is willing to sell, after becoming a target for fans' abuse as the team battles against the threat of relegation.BBC
BBC - February 20, 2001 - Jewell plays down QPR link
Bruce is favourite to take the helm
Paul Jewell has played down speculation linking him with the vacant manager's post at Queen's Park Rangers.
The former Sheffield Wednesday boss said he won't be rushed into a return so soon after getting the sack at Hillsborough.
I have had a quick chat with an official connected with the club which lasted two minutes at the most and that is as far as its gone
Paul Jewell
"I want to get back into the game, but I'm not going to jump at the first job that comes along," he said.
"I've read that I've been interviewed about the QPR job - but it's quite funny really because I was in bed all day on Monday with cold - so that was quite interesting.
"I have had a quick chat with an official connected with the club which lasted two minutes at the most and that is as far as its gone.
"But you can never say never, if it's right for me and it's the right job I would be interested."
Steve Bruce, Ian Holloway and Iain Dowie are all in the frame for the job with the Londoners.
Bruce has emerged as the hot favourite after Dave Bassett ruled himself out of the running on Monday. BBC
BBC - February 21, 2001 - QPR suffer Bruce snub
Steve Bruce has pulled out of the running for the QPR job.
The former Huddersfield Town boss was linked with the post following Gerry Francis' decision to stand down.
Rangers had been expected to unveil a new manager before the weekend but it now seems likely that Francis will still be in charge for the game against Wimbledon.
A statement released on behalf of Bruce said: "Further to discussions with the board of QPR, Steve Bruce has decided against having any further active discussion regarding the managerial position at the club.
I want to retire and I'm not going to change my mind
Gerry Francis
"The situation that Steve perceived as a long-term commitment seems to be clouded with uncertainty and Steve now understands that the club may be seeking a replacement only for the short term.
"On that basis Steve has decided to pull out but wishes to thank the board for their initial interest."
QPR have won twice - recording their first away win of the season against Gillingham on Tuesday - and have climbed out of the relegation zone since Francis announced his retirement from the game.
But the former England captain has made it clear that he has no intention of changing his mind despite the recent turnaround in the club's fortunes.
"I'm delighted with the six points we've gained in the last two games and obviously we are in a much better position now but my decision to go was never based on positions in the league," he said.
"I'm under no pressure from the board apart from the pressure to sign a new contract for next season but I've told them I don't want to do that. I want to retire and I'm not going to change my mind."
Former QPR midfielder Ian Holloway, recently sacked by Bristol Rovers, is thought to top the much-shortened candidate list. BBC
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