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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Gianluca Di Marzio Happy at QPR...Helguson Injury Update...Birthday for QPR Supporter and Former Chairman Bill Power ...A QPR Fan From The Vietnam War

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- The cutting-edge QPR Report Messageboard: Visit - even post on - the combination quasi-blog and messageboard for additional up-to-the-minute news about QPR, combined with QPR nostalgia and occasionally, general football items. Links to items on other QPR boards, always welcome!
- QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER!


- Very Happy Birhday to QPR Supporter and Former Chairman, Bill Power (BP)


- From Yesterday: Four Year Flashback: Gianni Paladini Appointed QPR Chairman
- [Four years later, at least a few messgaboard posters are speculating about a supposed prominent Paladini role if the Mittals take over from Briatore]

- Three Year Flashback: "QPR vs AKUTRS"


- Also Birthdys today: Pat Agyemang (29) and - QPR Cup Final Replay Sub


Goal.com - Sep 29, 2009 - Gianluca Di Marzio Will Not Be Napoli's New Sporting Director - Report
- According to rumours circulating around Napoli, Di Marzio was expected to be announced as the new sporting director, but it is not true...
- Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis & director Pierpaolo Marino discuss the club's recent poor form
- The sudden resignation of Pierpaolo Marino as Napoli's sporting director, has caused in his now former club to go in search of an immediate replacement for him.
- With rumours circulating that Queens Park Rangers director Gianluca Di Marzio could be in line for the newly-opened vacancy, the man himself has quashed any suggestion to the veracity of these whispers.
- "I have never been contacted by [Napoli owner Aurelio] De Laurentiis," Di Marzio said to Novantesimo.it.
- "I am comfortable at Queens Park Rangers in England, and I don't believe that I will immerse myself in the chaotic happenings like those going on at Napoli at the moment."
- The QPR director believed that Marino may have made some errors - whether financial - in paying too much for certain individuals - or technical - for not buying a player to do a certain role.
- He added, "There may have been too many errors in the acquisition of players, either paying too much, or more importantly, not getting someone to play a role not already covered." -
Rick D'Andrea, Goal.com

- More about Gianni Di Marzio & QPR


Helguson Injury Update- After having a second scan today....
"Watford Official Site - TRIO SET TO MISS OUT

- "...Speaking this afternoon, the gaffer updated www.watfordfc.com on the latest situation from the treatment room at London Colney.
- Loanee Heidar Helguson will not be involved in either of Watford's games this week and with an international break looming, that provides the Icelandic striker with further time to prove his fitness before the Hornets' trip north to face Middlesbrough on Saturday 17 October.
- Helguson had a further scan on his injured calf this morning. Mackay said: "We've spoken to Heidar and the specialist since then and he has torn his calf muscle, so he's going to be out for a couple of weeks - Watford


From The Mirror - 28/09/09 From QPR to NVA
"For those of you who have felt aggrieved at having to miss a game due to a work conference, or wedding, here is a sobering letter from a 1969 QPR programme…


- “Dear Sir, I am an Englishman who emigrated to the USA in February 1968, by February 1969 I was in the US Army and now I am over in Vietnam fighting this war, but every week I get news clippings of the great QPR from a good friend of mine Bob Thorpe. If I ever get home to England the first Saturday I will be watching the only team – QPR.
- “Is there anybody reading this who would like to send me clippings or photographs of the great team?
- “Yours truly, the only QPR supporter in Vietnam – PFC Nils Guy 171447871 - CoD 1/35th Inf 4th Div.

- According to the letters editor Nils wrote two messages on the back of his envelope – ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘QPR for the Cup!’

- Instead of watching Rodney Marsh and Tony Hazell at Loftus Road poor Nils was patrolling through the Vietnamese jungle waiting for the Viet Cong to ambush him.
- Think yourselves lucky. - Mirror

[Note: If anyone should happen to know whatever happened to PFC Nils Guy, please post here or contact]

- QPR Fan/Mirror Blogger Jesse Whitock on QPR vs Barnsley


- The Return of Football Aid - QPR

- The Business Views (non QPR) of Lakshmi Mittal

- Next: Newcastle vs QPR

- Next game after next: Swansea Away on Saturday
- Sousa Sets His Sights On Victory Over QPR "It's a game I really want to win" Planet Swans

- Long-time QPR SUPPORTER, Harold Winton Honoured by QPR with Lifetime Achievement Award

- QPR Youth Defeat Southend: Match Report

- West Ham and Millwall Charged by FA

- Briatore NOT in the foremost list of "Meddling Chairmen"

- Ex-QPR, Steffan Moore Turns 26

- The Fourth Official for QPR-Barnsley Twittering before and after the game

- Year Flashback: Newspaper Story re a proposed QPR Name Change - and the Immediate QPR Statement Denying anything to the story.

Eleven Years Ago..Ray Harford Resigns...Vinnie Jones Passed Over.
- Eleven Years Ago today: Ray Harford resigns as QPR manager after a terrible year in charge. Ian Dowie - rather than Vinnie Jones - took over as caretaker manager. Two weeks later, Gerry Francis was appointed QPR manager. Ray Harford went on to coach elsewhere, before sadly, dying, only in his later fifties, in August, 2003.


- The Barnsley Goals

- Using The Term "Yid" to Apply to Spurs/Spurs Supporters