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Ask Steve Claridge/BBC- re QPR
- Hi Steve, what do you make of QPR's recent run of form and them playing some of the best football in the Championship at the moment? Do you think they will be able to stay consistent from now up until the end of the season?
Scott Andrews England
- Scott sent this question last week - before Friday's defeat by Leicester and Tuesday's draw with Crystal Palace - which shows how quickly things can change.
- This season, QPR have flattered to deceive. They have been winning games you don't expect them to but, just as you think they have turned the corner, they take a bit of a backward step - as with their last two home results.
- They are definitely lacking any sort of consistency at the moment. It's a case of when they play well, they are very good - they have got four or five players who can hurt you going forwards.
- But defensively they seem to shut off occasionally and they have been punished for it, as with the Leicester game for example.
- So they have got to be harder to beat. They cannot play well every week, so they need to have another side to their game and be able to win when they don't turn it on.
- And, let's be straight about this, they should be a top-three team in that division with the players they have and the money they are spending. There seems to be a misconception that they haven't spent anything but that is absolute tosh - Alejandro Faurlin cost £3.5m.
- Does that lead to pressure on their manager Jim Magilton? No. Pressure is not when you have got loads of money to spend - pressure is when you are down the bottom of the table with nowhere to turn and no money to buy anyone. I'm sure Jim is sitting there thinking what a lucky, lucky man he is.
- If you're in charge there, then it might not be the longest managerial stint of your life but it is certainly a massive opportunity. There are a lot harder jobs out there. .. BBC


Congratulations to Paulo Sousa and Kenny Jackett

Football League: October Manager of The Month Nominations:
- The nominations have been announced for the Coca-Cola Manager of the Month award for October:
- Championship
Nigel Pearson - Leicester City - Billy Davies - Nottingham Forest
Paulo Sousa - Swansea City - Dave Jones - Cardiff City
- League 1 Kenny Jackett - Millwall Alan Pardew - Southampton Paul Lambert - Norwich City - Paul Ince - Milton Keynes Dons
- League 2 John Sheridan - Chesterfield - Keith Hill - Rochdale - Paul Peschisolido - Burton Albion - Micky Adams - Port Vale
- Winners will be announced on Saturday during Sky Sports Soccer Saturday from midday. Football League

- Sousa Doing Well at Swansea


QPR Fan Lord Burns
Guardian - Lord Burns: 'Teflon Terry' who played key role in ban on hunting with dogs Red-hot favourite in race to be named Channel 4 chairman was involved in shaping plans for rival broadcaster BBC's future
John Plunkett and Steve Busfield
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 November 2009 15.14 GMT
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When Lord Burns chaired the government's inquiry into hunting with dogs, he famously concluded that the practice "seriously compromises the welfare of the fox".

A former Whitehall mandarin, Burns has been chairman of Abbey National, now owned by Spanish banking giant Santander, since February 2002.

He is best known in the media industry for leading then culture secretary Tessa Jowell's review of the BBC's governance, funding and remit in the run up to the renewal of the corporation's 10-year royal charter.


Burns's 2005 report recommended replacing the BBC board of governors with a public service broadcasting commission to advise government on the corporation's funding requirements and decide if licence fee money should be given to other organisations to produce and broadcast public service content.

In the end, then BBC chairman Michael Grade's plan for the governors to be replaced by the BBC Trust was taken up by the government.

However, Burns's proposal for "top-slicing" the licence fee is back on the political agenda with Labour's plan to use licence fee money to help pay for a replacement ITV regional news service and children's programmes on commercial TV.

Burns was also a candidate for BBC chairmanship in 2001 and 2007 and in the running for the top job at Ofcom when it was created in 2003.

In Whitehall circles, the former grammar school boy from the north-east is also known as "Teflon Terry" because of his ability to ride out scandals.

Terry Burns, as he is known to everyone, is described as charming and unflappable, a "down to earth grammar school boy from the north-east" whose passions are "golf and Queens Park Rangers". He was given a life peerage following his exit from Whitehall in 1998.

An "early adopter", he was said to have been one of the first people to have had a home computer, and has tried to make a model analysing the tactics of football teams.

As a former permanent secretary at the Treasury, its chief economic adviser and as professor of economics at the London Business School, Burns was close to the centre of the government's economic policy-making machine for three decades.

Described as a Thatcherite, he was recruited by the then chancellor Geoffrey Howe in 1980 and remained in Whitehall for the next 17 years.

His relationship with five successive Tory chancellors, from Howe to Kenneth Clarke, was rather more cordial than the one he enjoyed with Gordon Brown. The pair were at the centre of a sleaze row when the Daily Mail alleged that the chancellor had twisted Burns's arm into issuing a statement that he had approved the financial affairs of former paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson. Brown described the claim as "fictional nonsense".

However, after his departure from the Treasury, Burns, a close ally of Tony Blair, was put to work by the Labour government behind the scenes in Whitehall and gained a reputation as "Lord Fixit". He was chosen by Jack Straw to chair the inquiry into hunting in 1999 and parachuted into the National Lottery Commission two years later to review the way it awards its licence.

He also led a review of the way the FA, football's governing body, was run in 2004 after it was hit by a string of scandals." Guardian


Guardian - Lord Burns set to be named Channel 4 chairman
- Former permanent secretary to the Treasury could be announced as Luke Johnson's replacement as early as today. By James Robinson and Mark Sweney

Lord Burns set to be named Channel 4 chairmanFormer permanent secretary to the Treasury could be announced as Luke Johnson's replacement as early as today
- James Robinson and Mark Sweney

Lord Burns, the former permanent secretary to the Treasury, is set to replace Luke Johnson as Channel 4 chairman, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

Media regulator Ofcom is expected to announce the new Channel 4 chairman this week, possibly as early as today. Burns, whose nickname is "Lord Fixit", is understood to be the favourite to take the job in government circles.

Other contenders for the post have included Richard Eyre, a former chief executive of ITV, and Lord Alli, the Labour peer and co-founder of production company Planet 24.

It is thought that Ofcom wanted to appoint a woman to the post, but a series of high-profile female candidates, including Dianne Thompson, the chief executive of lottery operator Camelot, have quietly ruled themselves out of the running.

Ofcom declined to comment.

Burns has been chairman of Abbey National, now owned by Spanish banking giant Santander, since February 2002.

He is best known in the media industry for leading a review of the BBC's role for former culture secretary Tessa Jowell in the runup to the renewal of the corporation's 10-year royal charter in late 2006.

Burns was regarded as a heavyweight candidate for the top job at Ofcom when it was created in 2003 and was also in the running for the chairmanship of the BBC in 2001, when Sir Christopher Bland stood down. The job went to Gavyn Davies.

He also chaired the government's inquiry into hunting with dogs, memorably concluding that the practice "seriously compromises the welfare of the fox".

Burns has also been chairman of the National Lottery Commission, which licenses and regulates the lottery; and led a review of the way the FA, football's governing body, was run in 2004 after it was hit by a string of scandals.

In Whitehall circles, the former grammar school boy from the north-east is also known as "Teflon Terry" because of his ability to ride out scandals.

If he is appointed at Channel 4, he will face a series of strategic challenges, including how to engineer a joint venture with BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm. That is crucial to securing the broadcaster's future after its plea for public money was rejected by government.

Burns's first major task will be choosing the next chief executive, after Andy Duncan leaves before the end of the year.

The new management team are also likely to have to deal with a Conservative government that has promised to crack down on Channel 4 and BBC executive salaries if the Tories win the election next year, as seems likely. Guardian


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