QPR Report Saturday: WBA...QPR Twitter Followers Up 600%...Warnock on Mackie, QPR Staying Up, Players Diving...Flashbacks

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- QPR OFFICIAL SITE TWITTER FEED UP 600% in a Year!

VERY IMPRESSIVE STATISTIC CONCERNING THE QPR OFFICIAL SITE TWITTER FEED

   

 Congratulations to Queen's Park Rangers Official Twitter Feed - "Followers" of the Official Site Twitter Feed have increased more than 600% in a Year!

  - This time last year, QPR's Official Site Twitter Feed had 4,500 Followers 

  A year later, QPR's Official Site Twitter Feed is currently approaching 28,000 Followers (27,721 at the time of writing)

  [Note: An obvious bias here:  The QPR Report Twitter Feed  https://twitter.com/qprreport with considerably fewer followers than the Official Site's (although still among the "most-followed" QPR-related Tweeter feeds)  is well worth following as well!  For better or worse,  QPR Report Twitter contains considerable material not on the Official Site ]

 Onwards and Upwards!  

- Update Snippet on QPR Former Chairman, Gianni Paladini (Enters the World of Horse Racing)

- West Bromwich Albion (WBA) vs QPR: Shared Players/Past Results

-      The Guardian/The Secret Footballer: Moneyball works better at Stoke than LiverpoolThe style of Stoke City, four points behind Liverpool in the league table, is a rudimentary example of soccernomics

- Published (But not Publicized) - The 2011-2012 QPR Customers Charter

- Three Year Flashback: Blackstock Contradicts and Briatore Club Q&A re Sousa Departure, Other Managers Not Axed, Players, Fans

- Four Year Flashback: Extensive Report on QPR's 2008 AGM

- Six Years Ago: Gary Waddock on Wanting QPR Job...Nine Years Ago: QPR Financial Situation

- The QPR Player Whose Contracts Expire in Summer of 2012

- On This Day: QPR Try and Sign George Best!

- "Where Are They Now?" ARMEL Tchakounte


NEIL WARNOCK/The INDEPENDENT
 Neil Warnock: Mackie and Moses prove that nice guys can finish first
What I Learnt This Week
 "One of the best parts of this job is seeing young players develop their potential and I looked on with pride this week at the performances of Jamie Mackie and Victor Moses, two smashing lads who have really come on since I first saw them.
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Like Victor, Jamie's crossing isn't quite good enough yet for a wide player in the top flight but he makes up for it with so much effort and an eye for goal. I saw him in a pre-season match playing for Plymouth against my Palace team. He ripped Nathaniel Clyne to pieces and I'd never seen Clyney taken to the cleaners. I remembered and when I had the chance to bring some players in at QPR a year later I signed him. Jamie was an important player for us in the Championship-winning season until he suffered a really bad leg break last January. He's shown a great attitude to come back from that. The crowd take to him because of his 100 per cent commitment, and it is great to see him keeping bigger names out of Mark Hughes' starting XI. He's a really good lad. They don't always come out on top so it's good to see this one do so.
He's a throwback in some ways. I found myself on a few occasions asking why he didn't go down in the penalty box when he'd been fouled. He just said: "I don't really know how to, gaffer."

2 Hit the divers where it hurts – with a six-match ban

Unfortunately Jamie is something of a rarity, as we have seen this week, with Manchester United's Ashley Young among the players diving, and Liverpool's Luis Suarez wrongly booked because he has a reputation for doing so.

I still think a six-game retrospective ban for diving will cut it out; fines are no use because money's no problem to Premier League players. I'm always telling my players not to put a foot out because, as Gary Neville said, modern players look for the chance to go down.

I did find it amazing that while Suarez always gets slaughtered, Young didn't get more criticism. He went down with the slightest touch and Lee Mason fell for it. I'd like to know who was the football person on the committee who didn't overturn Shaun Derry's red card. Then Mario Balotelli got off because one of the officials saw his tackle – if that official didn't feel it was a sending off he should have been banned. Poor old Mike Riley, the refs' boss, he would be pulling his hair out if he had any left. It's all contributed to what's probably been as bad a week as we've had for officials. In a job that needs a lot of help, some refs have been fed to the lions by their assistants with some terrible offside decisions hurting clubs such as Wigan and QPR.

3 Martinez is magic ... and I'm backing the Hoops to survive

After his disappointment at Chelsea it was fantastic to see Roberto Martinez's Wigan get maximum points against the champions-elect. They thoroughly deserved it on the night. They and my old club are now favourites to escape. I really fancied QPR strongly on Wednesday as they have the type of players who close teams down and it is difficult for Swansea to play under so much pressure. Last season we beat them 4-0, and earlier this season at Christmas, we got the best of a 1-1 draw in Wales. The suspension of Djibril Cissé may have been a blessing in disguise as it has enabled Mark Hughes to play Mackie and Adel Taarabt at the same time, making his midfield stronger. That should see them through. Today they have a very winnable game against West Bromwich Albion...."
The Independent

 Sporting Life - TREVOR FRANCIS SUFFERS HEART ATTACK

Trevor Francis has been hospitalised after suffering a heart attack.

The 57-year-old former England striker was rushed to hospital on Friday after suffering severe chest pains. After being admitted he immediately underwent surgery and was fitted with a coronary stent.

Britain's first million pound footballer, Francis is now recovering and one of his former club's Birmingham issued a statement.

"Everybody at Birmingham City FC would like to send our best wishes to club legend Trevor Francis following news that he is recovering in hospital from a suspected heart attack," a club statement read.

"The former Blues striker and manager is much loved by everybody associated with the club and we'd like to wish Trevor a speedy recovery."

Francis enjoyed an illustrious playing career, winning over 50 caps for England, and winning the European Cup during his time with Nottingham Forest.

He also enjoyed spells with Birmingham City, Manchester City, Rangers, Sampdoria and Queens Park Rangers.

He also had a distinguished managerial career, beginning that stage of his career with QPR before also taking charge at Sheffield Wednesday, Birmingham and Crystal Palace.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/new....soccer& BID=165

-  Video of Trevor Francis Hatrick for QPR at Aston Villa

- Three Years Ago: QPR Statement re Sousa and Come-from-Behind Win for Caretaker Manager, Gareth Ainsworth





- Birthday for QPR's Former Chairman, Flavio Briatore

 Two Year Flashback: QPR Announce a Chief Scout (and then...?)

- RIP: QPR Groundsman Martin Varney

- The Answer to the Question: Will There be a QPR Player of the Year Dinner? (Presumably one way or the other, soon..?)








  The Guardian/The Knowledge Ian McCourt Which clubs have had problems with moles in the dressing room?...

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- - QPR Videos from 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s AND the Last Minute FA Cup Tie Winning Stan Bowles Free Kick from 1973/74