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Comment | Things turn toxic as hapless QPR lose yet again - Report
at 22:37:43
Apologies Clive, I’ve not been able to bring myself to read your recent match reports as it would mean that I would have to face up to the utterly sorry, sorry state of our club. To say we were devoid of any ideas, creativity or structure is an insult to the adjective. Were we this lacking in every department in our second half of the season meltdown under Warbs?
I want to think that we weren’t that far off in the second half of last season - ie that we had some moments of hope. Yesterday was a million miles from even that. Complete and utter hit and hope, assuming we ever got near the ball. Nobody wanted the ball, nobody had a clue what to do with it, even if they had it. Thoroughly depressing. |
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Comment | However, the radio still works, and it's clear as a bell - Preview
at 07:06:08
Thanks for another season of excellent, insightful, inspired and consistently on the mark writing. I don’t know how you do it and how long you can keep this up for, on top of earning a living in these increasingly tough times. It is much appreciated and a major part of my and I’m sure many other’s following of our crazy club. I know it’s a short turn around to the start of next season (ulp!), but I hope you get a break in between. Thanks again. |
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Comment | Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report
at 07:25:37
A thoroughly depressing but unsurprising evening. I came to the ground expecting a loss by two or three. Only Charlie’s goal injects you intravenously with a shot of that b@$?@^d hope again, making you throw all logic and rational thought in the in air and think that we might actually get something out of this at the end of the first half. Not that it would affect anything apart from salvage a bit of pride. Alas no.
You’ve described it perfectly (again). I too thought at the time how this match mirrored our season. How it went from getting it so wonderfully and refreshingly right in the first two-thirds of the season to getting it so terribly and timidly wrong in the last third. From never saying die until the fat lady sang to barely getting out of our own penalty area for half’s at a time. We can’t blame Jeff Hendricks for all of that - something has clearly gone wrong or been disrupted behind the scenes.
From having done stuff so well in recent times, there seems to have been an unexpected sea change in approach.
Maybe I’m wrong, and it’ll all be fine. They’ve got a new manager lined up who’ll take us to the next level. But this is QPR. I’m worried that the next level is league 1.
Warbs didn’t deserve this. Barbet didn’t deserve this. I’m not sure we as fans deserve this.
Wtf just happened???
Thanks for your continuously excellent writing Clive, trying make sense of this crazy club of ours that we support. I don’t know how you keep doing it, but I’m glad you do. |
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Comment | Shifting expectations - Preview
at 13:43:18
Brilliant article as always. Read it again in light of the result and PinnerPaul's comments. You're both absolutely spot on about the manager speak both before and after games, and we should really be wise to it and take it all with the shovel fulls of salt that is required.
Saying that, and not that Warbs isn't without his tried and tested phrases, I love the observation of how he's trying to steer the pre-and-post match talk into subtly building up the team and subliminally playing on the minds of the opposition. Loving it! |
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Comment | The curse of the QPR shirt sponsor — Preview
at 16:50:40
How is Ridsdale even allowed to be near another club, let alone run another, considering his form with Leeds and Cardiff?!!?? His objection to Hoos’s not unreasonable request just shows you the level of the man.
The sponsorship of football clubs in general, by gambling companies has always sat uncomfortably with me too. Raising the profile of say a cause like Grenfell can’t cost us more money than we’ve lost from Dryworld, Royal Panda and Football Index going Pete Tong. |
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Comment | Super City show has QPR right back in the groove - Report
at 17:36:37
Another brilliant, brilliant write up. All the favourite on-going gags, (killed to death), and the line leading up to “mass hysteria†were just examples of real laugh out loud moments. My personal favourite was the comment on Tyreeq Bakinson.
I too thought that Kakay was lucky with his challenge, but with the inconsistency shown by the ref, that was no real surprise.
Great stuff again - the writing complements the performance and result beautifully!! |
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Comment | Back to work — Preview
at 23:47:13
Hilarious, insightful and always well written. As well as being very zen, the Keith Stroud comment was genius and had me laughing out loud. “Loyal†Taylor, perfect.
Covid and its consequences has properly b***ered up so much in the world. Yes, a significant positive is that it shows that it is possible for many to work from home (as long as you’re paying for the internet connection and your own office equipment), but the contradictions and the “example†set by those in power makes the whole situation so infuriating and frustrating.
For those of us fortunate to have been able to go regularly, it’s our story, our friendships, our routines and superstitions, that sense of belonging and shared experience bordering on the religious that will be painfully absent when it kicks off tomorrow in the empty stadium. And for those who follow the Rs from afar, it will seem even more distant. Just doesn’t feel right. |
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Comment | The end of the beginning — Column
at 16:03:51
Beautifully put Clive. Yet again, some serious laugh out loud moments, in particular your description of his penalties and also that of the wives of opposition players looking for a better man!
I think you’ve articulated wonderfully the man crush we all have for this marvellous player and person. I hope they treat him right at Palace, because as you say “there will be genuine bloodshed!â€
I loved Adel despite all his faults when he was with us, but he was sort of a known quantity. There was the expectation of the genius with the flaws that came to us. Granted, we weren’t the first team that Eze came to, but I feel like the work, time and investment the likes of Chris Ramsey and others put into him makes me feel like he came up as one of our own, that it was QPR that unearthed and started to polish this diamond. Which although was expected, and necessary for the club to properly develop in the way that it should, still makes his departure heartbreaking as it really felt like he was one of our own.
Lazy, my ar*e, that man is footballing poetry in motion. (He better get write ups as good as yours at Palace).
You’ll be missed Eze. Thank you. |
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Comment | QPR punished by Leeds for lack of self belief - Report
at 20:22:42
As always a great write up and pretty much as I recall it. Pugh seemed to come in for a bit of stuck from those around me. I thought it a little unfair as he’s hardly had a run in the side and for the most part to my mind was getting stuck in and trying to make things happen. His contribution for their second goal was unfortunate - his intervention merely delaying the inevitable rather than knocking it out for the corner.
(Apologies for startling you at the Head of Steam and then uttering some inane comment about the match.) |
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Comment | Antoine Freezman bids adieu — Column
at 18:11:01
Fantastic piece of writing Clive. Does him justice. I’ll hold my hand up and admit to being one of those who thought he’d hold on the ball too long sometimes, but in the greater context, I could not fault the man for effort, desire, skill, effectiveness and sheer entertainment. A player from whom you’d expect something special to happen, rather than hoped. Loved your comparison with Barton. They could not be two more contrasting players and characters to have donned the hoops in recent times. |
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Comment | Smith's late winner finishes QPR's season on a high - Report
at 18:10:46
Thanks again Clive for yet another season of consistently superb and witty writing. In stark contrast to the team, you never fail to deliver. The Lindt analogy was yet another laugh out loud moment of quality that certainly kept me going through much of the dross of this season. |
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Comment | QPR twist again, Holloway departs - Column
at 14:21:04
Once again, an excellent write up and it’s very hard for me to disagree with what you’ve put. Of course Ollie wasn’t perfect, but neither are the club. There are so many positives to draw from Ollie’s tenure. The football on the whole, Ifelt was so much better this season. Last season, had we gone a goal down, let alone two, our heads dropped and it was game over. Even when we were a goal or two ahead, you always felt we’d contrive to drop points.
This season was quite different. The fighting spirit the team had in many games (not all) was a vast improvement on last season and I think we were one of the best sides in the division for picking up points from losing situations. Barnsley away, Brentford and Birmingham City come to mind. Last year we’d have lost those matches.
I think it has been handled poorly, and I just feel more than a little despondent. Thank you Ollie for bringing some pride back to the club and all the best for the future. I just hope we manage our expectations with whoever gets the job now. |
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Comment | This must be the place — Preview
at 16:00:37
Thanks Clive, to you and your team for the fantastic writing from previews to the match reports and everything in between. Enjoy the break, you’ve more than earned it!
I hope that if Ollie is to go, it’s of his own volition and not because he’s being pushed. Whilst he does appear emotionally tired, and with the recent tragic losses, it is completely understandable and football becomes irrelevant in comparison. That said I do think that he has at least earned the right to be able to choose whether or not he carries on. I hope for him that the right choice is made and it’s all done sensitively. |
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Comment | QPR bid farewell to the ‘anti-footballer’
at 15:31:14
Great tribute to a player who never shirked from his duties, knew what he was good at, did it well and always led by example. I was also one of the many who was not exactly thrilled by his signing. I thought he was past it, that he was signed as a last pay off as he was a mate of Warnock's. I couldn't see what he would bring.
Just shows how little I really know about football and that Warnock knew exactly what he was doing and who he was signing. He may not have worn the armband, but as much as I loved Taarabt, Derry was always the de facto captain of the Championship winning side.
Agreed that its a shame we couldn't give him some kind of send off at LR.
We salute you Dezza, your professionalism, your attitude and what you brought to the club. Thank you, good luck in your new job. Who knows, hopefully see you back at the club in some kind of capacity. |
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