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Comment | Phillips' wonder strike sugars bitter pill — report
at 19:28:56
Fair play on Rob Green, the ball took a MASSIVE deflection off Sandro's shinpad (seen on HD) and when the keeper saw it after the ball left that forest of legs, it was too late.
Other than that...again...I see things the same way you do, Clive.
And you've been calling it like it is for as long as I can remember. Why are all these things invisible for manager after manager after manager at QPR?
The definition of madness. |
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Comment | Ways to lose away games, number 11 in the series - report
at 00:24:56
One of the things Adel said after being accused by his manager of being 3 stones overweight and after hearing his salary being revealed in front of the world's media, was that Redknapp doesn't have a gameplan and doesn't work hard in training.
I have never believed Redknapp, but boy this Saturday's non-sense from him sure gives Adel every chance on Earth to beat even the most accurate of lie detectors.
Not fat. Not bad. Not deserving of being left out of the squad or even on the bench for what him and his teammates show.
Even if the lack of a gameplan from the manager meant he had to spent the last 30-ish minutes of the game like 60 yards away from Heaton and chasing Burnley players as they won possession thanks mostly to Joey.
Every day I'm more and more convinced that we would have been in a lot better place had we chose Adel over Harry when the first sparks flew.
Even if Adel wasn't keen or considered, having Redknapp removed when he should have been removed, would have sufficed for us to be in a better position. |
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Comment | Rangers rue late heartbreak after rub of the Green - report
at 23:30:41
And the fact the bench looks that horrible, is not because of bad luck. It's because of horrible decisions that are still crippling this football club.
This... "Redknapp will use that lack of quality as an excuse, and a pitch to be allowed to add yet more players in January, when really he has had enough time and enough money to spend to have solved the problems long before now." sums it up really well for me.
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Comment | Rangers rue late heartbreak after rub of the Green - report
at 23:26:58
Charlie did hit the post. It wasn't a save from Fabianski. So Fabianski got lucky twice in the same play. But I think the ref destroyed Swansea during the whole game and whilst on paper I would have signed any paper with a guarantee of 1 point against this team, I felt we let them grow mid-way through the second half and we rarely had a player the other side of the midfield line.
Four points lost in our latest two home matches. I'm scared. Can't help it. |
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Comment | Lacking ideas, shape, commitment or a plan, QPR lose limply at West Ham - report
at 02:49:07
Forgot to mention this last week. I was watching Southampton-QPR for the second time (yes! I have a very big huevos!) because I wanted to see just how bad Sandro's injury was.
Anyway...after I see him rolling around for a while, the camera cuts to Harry's face. He's there. Legs and arms crossed. He's staring at the player saying nothing. No expression. No nothing. Until, a little while later -like a full 2 minutes after Sandro's knock- he asks the man sitting next to him: "That's Sandro?".
The man just nods. And Harry says something like "Fcukin'ell" or a similar one.
From the touchline. A straight line to were the player was. A player he has worked with in the past. The only bald player we had on the pitch at the moment. Falling in an area of the pitch where he normally plays. And he can't tell who that is. Or give a fcuk about what happened to him.
I have never wanted him to run my favourite football team in the world. Now I just simply hate his guts.
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Comment | Don't cry for me... - Preview
at 04:05:03
Desperate times. Worse week I remember since I started supporting QPR in the mid-90s. Even worse than administration and the inevitable relegations to League One and Championship.
All we're missing now is an Adel hat-trick on Saturday only to see him bought by some club sometime between Sunday and Monday.
That'd be it. |
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Comment | A horribly familiar sinking feeling — report
at 15:22:49
The Alejandro corner for Caulker was already noted in the comments, but I'd like to point out it wasn't Remy who lost Dier for their 2nd goal. It was Leroy Fer.
Thanks for this report. Brilliant, as always. Even though it means reliving Sunday's nightmare again!
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Comment | QPR’s Isla coup a test case for brave new dawn
at 04:59:02
Great article, Clive. I was reading the part of the comparisons with Granero and I think they only resist one bit: Juve and Real Madrid are really big clubs.
That's about it with comparisons between these two. You said it later and the Juve correspondent put it very clearly. Isla will always be hungry. It's how he is. Granero, for all his talent, has always been a bit of an odd character in football. Library worm, very smart and sensible. Didn't have to endure a rough upbringing like most of the little boys growing up in South America (in any country!).
I felt desperately impotent watching Granero sulk last time we were in the top flight when things didn't go our way. And things almost never went our way! That won't happen with Isla. If things don't go our way, he'll stand out even more than if things are rosy.
Definitely not a mercenary. He might not know what QPR is and might not feel attached to the club and might even feel this is a "demotion" from playing Champions League and winning every Serie A season with Juve, but if anything, that's something that is more likely to spur him on than to make him lose heart.
I want to see if Alexis Sanchez will be keen on playing on the left and face Mauricio on Boxing Day or if he'll ask Wenger to play him on the right and have an easier day not having to feel his friend's breath on his neck.
Can't wait for the season to start!
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Comment | QPR cover injured forwards with Chevanton signing
at 05:39:37
All of this does nothing but reminding me of how Harry went on to say: "We don't need Duvan Zapata" (even if a lot of people keep saying he didn't join us because he failed his work permit application, which he didn't, or at least we will never know because QPR didn't send anybody to the hearing -so claim the other party-).
It goes without saying we did need him then and more so now. Chevantón is over the hill and not even close to the level of performances Zapata would have given us.
I like Crunchy, but it's clear this is an emergency signing and the way we are playing these days, we could have Messi up front but with the kind of service our striker (singular) is getting...I doubt he could do anything special.
Now it's just a case of Chevanton being better than nobody else at all.
At least he's a player who knows where the goal is. Fingers crossed he stays out of the infirmary for three months. |
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Comment | Viking invasion of W12 (with minor pillaging)
at 12:00:21
Great story! Thanks for sharing!
Here in Latin America we have the same thing when it comes to how the team is called.
"Queens" is very common.
"Queens Park" too.
But what makes me angry is how the abbreviate it on those bottomlines you see going from right to left on TV sometimes: Queens PR.
It's as if we were Elizabeth's public relations agency or something like that!
Commentators (whom I'm safe to say 0% of them speak English) complicate things for themselves as they never called us: CU PE ERRE (which would be the phonetic way to put it in Spanish).
Sometimes they go for the English pronunciation of Q - P - R, but they pronounce it: "Kee Pee Ar".
I'm trying to educate people via my Twitter and some are showing some progress, but I've given up on many others. |
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Comment | Taarabt haunts Spurs before taking the long walk — full match report
at 05:33:17
No QPR match is over until I read your match reports, Clive!
One thing I was thinking about the current QPR team (say...the team/formation/tactics MH found in the last few games) and our gameplan is that we seem to be prepared to play and have some degree of success but only if the score is level or if we go ahead.
Concede the 1st goal and we're fcuked! It happened at Sunderland (aggravated by Cisse's red), happened at Old Trafford (though we have an easy explanation for that as we were robbed) and it also happened at WBA. Liverpool was a "fluke" in the sense we should have lost the game and they did their best to help us get back, but Arsenal, Swansea and Spurs are perfect examples of what I'm saying.
We look so comfortable when we are leading. We are OK when the score is a draw. But we can't find a way back into games when we concede the first goal.
Now without Adel we might see changes in formation/tactics at Stamford Bridge, but I expect a similar gameplan in which we will give them the ball and the territory to work with and hope to hit them on the break.
We need to do to Chelsea what they did to Barcelona last week. They won't be comfortable if we play them like that.
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Comment | Sunderland bring QPR right back to reality — full match report
at 03:58:24
This was the first match I missed the whole season (when it wasn't on TV, I always watched it online, but this time I was busy with work right during the game).
On one hand I'm glad my blood pressure wasn't tested during those dreadful 90 minutes, but I can't take comfort on that because the bottomline is that we are in the shite and some of our players seem to think that's the whole point as they look like they love to be swimming in it.
Our only hope is that we get results against the big teams like we did vs. Chelsea and Liverpool. Those two were a fluke. We need exactly that and we need it twice in a row now in the next two weeks.
That's the only thing that could save us, it seems.
Do I see it happening? Of course not.
Why did QPR give me hope on Tuesday. Why????
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Comment | Not very good, not very lucky, QPR suffer crushing Bolton loss — full match report
at 03:49:02
It's Monday, 37 mins past midnight here in Buenos Aires and you're not helping me, Clive.
I felt absolutely miserable the entire weekend and couldn't shake off this horrible feeling of being absolutely robbed and all but sent down to the Championship by this ridiculous combination of ref and lino.
Yes, Bolton are poor. Yes, we are poor too. But when you are denied of that perfectly valid goal and then when everything goes wrong you are again denied of a chance to at least rescue a point from the penalty spot and stay out of the relegation zone, you have to really start talking about robbery.
That's what it was. I will never be able to take that from my mind.
I have to be honest and admit I missed the Pratley situation with all his fouls having already been booked, which is why I'm telling you, Clive, that you're not helping! haha! I'm a bit more furious now (if that was even possible).
I think we have to give ourselves the best possible shot to win at least 3 matches from the last 10 and the first thing we need to do in order to be able to at least compete is to DROP SHAUN FARKING WRIGHT-PHILLIPS.
Seriously. Drop him before he drops us. I've been "calling for his head" even before he gave Arsenal the 3 points against us (which was the only time in which he had a part in the match-winning goal. And that's a FACT. He had 2 assists (if we are generous and we don't consider it was a terrible pass that only got to Cissé on a deflection) in defeats and 2 other assists (a pass to Tommy Smith near the halfway line being one) for our 3rd goal of the game in a 3-1 win (Wigan) and a 3-0 win (away at Wolves).
I had enough of him. |
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Comment | QPR hope to extend unbeaten run in Wigan - Fixture history
at 07:21:33
Thanks for a brilliant recap, especially of the run of 7 wins which coincided with my arrival to Loftus Road!
I was also there when Matt Rose scored vs. West Ham, which if you add the winner he scored at Brighton it kind of gives me an incredible record of:
1. Not having seen QPR lose in 6 games I have been to (5 wins -2 away- and 1 draw) -and no, I haven't been to all those 7 wins-.
2. I've seen Matt Rose score two goals in those 6 matches. Two game-winning efforts!
What happened with Gino at the end of his QPR career was a real shame.
He'll always be a legend to me! |
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Comment | Possibly the greatest day of all time
at 05:50:09
Clive, mate! Some very emotional stuff there. I, for one, would absolutely buy a book with a compilation of your match reports. Would be like a written version of the DVD for the season! Don't you ever doubt there are people out there reading what you're writing here. OK?
Thanks for all your hard work and very insightful and entertaining articles!
Your friend from the land of Alejandro Faurlin (and Gino Padula, of course!) |
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