Prolific lower-league marksman, and long-time QPR fan Sam Parkin, is the special guest on this week’s podcast, discussing the Liverpool heartbreak and the Adel Taarabt v Harry Redknapp row.
Parkin played for 13 clubs in a 15 year career, infamously scoring four times against the R’s in eight appearances for three different teams — Northampton, Swindon and Ipswich.
On Saturday, Parkin said: "I think with the negativity that’s been around, nobody was expecting that performance and it’s given people a bit of belief that we can stay in the league. I text a mate in the first half that it had Ronnie Rosenthal — 1993, we battered them lost 1-0 — written all over it.
On Adel Taarabt he said: "There’s one of these in every dressing room in the country. You treat them like everybody else, you have to. Unless you’re going to pick him every week. I don’t think he can play every week in that team. Every dressing room I’ve played in has had one, if he plays every week he’s trim, he’s happy but… He hasn’t wanted to be at QPR for a few years. You can’t build the team around him if this is the way we’re going to play.
"Harry isn’t justified in saying things to that extent. Whatever he said it would have been blown up. Journalists aren’t stupid, they would have found out there was something more to it. He needed to take a line with it like he has with Shaun Wright-Phillips. He’s flown off the handle and saying I can run around more than him and three stone overweight has probably crossed a line.”
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