Evening Standard – Thursday 22nd November: ‘Amit Bhatia has just been asked to reflect on the 11 years he has spent at QPR. With a hearty laugh, he replies: “The ‘P’ must stand for patience.” It is a virtue that has certainly been put to the test since joining the board in 2007 after his Continue reading
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‘Les Ferdinand knows what Queen’s Park Rangers should stand for’
Jack Pitt-Brooke’s interesting article recently appeared in the Independent: ‘Les Ferdinand knows what Queen’s Park Rangers should stand for. It should stand for stories like his. The local boy from Ladbroke Grove, who went to school just behind Loftus Road, is running the club that found him and made him. Ferdinand is Director of Football Continue reading
David Macintyre writes… “A decade, not just four years, of papering over the cracks”
Reproduced with permission from Dave’s blog. Follow Dave on Twitter at @davidmcintyre76. My first blog in ages. Mercifully for you, I rarely have the time. Down but probably not out I’ve never been one for doomsday scenarios when it comes to QPR. By that I mean that over the course of the 16 years I’ve Continue reading
Les Ferdinand on his Role at the Club, Harry Redknapp, Richard Langley…
The following wide-ranging interview with Les Ferdinand was conducted by Steve Stammers and appeared in the Mirror recently: Les Ferdinand pauses, takes a sip of coffee and then offers the name of the Queen’s Park Rangers player who has proved to be irreplaceable. “Richard Langley,” said the man whose task now is to re-shape Rangers Continue reading
Harry Redknapp’s QPR Reign has been a Predictable Shambles
Fans View – Michael Hann’s recent article for the Guardian: Back when Harry Redknapp was appointed Queen’s Park Rangers manager in November 2012, I said on the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast that I wasn’t overjoyed about him coming in to the club I support. Rangers would still be relegated, I predicted, we’d just do it Continue reading
‘Harry Redknapp Must Stop Playing Blame Game’ – by Jason Burt
There was a small piece of news from Queen’s Park Rangers on Wednesday that was barely news – but the reaction it provoked spoke volumes about the tense mood around the club. Josh Laurent, a 19-year-old midfielder, joined Brentford for an undisclosed fee. But QPR supporters reacted as if Charlie Austin had been sold rather Continue reading
Bright Future must not overlook the Lessons of History
My thanks to Garry Coady for alerting me to this superb newsletter written by Dion Fanning for the Irish Sunday Independent: ‘QPR are a club that believes that some good will come from everything. There is very little beauty at Loftus Road yet it is currently the ground I most enjoy visiting. This is not Continue reading
QPR’s last and only Chance of a Long-Term Home in the local Area? The Developing Battle for Old Oak Common by Dave McIntyre
Dave McIntyre wrote the following superb article recently for West London Sport: ‘In the developing battle for Old Oak Common, Cargiant are keen to show they mean business. The car supermarket owns 45 acres of the site of QPR’s would-be sporting and leisure complex between Scrubs Lane – just up the road from Loftus Road Continue reading
Warren Farm – ‘Campaigners taking fight for Green Space to Court’
The following article was written by James Gates and appeared in this week’s’Ealing & Acton’Gazette: ‘Campaigners are taking Ealing Council to court over allegations it has acted unlawfully over the Warren Farm sports site. Papers were lodged at the High Court yesterday asking for a judicial review into the council’s decision to sign over 61 Continue reading
Independent R’s named by Londonist.com as ‘best QPR blog‚’
We are both surprised and honoured to be named by the Londonist.com website in a list of the best London football blogs http://londonist.com/2013/10/londons-best-football-bloggers.php The article, entitled “London’s Best Football Bloggers”, cited one blog / website per London league club. It praised the Independent R’s site as follows: The writing standard on the site is excellent Continue reading