My letter to the Evening Standard paper regarding QPR

Dear sir,

I'm a loyal QPR fan. I'm aware that in London and outside, QPR have a lot of supporters. I don't know what the figures are exactly but I am certain there would be many potential readers of your paper who do support the team. I have noticed a steep decline in articles on the club and this seemed to coincide with a re-imaging of the paper, perhaps three years ago or so from memory.
I really cannot think of a reason why QPR feature so rarely in the ES now but my suspicion is that they are not favoured by the editors and writers of the paper. I'm led to believe this because even Leyton Orient receive more coverage in the ES at the moment, and they obviously have a much smaller fanbase.
One particularly confusing thing is that QPR featured a lot less in your paper upon promotion to the premier league. In the club's last period in the football league QPR seemed to have a lot more coverage when compared to the last two years in the premier league and also this season so far in the Championship. It was almost a reversal in terms of coverage in your paper; a relegation of sorts when we were actually promoted to the top league in England.
Not long ago I used to pick up the paper because QPR would feature in it often. It was almost as though the ES, as a London paper, were proud of QPR. Can you please explain what has happened within the ES to almost shut out QPR from the paper in more recent times? I am aware that articles on the club do occasionally still feature but anyone can see there has been a clear decrease in the amount of coverage. Many a match day passes without even a word on QPR. As far as I am concerned, I pick up the paper a lot less frequently because of this.
I eagerly await a response.

Thank you.

Adam Mannas

 

Did I miss anything? Has anyone else noticed this change over the past few years?

 

They've got a lot more negative, maybe a Brentford fan took over as the editor?

 

Those Brentford fans seemed like a pretty angry lot when when Leyton Orient beat them earlier this week. I caught the last 20 mins of the game on Bet365 live stream.

 

Does that mean you have an account with Bet365? Or can you get them for free on the sly? If you have an account, how does it work? And how many QPR games are actually shown on there? Questions questions!

 

You have to live abroad and deposit something like £20 to place bets and then you can see the streams.

 

So, can you lie and say you're living abroad and the put £20 on there and do nothing with it?

 

Your IP address will tell the server where your ISP is based and it will recognize that you are a UK based subscriber and not allow you access.
Unless you are an IT wizard who can use proxy servers and masking to make your IP address appear to be coming from outside the UK.
I am fortunate (not that I use the site) that I can pretend to be abroad because I can log onto my company LAN from home and then our ISP connection to the web is from a US based portal.

Not that I have to do that much because streaming of our away games has been quite good the last few years.

 

Yes, I have a token account with a very small balance - watching the League Cup games last night I had a $2 flutter on Fulham to win @ 10/1 when they were 1-0 down around 54 mins into game (they won 2-1).

Also did the same on Leicester when they were 1-0 down at home to Derby @ 17/2and they also won 2-1, just chump change, but a bit of fun as you're watching.

I've watched three R's game so far this season on Bet365, but glancing ahead at their schedule, it doesn't look like the Birmingham game is streamed.

In our promotion winning Champiionship season quite a number of our games were also live streamed on Bet365.

 

I agree with the OP. Virtually nothing positive in that paper since Tango and Cash took over.
They even wanted Bolton to stay up over us that season because of Muamba. Its a London paper FFS!!

 

I scout the papers on the trains and QPR and always in there every two days or so IMO ... The machine is working fine with Harold in charge

 

W

 

Not as soft as it was, but still leaves ink on your ar$e.

 

Hmm... that's strange. I get it often and don't seem to find much these days. My biggest point is that they never seem to get mentioned on actual match days, or it'll be some stupid article about Joey Barton.

 

The Evening Standard has always been a Chelsea Rag. There's your answer Adam.

 

You can use a simple gadget from SurfEasy which is a USB stick with a private browser on - this is simple to use and you can choose which country you want to be "in" - bypasses all the IP checks!
More info here http://www.amazon.co.uk/SurfEasy-Private-Browsing-computer-network/dp/B007YJYNRQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380142906&sr=8-1&keywords=surfeasy

I bought mine from QVC for £50

 

Will that work with an iPad Barley?

 

I doubt it and I doubt the site would work either.

 

Anyone know exactly why Brentford hate us so much or is this just an insane historic football thing?