Meticulous Mark and the Taffia ride again - opposition profile Friday, 19th Sep 2014 00:35 by Clive Whittingham Mark Hughes makes his first return to Loftus Road this Saturday after guiding Stoke to their highest ever Premier League finish last season. But, typically, his side have started the new season slowly. Overview Stats published widely last weekend proved what Stoke City supporters had long suspected â their games are on last on Match of the Day more often than those of any other clubâs. And in all likelihood your reaction to that news is probably âgoodâ. After all, we all know all about Stoke City, and the football they play, and how awful they are to watch. Stoke the club that only got into this division in the first place through heavy manipulation of a wide open loan market, and then proceeded to stay here by making use of their windswept, hill-top home to physically bully and intimidate more gifted teams out of games. Arsene Wenger, a student of the game, a man credited with revolutionising football in this country, would take his beautifully crafted, skilful, gifted Arsenal team to the Britannia Stadium every year and be treated with a chronic lack of respect â his players kicked from pillar to post, and on occasions horrendously injured, as Stoke plundered points from them through blood, .... READ MORE HERE........ http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...and-the-taffia-ride-again--opposition-profile
MARK HUGHES ON SIGNING JOSE BOSINGWA FOR QPR “I am delighted to bring a player of his undoubted quality to the club. He has got plenty of pace, great technical ability and all the attributes you need to be a top player. “Jose has a lot of versatility which is something I like my players to have. He can operate right across the back and can also play the holding role in midfield. “His experience is really important to us. He understands the Premier League and he understands what it takes to win games. He has got a winning mentality and that is what I want to have around the place.”
I suspect we will be hearing plenty of that tomorrow. Unfortunately, I fear that Hughes may have the last laugh!
A good read! I feel confident about tomorrow after reading that their start to the season is not very impressive. They will probably play with a deep back four and keep it tight and rough. Hopefully, Niko, Junior, Vargas et. al. will have the keys to unlock them. Edit: ...and Hughes is a ****er.
Speaking as the owner and wearer for a year of a Barca shirt with "Hughes" on the back Mark Hughes, you're a w**ker, you're a w**ker. Mark Hughes, you're a w**ker.
I'm not sure what that article told me (except that I read very slowly but I already knew that). I'm desperately hoping for 3 points via a another spirited home performance (ie hoping we brush off the away blues as well as we did last time). Point(s) please and two fingers up at Hughes as a happy by-product.
Hughes is history so far as I'm concerned and now I'm indifferent. But I'm just desperate for a confident, steely, spirited performance from our team tomorrow
I really don't want Hughes to be the center of attention, he is history as far as I am concerned. What I would really like is to see the R's play Stoke of the pitch and give them a good tonking......
Absolutely. It is points that count and no amount of vitriol at Hughes will get us more points. I know this will probably get me banned but I heard MH on radio interview few months back and he came over well and did not take the opportunity to bad mouth QPR. There! Now I'll take my punishment.
Why would he bad-mouth QPR? He wanted to build a great model and so he asked his dad (TF) for all the pieces (and dad went out and paid for some good ones) but then couldn't put the model together. His success has always come off the back of someone else's spadework. When he has to do that bit himself ... he fails.
