Good point, and I also agree with Grinning that I'd love to see the business plan. I suppose if 1 in 5 Chinamen buy a QPR scarf, there'd be a fair turnover, but it must be more sophisticated than that! Is there a football club example TF is following I wonder. Since we're not a plaything like Chelsea or Citeh, or a cash cow like ManU, may be he's going for the Arsenal type approach.
Not me mate, I follow F1 and knew both were egomaniacs and crooks long ago......I might be wrong about TF, and agree with you that we hear a bit too much from him sometimes, but overall I couldn't be happier with our ownership. Cue horrible scandal and total collapse......
Too right. Never understood why there is no QPR merchandise at Westfield. Even MK Dons have a little stand in their large shopping centre!
Fair enough Stan. I think Fat Thony is made of better stuff. (Blimey, you're an all rounder. Cricket AND F1 with Soccer to boot! I prefer touring car myself)
Soccer! Football's in the blood, cricket I was quite good at as a teenager (got to my university of choice because of it - though they would deny sport has anything to do with selection), rugby I have learned because my son plays, F1, just love the noise.....
I worked for BE in Formula One as I did The Formula One Show held in Monaco 1o years or more agao ... for a little **** he's not bad ... A bit of signage went wrong (not me) and he used the c word 20 times in a minute ... also you wanna see the profile pictures I was sent from him ... looked like a cross between Lena Zavaroni , the Cankies and Mini me
Reminds me of Amit in the 4 year plan pissing himself over the cover of AKUTRs with flave as dr evil and Bernie and mini me.
Does he actually like anything other than power and money? Sounds like a good job though Hoppy. Just base my view on the way he has strangled billions out of the sport, but then again he basically created it so his right I suppose. Briatore has been a proven crook from day one. Stayed out of Italy for years to avoid a fraud conviction in the 70s. Lucky they have a short statute of limitations.
Its quite sad really, hes in his 80s, got all the money he can spend and all he cares about is getting more money. It seems he can never be happy even with £2b in the bank.
He seemed to work very hard and always always remembered names and prices etc .. Everyone ta the time said he was a nasty bastard ... I didn't see that Hard but Fair would sum up the short time i worked on the F1 show
He is a nasty bastard, he doesnt care about F1 or the fans, hes taking all the races from classic places like spa and follows the money to concrete carparks in the middles east or a trading estate in Spain.
Reckon he knew he'd made a mistake very soon after getting involved with us, not interested and not really involved; but pride and basic need to turn a profit kept him in. We shouldn't forget that these twats basically saved us.
Read what Tony said - essentially we are in the best part of the best city in the world. If we move too far away from the bright lights ( like Hounslow) no way will we fill a new stadium bigger than the current one. Bet we end up in walking distance of LR.
This article reminds me just how far we have come from the afternoon i stood at LR stunned having just been despatched out of the FA Cup by Vauxhall Motors and just a bit earlier a collection bucket had gone round the ground asking fans to raise money for things like petrol for the team coach on our away trips
