Here's Clive's report from Saturday http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...-costs-qpr-in-crucial-match-yet-again--report
We get the Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and the Times but Clive's match report is very, very easily the best.
"It should have come as no surprise. Three times Barton has been sent off in the first half in his QPR career and on all three occasions – Norwich at home 2011/12, Man City away 2011/12 and now this match" Clive must have been got so frustrated saving this bile up for 3 long seasons, he must have fluid damaged his laptop now eventually he was able to get off. His first example Norwich, their player feigned being head butted, but never mind that detail Clive.
Clive's brilliant, especially when compared to twat's like Martin Samuel's from the Mail.................................... Chris Ramsey's job is to save QPR from Premier League drop... not bring on the kids QPR chairman Tony Fernandes appointed Chris Ramsey as caretaker boss The Hoops are in a relegation battle and lost to Hull City on Saturday The strugglers have not looked like a club with a plan in recent seasons By MARTIN SAMUEL - SPORT FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 22:31, 22 February 2015 | UPDATED: 11:22, 23 February 2015 Chris Ramsey was a very busy man the day he got the Queens Park Rangers job. According to his chairman Tony Fernandes, Ramsey took the first-team session, made an appearance with the Elite Development Squad, trained the Under-14s and was back in his office completing paperwork, when the pair spoke by telephone. ‘It was a phenomenal call,’ said Fernandes, who had already told fans he had found his dream manager. By the end of the conversation, he had decided Ramsey was his track-suited vision instead. They do a lot of dreaming at Loftus Road. Sadly there is no awakening from the one where they lose 2-1 at Hull City and the captain gets sent-off and banned for three games against Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace. Still, no doubt the 14-year-olds looked really sharp at the weekend. One wonders how Fernandes appoints the senior employees at his other businesses. Whether he expects Aireen Omar, chief executive officer of Air Asia, to be greatly involved with the interns and work experience. If Fernandes called and Omar was, say, at departure gate 17D checking passports, would he think this the greatest use of her skill-set? Stop me if you’ve heard it before, but Martin O’Neill tells a wonderful story from his time at Leicester City. Arriving from Norwich City he did not win for eight games and the fans turned spectacularly against him. In one match, they tried to enter the tunnel area to confront the players. He was at his wits end. O’Neill says he feared the situation might be irretrievable and he would have to resign. He was sitting, alone, in his office when David Nish entered. Nish was Leicester’s youth development officer and a club legend. He knew Leicester better than anyone. O’Neill poured out his heart — his frustrations, his fears, his belief the next game could be his last. Nish listened intently. ‘It’s not as bad as you think, Martin,’ he said, when O’Neill at last fell silent. ‘We’ve got some fantastic 14-year-olds coming through.’ O’Neill thought about this for a moment. ‘And what f****** use to me is that?’ he asked. And that’s the difference between the manager, and the academy coach. O’Neill had to win his next game, or he was out. Nish was talking about five years ahead. Yes, a manager needs to know what is next off the production line, but the idea Ramsey has time to be immersed in the progress of 14-year-olds, while keeping a struggling team in the Premier League is fanciful. We hear stories about Sir Alex Ferguson paying personal visits to Darren Fletcher’s parents’ house near Edinburgh and think every manager should sweat the small stuff. Yet Ferguson wasn’t plunged into a relegation battle mid-season at a club that had lost every league game away from home. If Ramsey works with academy kids occasionally as a way of staying sane, that’s different; but for Fernandes to give the impression his new manager must have a wider focus than simply keeping Rangers afloat, is madness. QPR have rarely looked like a club with a plan in recent years. If members of the development squad have not progressed it may be because Fernandes and his cohorts have obstructed their pathway with a pile of expensive, over-rated recruits. Now money is tight we are to believe the answer was at home all along — and not just in Ramsey, but in youngsters like Darnell Furlong and Michael Doughty, whose five-minute substitute appearance against Sunderland Fernandes described as his highlight of the match. Furlong played full back at Hull on Saturday and did OK. But it was his poor touch that panicked him into making the foul tackle that provoked the confrontation ending with Joey Barton’s dismissal. The ban is Barton’s fault, not Furlong’s, but the young man is raw, like many 19-year-olds, and it is far-fetched to believe Rangers have a group of brilliant teenagers, ripe for the Premier League but inexplicably ignored until now. So too the thought that Ramsey can attend to schools’ teams and development squads, while efficiently planning a way to outwit Arsene Wenger a week on Wednesday. Like so much of what happens at Rangers, the latest thoughts of chairman Fernandes are poorly conceived. The last time the club was threatened with relegation the answer was a January transfer spree of more than £20m, buying up Loic Remy, Christopher Samba and Jermaine Jenas. Now the children are the future. There is no consistency, no grand plan. One question: if it’s suddenly all about the long-term at Loftus Road, why is Ramsey, this man of Hoops dreams, only a caretaker until the end of the season? Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...League-drop-not-bring-kids.html#ixzz3SaYJ9wWt Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Isn't he a big mate of Redknapp? Total dross! Good report from Clive and I couldn't find anything to disagree with.
