Good article, hope the rest of the media will follow. Warnock being betrayed by QPR Bookmakers are insensitive souls. They deal in probability and cold hard facts. Their Caribbean beach houses are funded by the plight of people like QPR manager Neil Warnock. The odds are that Warnock will not be around long, to enjoy the privileges of promotion. He’s second favourite, behind Blackburn’s hapless Steve Kean, to be the first Premier League manager to be sacked this season. Anyone acquainted with football’s culture of casual betrayal, and the chaos wrought by QPR’s dysfunctional ownership structure, will find even his shortest price, 7-4, extremely attractive. Warnock is not everyone’s cup of Yorkshire Tea. On the touchline, his default mode is that of a ferret, with a sharp stick protruding from its nether regions. He’s naturally combative, and will not take kindly to being publicly rebuked by the likes of Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatiore. I love his passion, his pragmatism. It’s no coincidence that he’s put together seven promotion teams. He’s a nuts and bolts manager who gets the best of what he is given. In the case of Rangers, that is not very much. Loftus Road is a fools’ paradise, populated by billionaires with extremely short pockets. Their most revealing response to promotion has been to raise season ticket prices by 40 percent. The fact Briatore is apparently setting the transfer strategy says it all. He’s currently banned from his so-called sport, Formula 1, for his role in the Crashgate scandal. I suppose it gives him something to do. Warnock will not be bought off by the decision to keep Adel Taarabt, who scored 19 goals and made 16 assists last season. He’s limited to gambling on such insubstantial free transfers as Jay Bothroyd, Kieron Dyer, Danny Gabbidon and Danny Webber. The contrast with the buoyant mood at the other promoted clubs, Swansea and Norwich, is telling. Warnock, and the QPR fans who celebrated so exultantly in May, deserve so much more. It is their misfortune that their club has fallen into the hands of men who care nothing for what it represents. If they don’t want Warnock, I’m sure others will. http://www.lifesapitch.co.uk/opinions/warnock-being-betrayed-by-qpr/
I don't know why the focus should be on NW being betrayed. If he keeps his mouth shut he will round off his career and retire to Cornwall with a nice fat pay cheque regardless of what goes on behind the scenes at LR. And that will probably come sooner rather than later once results inevitably start going pear shaped. The real people bring betrayed are us the fans of course who are stumping up Champions League prices to watch a Championship squad. Not to mention the fact that these shenanigans are destroying our hopes and dreams before a ball has even been kicked. If Warnock is really so put out by all this he needs to get a good lawyer and then speak his mind. Bet that's not going to happen...
The Star/Brian Woolnough - "Wooly's World - WAR OF WORDS - WHY haven’t Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore invested in QPR this summer? - What did they enter football for? - Their handling of QPR’s promotion to the Premier League remains a mystery. - Now, despite not giving Neil Warnock any substantial transfer funds, they are turning on their manager. - They have told Warnock to be careful what he says in public. The indication is they want him out. - If Ecclestone and Briatore carry on like this, they can expect to hear a lot more from one of the most controversial voices in the game."
Finaly media starts to look into our sorry state. As someone mentioned here or somewhere else, if this was at another established Premier League club they would be all over it long ago. Keep putting pressure on the goons and let the real issues come into the open. You R's!
I agree the headline isn't very good, but he ends the article well with something we all share: "The contrast with the buoyant mood at the other promoted clubs, Swansea and Norwich, is telling. Warnock, and the QPR fans who celebrated so exultantly in May, deserve so much more. It is their misfortune that their club has fallen into the hands of men who care nothing for what it represents."
Sorry, semantics I know but couldn't resist... 'On the touchline, his default mode is that of a ferret, with a sharp stick protruding from its nether regions.' I'm getting two images here, neither of which seem to apply: one of Warnock prodding his adversaries with his dick; and the other of a ferret immobilised by an obstructive appendage??! 'Loftus Road is a foolsâ paradise, populated by billionaires with extremely short pockets.' ...and long arms no doubt? As for the 'fools' paradise, populated by billionaires' bit, given our experience of billionaires, thank God we can only cram 18,000 of them in then. Note to author: a little more time needed on those metaphores mate! Note to members: well, we are being asked to lighten up a bit!
