Tweet
Seems SWP had no respect for Neil
QPR's Moroccan playmaker, Adel Taarabt, had to be indulged constantly - to the point where Warnock had to plead with other players to make allowances for him
Ex-QPR boss Warnock reveals 'Shaun Wright-Phillips treated me with contempt ... I was disgusted"
6 Jun 2013 22:30
England winger's reaction to being fined made his then-manager realise how hard it is to discipline players with big wages - and egos
Neil Warnock’s life-long love of football was sapped by his spell in charge of Queens Park Rangers.
In particular, Warnock has told how he despaired of the attitude of some of his players and their disruptive antics.
QPR's Moroccan playmaker, Adel Taarabt, had to be indulged constantly - to the point where Warnock had to plead with other players to make allowances for him.
There were fierce dressing-room rows between players and a rebellion about the London club's training ground facilities.
And that was before Warnock - who took the Londoners up to the Premier League as champions, but was sacked halfway through the following season - had to deal with the eccentric input of the club's former co-owner Flavio Briatore.
But a low point for the now 64-year-old manager came when he imposed a routine fine on Shaun Wright-Phillips for being booked for dissent.
“Wright-Phillips was informed of his fine by letter, which is the procedure,” Warnock writes in his new book, The Gaffer.
“Instead of seeing me, knocking on the door, and complaining, he Sellotaped the letter on to his back at training in front of all the players, treating it like a joke.
“It was a lack of respect and I was disappointed with that and I told him so.
“That was the moment that I realised just how difficult it was for managers in the modern day to discipline players with such big egos, on such big wages.
“That was one of the most disappointing mornings for me at QPR. Inside I was disgusted with Shaun yet to him it was a joke.
“I kept thinking I was the manager that got him out of the hell of Man City when no one else would touch him, gave him a cracking contract, brought him back to his home in London and then was treated with such contempt.
“I didn’t think I deserved it.”
QPR's Moroccan playmaker, Adel Taarabt, had to be indulged constantly - to the point where Warnock had to plead with other players to make allowances for him
Ex-QPR boss Warnock reveals 'Shaun Wright-Phillips treated me with contempt ... I was disgusted"
6 Jun 2013 22:30
England winger's reaction to being fined made his then-manager realise how hard it is to discipline players with big wages - and egos
Neil Warnock’s life-long love of football was sapped by his spell in charge of Queens Park Rangers.
In particular, Warnock has told how he despaired of the attitude of some of his players and their disruptive antics.
QPR's Moroccan playmaker, Adel Taarabt, had to be indulged constantly - to the point where Warnock had to plead with other players to make allowances for him.
There were fierce dressing-room rows between players and a rebellion about the London club's training ground facilities.
And that was before Warnock - who took the Londoners up to the Premier League as champions, but was sacked halfway through the following season - had to deal with the eccentric input of the club's former co-owner Flavio Briatore.
But a low point for the now 64-year-old manager came when he imposed a routine fine on Shaun Wright-Phillips for being booked for dissent.
“Wright-Phillips was informed of his fine by letter, which is the procedure,” Warnock writes in his new book, The Gaffer.
“Instead of seeing me, knocking on the door, and complaining, he Sellotaped the letter on to his back at training in front of all the players, treating it like a joke.
“It was a lack of respect and I was disappointed with that and I told him so.
“That was the moment that I realised just how difficult it was for managers in the modern day to discipline players with such big egos, on such big wages.
“That was one of the most disappointing mornings for me at QPR. Inside I was disgusted with Shaun yet to him it was a joke.
“I kept thinking I was the manager that got him out of the hell of Man City when no one else would touch him, gave him a cracking contract, brought him back to his home in London and then was treated with such contempt.
“I didn’t think I deserved it.”
Comment