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I wont paste the whole LFW report from saturday, but it's here if you want it >>
But just a chunk of it...
...On Wednesday the Football Association posted seven charges on their website in relation to QPR’s purchase of Alejandro Faurlin laced with legal jargon, with no indication as to whether these are flagrant breaches or technicalities, likely to attract a points deduction or a slap on the wrist. And that was that. “We will make no further comment” said the association whose running of English football over the last 20 years is a national shame and embarrassment. Not even a date for a hearing.
QPR, for their part, stuck out a couple of lines saying they didn’t think they’d done much wrong, and they too will be making no further comment. Thus leaving the national press to pretty much write whatever they like.
In the meantime; roll up, roll up, hand over your £20 (ho, ho I wish) sit down and say nothing. More than 18,000 of us did on Saturday – packing Loftus Road to the rafters to watch the best QPR side in a generation play as if nothing had happened and secure a win that, in theory, brings them within 20 points of an unassailable lead at the top of the table. Except not a single one of us knows whether we’ll be able to keep the points we won here with a scoreline that flattered the visitors. And not a single one of us knows when we will know.
It’s all so typical of QPR, and the way the game operates in this country these days. Whatever happens, it’s the supporters who suffer the most.
The man at the centre of attention this week has been Alejandro Faurlin. Man of the match at Millwall on Tuesday, thrust into the latest in a long line of farces to befall QPR in recent times on Wednesday. I’m starting to wonder whether Faurlin is actually an emotionless robot – nothing seems to faze him and distract him from his game. I see him as one of those baseball pitching machines – whatever the circumstances you just stick a quarter in (or in Faurlin’s case hand the quarter to a dodgy South American businessman and maybe keep a bit for yourself) and whatever the weather or circumstances he’ll happily stand there and spray those beautiful passes of his left and right.
Here he was given a bigger than usual cheer before the game, and then set about picking Palace apart with his usual fine array of sweeping passes allied with a tough, nuggety defensive display. Moving across the world doesn’t bother him, not speaking the language doesn’t bother him, seeing the club he’s entrusted his career to lurch between managers and disasters doesn’t bother him, and now being on the front of all the sports supplements all week doesn’t seem to bother him. He keeps coming, he keeps playing, he keeps impressing. It’s freakish in a way.
Agree about The FA "stuff"... and Ali Faurlin.
He's a tough kid. Deserves credit for saturday, it must have been a tricky week for him.
Top man.
But just a chunk of it...
...On Wednesday the Football Association posted seven charges on their website in relation to QPR’s purchase of Alejandro Faurlin laced with legal jargon, with no indication as to whether these are flagrant breaches or technicalities, likely to attract a points deduction or a slap on the wrist. And that was that. “We will make no further comment” said the association whose running of English football over the last 20 years is a national shame and embarrassment. Not even a date for a hearing.
QPR, for their part, stuck out a couple of lines saying they didn’t think they’d done much wrong, and they too will be making no further comment. Thus leaving the national press to pretty much write whatever they like.
In the meantime; roll up, roll up, hand over your £20 (ho, ho I wish) sit down and say nothing. More than 18,000 of us did on Saturday – packing Loftus Road to the rafters to watch the best QPR side in a generation play as if nothing had happened and secure a win that, in theory, brings them within 20 points of an unassailable lead at the top of the table. Except not a single one of us knows whether we’ll be able to keep the points we won here with a scoreline that flattered the visitors. And not a single one of us knows when we will know.
It’s all so typical of QPR, and the way the game operates in this country these days. Whatever happens, it’s the supporters who suffer the most.
The man at the centre of attention this week has been Alejandro Faurlin. Man of the match at Millwall on Tuesday, thrust into the latest in a long line of farces to befall QPR in recent times on Wednesday. I’m starting to wonder whether Faurlin is actually an emotionless robot – nothing seems to faze him and distract him from his game. I see him as one of those baseball pitching machines – whatever the circumstances you just stick a quarter in (or in Faurlin’s case hand the quarter to a dodgy South American businessman and maybe keep a bit for yourself) and whatever the weather or circumstances he’ll happily stand there and spray those beautiful passes of his left and right.
Here he was given a bigger than usual cheer before the game, and then set about picking Palace apart with his usual fine array of sweeping passes allied with a tough, nuggety defensive display. Moving across the world doesn’t bother him, not speaking the language doesn’t bother him, seeing the club he’s entrusted his career to lurch between managers and disasters doesn’t bother him, and now being on the front of all the sports supplements all week doesn’t seem to bother him. He keeps coming, he keeps playing, he keeps impressing. It’s freakish in a way.
Agree about The FA "stuff"... and Ali Faurlin.
He's a tough kid. Deserves credit for saturday, it must have been a tricky week for him.
Top man.
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