Rangers captain Taarabt's grief after cousin is shot dead in Marseille

[The Moroccan]

in spite of that he wanted to play ....

you are amazing Adel..thank you

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1368608/Adel-Taarabts-grief-cousin-shot-dead.html

[Goddard]

A good read.

Unlikely match made in Heaven - Taarabt and Warnock.

But, it's worked a treat.

[rockandroll]

thats shows how mature he becomes under the Warnocks ! great management and great family.

[Goddard]

Another good article about Adel, with some interesting opinions of him from Shaun Derry, and fans of other clubs...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/03/adel_taarabt.html#286656

[LoftusRoadLad]

Now this is a player i would not mind at QPR, Chamakh of Arseys. Tarbs mate.

[WeAreQPR12]

Warnock is brilliant, I can't believe so many fans on here wanted Curbs. I said Neil was a must and would be the perfect manager, nice to be proved right on this occasion.

The bit where he said you have to stop him from coming back otherwise he would take the goal kicks is so funny but true. He really knows how to get the best out of players and Adel just highlights his down to earth approach works with all types of players and deserves to be a premiership manager.

[Ric-Roc]

Kept blanking Warnock yet it ended up the way it has. Respect to Adel but MASSIVE respect to NW. What an absolutely top notch geezer.

[paulmason]

in spite of that he wanted to play ....

you are amazing Adel..thank you

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...shot-dead.html

The Moroccan, That is the best editorial I've seen covering Taarabt and thanks for posting the link. I have just been looking through Paul Fletcher's blog and it looks superb. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/

Amazing how the BBC seem to keep this fella in the broom cupboard but keep those other boring gits on their footie shows.

[G.T.P]

in spite of that he wanted to play ....

you are amazing Adel..thank you

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...shot-dead.html

ha ha ha. in spite of all that.
if he really wanted to play he would of done, a cousins a cousin, a fathers a father.
spot the difference.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1368622/Scott-Parker-brave-face-West-Ham-Tottenham-hours-fathers-death.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[swanleyhoop]

ha ha ha. in spite of all that.
if he really wanted to play he would of done, a cousins a cousin, a fathers a father.
spot the difference.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...=feeds-newsxml

He wanted to play and Warnock wouldn't let him and told him to go home.
His cousin grew up in the same household as him, they were only 2 years apart in age and as close as brothers.

21 and in a foreign country, with a very strong father figure giving him that advice, I'm not surprised he went, and it is no slight on him at all.
Parker's choice was Parker's choice, different circumstances.

[G.T.P]

i seriously cant see what benefit going to france by train for the day, and then returning back to england for the one day, and then flying out to morroco the day after could do for anyone compared with playing 90 minutes of football.

warnock = great football manager, terrible travel agent.

[swanleyhoop]

I doubt he would have returned had it not be to get his FL award. Otherwise he'd probably have gone straight to Morocco.
Would have gone to France for that one day for the funeral, as Moslems have to bury their dead within 24 hours, so was probably there for the funeral.
Playing for Morocco right now might be very important to him and his family, given that his younger cousin also had his sights set on playing for their national team.
If you google the cousin's name, articles say he was in constant contact with Adel, after every match each one played (he was also a pro footballer), and that he emulated Adel and wanted to follow in his footsteps into the National team.