Review of the Four Year Plan film

[Felt]

Good to see Paladini getting his comeuppance.

[Olly]

Briatore will do anything for money, even at his own expense. No friends and lots of enemies. His women must have a crap life.

[qpr]

DailyMail write up on the 4 year plan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2050231/The-Four-Year-Plan-Loftus-Road-like-Animal-House--night-review.html

In the final scenes of the film The Four Year Plan, Queens Park Rangers players celebrate with the Championship trophy and dance on a podium with medals around their necks.

After putting up with co-owner Flavio Briatore and chairman Gianni Paladini during the making of this tempestuous 96-minute documentary about life at Loftus Road, they certainly deserved them.

Briatore and Paladini brought a whole new meaning to the term ‘boardroom interference’ in this belter, with their barmy, scandalous behaviour at QPR. They pick on players, pick fights with their managers and pick the team during combustible scenes that make this an absolute must-see.

For anyone wondering how Briatore and his boardroom accomplices chewed their way through nine full-time and caretaker managers during the making of this fearless fly-on-the-wall film, look no further. Paladini routinely refers to their managers as ‘idiots’.

Some of the scenes are baffling and even QPR’s players stare in disbelief, their jaws dropping to the floor during frequent interruptions from the top.

It is impossible not to sympathise with the players, especially when winger Hogan Ephraim stands up for his team-mates in front of Briatore. Sadly, none of his fellow pros offer much support.

For Paladini, chairman when QPR were sanctioned by the FA over the Alejandro Faurlin dispute, the trawl through the past four seasons in west London is embarrassing and illuminating.

Paladini tells his managers: ‘No-one will break your b***s at QPR — so long as you win’, and refers to Rangers legend Gareth Ainsworth as ‘that pr*** who is trying to get himself sacked’.

When Jim Magilton’s future as manager is being discussed at a finance meeting, Paladini chimes in to say: ‘If you force the issue, maybe you will p*** him off enough and he will leave.’

Weeks later they get their wish when Magilton is suspended after an altercation with his own player Akos Buzsaky at Vicarage Road.

Magilton has always denied wrongdoing, but Paladini puts people in the picture during yet another heated scene: ‘You cannot headbutt players — after a while they lose their marbles.’

He loses the plot with Paulo Sousa’s assistant Bruno Oliveira at half-time when he passes on a message from Briatore to bring on strikers during the second half.

At least Amit Bhatia, vice-chairman at Rangers, comes across as a voice of reason, adding a touch of class to the chaotic scenes.

The film is a beauty, winning Best Documentary at the four-day Marbella Film Festival over the weekend, and will soon be released in England. When it is, prepare for uproar

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2050231/The-Four-Year-Plan-Loftus-Road-like-Animal-House--night-review.html

Sounds good for someone who doesn't care for QPR but for me it's another case of dragging our name through the mud. Saying that though, I can't wait to see it

[Olly]

GP is the one who's going to get it, he's still at the club

[Mellowhoop]

When is it out.

[QPR_NW10]

yeh- looking forward to this. that little snippet back in May was good. brutal, but good.

[Bigears]

Why did the club allow this film to be made and released at all?

Knowing Fav he thought with him in charge we would get promoted and be in the champions league and this would show the world how great he is.

I bet the film company had to pay us to do it (up front or royalties) and they very cleverly got all the documentation and legal rights agreed and signed at the start before they even started (so no uturn).

If thats the case QPR and Fav have no rights whats so ever to stop it as they signed all these away.

[conners]

I am not trying to stir things up but isn't it ironic that for all the madness behind the scenes that we had our most successful seasons in years on the pitch.

It obviously was a case of win at all costs.

[ProtestR]

I just wonder if they have used True Colours in the background for every time GP appears?