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Thread | England Euro legit tickets
at 22:41 27 Mar 2024
Just wondering if anyone has any good & legit ways to buy tickets for the England Euro matches in Germany without a track record of attending England games? |
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Thread | Links for live streams?
at 22:49 15 Oct 2021
For those of us unable to attend the Fulham match from abroad, any TV links please? Thanks |
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Thread | Links for live streams today?
at 12:24 21 Aug 2021
I cannot go to today's match so if anyone has a streaming link, I'd greatly appreciate it. |
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Thread | Rs on TV?
at 13:03 24 Aug 2016
Can anyone please tell me which BBC TV programme shows the championship? Thanks |
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Thread | Urgent; wham ticket help
at 23:24 2 Apr 2015
I have a Rs supporter from the US ready to book a flight for our WHAM home match.
But I do not have a membership/shoops upgrade number to buy a ticket.
Can anyone offer me one?
I am a season ticket holder with the shoops upgrade but have already used my allocation for family, yet would be happy to return the favour for future matches.
Thanks |
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Thread | March TV
at 22:36 12 Jan 2015
Any news re. dates & times to help those of us booking flights?
I know about Spurs doubts but would like to book for Everton. |
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Thread | Prem TV match changes
at 22:35 22 Jun 2014
Anyone know when these will be decided for the first group of matches please? Some of us need to book flights & know the initial fixture list is basically hypothetical. I'm especially interested in coming to our home game vs. Sunderland. |
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Thread | TV Change for Boro?
at 15:59 28 Aug 2013
Anyone know when Sky will choose its TV games for the weekend of 28/9?
Hoping to book a flight to attend our home match Vs Boro' & any info asap would be very helpful, thanks |
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Thread | Rangers until I die, but not Pope?
at 20:25 13 Mar 2013
I'm wondering why us QPR fans sing 'rangers 'til I die', while the pope does not bother to stay until he dies any more? Clearly our religion is stronger than Catholicism? |
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Thread | May TV dates?
at 13:29 11 Mar 2013
Anyone know when these will be decided so we can book travel? I guess the final day at Liverpool can't be changed to prevent any team gaining an advantage? |
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Thread | A late season thought
at 21:36 21 Feb 2013
Although I think we will go down, like most loyal fans I live in hope we won't & search for reasons we will stay up. March & April are packed full of 'must win' games with the hardest match away at Everton, even though we won there last season so anything is possible. But it is the May fixtures that have got me hoping because I now reckon the 3 opponents we have will have ended their seasons by then. The most Arse & Liverpool will be playing for will be Europa league (do they care?) & Newcastle should be safe by then if they continue as recently. So could 3 more 'must win' possible games in May keep us up? Or am I clutching at straws, partly because I am attending our next 2 home games? |
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Thread | M'Bia suspended?
at 22:46 17 Jan 2013
I think he got his 5th yellow vs Spurs (unjustly) so is he suspended for WHAM? |
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Thread | New York Times & IHT article on Rs
at 10:12 17 Jan 2013
Don't like calling us 'Queens Park' in the title of article below, but Hughes is right we are taking gambles. However, given Remy's transfer is double our previous biggest, we have not actually gambled much with transfer fees, which compare well with many smaller PREM clubs (Southampton). Our gamble seems to more with wages. Let's face it, if we go down we can cut our wage bill by getting rid of players who will not want to play in the CHAMP. But we will rarely lose much in terms of transfer fees as we have rarely paid much for players. So a gamble worth taking even if we go down? Too much negative opinion on this website about this gamble. I'm pleased we have signed Remy & I hope to see him help us beat WHAM this Saturday.
Queens Park Takes a Huge Risk for a Huge Payoff
By ROB HUGHES
LONDON – The January sales around European soccer resemble the scene inside a high-rolling casino, but with human chips, instead of plastic ones, thrown at the spinning wheel.
Two weeks go by. The big gamblers eye one another without making their big play. Then desperation spurs one club to go for broke.
On Monday night, the London club Queens Park Rangers, owned by a Malaysian airline entrepreneur and with input from one of India’s richest families, was in negotiations with at least four players.
The Rangers’ new team manager, that old wheeler-dealer Harry Redknapp, was flying the Channel between England and France. On Sunday, he was bidding to buy the powerful Rennes midfield man, Yann M’Vila. On Monday, Rangers was hijacking what was thought to have been a done deal between Olympique de Marseille and Newcastle United for the striker Loïc Rémy.
By Tuesday, he was in the English Midlands, where Q.P.R. had an F.A. Cup replay against West Bromwich Albion and where Redknapp was hoping to persuade two from West Brom – winger Peter Odemwingie and the towering defender Jonas Olsson – to switch teams.
A few days before all of this, Redknapp was blandly denying that he had any irons in the fire. “We’ve tried a few things, but I don’t know what’s happening in the market,” he said. “That’s down to the chief executive.”
And that’s Harry. The 65-year-old East Londoner comes to life in the January market. He is known as Houdini Harry for his expertise at guiding teams as they save themselves in relegation dogfights, but to do that, he first has to persuade club owners to speculate and spend on the players he feels can “do the business.” It is hair-raising stuff. Tony Fernandes, the Malaysian business high flier who is Rangers’ chief shareholder, fired the team’s coach, Mark Hughes, to give his job to Redknapp a month before Christmas.
The team, already expensive, was scraping along at the bottom of the Premier League. It still is, but a victory at Chelsea and a draw last Saturday against Redknapp’s former team, Tottenham Hotspur, gave a glimmer of hope that the forlorn bunch of misfits at Q.P.R. were responding to the new manager’s motivation.
But how does it do it? The bulk of Redknapp’s talking around players is to tell them he sees greatness in their shoes. They have it in them, if only they would work at it, to be world beaters, never mind just survivors in the big league.
Whether he believes it does not matter; what matters is that they do.
Meantime, he persuades the owners – Fernandes and the family of Lakshmi Mittal – that the talent on their payroll is simply not good enough. They must throw more chips, millions more, at the wheel or they are lost.
And it’s a gamble worth making, because last summer the English Premier League hugely increased its income when new television deals were signed. For the three seasons starting this coming September, after a new televisions partner, BT, chipped in £738 million, or $1.19 billion, and Sky and ESPN increased their existing contracts, there will be more than double the money on the table for the 20 teams that share out the Premiership pool.
The deals now are worth a combined package in excess of £3 billion. The pot keeps rising, in spite of economic conditions.
England has the game the world wants to watch on television, and staying in that league of 20 is the difference between high finance and potential ruin.
The owners know it. The players know it. The agents who move those players around flock to it like bees to nectar. And of course, clubs in other leagues, lesser leagues in financial terms, succumb to it.
Marseille’s sporting director, effectively its deal maker José Anigo, said on French television on Monday: “Loïc Rémy is somewhere in England. We at O.M. reached agreement with Newcastle, but we also talked with other English clubs.”
The price, thought to be about £8 million, was agreed on last weekend. But Q.P.R. could not only match that transfer fee to Marseille, it is rumored to be doubling the offer of £40,000 per week that Newcastle put on the table for Rémy.
But why, reporters asked, would a French international take the gamble of joining a team marooned at the bottom of the standings? Simple: His agent negotiates an out clause. He will play his heart out for the Rangers between now and May, but if it is not enough, if the club goes down, he gets to leave for the next highest bidder.
There are huge questions in all of this. Will Rémy, a striker who blows hot and cold in his native France, adapt at once to the English league? Will he link up with Q.P.R.’s gifted, but erratic, Moroccan playmaker, Adel Taarabt? Ditto M’Vila, who is admired for his midfield force but was once called a loose cannon by his coach at Rennes, and who was banned from the French national team after partying while on duty with the squad.
Many clubs have looked covetously at both Rémy and M’Vila. They have scoured the backgrounds that took M’vila, the son of a Congo player, from Picardy, near Amiens, France, to Stade Rennes.
Rémy, too, was lifted by his skills with a ball after starting off life in Lyon. His talent was honed at the academy of the local club, Olympique Lyonnais, and it later took him to Marseille, which took a chance on him after discovering in a medical examination before the deal that he had a heart abnormality.
Now, subject to similar medical processes that accompany all soccer transfers at this level, M’Vila and Rémy are expected to join the dogfight with Q.P.R.
So, if the money is right, might Odemwingie and Olsson.
Odemwingie was born in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan; opted to represent Nigeria at the international level; and married in England. Olsson is Swedish, loves to play the guitar and intends to resume his studies to be a human rights lawyer when he finishes playing.
It is quite a midseason gamble on players who have caught the eye of Q.P.R.’s Mr. Houdini. |
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