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September 28, 2008

Stan Bowles Criticizes QPR's Owners

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Stan Bowles' Perspective - At least, according to the Sunday People!

Sunday People/Peter Ward - 28 September 2008 - TIGHT Rs BLASTED
EXCLUSIVE
QPR legend Stan Bowles has branded the club's billionaire owners skinflints after being sidelined from his hospitality role. Click to continue reading...

September 27, 2008

QPR - Mail "Humour"

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A day after having a Daily Mail story about a proposed QPR name change was categorically denied in a QPR official statement from Chairman Briatore....Some forced "humour" from the Mail's Patrick Collins

Daily Mail/Patrick Collins

PS...
RUMOUR suggests that Queens Park Rangers will shortly be renamed by the motor racing money men who purchased the club. Click to continue reading...

QPR Statement - No Name Change Name Even Discussed

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QPR Official Site- CLUB STATEMENT
Following a report in one of today's national newspapers, titled 'QPC is definitely a move too far, Flavio,' QPR Holdings Ltd Chairman Flavio Briatore has issued the following statement:
"This is pure fabrication and I don't know where the story has come from. Click to continue reading...

September 26, 2008

QPR Name Change?

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Hopefully just media hype, although there were board rumours a few months ago, but then the talk was "London Rangers"

Daily Mail/Charles Sale - QPC is definitely a move too far, Flavio

The super-rich owners of London Championship team QPR have been discussing
changing the name of the club to Queens Park City in order to emphasis its location in the capital. Click to continue reading...

September 20, 2008

Would you pay £50 to watch a Championship match?

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No, me neither. Especially since you could watch a Premier League game for less at 14 out of 20 top-flight clubs. But QPR have different ideas. The club has hiked its most expensive tickets up to £50 a pop at the insistence of the club's owners. Formula One high-rollers Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone must have [. Click to continue reading...

September 15, 2008

QPR's Win Over Southampton: Compilation of Match Reports and Managerial Comments

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Wolves 5 13
Birmingham 5 13
Preston 5 11
QPR 5 10

Guardian/Jeremy Alexander - Blackstock's double helps Rangers keep up with the paceGuardian report
Queens Park Rangers gave Flavio Briatore his second fourth place of the day in a sunlit early evening here yesterday. Click to continue reading...

September 10, 2008

SLeague

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After you, no, please, after you. The SLeague is proving to be unfailingly polite as we get down to the wire.

Albirex Niigata v Home United 1-1 (Akira Takase 85'; Valery Hiek 68') 2,103
Woodlands Wellington v Gombak United 0-2 (Ruhaizad Ismail 43', T Seehawong 55') 1,556
Dalian Shide v SAF 1-4 (Bi Jinhao 24' ;John Wilkinson 2'Faizal Aziz 22'Aleksandar Duric 33',78') 709

SAF back on top with 61 points from 26 games while Home sit a point behind. Click to continue reading...

September 4, 2008

Briatore's QPR Comments

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As noted earlier, QPR Chairman Flavio Briatore spoke about QPR last night on Radio London.

BBC - Briatore will control QPR funds
Briatore is also the owner of the Renault Formula One team (Getty)
QPR owner Flavio Briatore has told BBC London that he will decide where the club's money is spent. Click to continue reading...

August 7, 2008

QPR's Championship Prospects - Another Assessment

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Telegraph Capitol Growth in The Championship

The Telegraph is expanding coverage of the Championship, one of the world's most-viewed leagues. Huw Turbervill has a watching brief on the four clubs in the capital - Charlton, Crystal Palace, QPR and Watford - plus Reading. Click to continue reading...

July 20, 2008

When Ecclestone Gave The QPR Team Talk...and The Buying-the-Club Story

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I recall reading about a Flavio Briatore team talk, one time last season; don't recall hearing about a Bernie Ecclestone team talk.

Came across from a couple of weeks ago:

The Times/Kevin Eason - July 4, 2008 - Eason at large: David Coulthard could enliven the Beeb
And so, from one of the prettiest sporting venues in the world to, er, Silverstone. Click to continue reading...

July 3, 2008

Reuters Soccer Blog "Vlog on the pitch at QPR - Can money buy lasting success?"

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Reuters Soccer Blog - World Soccer views and news - July 3rd, 2008 Vlog on the pitch at QPR - Can money buy lasting success? - Posted by: Mark Meadows
Can money buy lasting success in football? This week vlog on the pitch host Owen Wyatt hangs out with some models to find out. Click to continue reading...

June 15, 2008

Possible Caliendo Ownership Challenge to Briatore and Ecclestone Now Reported in Tabloid

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As was noted earlier this week on QPR Report!
(Also See QPR Report earlier today, looking back at Caliendo Sale)

Sunday Mirror/Rory Smith- QPR bosses Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone could face ownership challenge
Formula One moguls Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone could face a challenge to their ownership of Queens Park Rangers. Click to continue reading...

June 9, 2008

It's a Mann's World

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This weekend I went to Silverstone to support a local World Renault Series driver...

Pippa Mann is from Ipswich, she's 23 and she's the only woman driver in the league that feeds into the Formula One championship.


I covered the race for Town 102 because she's a local girl. Click to continue reading...