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If Iâm going anywhere near the Thames Iâll always get off the tube / bus on the other side from where Iâm going so I can walk across one of the bridges.
Top 5 favourite bridges to walk over Blackfriars, Hammersmith, Lambeth, Albert, Putney,
When I was a kid and we were driving to see my Nan & Grandpa in Essex, Iâd nag my dad into driving over a different bridge each time.
Mention of Albert Bridge gives me an excuse to post one of The Pogues greatest songs.
I was there protesting against Thompson too, but when you look at how badly the owners have run the club since 2011 it makes you realise how the system, as much as it frustrated us, was actually working back then.
As mentioned earlier in the thread Sinton, Parker, Ferdinand, Sinclair, Peacock, Impey all bought from clubs in the divisions below. All sold on for a handsome profit. Some of which went into balancing the books and some of which was re-invested in more players from the lower divisions. Impey, Ferdinand, Peacock would hardly have been on anyone's radar before joining us so there must have been something going right with our recruitment back then.
The big problem was that when it went wrong (spending the Les Ferdinand money) it went REALLY wrong & we were relegated.
But I still think we were really unlucky with some of those signings. They could have worked out.
Simon Osborn a very decent midfielder, as is proven by how well he did at his next club Wolves.
As for Ned Zelic, anyone remember the midweek home defeat to Wimbledon when he came on as a sub? We lost the game comfortably but that wasn't much to do with Zelic. He looked more than capable in that match. He had a fairly good career in Germany both before and after his short spell with us. Is it Thompson's fault he couldn't settle? Is it Ray's fault? The other players? (there have been persistent stories of them not making him very welcome) Zelic himself's fault? Who knows but, like Osborn, I think it unlucky rather than a terrible signing.
I won't try to defend the signing of Hateley though. He was a very good target man in his Pompey / Milan days. But a past it old crock by the time we got him. That one really was a terrible signing but I'd wager that signing was more like Super Ray's decision than the owners.
Look what happened when the next owner Chris Wright took over. Took his eye off the ball in terms of keeping the books balanced & then left us in administration while he ran away with the training ground!
Thompson quite right to identify in that interview that his PR and his communication with the fans was well below the standard required but in terms of keeping the club running without making massive losses then he did a competent job.
Fast forward to November 2024 and we are losing more money every month than mid-90s QPR lost in a year. And what are we getting in return for that? Not a club that's holding its own in the Premier League, that's for sure. We are a million miles from that.
not a QPR match but it was at Loftus Road so it counts. Sure I've told this story on here before but anyway.....
I went to see England B play France at Loftus Road in the early 90s. I mainly went because Andy Sinton was playing.
Me & my brother were standing in the middle of the Lower Loft and every time Gary Mabbutt came anywhere near our end, a bloke nearby shouted out "Oi! Mabbutt!"
This carried on for the whole match "Oi! Mabbutt!" every time. Gary Mabbutt could definitely hear this, there wasn't a very big crowd.
Near the end of the match, another shout of "Oi! Mabbutt!" and Gary Mabbutt finally responded and looked over our way only for our hero to shout out "You're a CĂNT!"
talking of half time entertainment anyone remember Villa away, first game of the season, early 90s? Half time entertainment was celebrities doing a penalty shootout against their mascot. The celebrity Villa fan was Peter Withe, who took penalties very successfully as a player and scored the winning goal in a European Cup Final.
The celebrity QPR fan was Henry Kelly off of Game For A Laugh and Going For Gold. I don't think he's actually a QPR fan, but he was DJing on Classic FM at the time and they were our shirt sponsors. He was wearing the full kit with his little spindly arms and legs on display. He looked like the victim of some terrible wasting disease.
The shootout finished Villa 5 QPR 0. Withe gave a masterclass in how to take penalties. Kelly's penalty kicks barely qualified as feeble, they only just reached the goal line.
I saw the first one at the cinema when it came out and thought it was shĂŹt. Still canât believe the praise it gets. Cartoonish villain Joaquin Phoenix has Russell Croweâs family killed. Russell Crowe swears that he will one day avenge their deaths and then many boring hours later, hey youâll never guess what, he avenges their deaths. What a load of bollocks.
11 years ago our owner was saying that theyâd allowed the club to have âtheir pants pulled downâ by a series of charlatan managers / players / agents and they wouldnât be so naive again.
Itâs becoming a pretty fĂŒcking long list now of people whoâve taken these owners for a ride and made a lot of money out of doing so. Their metaphorical pants have never actually got pulled back up, have they?
Redknapp Hughes Joorabchian Rigg McLaren Beale Probably quite a few others Iâve forgotten Countless mercenary bastĂ„rds & whoâve been vastly overpaid while playing shĂt phoning it in and then laughing about it on a podcast a few years later. (Iâd like to put some of those cĂŒnts under a fĂŒcking cosh!) (and Iâd happily let their scum agents take 10% of the beating as well)
The latest instalment of âHow not to run a football clubâ is some Boss Baby being handsomely paid for the job of recruiting us a new CEO / Director of Football. Then turning round at the end of that process and saying Iâve found the man youâre looking for and itâs someone whoâs never held a position remotely linked to either of those roles and you wonât believe this but itâs me. When Mark Bowen tried that trick at Reading a few years ago, didnât we all point and laugh and quite rightly take the piss?
Anyway, given our owners serial incompetence and inability to spot someone on the make, I wonder if anyone can help me get an appointment with our board.
I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and by gum it put them on the map.
I think this monorail could be a very exciting development for our club and Iâm confident that if I can just get in front of the board I could get them to commit serious money to this project.
lots of films I love already mentioned. The Thing is probably the film I've watched more times than any other. It's a masterpiece.
Evil Dead films are all great, I also loved the new(ish) Evil Dead Rise too. Good if you like a healthy dose of humour mixed in with horror. The TV series Ash Vs Evil Dead also a lot of fun. Bruce Campbell is also brilliant playing an elderly Elvis in Bubba Ho Tep.
A few I've not seen mentioned..... The Borderlands (2013 film, nothing to do with the video game) A Dark Song Brightburn Midsommar The Lighthouse Juan Of The Dead (Mexican zombie film) Colour Out Of Space Absentia Mandy The Ritual Ghost Stories
Chuck Berry "Promised Land" like they used to say on the Cornflakes advert, Chuck is "the original and the best" I'm sure the Stones themselves would agree. Their first single was a Chuck Berry cover. Here's the great man playing "Promised Land" and "Johnny B Goode" on a Belgian TV show in 1965.
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