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Troubles for Rangers?

Soccer Pie 22 October @ 03:41 AM EST

Since Flavio Briatore bought Queens Park Rangers, everyone knew that Formula One world will intervene with the destiny of this famous football club from London. Lately it seems that this connection might be crucial for popular Hoops' future. Actually, Briatore resigned to the post of Renault Formula One boss after the accusations of fixing last year's race for Singapore Grand Prix.

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Briatore Strikes Back! Briatore Suing Over Lifetime Ban...Meanwhile: Briatore and Ecclestone Back to Normal!

QPR Report 18 October @ 10:14 AM EST
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- QPR REPORT...UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Checkout the TWO QPR Reports! This QPR Report site. And, the second combination messageboard and quasi-blog QPR Report Messageboard. If you're interested in constantly-updated news re anything QPR-related and also QPR nostalgia, this site has both - along with assorted eclectic non-QPR football material. Click to continue reading...

QPR Football Snippets Saturday...Further Focus on Briatore and the Football League

QPR Report 10 October @ 02:50 AM EST
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- TWO QPR Reports! This QPR Report site. And, the second combination messageboard and quasi-blog QPR Report Messageboard. If you're interested in constantly-updated news re anything QPR-related and also QPR nostalgia, this site has both - along with assorted eclectic non-QPR football material. Click to continue reading...

City’s Secret F1 Star

Premiership Talk Blog 29 September @ 10:31 AM EST

Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong has revealed that he has considered a career in motor racing.

"I was always into cars as a kid," the Dutchman revealed. "It started with my grandfather. He worked for Ford for 40 years and every two years he would come home with a new car. I used to go to the factory to see the new models when they were coming out.

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"Betrayed" Briatore To Fight Back and Win

QPR Report 25 September @ 08:25 AM EST
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- The cutting-edge QPR Report Messageboard: Visit - even post on - the combination quasi-blog and messageboard for additional up-to-the-minute news about QPR, combined with QPR nostalgia and occasionally, general football items. Links to items on other QPR boards, always welcome! --- - QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER! Click to continue reading...

"Time to Go Flavio"

QPR Report 24 September @ 06:01 PM EST
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- The cutting-edge QPR Report Messageboard: Visit - even post on - the combination quasi-blog and messageboard for additional up-to-the-minute news about QPR, combined with QPR nostalgia and occasionally, general football items. Links to items on other QPR boards, always welcome!
- QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER! Click to continue reading...

QPR Report Monday - The Weekend and The Week Ahead (Chelsea!)

QPR Report 21 September @ 01:54 AM EST
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- The QPR Report Messageboard: Visit - and even post on - the combination quasi-blog and messageboard for additional up-to-the-minute news about QPR, mixed with QPR nostalgia and items of general football interest.
- QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER!
- Monday's F1 "Crashgate" Hearing Reports (Updated Throughout Day)
- It's Decision Day - or at least it's meeting day - in the Formula One Crashgate Investigation. Click to continue reading...

Poking my head out of the bunker

Fighting Talker 17 September @ 08:31 AM EST

Cheaters, one and all

Hello folks. I know it's been a little while. I had to finish up an important proposal this week and with that now done, I can finally turn my attention to other things, like this blog.
I start with something only only tangentially related to soccer. Click to continue reading...

Exclusive Wikio rankings: Arsenalinsider Enter’s The Wikio Top 35 For August

Arsenal Insider 03 September @ 11:13 AM EST

Arsenalinsider.com brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere.

We are delighted to come straight into the listing at no 32 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

As always, our mission is to provide you up-to-date views, news, analysis, exclusive interviews, videos and more on our beloved club and this leap in the Wikio rankings show how much you appreciate our efforts.

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Magilton Insist He's The Boss...Magilton Spoke to Dowie...Holloway on His QPR Departure

QPR Report 08 August @ 03:38 AM EST
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For cutting-edge, continually-updated, football-only news about QPR: Visit the QPR Report Messageboard (and quasi blog)! Feel free to just read. But your posts are welcome! All views genuinely welcomed!
London Paper/Kirk Blows - August 7, 2009
Magilton insists he's the boss at QPR Rangers coach unworried about Briatore

- JIM MAGILTON insists he has "absolutely no fear" as he embarks on his first season as manager of QPR. Click to continue reading...

Daily Dose: August 6th, 2009

The Offside 06 August @ 08:00 PM EST
Something to read while you consider attending this Miami FC game... Bruce Grobbelar has a good grasp of irony (Bet Offside) Assessing Altidore's work permit case (SBI) Xabi Alonso should avoid volcanoes for a while (Run of Play) Dani Alves: An unlikely fishmonger (Futbolita) Introducing MLS to Europeans (Sport is a TV Show) Wolverine supports The Bhoys? Click to continue reading...

Exclusive Wikio rankings: The Gunning Hawk moves up to 24th

The Gunning Hawk 04 August @ 05:00 AM EST

The Gunning Hawk brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere. Having made the rankings in January 2009 in position 105, it was a rollercoaster of ups and downs as we went from 50th to 33rd and then down to 57th last month.

But, we are delighted to now be in position 24 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

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Michael Schumacher regresa al automovilismo hace un año dominaba un balon

Futblog 31 July @ 02:08 AM EST
Michael Schumacher
Originally uploaded by The Edge Malaysia Todo mundo del deporte habla del regreso del piloto alemán Michael Schumacher a las pistas de automovilismo, pero curiosamente hace un año exactamente jugaba futbol soccer en un juego de beneficencia, de hecho a sus 40 años no lo hace tan mal. Click to continue reading...

Michael Schumacher Returns to F1: Non Football News of General Interest

Caught Offside 30 July @ 04:48 AM EST

Just when Formula One needed something to get it's mojo going again Felipe Massa collided with a huge metal spring at 150mph and the sport was given the injection it desperately needed!

After three years in retirement, and crashing various vehicles in the process during his daily life whilst no doubt trying to recreate his hugely successful F1 career, Schumacher is to get back in his Ferrari for the upcoming European Grand Prix in Valencia to fill in for his good friend Massa.

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As bad as FIFA is, at least you're not an F1 fan

Fighting Talker 06 July @ 10:02 AM EST
Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley: Making Sepp Blatter look like Pete Rozelle
Bill Archer, Andrew Jennings and many others love to focus on FIFA and its corrupt functionaries like Sepp Blatter, Jack Warner, Chuck Blazer, et al. Others prefer to turn their guns on Fed Heads like Dr. Click to continue reading...

Most valuable sports property: EPL does not find a place

Soccerblog 20 June @ 07:46 AM EST
SportsPro magazine has published the world's first value ranking of sports properties in its July issue, out now. They have listed 200 properties. Here are the top ten.

1. National Football League (NFL) - $4.5 billion
2. Major League Baseball (MLB) - $3.9 billion
3. National Basketball Association (NBA) - $3.

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Ainsworth Highly Praises Sousa

QPR Report 20 June @ 04:05 AM EST
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- The Magilton Diaries (Satire) - Entry V ----- (The Earlier Entries to the Magilton Diaries (Satire)
- The Formula One Dispute: Briatore vs Ecclestone (Updated? Click to continue reading...

Ainsworth Highly Praises Sousa....Cardiff Playoff Final Video...QPR Play in London Masters Tournament Tonight....Two Ex-QPR Birthdays

QPR Report 20 June @ 01:47 AM EST
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- For cutting-edge, continually-updated news about QPR: Visit the combination, quasi-blog/messageboard QPR Report Messageboard. The place where for QPR and football. Nothing else! And all views welcome! No cliques. No board wars, No ad-hominem attacks on fellow posters
- The Magilton Diaries (Satire) - Entry V ----- (The Earlier Entries to the Magilton Diaries (Satire)
- The Formula One Dispute: Briatore vs Ecclestone (Updated? Click to continue reading...

Daily Dose: May 20th, 2009

The Offside 20 May @ 09:45 PM EST
Something to read while you watch Milan players breaking the speed limit... Dirty Tackle has Inter and Roma players doing the same (except Alberto Aquilani, who breaks all the stereotypes by 1. staying under the speed limit and 2. driving a Smart Car.) But these guys go even faster (Auto Evolution) Our reader-voted Champions League XI (CL Offside) ESPN360 [. Click to continue reading...

Thorpe Bay racer on Japanese mission

Longpier 18 May @ 08:43 AM EST
One of Southend's rising stars is taking to the racing track in Japan this coming weekend to compete in a tournament that - in the past - has been contested by the likes of F1 stars Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
Robert Foster-Jones, 18, has only been racing for four years but he has risen through the ranks very quickly to become one of the country's top karters. Click to continue reading...

Sack Nike. A match report on a difficult night.

Arsereview 05 May @ 04:32 PM EST
If you were to look back at this season and had to choose 3 games which had defined how it went, you would probably choose the Spurs home game in the League, the FA Cup Semi Final and tonight.
What links them all? The fact we've conceded goals because of players slipping over.
So I say sack Nike - it may not be the most grown-up response to this match but it's certainly understandable. Click to continue reading...

Exclusive Wikio rankings: The stats don`t lie as The Gunning Hawk moves up to 33rd

The Gunning Hawk 04 May @ 03:00 PM EST

The Gunning Hawk brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere. Having made the rankings in January in position 105 and 50th last month, we are delighted to now be in position 33 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

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Scolari for QPR?

QPR Report 16 April @ 06:03 AM EST
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- For "cutting-edge" news articles re QPR and football-in-general...For a site where differing opinions about QPR and football are encouraged without the ad-hominems: Visit the free-thinking and completely-independent QPR Report Messageboard. Post if you want. Or just read if you prefer. Click to continue reading...

Quote of the Year Contender: Joan Laporta Doesn’t Do Cars.

The Offside 23 December @ 05:30 PM EST
If you recall, Joan Laporta had a tough summer. There was a vote to have him ousted as king of Barcadom after what seemed to be a disappointing summer marker, one which he won by the thinnest of thin margins. So this season must put a bit of wind in his sail to say the [...] Click to continue reading...

Stan Bowles Criticizes QPR's Owners

QPR Report 28 September @ 02:28 AM EST
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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...

QPR - Mail "Humour"

QPR Report 27 September @ 06:21 PM EST
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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
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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

QPR Report 27 September @ 06:06 AM EST
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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...

QPR Name Change?

QPR Report 26 September @ 06:44 PM EST
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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...

Would you pay £50 to watch a Championship match?

SoccerLens 20 September @ 12:37 PM EST
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...

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

QPR Report 15 September @ 01:24 AM EST
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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...

SLeague

Jakarta Casual 10 September @ 04:16 PM EST
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...

Briatore's QPR Comments

QPR Report 04 September @ 06:12 AM EST
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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...

QPR's Championship Prospects - Another Assessment

QPR Report 07 August @ 02:19 PM EST
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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...
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When Ecclestone Gave The QPR Team Talk...and The Buying-the-Club Story

QPR Report 20 July @ 02:48 AM EST
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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...

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

QPR Report 03 July @ 12:20 PM EST
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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...