I'm really beginning to worry about QPR.
With billionaire owners, the Championship should not be too hard a division to get out of - you can attract lower-Premiership quality players without much fuss, get them playing consistently and up you go. This is the club's third season with gazillionaire backing, and they still play at one of the worst grounds in the universe, and are as consistent as David Beckham's hairstyle.
Not only have the owners resisted spending big money (record fee is £3.5 million for Alejandro Faurlin, a complete unknown with a record of 15 apps, 0 goals), they consistently pick middle-of-the-road managers with no real record to speak of. The latest, Paul Hart, has just been installed to replace Jim Magilton, the man who chooses to discipline his immigrant central midfielders with a headbutt in the dressing room.
Why on earth couldn't Ecclestone and Briatore make just one big, bold investment in the footballing side of the club? There are so many decent managers out of work; Curbishley, Coppell, Ferguson, Dalglish, Barnes (just kidding) for example, all of whom have a track record of winning promotion and making shrewd purchases in the transfer market. Paul Hart has a tradition of taking over clubs in a fuckload of debt and gallantly trying, yet failing, to turn things around. If he makes it to the end of his 5-month contract, that will be an achievement in itself.
If I was a QPR fan, despite being 3 points off the play-offs, I'd probably be writing off this season in terms of promotion, and hoping that the two Godfathers in the director's chairs stop treating the club as some kind of social experiment and start making some well-thought-out footballing decisions. Or at least paying someone to do it for them.
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