All posts tagged QPR

A Cautious Welcome for QPR’s New Stadium Plans

Ranger BP

Just before Christmas, Queens Park Rangers announced ambitious plans to move into a new stadium by the start of the 2018-19 season, signalling the arrival of an off-field component to Tony Fernandes’ much debated generosity to the club.

Partners include the company Stadium Capital Developments and the plan is to acquire land holdings in conjunction with Network Rail and the Genesis Housing Group, the arena part of the …

Football and High Speed Rail 2: The Pros and Cons

One of the more emotive of political causes in recent times has been the plan to build a new high speed rail line between London, the North of England and the Midlands; the now notorious High Speed 2 project – often abbreviated to plain HS2.

With construction due to begin in 2017, the plan is for the line to extend north westwards from Euston station in the capital to …

Eye Witness Assessment: Yet More Short-Termism From Redknapp and QPR

Lucky Charlie Austin. Youthful rejection at the hands of Saturday’s opponents and Hull City medicals aside, he was the one Queen’s Park Rangers player yet to be labelled with a question mark as to his reputation at the Madejski Stadium on Saturday.

For this is a flawed squad that Harry Redknapp has assembled and while there is far more backbone than that displayed by the miscreant class of 2012-3

Championship Finances: Five Key Takeaways

On August 1, the peerless blog The Swiss Ramble published an invaluable presentation of the profit and loss accounts for Championship clubs in the 2011-12 season.

Of course much has happened since including the arrival in the competition of Queen’s Park Rangers; a club the financial wealth of which will be decidedly byzantine and worthy of a week-long series of articles. Accounts for Wigan Athletic would also make …

Finding Forest: The Difficulties of Locating the Stadium

Yeoville

My first visit to Yeovil Town’s Huish Park recently presented more than a few problems in finding the stadium. Situated on an industrial estate in the westerly suburbs of this surprisingly unlovely town, the one road in/one road out access shouldn’t have been too difficult to negotiate, especially at a full speed of roughly 8 miles an hour.

But all this was after an unscheduled tour of Yeovil’s ring …