BANG BANG QPR GANG

[Benicio del Toney]

Crazy thing is you are 2 cb's away from a decent team imo.

 

You didn't build from the back though, you tried to build from the front, that's what killed you.

 

 

If them dons don't all have relegation clauses it could be another Leeds/Portsmouth.

[The Somalian]

And It's T!!!!!!!!!

 

FA Cup: How Biggleswade got ex-QPR man Shabazz Baidoo

 

By Chris Osborne

BBC East Sport

 

When a guy who runs a burger van is touting you to Biggleswade Town, the days of scoring goals in the Championship can seem a long time gone.

Shabazz Baidoo, a QPR prospect turned non-league part-timer, will play in the proper rounds of the FA Cup for the first time in almost eight years when the Waders go to fellow Southern League Premier Division side Stourbridge on Saturday.

And none of it might have happened if it was not for a half-time caterer becoming a short-lived football agent.

"Nick the burger man phoned me up this summer. His exact words were, 'gaffer, I've got a player here who played for QPR'," recounted Biggleswade boss Chris Nunn, a cardboard box salesman by day.

"I was like 'yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. What's he want? Free burgers?'

Not so big Biggleswade Town

 

Originally named Biggleswade FC, the club were formed in 1874

It was not until 2008, after 134 years of existence, that the club moved into its own stadium

Chris Nunn was appointed boss in 2006 and, after saving them from relegation, won two promotions to the Southern Premier

The Waders will play their first ever match in the first round of the FA Cup on Saturday

 

"I had a look around. There he is on YouTube banging in goals for QPR. And you know what? He's an absolute joy.

"I pointed out that there's no free burgers, which distressed him slightly, but he was impressed with the facilities we've got.

"If you had said to me when I started here seven years ago I would be signing a lad, pretty much in his prime, who scored goals in the Championship, I'd say things you wouldn't be able to use."

Baidoo's story is less about a talent unfulfilled, and more a study of a man who, in the face of a generation desperate to become the next Wayne Rooney, did not want football to be the focus of his life.

"I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. As you get older you realise football is up and down," said the 26-year-old, who has overcome a hamstring injury to be available for the weekend's first-round tie.

"I was 17 when I made my debut in the Championship. I look back at it and sometimes I think - 'too much too soon'.

"I was happy. But when you get older you realise you've got to enjoy life as well as playing football. I was always cautious."

Baidoo, brought up in north London, was in the Tottenham youth system by the age of seven, before moving on to Arsenal and then QPR, where he scored four goals in 33 senior games between 2004 and 2008.

The striker did not find football all consuming though, deciding, while still playing, to pursue business interests.

Namely trading cars, and even making a buzz for himself in the London grime scene - a genre of music that, among others, influences the work of Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah.

Shabazz Baidoo

Youth career with Tottenham and Arsenal

Joined QPR's academy and made his senior debut against Gillingham in April 2004

Scored four times for the R's, including a last-minute equaliser against Leeds in August 2006 and a late leveller in an FA Cup tie with Luton later the same season

Dropped leagues to Dagenham & Redbridge, then again to Lewes

Has played non-league football with Croydon and Wealdstone

Now trades cars for a living and creates grime music in his spare time

 

"I was concentrating on life outside of football. While I was at QPR I was setting things up in case it didn't work out," he said.

"With the music, because you don't put too much into it you're not expecting too much out. Some of my friends make a living out of it. They're not massive, but they do get a living out of it.

"It's the same as football. How many people want to be footballers? How many make it?"

Spells at Dagenham & Redbridge and Lewes followed and then, when still only 21, football became more of a hobby, moving around non-league outfits like Croydon and Wealdstone.

Then, this summer, Biggleswade - a Bedfordshire club attracting average gates of 186 in a town of 16,000 people - came calling courtesy of a tip off from a burger vendor.

The discipline of the professional game, the fitness tests and strict diets of the modern footballer, were a far cry from what would greet Baidoo when he rolled up at Langford Road.

Think less post-match ice baths and recovery drinks in the physios room, and more cans of lager and fast food on the coach home.

"They love a beer. More than normal," Baidoo explained.

Surely not. Gaffer?

"I like a beer. I can't lie. I go for a beer every Friday, and if the wife is reading I probably only have a couple," Nunn confirmed.

It is a relaxed approach that has worked. Nunn saved the club from relegation in his first season and has gone on to take them from the ninth tier of English football to the Southern Premier, one league below the Conference South.

"The reason it's different is it's more like a family unit," said Baidoo.

"There's a lot of people from around that area and they all seem to know each other - they've been around each other for a long time.

"To be honest, I did expect this team to do something special. And so did the manager because of what sort of players we've got."

A journey to Stourbridge may not set the heart fluttering as if it were Wolves at Molineux or Sheffield United at Bramall Lane, but it offers a realistic prospect of beating a team just nine places above them.

Baidoo's Championship experience will hold him in good stead when it comes to the anticipation of FA Cup first-round day, but what of Nunn's other charges?

"You don't get chance in non-league football to think about it much. We've all got jobs," he said.

"I've got to sell cardboard boxes, Shabazz has got to write some music and sell some cars. But, as corny as it sounds, we're living the dream and we don't want to wake up."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24849899

[Nidge Weasle]

met him at some cold blooded set at danny b's studio years ago. hes a safe guy

 

shame him and stefan bailey never made it through properly

[The Somalian]

met him at some cold blooded set at danny b's studio years ago. hes a safe guy

 

shame him and stefan bailey never made it through properly

 

was this the time with Hij and he had a load of cash in the car?

[Nidge Weasle]

met him at some cold blooded set at danny b's studio years ago. hes a safe guy

 

shame him and stefan bailey never made it through properly

 

was this the time with Hij and he had a load of cash in the car?

yeah was with hij, dont remember about the cash tbh

[Nidge Weasle]

Hows tommy been playing phil?

 

Read bennys been gash....

 

he was really good but being played out of position, injured atm though

 

haha he's alright... lazy as fuck though, but he is a level above most in this league so he gets away with it

[Nidge Weasle]

New Stadium

 

40,000 seater at Old Oak

 

 

 

 

 

absolutly gutted TBH

 

we are a small club with a small fanbase.

 

we wont fill a 40 000 seater and if we do it will be full of tourists/plastics/cunts

 

RIP QPR

[Nidge Weasle]

edit, cant link the photos here for some reason

[Rsonist]

What you make of our Caroll philos?

[Thizz]

[Nidge Weasle]

looooooooooooooooooooooool

 

pos

 

triffic

 

 

e's tha right sorrrt

[Nidge Weasle]

Hoddle in as first team coach.

 

Very happy about this!

[Thizz]

LOL he's a dinosaur Phil!

[Nidge Weasle]

loool

 

not completely bruv

 

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better than arry and jordan

[Posted October 15, 2014]

 

Harry Redknapp's position at Queens Park Rangers is under increasing threat, with the club’s hierarchy considering replacing him with former Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood.

Redknapp is not in immediate danger of losing his job but relations between him and the board have become strained in recent weeks following a poor start to the season which has left QPR bottom of the Premier League table with one win from seven matches.

Talks had begun over a new contract several months ago but Redknapp’s unwillingness to commit - a stance he declared publicly last week - combined with QPR’s abject displays have prompted chairman Tony Fernandes to ponder alternatives.

Fernandes remains an admirer of Redknapp but the lack of spirit in many of QPR’s performances this season have led to suggestions internally that the club may soon need to make a change.

For now, Fernandes is supportive of Redknapp yet mindful of how long the club waited before sacking Mark Hughes in 2012 - 12 games into the campaign. His resolve could be tested further with matches to come against Liverpool, Aston Villa, Chelsea and Manchester City.

Sherwood’s name has been raised by club officials and it is believed the former midfielder is keen to return to work after his five-month spell in charge at White Hart Lane.

 

 

 

 

[Rsonist]

please make this happen

[Nidge Weasle]

for fuck sake

 

 

looooool

 

cant even be mad anymore

[The Infamous]

feel for ya lad

[Nidge Weasle]

almost past the point of caring

 

the clubs been a circus for nearly 10 years now

[The Infamous]

tim is better than harry imo

so it might not be so bad