QPR face a quick fire repeat fixture on Sunday as Coventry City arrive in W12 for a live Sky clash at Loftus Road.

QPR (1st) v Coventry (11th)

The age of the internet was supposed to give us online nobodies an advantage over those who write the printed word. How we would laugh at their print deadlines and out of date match programmes and newspapers as our websites were updated within seconds bringing you the very latest breaking news from the club. Print copy for our weekend game with Coventry has already been largely put to bed not knowing whether Neil Warnock’s quest to strengthen his squad will have reached a victorious conclusion in time for this televised clash.

Team news? Well we could have Danny Shittu, Wayne Routledge and Ishmael Miller starting through the spine of the team, or Fitz Hall, Leon Clarke and Rob Hulse, and a million different combinations in between. I could have waited with this preview until about 11am on Sunday morning when I intend to leave the house, but they take a bit of work and if they’re posted any time after about 3pm on a Friday then nobody reads them. LFW always has been and still remains first and foremost a way of avoiding work for scores of you – twice as many page impressions on a weekday compared to a weekend tells its own story.

And so I’m diving headlong into the deadline trap with the print jockeys I spend my day job with. If we complete three signings on Friday then disregard everything you’re about to read right down to the prediction – doom laden as always, in the hope that by not predicting a win I won’t curse any victory we may be planning to attain.

One thing the internet has provided is power to us online nobodies – power that is regularly abused. I had a walk up to Loftus Road on Thursday and saw Wayne Routledge outside, all shiny teeth and boasting a certificate from his just passed medical. “Is it true?” I gasped. “Yes,” he cried, “and I’ve never been happier. Innit.”

There, see how easy that was? Complete bollocks every single word of it. Well, not quite every single word - I did go to Loftus Road on Thursday to try and get hold of a Bristol City programme but they’d sold out. Still, it got me out of the house.

The internet has provided a platform for me, you, escaped mental patients, anybody really to put fingers to keyboard and say whatever they like. No journalistic training, no knowledge of the PCC code or libel laws, no real incentive to tell the truth at all really – all you need is a keyboard and a broadband connection and away you go. I can say I saw Wayne Routledge outside Loftus Road and by Sunday people in the pubs around Shepherds Bush may well tell their mates that that pillock on LoftforWords says he saw Routledge outside the ground and quickly the story will spread. It would be a work of fiction, designed to attract readers to my website, but there’s no double source quality control online. Any chump can make anything up and post it for billions of people to see with no comeback whatsoever. When it comes to signings people want to believe they’re happening, so it’s really easy to get an army of followers hanging on your every slightly exaggerated (or completely made up) word if that’s what floats your boat, gets you hits or pays your bills.

It may seem strange for me to say it – having spent five years doing this site and working in a profession where it’s all about being first with the big news – but as one “Routledge 100 per cent done deal” post after another was inevitably followed by “few issues to sort out with Routledge” I sort of harked back to the days when signings would pop up quite unexpectedly on the club’s website, or even further back the morning papers, and you never even knew we were interested in them.

Simpler times. Still, Routledge and others will probably sign today rendering my preview dated and starting the usual sad wankathon about who called it first.

Five minutes on Coventry

Story So Far: When I read that Aidy Boothroyd had been delighted by his side’s “stylish” attacking performance in their last game and called for a repeat against QPR on Sunday it sent me scrabbling across to Soccerbase fearing a need to re-write the Coventry City section of this match preview. I was going to go for the usual “one dimensional long ball outfit,” “financial position not conducive to a successful football team,” “Marlon King is a scumbag” lines that have served me well when writing about the Sky Blues in recent times and would have done so again given their dreadful recent run of results, had they not suddenly turned it around in the last game and shown some vim and vigour not previously in evidence from them this season.

Imagine my surprise therefore to see that their last result was in fact a 0-0 draw at home to lowly Sheffield United, a team almost as dull and bad to watch as Coventry and one that is now onto its third manager of the season already – Mickey Adams funnily enough, sacked by Coventry himself a couple of years back.

Now far be it from me to comment on Coventry’s last game, having seen all of 30 seconds of it on a highlights reel. I recall a game at Loftus Road towards the end of Gerry Francis’ first spell with the club where we beat Aston Villa 2-0 – Danny Dichio scored in the first half, Gary Penrice ran half the length of the pitch in injury time to get the second. So far, so routine. What the result and the record books don’t tell you however is that for the other 88 minutes that day goalkeeper Jurgeon Sommer was working miracles that made Jesus Christ look like a small time street magician. The big American, who had never previously looked like he had it in him, made a death defying, heart stopping, breath taking save every 25 seconds in that match and had Villa won it by a rugby league, or even a cricket score, nobody could have complained.

Maybe Coventry’s game with Sheffield United was like that. Maybe they hit the post, the bar, the goalkeeper’s arse and so on and so forth. Maybe they had one of those shots that hits the inside of the post, rolls along the line, hits the inside of the other post, and bounces into the goalkeeper’s arms. Maybe the passes flowed and the champagne corks popped and the Ricoh Arena roared its approval. Or maybe not.

You see I always take what Aidy Boothroyd says with enough salt to put me into a sodium laced coma. Aidy Boothroyd bristles when you say his teams are long ball outfits. They are, they are outfits that play one long ball after another on a continuous loop reducing football to a game of maths where you simply have to get the ball in the final third for a suitably long period of time for the defence to crack. If you paid £25 to get into a maths lesson to watch the children doing sums you’d be bored, and watching Coventry City play this way has the same effect. But Boothroyd doesn’t like the accusation, he describes their style of play as “efficient” and swears in his interview with the Coventry Evening Telegraph (of “good afternoon COVENTRY EVENING TELEGRAPH STAND” infamy) this week that once his side have mastered the art of being efficient then they will be allowed to hence forth with the expressive, expansive, entertaining brand of football he says they produced against the Blades last time out.

In the meantime Coventry are having a pretty similar season to every other season they’ve had since relegation from the Premiership ten years ago. They’re prone to peaks in form which spark hope of a top flight return, when we went to the Ricoh they had won three on the spin and then lost three before we arrived and made it four, but basically this is a club set up to fail. Their home games are played in an empty bowl devoid of atmosphere which they have to pay ball breaking rent to play in. This means they don’t have an asset to borrow money against, and in fact quite the opposite they lose money with each passing home game because the attendances don’t reach the breakeven point which has been quoted at 22,000. Coventry are hoping to rectify this situation by buying the ground but the rent in the short term and saving up in the medium term means that whenever a promising player does turn up in their team (Scott Dann, Dan Fox) he is immediately sold on to the highest bidder.

It makes building a team of any ability very difficult and the Coventry side we see before us on Sunday boasts not one single player I would have at QPR at the moment. Goalkeeper Keiran Westwood is highly skilled, although he hid it well against us in the first game, but like Dann and others before him he will leave this summer – sadly for Coventry his contract means he’ll go for free.

Boothroyd said in the lead up to the first game that his team aspired to be in the top two, and that he was looking forward to facing us and Cardiff in the same week. Two defeats, four goals conceded and none scored later and he was admitting that they were nowhere near good enough, but again both Boothroyd and the Coventry public as a whole seemed to believe they’d been somehow unlucky against us based on a ten minute period of pressure in the first half during which Paddy Kenny made two saves. Boothroyd said this week that his team had given QPR “a good hiding” in that first half. I think I watch different games sometimes, certainly to the ones Boothroyd watches, because apart from the basket case that is Preston North End I thought Coventry were the worst side we’ve played this season by some distance.

Quite often I find myself wondering whether Boothroyd thinks that if he says something often enough, and with enough conviction, it makes it true. Mid table mediocrity beckons once more for the Sky Blues, who will then spend the summer trying to replace a £4m goalkeeper with magic beans, but QPR must remain strong at the back to beat them again on Sunday or risk falling victim to a dire maths lesson.

Manager: It may have become apparent by now that I’m not a paid up member of the Aidy Boothroyd fan club. However I have to concede that Coventry’s manager, plucked from Colchester during the summer to mild murmurings of indifference from the long suffering City fans, has been successful so far in his career and, with Coventry currently in the top half of the table despite a raft of circumstances conspiring against them as outlined above, is being so again.

I dislike Boothroyd because he’s successful and he shouldn’t be. The style and type of football employed by him is absolutely revolting, literally revolting, and revolves around intimidating opponents and lumping so much ball into the danger area that even strikers as limited as Clive Platt, one of numerous players bought by Boothroyd for his physique rather than any talent he may have hidden away in his substantial frame, cannot help but score every now and again.

But he’s like a modern day Dave Bassett – he talks constantly about nothing of any relevance or consequence, and his teams play football from the dark ages, but nobody can argue with his results. At Watford he took over a side on the slide with next to no money whatsoever as an unknown coach and within 18 months he had promoted them to the Premiership. He started his time there laying seats out in the staff canteen in the shape of an imaginary coach and when the players arrived asked them who wanted to “get on board his bus to the Premier League.” Nine times out of ten mercenary footballers would have laughed an unknown coach trying a child’s trick like that out of the training ground and produced results to get him sacked very quckly but in less than 18 months they were indeed on their way to the top flight.

Colchester last season were unattractive but competitive and now he is doing reasonably well with Coventry. A thoroughly dislikeable man football wise, somebody any purist would be desperate to fail – but a manager for whom success seems to come naturally. Bastard.

Three to watch: Coventry looked most threatening with the ball, and most vulnerable without it, down the left hand side of their team with Gary McSheffrey showing plenty of the good and bad sides of his game on that flank. Whenever they had the ball Coventry tended to give it a big hoof down the field and look to work off Clive Platt and Marlon King in attack despite it having little, and at times no, affect on the QPR defence at all. They looked genuinely threatening however when McSheffrey was able to get the ball down at his feet. McSheffrey, a product of Coventry’s academy who first stood out as an exciting talent during a loan spell with Luton in the division below in 2003, went head to head with Lee Cook as the Championship’s two outstanding left footed attackers in the 2005/06 season.

Cook got his move to Fulham, but has hardly played since due to a series of knee injuries, while McSheffrey went to Birmingham for £4m. He struggled to make an impact in the Premiership and was allowed to return to the Ricoh Arena in the summer after loan spells with Leeds and Forest last year. In the season before he went to Birmingham McSheffrey scored 17 goals from a left sided attacking position which was certainly no mean feat in a mediocre Sky Blues side. He’s never rediscovered that form since but looked more useful than most of his team mates in the first meeting between these two sides at Christmas.

That said, he did look very suspect defensively – missing the majority of the time, and booked for a crude tackle on one of the rare occasions he did track back. In his defence he was playing against Kyle Walker who is an exceptional attacking talent, and only had centre half Richard Wood playing out of position behind him as back up. But then it could have been Walker’s forays forward that gave him the chance to impress going the other way. Another look is required, and QPR will have a new full back against him on Sunday.

The curse of LoftforWords struck goalkeeper Keiran Westwood before the first game. No sooner have I named him as the only Coventry player I’d want at QPR than he palms a cross into the roof of his own net to present us with the opening goal at the Ricoh Arena. That goal, and a mediocre performance overall, apart Westwood is clearly an outstanding talent and will get a big move this summer when his contract expires. Celtic have been linked, but he’d be ad to waste himself in the SPL with a game against Kilmarnock every three days, as have Man City who are keen to sign an up and coming goalkeeper to cover Joe Hart and allow Shay Given to leave. He started his career at Man City, and the riches he could earn there are untold, but unless Hart was to get injured the best he could ever hope for from there is years spent on the bench and playing in League Cup ties. For a man of his talent, and with Republic of Ireland ambitions, I’m not sure that would be the best option for him either.

Westwood is quite similar to our own Paddy Kenny in more ways than just nationality. To look at him you wouldn’t immediately think he was a goalkeeper - he stands just six feet one inches and weighs 13 stone compared to, say, David James who is three inches taller and half a stone heavier – but his shot stopping is second to none usually. Westwood also possesses a booming drop kick which often reaches the edge of the opposition penalty area, plummeting out of the sky from a great height at the last minute to panic and unsettle centre halves. Aidy Boothroyd must have thought all his birthdays had come at once when he realised he had a goalkeeper that could do that.

Westwood is too old to command a tribunal fee now so will leave for nothing when his deal expires in the summer. Coventry will find replacing him on their budget almost impossible.

But let’s be honest the man we’re all going to be watching, and abusing, and heckling and all the rest of it this weekend is Marlon King. Just back from a three match ban after a sending off against Ipswich, and without a goal in three games before that, there is a risk that the inevitable reaction he will get from the Loftus Road crowd, while being fully deserved, may just fire him up to play well and score. The thought of him doing so and celebrating with the finger on lips pose to our fans live on national television has vomit bubbling inside me in a manner not felt since Gary Neville ran through our defence and threatened to score at Old Trafford the other year.

Marlon King has been proven to be the scum of the earth on 14 different occasions in court. He drives stolen cars, committed fraud, obtained property be deception, driven while drunk, wounded another footballer in his amateur days and twice assaulted women who have rejected his pathetic “don’t you know who I am” pulling routine. On the first occasion the police found him chasing the woman through the streets of Soho wielding a belt buckle, on the second he punched the woman in the face so hard it broke her nose. King’s defence, put forward (very slowly and using words of four letters and under) by his agent Tony Finnegan while he did time , was and remains: “It wasn’t me.”

I’ve heard the liberal views about prison, I’ve heard about rehabilitation being preferable to punishment, I’ve heard all about second chances and redemption and all the rest of it but for me a man with 14 previous convictions for offences ranging from thieving cars to smacking innocent women in the face should be given up on. Society should abandon him, find him a menial task away from everybody else and leave him to do it with some bread and water until he does us the favour of keeling over for good. This is the kind of person a society, civilised or otherwise, can well do without. He has shown time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time, and time and indeed time again that he is unable to abide by even the most basic of laws and live in this society as a reasonable person.

Tragically though Marlon King is a man with footballing ability, and in this twisted world in which we live in that covers for a multitude of sins. And Marlon King has a multitude of sins to cover. Aidy Boothroyd says signing King following his release from an 18 month prison sentence was like getting a £5m player for free, and that’s really all that matters to Boothroyd and, it seems, to Coventry. Boothroyd says King has never given him a moment of trouble – missing the point that if he had a clunge King would have probably smacked him in the face had he been refused an opportunity to poke around in it.

Even if he does score against us, which I sort of see as an inevitability, I’m still pleased QPR didn’t compromise themselves and sell the name of the club down the river for the sake of a few goals from somebody as worthless as him as was being rumoured in the summer.

Links >>> Coventry Official Website >>> Coventry Message Board >>> Sunday Tube Closures

History

Coventry: Westwood 5, Keogh 5, McPake 6 (Eastwood 87, -), Cameron 7, Wood 5 (O'Halloran 70, 5), Bell 5 (Wilson 71, 4), Carsley 6, Doyle 6, McSheffrey 7, King 6, Platt 4

Subs Not Used: Ireland, Jutkiewicz, Cranie, Baker

Booked: McSheffrey (foul)

QPR: Kenny 8, Walker 8, Connolly 7, Gorkss 7, Hill 7, Derry 7, Faurlin 7, Mackie 6, Taarabt 7 (Rowlands 84, -), Smith 7 (Clarke 80, 6),Helguson 6 (Orr 89, -)

Subs Not Used: Cerny, Agyemang, Hulse, Tofas

Booked: Helguson (foul), Faurlin (foul)

Goals: Westwood 49 og (assisted Walker), Smith 61 (assisted Taarabt)

On their last visit to Loftus Road Coventry found a QPR side still under the control of Jim Magilton and playing superbly well. This was all just before the infamous implosion of Magilton’s reign and for half an hour in the second half it was Rangers at their absolute very best. Coventry scored early when Leon Best rose above Matt Connolly to send a header looping into the net but it was all Rangers from that point on and goals from Jay Simpson and then Akos Buzsaky were nothing more than the hosts deserved. Coventry had engaged in some cynical time wasting and fouling tactics when in front and level in the game and had captain Stephen Wright sent off late on for the second time in as many meetings at Loftus Road – he lengthened the subsequent ban by throwing his armband at the referee on the way off. But Coventry started to hurry up a bit after Buzsaky had scored and they got the equaliser their play scarcely deserved when more rank defending allowed Richard Wood to steal in for an equaliser from a free kick eight minutes from time.

QPR: Cerny 6, Leigertwood 6, Hall 5, Connolly 5, Borrowdale 7, Watson 8, Faurlin 9, Buzsaky 6, Taarabt 8 (Reid 80, -), Routledge 7, Simpson 7

Subs Not Used: McWeeney, Ramage, Agyemang, Pellicori, Gorkss, Williams

Goals: Simpson 35 (assisted Faurlin), Buzsaky 69 (unassisted)

Coventry: Westwood 7, Wright 6, Wood 6, Barnett 6, Van Aanholt 7 (Clarke 72, 6), Bell 6 (Eastwood 74, 6),Gunnarsson 5 (Madine 80, -), Cork 6, McIndoe 6, Morrison 6, Best 7

Subs Not Used: Ireland, McPake, Cranie, Grandison

Sent Off: Wright (two bookings)

Booked: Wood (foul), Van Aanholt (foul), Westwood (time wasting), Cork (foul), Wright (foul), Wright (foul)

Goals: Best 16 (assisted Van Aarnholt), Wood 81 (assisted McIndoe)

Head to Head >>> QPR wins 35 >>> Draws 28 >>> Coventry wins 44

Previous Results

2010/11 Coventry 0 QPR 2 (Westwood og, Smith)

2009/10 Coventry 1 QPR 0

2009/10 QPR 2 Coventry 2 (Simpson, Buzsaky)

2008/09 QPR 1 Coventry 1 (Blackstock)

2008/09 Coventry 1 QPR 0

2007/08 Coventry 0 QPR 0

2007/08 QPR 1 Coventry 2 (Buzsaky)

2006/07 Coventry 0 QPR 1 (Smith)

2006/07 QPR 0 Coventry 1

2005/06 QPR 0 Coventry 1

2005/06 Coventry 3 QPR 0

2004/05 Coventry 1 QPR 2 (Cureton, Santos)

2004/05 QPR 4 Coventry 1 (Cureton 3, Furlong)

1995/96 Coventry 1 QPR 0

1995/96 QPR 1 Coventry 1 (Barker)

1994/95 Coventry 0 QPR 1 (Sinclair)

1994/95 QPR 2 Coventry 2 (Penrice)

1993/94 Coventry 0 QPR 1 (White)

1993/94 QPR 5 Coventry 1 (Allen 2, Barker, Ferdinand, Impey)

1992/93 QPR 2 Coventry 0 (Peacock, Pearce og)

1992/93 Coventry 0 QPR 1 (Impey)

1991/92 Coventry 2 QPR 2 (Penrice 2)

1991/92 QPR 1 Coventry 1 (Wegerle)

1990/91 QPR 1 Coventry 0 (Ferdinand)

1990/91 Coventry 3 QPR 1 (Ferdinand)

1989/90 Coventry 1 QPR 1 (Maddix)

1989/90 QPR 1 Coventry 1 (Falco)

1988/89 Coventry 0 QPR 3 (Clarke 2, Channing)

1988/89 QPR 2 Coventry 1 (Francis, Falco)

1987/88 Coventry 0 QPR 0

1987/88 QPR 1 Coventry 2 (Falco)

1986/87 Coventry 4 QPR 1 (Bannister)

1986/87 QPR 3 Coventry 1 (Byrne, Bannister, Allen)

1985/86 Coventry 2 QPR 1 (Byrne)

1985/86 QPR 0 Coventry 2

1984/85 Coventry 3 QPR 0

1984/85 QPR 2 Coventry 1 (Stainrod 2)

1983/84 QPR 2 Coventry 1 (Stainrod, Allen)

1983/84 Coventry 1 QPR 0

Played for both: Kenny Sansom

QPR 1989-1991 >>> 1991-1993

England’s most capped international full-back became Crystal Palace’s youngest ever debutant in 1975 - a record since been broken by Jon Bostock - after leading Palace to youth cup victory just a few weeks before.

Quick, calm, strong in the tackle and an excellent crosser of the ball, Sansom missed just one league game in 156, starting back in 1976, when Palace made their way from the Third Division to First and briefly topping it. His performances paved way for a £1million transfer to Arsenal, with Clive Allen going the other way despite only joining the Gunners weeks earlier and without a senior appearance to his name. In an eight year spell in North London, Sansom cemented his place as Arsenal’s first choice left-back picking up their Player of the Year in 1981 and captaining the League Cup win six years later.

He was an integral part of Bobby Robson’s England side playing in the 1982, and 1986 World Cup finals letting Maradona skip past him on the way to him scoring that goal along the way.

His relationship began to sour with George Graham at the end of the eighties and with Nigel Winterburn and Lee Dixon coming into the side and he left to join Newcastle United. A season later he returned to London at Queens Park Rangers where he would go on to play 80 games for the Super Hoops under Don Howe. Spells at Coventry, Everton and Watford followed before his retirement in 1994.

Now a regular TV pundit and part of Arsenal’s stadium tour guides.

Links >>> Coventry 0 QPR 2 Match Report >>> Coventry 1 QPR 0 Match Report >>> QPR 2 Coventry 2 Match Report >>> Connections and Memories

This Sunday

Team News: QPR’s team news rather depends on who, if anybody, they are able to bring in between now and the kick off. Danny Shittu, Wayne Routledge and Ishmael Miller are all in various stages of completing moves to W12 but as I write this none of them are available for this game. If that remains the case then it’s highly likely to be a case of ‘as you were’ from the Burnley game if Alejandro Faurlin can shake off the thigh injury he picked up at Turf Moor. Neil Warnock will also have to choose between out of form Rob Hulse and Heidar Helguson who is struggling for fitness in attack. Lee Cook, Peter Ramage, Akos Buzsaky, Jamie Mackie and Patrick Agyemang are the long term absentees.

City’s poor recent form has coincided with an injury to Lee Carsley who is set for a couple of operations to get him fit for the last few weeks of the season. James McPake, who played in the first meeting, has since picked up an injury and been replaced by one of our many former loan stars Martin Cranie. One thing QPR didn’t have to contend with at the Ricoh Arena was the long throw of Aron Gunnarsson who was out suspended. He is back for this game and it will be interesting to see how he manages his long run up for those set pieces at the notoriously tight Loftus Road ground.

Elsewhere: QPR will know exactly what everybody else around them in the table has done by the time they take to the field on Sunday as the final Championship match of the weekend. The East Midlands Derby between Derby and Forest starts us off at 1pm on Saturday while Scunthorpe v Burnley is the Saturday evening televised fixture. Other than that there are few games that stand out with third placed Cardiff’s home match against sixth placed and in form Watford the stand out fixture. The other sides immediately behind QPR in the table all have long away trips with Swansea at Barnsley, Norwich at Sheff Utd and Leeds down at Portsmouth. At the bottom Preston and Palace have a chance to drag teams immediately above them down into the scrap with games against Middlesbrough and Bristol City respectively.

Referee: For the second time this season we have Mark Haywood in charge of our game. Haywood has an astonishingly low card count so far this season – 36 yellows in 21 matches – but was in rather eccentric form as the R’s clawed back a two goal deficit to draw at Derby back in August. This will be the forth QPR appointment of his career so far, and his first Coventry assignment since a 1-0 defeat at home to Hartlepool in the League Cup last season. Click here for more information.

Form

Coventry: City are without a win in seven league games, but did beat Palace 2-1 in the FA Cup a fortnight ago to provide some relief from that run of results that stretches back beyond the first meeting between these two sides. City have won just one of their last six away games, 2-0 at Scunthorpe, and have been beaten by Forest, Barnsley, Cardiff and Palace in that run. Overall this season they have won four, drawn three and lost six of their away games. They are unbeaten in five visits to Loftus Road, winning three, dating back to 2004 when a Jamie Cureton hat trick gave Rangers a 4-1 win against Peter Reid’s beleaguered side. Only Leeds have committed more fouls than Coventry this season – 316 fouls – but their 41 yellows and three reds mirrors QPR’s record of 41 and four despite the R’s conceding just 262 fouls.

Prediction: One of those days where I wish football was simple, but then if it was it wouldn’t keep us coming back. If Coventry play like they did against us three weeks ago then we shall win. If they come with a game plan of lumping it long to Clive Platt and hoping for the best as they did at the Ricoh then we can put out any team we like, and play as badly as we have done all season, and we will win. But this will no doubt be a totally different game – just as one for instance Kyle Walker was the man of the match in the first meeting and he is now playing for Aston Villa. Coventry have been a bogey side in recent years and QPR have found completing doubles a tricky task for a good number of seasons. An early goal would do us the power of good but I sense this could be another one of those television horror shows we tend to produce.

3/1 the draw with various, 9/1 Marlon King for the first goal with Bet365

Photo: Action Images

qpr_ox added 07:54 - Jan 21 "You see I always take what Aidy Boothroyd says with enough salt to put me into a sodium laced coma." - At least I read this early enough to avoid the embarrassment of anyone seeing me laughing to myself in the office.
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JB007007 added 08:05 - Jan 21 Now we have broken our hoodoo on TV last time out and I have been keeping my mouth shut not telling everyone to watch us on Sunday, I'm sure we'll do them and comfortably at that. I have to say again though, that I'm not comfortable with us potentially signing a striker (Miller) that hasn't played football or even trained properly for some time. I know NW has proved shrewd with the signings, but this is a risk.

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R_in_Sweden added 09:02 - Jan 21 The vomit bubbling description is among my favourite loftforwords citations. In fact reading this article whilst eating breakfast, and then having the image of Marlon King finger over lips, taunting our fans thrust into my head did cause the mixture of tea and toast in my stomach to stir. I managed to hold it down though. Have a highly enjoyable afternoon everyone that can make it on Sunday at a hopefully chunder free Loftus Road.

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Noelmc added 17:44 - Jan 21 Great preview as usual Clive. It was good to be reminded of Sommer's blinder against Villa when we won 2-0. It was one of the greatest performances I've seen at Loftus Rd by a QPR keeper and gave rise to a totally misleading scoreline. It's a shame it was a one-off though and he never got close to that level of performance again.
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