Post by QPR Report on Mar 7, 2010 8:47:03 GMT
Thinking back to QPR's Administrators... 
The Guardian/Paul Hayward
Administrators behaving like messiahs
The age of the celebrity administrator is here. It may be a trick of the memory but the people sent in to sort out ruined football clubs used to be like civil servants, seen but not heard. These days they behave like messiahs, sitting beside newly appointed managers at press conferences and promising to "save" the patient from extinction.
This thought occurred when Neil Warnock, who fled Crystal Palace for Queens Park Rangers, said of Brendan Guilfoyle of the P & A Partnership: "Another blow was when I was told by the administrator's agent that I could bring in players if I got the squad down to 19." They have agents now? Guilfoyle sat next to Paul Hart when he was unveiled as Warnock's successor.
Down at Portsmouth, meanwhile, another insolvency specialist, Andrew Andronikou, is seldom off the television, despite Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs questioning the validity of his appointment and a high court judge saying there was "a shadow" over his nomination.
"I promise we will save your club and take you forward," Andronikou told Pompey's supporters. This is not the language of accountancy and cost-cutting, but then football has this narcotic effect. It makes balance-sheet jugglers think they are gods.
www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/mar/07/england-world-cup-brazil-spain
The Guardian/Paul Hayward
Administrators behaving like messiahs
The age of the celebrity administrator is here. It may be a trick of the memory but the people sent in to sort out ruined football clubs used to be like civil servants, seen but not heard. These days they behave like messiahs, sitting beside newly appointed managers at press conferences and promising to "save" the patient from extinction.
This thought occurred when Neil Warnock, who fled Crystal Palace for Queens Park Rangers, said of Brendan Guilfoyle of the P & A Partnership: "Another blow was when I was told by the administrator's agent that I could bring in players if I got the squad down to 19." They have agents now? Guilfoyle sat next to Paul Hart when he was unveiled as Warnock's successor.
Down at Portsmouth, meanwhile, another insolvency specialist, Andrew Andronikou, is seldom off the television, despite Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs questioning the validity of his appointment and a high court judge saying there was "a shadow" over his nomination.
"I promise we will save your club and take you forward," Andronikou told Pompey's supporters. This is not the language of accountancy and cost-cutting, but then football has this narcotic effect. It makes balance-sheet jugglers think they are gods.
www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/mar/07/england-world-cup-brazil-spain