Ex-QPR Manager Paul Hart Birthday: Turns 67
His time at QPR (Stats from Soccerbase) One win, 2 Draws, 2 Defeats...
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QPR 17 Dec, 2009 15 Jan, 2010
QPR OFFICIAL - PAUL HART ARRIVESDecember 2009
- The Club is pleased to confirm the arrival of Paul Hart as First Team Manager.
Following discussions late last night after Jim Magilton's and John Gorman's departures, the appointment was concluded this morning.
Hart will be joined at the Club by new Assistant Manager Mick Harford in a deal which runs until the end of the 2009/10 season.
The Club would like to place on record its thanks to Steve Gallen and Marc Bircham for their efforts while in Caretaker charge.
The Club will be making no further comment at this stage
QPR Official Site - CLUB STATEMENT Fri 15 Jan 2010- The Club can confirm that Manager Paul Hart has decided to leave Queens Park Rangers Football Club with immediate effect.
- Assistant Manager Mick Harford will be taking charge of First Team affairs, starting with this weekend's Championship fixture at Blackpool.
- The Club will be making no further comment at this stage. QPR
FLASHBACK
Standard/Julian Bennetts - Pouring his Hart and soul into QPR- Since Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone bought Queens Park Rangers in August 2007, the departure of another manager from Loftus Road has become as much a part of everyday life as death and taxes.
- Twenty-nine months, 125 matches, six permanent managers, four caretakers and a staggering 90 transfers (including loans) later, the club are still not among the play-off contenders in the Championship table.
- But mention those figures to the new man in the hotseat, Paul Hart, and he seems completely unfazed. Indeed, it would be interesting to see what does perturb Hart, who succeeded Jim Magilton last month.
- This, after all, is a man who was denied the highlight of his playing career when a corrupt referee ensured his Nottingham Forest side were knocked out by Anderlecht in the semi-finals of the 1984 UEFA Cup.
- His managerial career has been just as bumpy a ride � firstly taking over at Forest in 2001 with the club �25million in debt yet still taking them to the verge of promotion, before a tumultuous period at Portsmouth this season.
- Despite being sacked in November, with Pompey bottom of the Premier League, Hart emerged with great credit for the dignity he showed at a club that are �60m in the red, started the season with just 16 professionals and have continuous doubts as to when the players will be paid their wages.
- Maybe that is why he is able to look at the situation at Rangers with a good deal of perspective, insisting he can succeed where John Gregory, Luigi De Canio, Iain Dowie, Paulo Sousa and Magilton have failed.
- And even though his contract runs until only the end of the season, Hart is already planning long term.
- �I am well aware that this club has proved difficult for managers in the past and we all know that stability brings success,� said Hart at the club's snowbound Harlington training ground ahead of tonight's FA Cup third-round replay with Sheffield United. �I have seen a number of managers around the Football League dismissed rather harshly this season and it's time that QPR started to buck that trend.
- �I don't see the challenge as succeeding where those other managers have failed at the club, I see the challenge as being to get this team as high up the table as possible.
- �Maybe I am seen as a firefighter in my managerial career, but after 40 years in the game I've realised that you can't take anything for granted.�
- That has certainly been the case at QPR under Briatore and Ecclestone, but Hart is relaxed about his relationship with the Formula One magnates, especially since Briatore's role at the club was consolidated last week as he successfully appealed against a lifetime ban from motorsport for his role in the Crashgate scandal.
- �The owners actually run a pretty tight ship � there won't be pots of money to spend in the January transfer window and nor would I expect there to be, although I will be looking to strengthen the squad,� added Hart. �But when millionaires and billionaires take over at a club, that raises expectations and I think that may have been quite harmful here.
�This club has been a Premier League side in the past and it can be again, there's no question about that.�
Hart is a relaxed interviewee, only becoming terse when asked if he was offered a job on the Tottenham coaching staff by Harry Redknapp last month � �It wouldn't be right to talk about that�, is all he's willing to say � yet he becomes most animated when talking about his managerial influences.
- And it is clear that no one had a bigger impact on him than Brian Clough, his boss at Forest between 1983 and 1985. Yet there is still a bitterness about the infamous UEFA Cup semi-final in 1984, when Hart scored what he thought was a last-minute winner only to see it ruled out by Spanish referee Emilio Guruceta Muro, who it later transpired had been paid a pre-match loan' of �27,000 by the Belgian side.
- �It was disgraceful,� said Hart. �I'd never seen Clough so quiet, he knew it was wrong and it destroyed him. We found out 12 years later that the referee had been bribed, but that never got us a medal did it? We would have played Tottenham in the final and you would have backed us to win that. What was it like to work under Clough? Frightening; scary; great. He was the greatest coach I ever had and he never went on the training pitch!
- �Two people had a massive effect on my career � Clough for teaching me simplicity and how to get people to do their jobs and Howard Wilkinson, at Sheffield Wednesday, for giving me the organisational skills and the platform to become a coach.
- �And as a manager I have to work in a certain way. If I am allowed to work in that way at Rangers, then we'll all be happy here. But if I can't, then it will be very difficult.�
- Hart knows what he wants. Having learnt from the best, Briatore and Ecclestone would be well advised to put their faith in a man who specialises in rescuing clubs on the slide. Standard
GUARDIAN
Paul Hart hints at internal problems at QPR after walking out
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• Manager says he had no choice but to leave Loftus Road
• Caretaker-boss Mick Harford unclear over his own situation
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Fri 15 Jan 2010 16.44 EST
First published on Fri 15 Jan 2010 16.44 EST
Paul Hart lasted just five games as manager of troubled Championship club Queens Park Rangers. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images
Paul Hart has attacked Queens Park Rangers by claiming that he was "very unhappy with certain situations" which forced him to resign as manager yesterday. Hart's departure made him the sixth manager – not including caretakers – to leave the Championship club in the two years and three months since Flavio Briatore became the majority shareholder.
Hart's assistant, Mick Harford, who had a previous spell as caretaker in October 2007, has taken over as manager, though he has not been informed by Briatore of the duration of his tenure. Hart, who was in charge of the club for only five games, authorised the League Managers Association to release a statement on his behalf yesterday and the LMA chief executive, Richard Bevan, said: "I am able to say that Paul Hart has left the football club. I understand that he was very unhappy with certain situations which have to remain confidential and felt that resignation was in the best interests of all concerned."
While QPR confirmed they would be making no comment in reaction to Hart's criticism, questions are bound to be asked from their supporters regarding the stability and direction of the club. There were also reports last night that Briatore is thinking about selling his stake in the club and has been courting outside investors, possibly potential buyers of his stake.
Briatore co-owns QPR with Bernie Ecclestone, and Lakshmi Mittal, and it is the Italian who takes the major decisions, assisted by Gianni Paladini, the club chairman and director of football, according to one former coach.
The coach, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "Paladini has a big say in the day-to-day running as Briatore is always in and out of the country. The owners there do love football but possibly they can get too involved, and don't leave it to the manager and the staff. But what's happening there now with all the managers is making QPR laughable."
Hart walked out, having won a single game, losing two and drawing two. He had succeeded Jim Magilton as manager on 17 December after the Irishman departed following a dressing-room dispute with the midfielder Akos Buzsaky.
Harford, who will be in the dugout for tomorrow's game at Blackpool, revealed that his precise position has not been made clear."There's been no time scale," he said. "They've said 'Mick, you take charge of first-team affairs and see where it takes you'. Paul decided to leave – we're all very disappointed about that. He's a good man and he's great to work for. I don't know the waffles of Paul's departure but I just want to wish him all the best."
Harford, though, is convinced his strong relationship with Briatore will help. "It's a club I know about. I know how it's run, I know the people, I know the players, I know about the situation. Briatore is a personal friend of mine, I've known him a long, long time."
www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jan/15/paul-hart-queens-park-rangersWIKIPEDIA
Full name Paul Anthony Hart[1]
Date of birth 4 May 1953 (age 65)[1]
Place of birth Golborne, England
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
Luton Town (assistant manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1970–1973 Stockport County 87 (5)
1973–1978 Blackpool 143 (15)
1978–1983 Leeds United 191 (16)
1983–1985 Nottingham Forest 70 (1)
1985–1986 Sheffield Wednesday 52 (2)
1986–1987 Birmingham City 1 (0)
1987–1988 Notts County 23 (0)
Total 567 (39)
Teams managed
1988–1991 Chesterfield
2001–2004 Nottingham Forest
2004–2005 Barnsley
2006 Rushden & Diamonds
2009 Portsmouth
2009–2010 Queens Park Rangers
2010 Crystal Palace (caretaker)
2011 Swindon Town
2015 Notts County (caretaker)
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