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Post by QPR Report on Oct 24, 2009 6:52:17 GMT
Edit another year...
16 Years Ago Today...This of course was written before we had the Hart/Hartford "Eras"October 24, 2008As posted on the QPR Report blog ... "First came the media reports and the messageboard rumours - although the "in-the-know" posters did not predict Dowie's sacking would be occurring today!...Now confirmation: QPR have sacked Iain Dowie after 12 league games in charge. QPR thus further strengthen their well-earned record for going through managers! Iain Dowie may be QPR's sortest-term manager, lasting less time than even Alan Mullery. (Caveat: Tommy Docherty left on his own volition after a month; and Gordon Jago's departure after a week was more a Board reconsidertaion.) With the Dowie sacking, Ian Holloway remains the longest-lasting manager since Alec Stock who was appointed QPR manager back in 1959. In two-and-a half years, QPR have gone through: Holloway, Waddock, Gregory, Harford (Acting), De Canio, Dowie and now a new manager to come. - See List and Duration of QPR Managers www.soccerbase.com/manager_history.sd?teamid=2093CLUB STATEMENT - Dowie departs with immediate effectThe Board of Queens Park Rangers Football Club has terminated the contract of Manager Iain Dowie with immediate effect. Dowie, who took over the reins at Loftus Road in the summer, oversaw 15 matches in charge in all competitions and leaves the R's in ninth place in the Coca Cola Championship. Player / Coach Gareth Ainsworth has been appointed Caretaker Manager on a temporary basis and will take charge of First Team affairs until further notice. The Club will be making no further comment at this stage. QPR Official Site
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Post by QPR Report on Oct 24, 2009 6:53:04 GMT
Flashback 16 Years....October 24, 2008
QPR Official Site - October 24, 2008 - CLUB STATEMENT - Dowie departs with immediate effect
The Board of Queens Park Rangers Football Club has terminated the contract of Manager Iain Dowie with immediate effect.
Dowie, who took over the reins at Loftus Road in the summer, oversaw 15 matches in charge in all
competitions and leaves the R's in ninth place in the Coca Cola Championship.
Player / Coach Gareth Ainsworth has been appointed Caretaker Manager on a temporary
basis and will take charge of First Team affairs until further notice.
The Club will be making no further comment at this stage. QPR Official Site
Dowie's QPR Axing - Analysis and Reactions-
Telegraph Huw Turbervill Blog - It is a wonder he lasted this long.
- That is no insult to Iain Dowie, who has been sacked by QPR after taking them into ninth place in the Championship, just a point behind the play-off spots, after 12 games.
- Dowie is a bright, well-organised and articulate manager who was popular at Crystal Palace, leading them to a memorable play-off win in 2003-4.
- They were relegated instantly, however, and he made an acrimonious exit to Charlton, even though he had stated a preference for moving back to the North-West, where his family are based. He made minimal impression at The Valley, but there was sympathy for him in that he had big shoes to fill - those of Alan Curbishley - and was not given long enough to build a side in his own image. And he was a better appointment than his short-lived successor, Les Reed ...
- His appointment at QPR, however, came as a complete surprise. Luigi De Canio had taken over from John Gregory when they were struggling at the foot of the Championship. He introduced a pleasing style of football. His English was practically non-existent and he used an interpreter to speak to the press, but his warmth, style and charm shone through. There had been a tale that Zinedine Zidane was on his way, but it seemed fanciful.
- QPR's form under De Canio was very nearly of play-off standard - 12 wins, 12 defeats and 11 draws. As the season wound down, he was talking about the hopes and challenges of the following season.
- Then, all of a sudden, he was gone, "by mutual consent".
-It seemed strange. Outside the Mourinhos, Capellos and Ancelottis, he seemed the right man to work for the club's wealthy owners, Formula One tycoons Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone, and London-based Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal.
- At that stage it seemed obvious that a ‘Galactico' was going to be targeted instead.
- And then came Dowie. He surely cannot have been on anyone's shortlist.
- There was a spat with Briatore, reportedly about transfer policy, even before the season opener, against Barnsley. Dowie called the stories "hogwash". After winning six of his first eight league games in charge, however, it was starting to look a sound, pragmatic choice.
- After all, there were no language barriers, and he had already taken a club - Palace - into the top flight.
- Then they hit the rails - four league games without a win. Even the 2-1 home victory over Nottingham Forest that arrested the sequence failed to earn him much of a reprieve.
- There had been a story linking Terry Venables with a return to Loftus Road. The shutters had seemingly gone up among the playing and coaching staff. Dowie, who always insisted he could handle the pressure, failed to appear at the post-match press conference. His assistant, Tim Flowers, and midfielder Akos Buzsaky were defensive when asked about him. They insisted he was doing a grand job. They said they were not feeling undue stress at the continual media speculation. They appeared to protest too much.- Stories followed that Briatore was unhappy with the direction of the team, and was taking a more hands-on role.
- Dowie was critical himself of the 0-0 draw at Swansea that followed, and seemingly that performance was the final straw for Briatore and Co.
- Now former Inter manager Roberto Mancini is leading the race to take charge.
- If it is him, let's hope he is a speedy worker. Briatore, who is also in charge of the Renault F1 team, is not one for hanging around. Telegraph
Setanta/tom Kell - Parker questions QPR's lack of patience- Former Queens Park Rangers defender Paul Parker has told Setanta Sports News that the club could be making a rod for its own back by opting to dispense with the services of Iain Dowie so early on in the season.
- Dowie’s contract was terminated on Friday morning, just 15 games into his tenure at Loftus Road.
- He is the latest in a rapidly growing line of managers to be given the boot from West London in recent years, most notably since Flavio Briatore et al arrived on the scene.
- The club’s new owners have made no secret of their ‘five-year Champions League plan’ and it seems that ninth in The Championship after 12 games is not enough.
- “They’re only seven points off an automatic spot so they are in no bad position at the moment, it’s only October,” said former England international Parker.
- “QPR are a club that still means a lot to me and have plenty of money at the moment. But one of the things you can’t buy with money is automatic promotion.
- “It takes time, it takes a lot of work and it takes planning. You can’t just look to be top of the league with maximum points.
- “You need time to build towards it. It does worry me that at Queens Park Rangers they’ve got themselves into a better state than they were in 12 months ago but are now chasing what they see as a dream.
- “They’re doing it a little bit too quick without enough patience.” Setanta
Peter Beagrie/Sky Sports - No smoke without fire
Dowie didn't have the glamour factor for billionaire owners
Dowie: Under pressure from the off
Mick Harford didn't have the glamour factor as far as the owners were concerned and, clearly, neither did Dowie.
I had hoped that the murmurings about Iain Dowie being axed from the QPR hotseat would be just that. Unfortunately for Ian, there was indeed no smoke without fire.
But to sack your manager barely 24 hours before a big game against Reading I find quite incredible.
It's unbelievable timing, although sod's law would dictate QPR will now go on to win at the Madejski.
I think Iain has been harshly treated but it wouldn't surprise me if he was actually relieved by events on Friday lunchtime.
He's been under pressure all season; seeing people sitting in the stands watching the game, hearing different names being mooted for the job.
Contradiction
When Luigi Di Canio left, Mick Harford stepped into the breach and went four out of his five games unbeaten.
A most other clubs, he would have been favourite to take the job permanently but he wasn't a big enough name. He didn't have the glamour factor as far as the owners were concerned.
And that clearly goes for Dowie, too.
Considering the wealth of their mega rich owners Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone, QPR have been a bit of a contradiction.
They've not gone out and done a Manchester City: bought players to deliver a real statement of intent. Dowie only really bought Championship players and I think that says something.
Something certainly stinks, in my opinion.
Despite what everyone was saying pre-season, the Rs weren't among my favourite for promotion, and yet they're up there in ninth position in the Championship.
Managing in extreme conditions, with the squad that he had, I thought Iain had held it together well. He's been dealt a cruel blow. Sky Sports
Daily Mirror - Opinion: Sacking Iain Dowie was the wrong thing to do
By Andy Rudd, Mirror.co.uk news editor and QPR season ticket holder [Who knew?!]
Sacking Iain Dowie 24 hours before an away game to Reading is not a good move for the team.
Surely it would have been better to have axed Dowie on the Sunday – whatever the result?
At least the players could have then fully focused on what was always going to be a tough game – which has now been made even tougher.
Many of my mates laughed in my face when we announced Dowie as first team coach. I was surprised at his appointment, but willing to give him a chance. My mates said he wouldn’t last….I’m now getting the “told you so” calls.
However, at the time I thought that if he could recreate the magic of 2003/04 when he got Crystal Palace into the playoffs then we all would be happy.
Sure, his formations at times have been puzzling and cost us, but then we had a confident start to the season – compared to others.
But it seems Tuesday night’s draw away to Swansea was the final straw for Briatore and Co but I just don’t get it.
If at the start of the season you had said to me that after 12 games QPR would be sitting in 9th position, a point away from the play-offs having had five wins, four loses and three draws I would have taken it.
Yes, the last few results haven't been great but personally I would have given him until after Christmas.
But it seems, as many fans thought, Briatore’s “four-year plan” to reach the Premier League was a load of codswallop, a safety net to save grace should he not reach his real target: Premier League status at the end of this season and woe betide any manager that gets in the way of that.
Sure, I’m grateful for Briatore and Co from pulling us out of the quagmire we were in last season and am fully aware that without their intervention there might not be a QPR today, heaven forbid.
But having invested all that money why not start spending all those millions instead of blaming the manager all the time? And anyway, if reports are true, how can Dowie be blamed for a team that he doesn’t pick or buy.
The boy done good - many have done worse.
The simple fact of the matter is that the QPR job is a poisoned chalice at the moment.
The job application form should simply read: “Only puppets need apply" Daily Mirror
Mirror/James Nursey - QPR boss sacked after Briatore chose his team
- QPR tycoon Flavio Briatore yesterday sacked boss Iain Dowie after a huge row over the Italian dictating team selection.
- Joint owner Briatore and Dowie have endured a rocky relationship since the former Crystal Palace boss replaced Luigi De Canio in May.
-The final straw came as Briatore handed Dowie a list of 11 players and told him it was the QPR team for their game at Reading.
-The side included Briatore’s fellow Italians Samuel Di Carmine and Matteo Alberti as well as Colombian-born kid Angelo Balanta. On-loan Spaniard Daniel Parejo was also named, while key players like six-goal English striker Dexter Blackstock were omitted.
- Dowie refused to accept Briatore’s demands and told the F1 Renault team chief to sack him.
- Veteran midfielder Gareth Ainsworth is in temporary charge, while Terry Venables and ex-Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini are being touted as successors to Dowie.Mirror
The Guardian/David Hytner - Dowie sacked as Briatore flexes his muscles in QPR boardroom
Flavio Briatore reasserted his authority in the Queens Park Rangers boardroom yesterday by sacking Iain Dowie as manager. There has been turmoil behind the scenes at the Championship club, where the chairman, Briatore, clashed with the vice-chairman, Amit Bhatia, after the latter released a personally signed statement pledging to reduce ticket prices at Loftus Road.
- Briatore telephoned Gianni Paladini to accuse the club's sporting director of undermining him and promised he would be sacked. Paladini, though, was spared at a meeting on Thursday attended by all the major powers and Briatore instead turned the knife on Dowie.
- The Italian has been unhappy with Dowie, who took over in May, for some weeks and suspected the manager had criticised him behind his back for a lack of support in the transfer market. Briatore helped to bring a clutch of players to the club, including Daniel Parejo, who is on loan from Real Madrid and on a huge contract by Championship standards. But Parejo and Emmanuel Ledesma, who joined on loan from Genoa, have not been in the starting line-up in recent games and Damiano Tommasi, the Italian midfielder, has yet to make a first-team appearance.
- Briatore is understood to have suggested yesterday that Dowie ought to start certain players in today's game at Reading. A disagreement ensued and the club statement announcing the termination of Dowie's contract with "immediate effect" swiftly followed. Gareth Ainsworth, the veteran midfielder, will take caretaker charge against Reading but he will not be the long-term appointment. The club have sounded out Terry Venables and Steve Cotterill and the board are undecided whether to go for a British or foreign coach. Early suggestions that Roberto Mancini, the former Internazionale manager, will come in are wide of the mark. Tommasi, having already been brought in, is a possibility and so is Alan Curbishley, the former West Ham manager.
-Briatore... who is supported on the QPR board by Bernie Ecclestone and Bhatia, the son-in-law of Lakshmi Mittal, whose family owns 20% of the club, now have a truce, but the possibility remains that the Mittals will try to buy out Briatore and Ecclestone.
QPR have won one of their past six league matches and currently lie ninth in the table. The Guardian
The Sun/Paul Jiggins Beautiful dream is turning ugly - They had a beautiful dream — to turn unfashionable QPR into the Premier League’s must-have accessory.
- But yesterday the beautiful people turned the beautiful game ugly as Iain Dowie was sacked as manager after less than six months in charge.
You see, a real, genuine, dyed-in-the-wool football man at Loftus Road is soooooooo last season, daaarlin’.
These days in W12 it is all about image.
And clearly Dowie’s mug did not fit among all the make-up, mascara and man-bags that can be found. It could be argued his sacking has made him football’s first fashion victim.
- But he is unlikely to be the last fatality in that corner of West London where Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherd’s Bush are no longer considered the height of style.
- For if you scratch away at all the expensive cosmetics, phoney air kisses and promises to lunch next week, you will uncover a football club on the brink of imploding under the expectation and egos arising from its new-found wealth.
- Put simply, QPR are a club at war. Yesterday, Dowie became its first casualty — but there will be more.
- What makes this battle so bloody is that it is being waged by some of the world’s richest men behind the decaying facade of Loftus Road. Well, they say you need money to fight a war. And this conflict has billions.
- Wars also usually feature ruthless leadership and this one’s no different.
Co-owner and chairman Briatore is the millionaire Formula One playboy who came to Rangers’ rescue when he bought them for £14million in December — with a little help from his pitlane pal Bernie Ecclestone.
But his desire to run the club in the same hands-on fashion as he manages his Renault F1 team is turning Loftus Road into the pits. He has already upset the Hoops’ long-suffering fans.
And now his apparent determination to have total control over everything he touches has led to Dowie’s exit.
An insider claims the manager went because he showed he could no longer stand being told what team he should pick by Briatore, the club’s majority shareholder.
- It appears the Italian has failed to grasp football clubs cannot be run like F1 teams. Managers like Dowie won’t tolerate being urged to pick a team seconds before the players are due out on the pitch.
- Our source said he is determined to put his stamp on the club while the supporters pray he will sell out to fellow shareholder Lakshmi Mittal.
- Briatore persuaded the London-based Indian steel billionaire — the world’s fourth wealthiest man — to invest a fraction of his £45billion fortune in a 20 per cent stake of QPR.
- Mittal and his family are bankrolling the club as debts pile up. The likeable Indian tycoon — represented on the board by his son-in-law Amit Bhatia — understands football, accepts coaches pick the team and fans should be looked after for their loyalty.
- But Briatore’s long-term plan seems to centre around attracting wealthy West Londoners to a small niche stadium with excellent hospitality. “Boutique football,” Briatore calls it.
- He has apparently treated supporters with the same contempt he has shown Dowie by hiking ticket prices and ordering season-ticket holders out of seats they have sat in for years in order to make more space for his corporate guests and celebrity chums, such as Campbell and Beckwith.
- Briatore, 58, has said: “The first thing to remember is that without us there was no QPR. I don’t want everybody telling me what I need to be doing.
“People believe the club is owned by the fans but it’s only a few who put their money down. For the rest of the people it’s easy to criticise when they maybe spend £20.”
If only it was £20 to see Rangers these days. As part of a new banding scheme Briatore introduced seven games into this season, the cost of a ticket in Loftus Road’s ‘Platinum’ area for last month’s visit of Derby was FIFTY QUID.
He also tried to charge Rams fans the same amount for a seat in the shoddy School End behind the goal.
-In a victory for football, the League ordered Rangers to charge visiting fans the £30 that had been agreed before the start of the season.
- Now QPR will have to find more cash to fund Dowie’s successor.
- Peterborough’s Darren Ferguson, Millwall’s Kenny Jackett and former Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini have been linked with the post.
Last night, a QPR spokesman said: “We’re in no position to comment.The Sun
The Times/Tom Dart - Mancini in QPR radar after Dowie axed
Iain Dowie was sacked after just 15 games in charge at Lotfus Road
-The strange-looking partnership between Iain Dowie and the multimillionaire owners seeking to turn Queens Park Rangers into a glamorous club came to a swift end yesterday as the manager was sacked after only 15 matches in charge. It is hard to predict his successor, given that Zinédine Zidane was being considered for the role before it was offered to Dowie. Roberto Mancini and Roberto Donadoni, the Italians, may enter the frame, as well as Terry Venables, Sam Allardyce and Kenny Jackett, the Millwall manager.
Dowie took charge in May and led QPR to eight wins and three draws and a tie against Manchester United in the Carling Cup next month, but they have won only one of their past six Coca-Cola Championship games and are ninth in the table. They drew 0-0 with Swansea City, who played for more than an hour without a recognised goalkeeper, on Tuesday.
Despite a pre-season pledge that they would be patient, the members of the board are believed to have become concerned by the club’s recent downward turn in the league.
Dowie’s was a surprise appointment but the board decided that his track record as a talented motivator at Championship level made him the right man to lead a promotion bid. The 43-year-old, a former player at Loftus Road, became hot property after managing Crystal Palace to promotion in 2004, but his reputation has been dented by recent brief and unsuccessful roles. He suffered a financial hit last year when he lost a High Court case brought by Palace over the circumstances of his move to Charlton Athletic, a club he left in November 2006 after only 12 league games. He moved on to Coventry City, where he lasted almost a year, leaving in February with the club just outside the relegation zone. The Times
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INDEPENDENT - QPR set sights on Vialli and Mancini as Dowie is dismissed for poor run
Queen's Park Rangers are looking for their fifth manager in 12 months after Iain Dowie's brief reign came to a surprise end yesterday. Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini and the former Rangers manager Terry Venables are among the early names linked with the role after the chairman Flavio Briatore sacked Dowie just 12 games into the Coca-Cola Championship season. Dowie, who was only appointed in May, took charge of just 15 games in all competitions – the same number as his spell at Charlton Athletic two years ago. QPR are ninth in the Championship and in the last 16 of the Carling Cup, where they face Manchester United at Old Trafford as reward for knocking out Aston Villa in the third round. However, they have won just one of their past six games, and were held to a goalless draw at Swansea City on Tuesday despite the opposition playing for more than an hour with defender Alan Tate in goal. Dowie was also reported to have clashed with Briatore over the club's transfer policy, with the likes of Damiano Tommasi, the 34-year-old Independent
Telegraph/ Sandy Macaskill - Terry Venables favourite for Queens Park Rangers job
- Terry Venables has emerged as the front-runner to replace Iain Dowie as Queens Park Rangers manager.
- Dowie, the former Crystal Palace and Charlton manager, was sacked on Friday after just 15 games in charge.
- QPR have installed winger Gareth Ainsworth as caretaker manager but are expected to appoint a new manager, their fifth in two years, without delay, with former Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli also being mentioned.
- It is Venables, however, who is considered most likely to be offered the position. The 65-year-old would be a popular appointment at Loftus Road, where he played between 1969-1974, making 179 appearances and scoring 19 goals.
- Venables also managed the club between 1980-84, guiding them to the top flight in 1983, an achievement that will not have escaped the attentions of the QPR board.
- Venables has as yet refused to make his position on the role public. Similarly, his representative was last night unwilling to comment on speculation.
- QPR are also expected to sound out Mancini. The Italian, who was replaced by Jose Mourinho at Inter this summer, is currently in the capital, ostensibly to attend Chelsea's Champions League match with Roma at Stamford Bridge and take English lessons. However, while club sources yesterday refused to dismiss the speculation outright, his representative Maurizio De Giorgis said that he had no intention of joining the club.
- "Is he interested in managing in the Championship? No, no, not at all," said De Giorgis.
Dowie was informed of the club's decision to sack him yesterday after conducting a morning training session at QPR's Harlington training ground. An announcement was then made on the club's website, which stated: "The board of Queens Park Rangers Football Club has terminated the contract of manager Iain Dowie with immediate effect."
- Dowie had been at odds with Briatore over the club's summer transfer policy, but underperforming on the pitch – they are ninth – proved to be the true sticking point.
Achievements such as qualifying for the last 16 of the League Cup by defeating Aston Villa were short-lived tonics. Dowie's final game in charge was a goalless draw at Swansea on Tuesday, an embarrassing result as the opposition played for more than an hour with defender Alan Tate in goal. That Tate was forced to make just one save must have been the final straw. Telegraph
Daily Mail/Andrew Fifield
Terry Venables is QPR's top target to replace sacked manager Iain Dowie-
Terry Venables has emerged as the leading contender to be Queens Park Rangers manager following Iain Dowie's sacking after just 15 games in charge.
- QPR are hopeful Venables, who turned down Newcastle's interim manager job, will return to his former club until the end of the season.
- He has been shortlisted with Roberto Mancini, QPR midfielder Damiano Tommasi, former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli and Millwall boss Kenny Jackett.
- Venables, 65, spent four seasons in charge at the club in the 1980s and would be the big name demanded by co-owners Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone.
- Briatore asserted his authority by sacking Dowie with the club ninth in the Championship and a Carling Cup trip to Manchester United looming.
The Renault Formula One boss wants to transform QPR but is aware he will struggle to attract names with the club in the Championship.
- He will demand Dowie's successor delivers promotion this season and maintain better relations with the club's powerbrokers.
- Briatore's relationship with Dowie broke down soon after his shock appointment in May.
- The manager was unhappy Briatore refused to let him give his brother, Bob, a scouting role, while signings were also made without his input.
- The manager was also furious at Briatore's demand for a more attacking line-up after a poor run of results. Daily Mail
Football 365 - HOOPS ON LOOKOUT AS DOWIE EXITS -
QPR are looking for their fifth manager in 12 months after Iain Dowie's brief reign came to an end on Friday.
Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini and legendary former Hoops boss Terry Venables are among the early names linked with the role after chairman Flavio Briatore swung the axe just 12 games into the Coca-Cola Championship season.
Venables would be the popular choice if Briatore, who this week slashed ticket prices at Loftus Road following protests from supporters, wanted to continue his charm offensive.
The 65-year-old guided Rangers to promotion to the top flight and an FA Cup final in the early 1980s before moving on to Barcelona and then England.
Dowie, who was only appointed in May, took charge of just 15 games in all competitions - exactly the same number as during his ill-fated spell at Charlton two years ago.
The former Northern Ireland striker, 43, drove away from the club's Harlington training ground for the final time this afternoon with Rangers lying ninth in the Championship table.
They are also in the last 16 of the Carling Cup, where they face a trip to Manchester United after knocking out Aston Villa in the third round.
But the Hoops have won just one of their last six games, and were held to a goalless draw at Swansea on Tuesday night despite the opposition playing for more than an hour with defender Alan Tate in goal.
Dowie was also reported to have clashed with Briatore over the club's transfer policy earlier this season, with the likes of 34-year-old ex-Italy midfielder Damiano Tommasi brought in on a one-year contract but yet to make an appearance.
Briatore's contacts are also thought to have secured the signings of Daniel Parejo, on loan from Real Madrid, and Emmanuel Ledesma from Fiorentina, but neither have been in the starting line-up recently.
Former QPR defender Paul Parker felt Dowie's dismissal was on the cards with expectation at the club at an all-time high following the investment of Briatore, Bernie Ecclestone and Lakshmi Mittal.
"You hear they're not happy with their manager. You read bits in the paper and that adds to the unrest," Parker told Setanta Sports News.
"It's great that they've got themselves in a better state than they were 12 months ago, but it worries me that they're chasing a dream too quickly and having no patience.
"Money can't guarantee you promotion. It takes time, it takes a lot of work, and it takes planning. You don't just top the league with maximum points.
"They're only seven points away from automatic promotion, they aren't in a bad position. It's only October."
Veteran winger Gareth Ainsworth has been placed in temporary charge for the trip to Reading on Saturday evening. Football 365
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Post by QPR Report on Oct 24, 2009 6:53:51 GMT
Telegraph/ Sandy Macaskill - Terry Venables favourite for Queens Park Rangers job
- Terry Venables has emerged as the front-runner to replace Iain Dowie as Queens Park Rangers manager.
- Dowie, the former Crystal Palace and Charlton manager, was sacked on Friday after just 15 games in charge.
- QPR have installed winger Gareth Ainsworth as caretaker manager but are expected to appoint a new manager, their fifth in two years, without delay, with former Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli also being mentioned.
- It is Venables, however, who is considered most likely to be offered the position. The 65-year-old would be a popular appointment at Loftus Road, where he played between 1969-1974, making 179 appearances and scoring 19 goals.
- Venables also managed the club between 1980-84, guiding them to the top flight in 1983, an achievement that will not have escaped the attentions of the QPR board.
- Venables has as yet refused to make his position on the role public. Similarly, his representative was last night unwilling to comment on speculation.
- QPR are also expected to sound out Mancini. The Italian, who was replaced by Jose Mourinho at Inter this summer, is currently in the capital, ostensibly to attend Chelsea's Champions League match with Roma at Stamford Bridge and take English lessons. However, while club sources yesterday refused to dismiss the speculation outright, his representative Maurizio De Giorgis said that he had no intention of joining the club.
- "Is he interested in managing in the Championship? No, no, not at all," said De Giorgis.
Dowie was informed of the club's decision to sack him yesterday after conducting a morning training session at QPR's Harlington training ground. An announcement was then made on the club's website, which stated: "The board of Queens Park Rangers Football Club has terminated the contract of manager Iain Dowie with immediate effect."
- Dowie had been at odds with Briatore over the club's summer transfer policy, but underperforming on the pitch – they are ninth – proved to be the true sticking point.
Achievements such as qualifying for the last 16 of the League Cup by defeating Aston Villa were short-lived tonics. Dowie's final game in charge was a goalless draw at Swansea on Tuesday, an embarrassing result as the opposition played for more than an hour with defender Alan Tate in goal. That Tate was forced to make just one save must have been the final straw. Telegraph
Daily Mail/Andrew Fifield
Terry Venables is QPR's top target to replace sacked manager Iain Dowie- Terry Venables has emerged as the leading contender to be Queens Park Rangers manager following Iain Dowie's sacking after just 15 games in charge.
- QPR are hopeful Venables, who turned down Newcastle's interim manager job, will return to his former club until the end of the season.
- He has been shortlisted with Roberto Mancini, QPR midfielder Damiano Tommasi, former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli and Millwall boss Kenny Jackett.
- Venables, 65, spent four seasons in charge at the club in the 1980s and would be the big name demanded by co-owners Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone.
- Briatore asserted his authority by sacking Dowie with the club ninth in the Championship and a Carling Cup trip to Manchester United looming.
The Renault Formula One boss wants to transform QPR but is aware he will struggle to attract names with the club in the Championship.
- He will demand Dowie's successor delivers promotion this season and maintain better relations with the club's powerbrokers.
- Briatore's relationship with Dowie broke down soon after his shock appointment in May.
- The manager was unhappy Briatore refused to let him give his brother, Bob, a scouting role, while signings were also made without his input.
- The manager was also furious at Briatore's demand for a more attacking line-up after a poor run of results. Daily Mail
Football 365 - HOOPS ON LOOKOUT AS DOWIE EXITS -
QPR are looking for their fifth manager in 12 months after Iain Dowie's brief reign came to an end on Friday.
Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini and legendary former Hoops boss Terry Venables are among the early names linked with the role after chairman Flavio Briatore swung the axe just 12 games into the Coca-Cola Championship season.
Venables would be the popular choice if Briatore, who this week slashed ticket prices at Loftus Road following protests from supporters, wanted to continue his charm offensive.
The 65-year-old guided Rangers to promotion to the top flight and an FA Cup final in the early 1980s before moving on to Barcelona and then England.
Dowie, who was only appointed in May, took charge of just 15 games in all competitions - exactly the same number as during his ill-fated spell at Charlton two years ago.
The former Northern Ireland striker, 43, drove away from the club's Harlington training ground for the final time this afternoon with Rangers lying ninth in the Championship table.
They are also in the last 16 of the Carling Cup, where they face a trip to Manchester United after knocking out Aston Villa in the third round.
But the Hoops have won just one of their last six games, and were held to a goalless draw at Swansea on Tuesday night despite the opposition playing for more than an hour with defender Alan Tate in goal.
Dowie was also reported to have clashed with Briatore over the club's transfer policy earlier this season, with the likes of 34-year-old ex-Italy midfielder Damiano Tommasi brought in on a one-year contract but yet to make an appearance.
Briatore's contacts are also thought to have secured the signings of Daniel Parejo, on loan from Real Madrid, and Emmanuel Ledesma from Fiorentina, but neither have been in the starting line-up recently.
Former QPR defender Paul Parker felt Dowie's dismissal was on the cards with expectation at the club at an all-time high following the investment of Briatore, Bernie Ecclestone and Lakshmi Mittal.
"You hear they're not happy with their manager. You read bits in the paper and that adds to the unrest," Parker told Setanta Sports News.
"It's great that they've got themselves in a better state than they were 12 months ago, but it worries me that they're chasing a dream too quickly and having no patience.
"Money can't guarantee you promotion. It takes time, it takes a lot of work, and it takes planning. You don't just top the league with maximum points.
"They're only seven points away from automatic promotion, they aren't in a bad position. It's only October."
Veteran winger Gareth Ainsworth has been placed in temporary charge for the trip to Reading on Saturday evening. Football 365
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Post by QPR Report on Oct 24, 2009 6:54:55 GMT
Mirror/James Nursey - QPR boss sacked after Briatore chose his team
- QPR tycoon Flavio Briatore yesterday sacked boss Iain Dowie after a huge row over the Italian dictating team selection.
- Joint owner Briatore and Dowie have endured a rocky relationship since the former Crystal Palace boss replaced Luigi De Canio in May.
-The final straw came as Briatore handed Dowie a list of 11 players and told him it was the QPR team for their game at Reading.
-The side included Briatore’s fellow Italians Samuel Di Carmine and Matteo Alberti as well as Colombian-born kid Angelo Balanta. On-loan Spaniard Daniel Parejo was also named, while key players like six-goal English striker Dexter Blackstock were omitted.
- Dowie refused to accept Briatore’s demands and told the F1 Renault team chief to sack him.
- Veteran midfielder Gareth Ainsworth is in temporary charge, while Terry Venables and ex-Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini are being touted as successors to Dowie.Mirror
The Guardian/David Hytner - Dowie sacked as Briatore flexes his muscles in QPR boardroom
Flavio Briatore reasserted his authority in the Queens Park Rangers boardroom yesterday by sacking Iain Dowie as manager. There has been turmoil behind the scenes at the Championship club, where the chairman, Briatore, clashed with the vice-chairman, Amit Bhatia, after the latter released a personally signed statement pledging to reduce ticket prices at Loftus Road.
- Briatore telephoned Gianni Paladini to accuse the club's sporting director of undermining him and promised he would be sacked. Paladini, though, was spared at a meeting on Thursday attended by all the major powers and Briatore instead turned the knife on Dowie.
- The Italian has been unhappy with Dowie, who took over in May, for some weeks and suspected the manager had criticised him behind his back for a lack of support in the transfer market. Briatore helped to bring a clutch of players to the club, including Daniel Parejo, who is on loan from Real Madrid and on a huge contract by Championship standards. But Parejo and Emmanuel Ledesma, who joined on loan from Genoa, have not been in the starting line-up in recent games and Damiano Tommasi, the Italian midfielder, has yet to make a first-team appearance.
- Briatore is understood to have suggested yesterday that Dowie ought to start certain players in today's game at Reading. A disagreement ensued and the club statement announcing the termination of Dowie's contract with "immediate effect" swiftly followed. Gareth Ainsworth, the veteran midfielder, will take caretaker charge against Reading but he will not be the long-term appointment. The club have sounded out Terry Venables and Steve Cotterill and the board are undecided whether to go for a British or foreign coach. Early suggestions that Roberto Mancini, the former Internazionale manager, will come in are wide of the mark. Tommasi, having already been brought in, is a possibility and so is Alan Curbishley, the former West Ham manager.
-Briatore... who is supported on the QPR board by Bernie Ecclestone and Bhatia, the son-in-law of Lakshmi Mittal, whose family owns 20% of the club, now have a truce, but the possibility remains that the Mittals will try to buy out Briatore and Ecclestone.
QPR have won one of their past six league matches and currently lie ninth in the table. The Guardian
The Sun/Paul Jiggins Beautiful dream is turning ugly - They had a beautiful dream — to turn unfashionable QPR into the Premier League’s must-have accessory.
- But yesterday the beautiful people turned the beautiful game ugly as Iain Dowie was sacked as manager after less than six months in charge.
You see, a real, genuine, dyed-in-the-wool football man at Loftus Road is soooooooo last season, daaarlin’.
These days in W12 it is all about image.
And clearly Dowie’s mug did not fit among all the make-up, mascara and man-bags that can be found. It could be argued his sacking has made him football’s first fashion victim.
- But he is unlikely to be the last fatality in that corner of West London where Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherd’s Bush are no longer considered the height of style.
- For if you scratch away at all the expensive cosmetics, phoney air kisses and promises to lunch next week, you will uncover a football club on the brink of imploding under the expectation and egos arising from its new-found wealth.
- Put simply, QPR are a club at war. Yesterday, Dowie became its first casualty — but there will be more.
- What makes this battle so bloody is that it is being waged by some of the world’s richest men behind the decaying facade of Loftus Road. Well, they say you need money to fight a war. And this conflict has billions.
- Wars also usually feature ruthless leadership and this one’s no different.
Co-owner and chairman Briatore is the millionaire Formula One playboy who came to Rangers’ rescue when he bought them for £14million in December — with a little help from his pitlane pal Bernie Ecclestone.
But his desire to run the club in the same hands-on fashion as he manages his Renault F1 team is turning Loftus Road into the pits. He has already upset the Hoops’ long-suffering fans.
And now his apparent determination to have total control over everything he touches has led to Dowie’s exit.
An insider claims the manager went because he showed he could no longer stand being told what team he should pick by Briatore, the club’s majority shareholder.
- It appears the Italian has failed to grasp football clubs cannot be run like F1 teams. Managers like Dowie won’t tolerate being urged to pick a team seconds before the players are due out on the pitch.
- Our source said he is determined to put his stamp on the club while the supporters pray he will sell out to fellow shareholder Lakshmi Mittal.
- Briatore persuaded the London-based Indian steel billionaire — the world’s fourth wealthiest man — to invest a fraction of his £45billion fortune in a 20 per cent stake of QPR.
- Mittal and his family are bankrolling the club as debts pile up. The likeable Indian tycoon — represented on the board by his son-in-law Amit Bhatia — understands football, accepts coaches pick the team and fans should be looked after for their loyalty.
- But Briatore’s long-term plan seems to centre around attracting wealthy West Londoners to a small niche stadium with excellent hospitality. “Boutique football,” Briatore calls it.
- He has apparently treated supporters with the same contempt he has shown Dowie by hiking ticket prices and ordering season-ticket holders out of seats they have sat in for years in order to make more space for his corporate guests and celebrity chums, such as Campbell and Beckwith.
- Briatore, 58, has said: “The first thing to remember is that without us there was no QPR. I don’t want everybody telling me what I need to be doing.
“People believe the club is owned by the fans but it’s only a few who put their money down. For the rest of the people it’s easy to criticise when they maybe spend £20.”
If only it was £20 to see Rangers these days. As part of a new banding scheme Briatore introduced seven games into this season, the cost of a ticket in Loftus Road’s ‘Platinum’ area for last month’s visit of Derby was FIFTY QUID.
He also tried to charge Rams fans the same amount for a seat in the shoddy School End behind the goal.
-In a victory for football, the League ordered Rangers to charge visiting fans the £30 that had been agreed before the start of the season.
- Now QPR will have to find more cash to fund Dowie’s successor.
- Peterborough’s Darren Ferguson, Millwall’s Kenny Jackett and former Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini have been linked with the post.
Last night, a QPR spokesman said: “We’re in no position to comment.The Sun
The Times/Tom Dart - Mancini in QPR radar after Dowie axed
Iain Dowie was sacked after just 15 games in charge at Lotfus Road
-The strange-looking partnership between Iain Dowie and the multimillionaire owners seeking to turn Queens Park Rangers into a glamorous club came to a swift end yesterday as the manager was sacked after only 15 matches in charge. It is hard to predict his successor, given that Zinédine Zidane was being considered for the role before it was offered to Dowie. Roberto Mancini and Roberto Donadoni, the Italians, may enter the frame, as well as Terry Venables, Sam Allardyce and Kenny Jackett, the Millwall manager.
Dowie took charge in May and led QPR to eight wins and three draws and a tie against Manchester United in the Carling Cup next month, but they have won only one of their past six Coca-Cola Championship games and are ninth in the table. They drew 0-0 with Swansea City, who played for more than an hour without a recognised goalkeeper, on Tuesday.
Despite a pre-season pledge that they would be patient, the members of the board are believed to have become concerned by the club’s recent downward turn in the league.
Dowie’s was a surprise appointment but the board decided that his track record as a talented motivator at Championship level made him the right man to lead a promotion bid. The 43-year-old, a former player at Loftus Road, became hot property after managing Crystal Palace to promotion in 2004, but his reputation has been dented by recent brief and unsuccessful roles. He suffered a financial hit last year when he lost a High Court case brought by Palace over the circumstances of his move to Charlton Athletic, a club he left in November 2006 after only 12 league games. He moved on to Coventry City, where he lasted almost a year, leaving in February with the club just outside the relegation zone. The Times
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INDEPENDENT - QPR set sights on Vialli and Mancini as Dowie is dismissed for poor run
Queen's Park Rangers are looking for their fifth manager in 12 months after Iain Dowie's brief reign came to a surprise end yesterday. Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini and the former Rangers manager Terry Venables are among the early names linked with the role after the chairman Flavio Briatore sacked Dowie just 12 games into the Coca-Cola Championship season. Dowie, who was only appointed in May, took charge of just 15 games in all competitions – the same number as his spell at Charlton Athletic two years ago. QPR are ninth in the Championship and in the last 16 of the Carling Cup, where they face Manchester United at Old Trafford as reward for knocking out Aston Villa in the third round. However, they have won just one of their past six games, and were held to a goalless draw at Swansea City on Tuesday despite the opposition playing for more than an hour with defender Alan Tate in goal. Dowie was also reported to have clashed with Briatore over the club's transfer policy, with the likes of Damiano Tommasi, the 34-year-old Independent
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2010 6:31:33 GMT
Bump a year...
Another reason to be fearful as long as Briatore is involved...and talking re QPR managers
When certain posters start disparaging Warnock, be afraid...
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2010 8:00:04 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2010 8:20:20 GMT
How accoding to the press Briatore Told Dowie...QPR's Mahon on Briatore's Expectations
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Daily Mail/NEIL ASHTON and IAN GIBB
Reading 0 QPR 0: Briatore's meddling too much as Dowie is shown the door
- Iain Dowie was sacked after QPR co-owner Flavio Briatore walked on to the training pitch last Friday to tell his manager which players to pick.
- As ambitious Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson emerges as the clear favourite to replace Dowie, Sportsmail can reveal the events which led to the dismissal.
QPR players were left stunned as Briatore marched on to the pitches at Harlington with instructions for the following day's clash with Reading. Dowie refused to carry out the eccentric Italian's orders and was sacked during a row in front of the first-team squad.
Ferguson, son of Manchester United boss Sir Alex, has been targeted by QPR, but he has made it clear he must have control over team selection and the biggest say about which players are brought in.
Briatore has been impressed with the way Ferguson has guided Peterborough out of League Two and into the League One play-off spots by playing an attractive, passing game - much different to the long-ball style often resorted to by Dowie.
Peterborough will demand at least £1million for their manager.
Director of football Barry Fry said: 'QPR had an eye on him last season. The compensation would have to be right because Darren has three years left on his contract.'
QPR caretaker manager Gareth Ainsworth admitted Briatore had influenced selection for the Reading trip, which finished goalless.
One such directive was almost certainly the deployment of midfielder Mikele Leigertwood at right back to nullify Reading wide man Stephen Hunt, who has been destroying teams at the Madejski.
Briatore's fingerprints were also all over the selection of striker Samuel Di Carmine, on loan from Fiorentina, in place of Dexter Blackstock. That was probably the last straw for Dowie and QPR looked sharper when Ainsworth sent on Blackstock for the Italian.
- QPR midfielder Gavin Mahon said: 'The first inkling I got the boss was going was at training on Friday. Flavio called a meeting 20 minutes later and said: "I want everyone to stick together".
- 'Once Flavio told us, we all went to see Iain to wish him all the best.' Mail
Telegraph/David Edbrooke - QPR expectation 'has gone through the roof', says Gavin Mahon
The next manager of Queens Park Rangers could be given less than a year to secure Premier League football, according to midfielder Gavin Mahon.
- Flavio Briatore, the QPR co-owner and chief of the Renault Formula One team, is used to the jet-set lifestyle, but the Italian's undiluted expectations have turned the Loftus Road manager's chair into an ejection seat.
- After Iain Dowie became the third QPR manager in 13 months to enter the departure lounge, the west London club were left to navigate their way through this testing fixture against Reading with a novice at the controls.
- The signore in temporary charge on the sidelines, Gareth Ainsworth, ensured that the team became the first to take points off Reading at the Madejski Stadium this season thanks to stout defending.
- Yet the chances of Ainsworth turning his caretaker role into a permanent position are as slim as the supermodels on the Milan catwalk. The veteran midfielder is QPR's longest-serving player, but he has none of the star quality associated with the front-runners for the job, namely Terry Venables, former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli and ex-Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini.
- Irrespective of who becomes the next QPR manager, they are likely to come under untold pressure from the start. Giving a unique insight into the time frame the next incumbent will probably be working to, Mahon said: "Since the new owners have come in the expectation has gone through the roof.
- "They want success. I know Flavio said he's got a two or three-year plan, but I know he wants it [Premier League football] sooner than that because he's an ambitious man."
- Former England manager Venables would be a popular choice with supporters, having played for QPR from 1969-74 before leading them into the top-flight when manager in the Eighties. However, Briatore's demand for instant results could diminish El Tel's interest.
- The Italian multi-millionaire is used to success, having led Renault to two F1 world championships – four including the two titles won by Benetton in the Nineties – and Dowie's record of eight wins, three draws and just four losses wasn't enough to prevent his sacking.
- Talking to Steve Coppell's players, you get the feeling expectations are managed better at Reading. Midfielder Liam Rosenior said: "The likes of even AC Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid don't win every game at home and we shouldn't expect to." Telegraph
Mirror/Rory Smith - Rangers steal point from rampant Royals
Caretaker boss Gareth Ainsworth admits Flavio Briatore likes to have his say in team selection - and judging from this performance, maybe he's not doing a bad job.
The Italian has come under fire from fans after he deposed former boss Iain Dowie for not picking the team he wanted. The pair clashed over Dowie's refusal to play young Italian striker Samuel Di Carmine but there was only ever going to be one winner.
Dowie departed, Di Carmine started and Briatore's - or rather Ainsworth's - managerial career got off to a flyer with an impressive point against title-chasing Reading.
Ainsworth said: "He's put a lot of money into the club and he likes to look after his investment.
"There are discussions about certain players, not just with him but with a number of people at the club.
"It's normal, but I'm the boss and I have the final input about who goes out there and plays, and we'd never discuss strategy. I'm not going to say I'd love the job long term, but I'm looking forward to the game against Birmingham, whether I'm in charge or not, just as long as I'm at QPR."
After becoming the first manager to stop Reading scoring at the Madejski this season - prior to this dour clash they had netted 27 in just six outings - it seems certain Ainsworth will be in charge on Tuesday.
But Steve Coppell warned the rookie that he should not have to put up with having to pick his team by committee.
He said: "If I didn't choose who played, what would I do?
"I wouldn't tolerate an owner wanting to interfere. They have a right to say what they think of certain players, but I manage."
If that's what Briatore does and it turns out like this, there may be some mileage in the idea. QPR were woefully short on flair, but their cautious 4-5-1 blunted Coppell's side.
They barely mustered a clearcut chance in a tight first half, despite Jimmy Kebe lashing into the side-netting and Noel Hunt seeing Radek Cerny clutch desperately at his goalbound header.
And the visitors even found time to threaten on the counter, Di Carmine forcing a fine save from Marcus Hahnemann after a well-worked move orchestrated by the impish Dani Parejo.
And QPR grew in confidence as the game wore on.
The disappointing Akos Buzsaky stung Hahnemann's palms with a ferocious drive and Parejo should have done better when he was picked out by sub Dexter Blackstock.
Reading went close through Andre Bikey's header but could not find a way through, losing valuable ground to Wolves and Birmingham in the promotion race.
It was a result that made a strong case for Ainsworth to be given the reins long-term and take QPR forward - but if Briatore doesn't fancy that, he could always give himself a go.
HOW THEY RATED...MAN OF THE MATCH 8 DAMION STEWART
Imposing centre back was a rock at the back as QPR scrapped for every ball
Referee: C Foy 7 Mirror
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2011 7:48:03 GMT
Bump a year....
Those Briatore years seem more and more like a nightmare
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2011 7:55:12 GMT
And then as posted on this board
Briatore's First Game as Manager
« Thread Started on Oct 25, 2008, 9:06pm »
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2012 6:59:51 GMT
Four years ago today...
Don't even know where Dowie is currently
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Post by jjqpr on Oct 24, 2012 8:40:53 GMT
Four years ago today... Don't even know where Dowie is currently Sky sports news most the time as a pundit. When I read all this it made me wish I could go back in time and relive the last 4 years again...even the FB and BE fiasco lol...we've had a really interesting recent history and all this not winning business is really spoiling it this year!! |
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2013 6:33:50 GMT
Bump: Four Crazy years ago
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2014 6:47:28 GMT
Bump 6 Years ago...
Then came Ainsworth for a couple of weeks
Then Sousa
And then before the season was over...SOUSAGATE
And Ainsworth was back briefly till the end of the season
Then next season
Jim Magilton - Then "Dressroomgate"
Hart....Harford
And before that season over, Neil Warnock to save the day
(and never forgetting Briatore/F1 and "Crashgate"
C R A Z Y
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2015 8:06:57 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2016 9:01:14 GMT
Bump - 8 Years ago today A crazy 24 months Luigi De Canio Italy Italy 29 October 2007 12 May 2008 35 12 11 12 34.3 First manager from outside UK & Ireland [36] Iain Dowie Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 14 May 2008 24 October 2008 15 8 3 4 53.3 Highest win percentage of any QPR manager. [30] Gareth Ainsworth England England 24 October 2008 19 November 2008 7 2 1 4 28.6 – [37] Paulo Sousa Portugal Portugal 19 November 2008 9 April 2009 26 7 12 7 26.9 – [38] Gareth Ainsworth England England 9 April 2009 3 May 2009 5 1 1 3 20.0 – [37] Jim Magilton Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 3 June 2009 16 December 2009 24 9 8 7 37.5 – [39] Paul Hart England England 17 December 2009 15 January 2010 5 1 2 2 20.0 – [41] Mick Harford England England 15 January 2010 2 March 2010 7 1 0 6 14.3 – [35] Neil Warnock England England 2 March 2010 8 January 2012 84 33 27 24 39.2 Football League Championship champions [42] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Queens_Park_Rangers_F.C._managers |
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2017 8:25:20 GMT
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Post by londonranger on Oct 24, 2017 14:08:19 GMT
Yes, I do remember what seemed like a manager of the month club which almost sent us down the Rabbit hole. Still we were saved by Warnock who wanted to come here and was approved by Cash(Bernie).
Mext season we began to move up toward Prem. Where followed a few years of embarrassment. Now we are 5 points above drop in 2nd tier, and as much likely to be promoted as Accrington Stanley) I love that name.
Who aren't even in the league.
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2020 8:47:08 GMT
Flashback at QPR....Chaos
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Post by londonranger on Oct 25, 2021 14:16:55 GMT
Not that I really care, but whats going on with Briatore now? Maybe on his yacht with a group of lovely young women. ? Ill track him down and come back with a report
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Post by londonranger on Oct 25, 2021 14:27:56 GMT
Yes, find him on You Tube. He likes the restaurant business and cant tell if he is still in F1? Some monkey business going on with Dubai. Didn't mention football so his QPR days are a distant memory.
Also he has had Covid.
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 24, 2022 8:27:08 GMT
It was strange how Dowie's Managerial career kind of petered out.... Teams managed 1998 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker) 2002–2003 Oldham Athletic 2003–2006 Crystal Palace 2006 Charlton Athletic 2007–2008 Coventry City 2008 Queens Park Rangers 2010 Hull City en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Dowie#Management_career |
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Post by surreychad on Oct 24, 2022 11:26:07 GMT
He clearly didn't have bouncebackability with his managerial career
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