Post by QPR Report on Nov 20, 2009 4:40:20 GMT
15 Years ago..And Leeds CRUSH QPR 
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19 Years Ago, November 20, 2004: a rampant QPR played Leeds: Leeds 6 QPR 1 (the match when a famously-ill Ian Holloway was "forced" to attend the game and then ended up in the hospital
QPR's Team that day vs Leeds
: Day, Bignot, shiteeeeeeeeeeetu, Santos, Rose (Padula 11), Ainsworth, Bircham, Gallen, McLeod (Cook 45), Furlong, Cureton (Bean 45). Subs Not Used: Branco, Miller.
Match Report
www.sportinglife.com/football/live/reports/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=soccer/04/11/20/SOCCER_Leeds.html
And a reminder... "The Independent, Nov 6,2005 Ian Holloway: In a league of his own - Interview by Robert Chalmers
"....I ask Holloway how he gets on with Gianni Paladini.
"His personality is electric. You want to be in his company." At the same time, he says, "You wouldn't want to do anything wrong.
He loves you or he hates you. When he loves you, there is no better company in the world. You can talk about Gianni being a waiter.
You can talk about Gianni being Italian. You can talk about Gianni being an agent. But Gianni is a bloke. Gianni is a fella. A nice fella."
What if you "do something wrong"?
"If you upset him," Holloway explains, "he will hurl abuse at you. He doesn't mean it the following day.
Hopefully I can help him learn from my experience of how I used to scream at deaf children."
Does he swear in Italian?
"Normally in English."
Last year, Holloway recalls, he was at home, suffering from chronic diarrhoea, when he answered a call from Paladini.
"I was sat on the toilet - actually I couldn't leave the toilet. I had this virus. There had been rumours about me going to Wolves.
Three days before, I'd bought flowers for some ladies in the office. Gianni assumed they were a leaving present."
So you were on the toilet...
"And Gianni was going: 'You Fuc.king bastard I am going to kill you. I am going to kill you,
you Fuc.king bastard... where are you, you Fuc.king... Fuc.king hell where are you.'"
And you said...
"I am on the toilet. My wife is in the house. Ask her. He said: 'She could be at Fuc.kng Wolves with you.'"
In the end, Holloway says, he had to drive up to Leeds, to reassure the Italian. It was a journey he remembers.
"It was a terrible virus. It was coming out of both ends. I had to stop at every service station.
I shouldn't have gone. It was horrendous. I was totally dehydrated. My lips were stuck to my teeth.
I ended up in hospital, the following day. I was in for a week. I had six drips put into me."
It wouldn't be reasonable to invite any manager to criticise his chairman in public, but...
"Well I have seen people saying Holloway 'supports' Gianni Paladini. Holloway supports QPR. But I am a man of principle. If I thought there was any just cause for [the unease some have voiced about the Italian], I wouldn't be here."
Scotland Yard, Holloway points out, "has been looking into everything that's happened at the club. If there was anything untoward Mr Paladini had done, would he still be where he is?"
It can't be pleasant to be under such scrutiny.
"It isn't. As a football manager you are like... a doorstop."
A doorstop?
"You are in between the floor and the door. There's the board of directors, and the fans and the players, trying to push the door."
So who does the door represent - the board?
"Sorry?"
Is the board the door?
"Well you've got the door and the floor. I am the wedge. And someone is trying to force the door. But really it needs to be the other way round, because the board are above me."
But who is the door? (omega)
"Er... OK... forget the door." Holloway draws a triangle in the air. "I am in a three-way struggle involving the fans, the players and the board. I don't know of anybody else who has been in this situation, ever."
You did once say that you can never have complete harmony at a football club.
"Yes. But there is a difference between complete harmony and complete chaos."
And at QPR is it complete...
"Everybody out there makes it look like it's complete chaos." Gianni Paladini, says Holloway, "is Caesar and at the minute the old thumb is wobbling. The crowd are going wait a minute. I want to be Maximus. But I get a bit of a waft of fish sometimes."
This is a volatile situation that can communicate itself to the players via the fans - that's what you're saying?
"Yes. Normally you need support when things are going wrong. That is what I've found in my own life. I've needed the support of my wife and family. To me, if you're a football supporter, your love should be unconditional."...
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ian-holloway-in-a-league-of-his-own-513941.html
Bump another year
(And the game - massacre - itself
BBC
Leeds 6-1 QPR
Brian Deane
Deane's goals took his season's tally for Leeds to six
Veteran striker Brian Deane netted four times as struggling Leeds gave high-flying QPR a battering at Elland Road.
Rangers were in front inside two minutes through Gareth Ainsworth's drive but David Healy chipped in to level seven minutes later.
Deane put Leeds ahead on 13 minutes, and Jermaine Wright swept home to make it 3-1 just 10 minutes later.
Deane then scored two in two minutes before the break to complete a hat-trick and hit his fourth on 72 minutes.
Leeds boss Kevin Blackwell
"I'm pleased for Brian Deane. His professionalism is an example for all the young players at this club to follow.
"This just shows what can be achieved when players get the right service.
"Our wide men were excellent today."
QPR boss Ian Holloway
"The doorman asked me if I had a pass - we didn't have a pass all day!
"I should have stayed at home. It may be a virus or food poisoning. I thought things couldn't get any worse, then we let in six goals after being one up.
"It looks like we got Leeds really annoyed. They played superbly and we were a shadow of what we can be."
Leeds: Sullivan, Kelly, Carlisle, Butler, Pugh, Walton (Richardson 90), Gregan, Wright, Oster, Deane (Lennon 86), Healy (Joachim 77). Subs Not Used: Carson, Kilgallon.
Goals: Healy 9, Deane 13, Wright 23, Deane 42, 44, 72.
QPR: Day, Bignot, shiteeetu, Santos, Rose (Padula 11), Ainsworth, Bircham, Gallen, McLeod (Cook 45), Furlong, Cureton (Bean 45). Subs Not Used: Branco, Miller.
Booked: Bircham.
Goals: Ainsworth 2.
Att: 29,739.
[Edit a year]
19 Years Ago, November 20, 2004: a rampant QPR played Leeds: Leeds 6 QPR 1 (the match when a famously-ill Ian Holloway was "forced" to attend the game and then ended up in the hospital
QPR's Team that day vs Leeds
: Day, Bignot, shiteeeeeeeeeeetu, Santos, Rose (Padula 11), Ainsworth, Bircham, Gallen, McLeod (Cook 45), Furlong, Cureton (Bean 45). Subs Not Used: Branco, Miller.
Match Report
www.sportinglife.com/football/live/reports/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=soccer/04/11/20/SOCCER_Leeds.html
And a reminder... "The Independent, Nov 6,2005 Ian Holloway: In a league of his own - Interview by Robert Chalmers
"....I ask Holloway how he gets on with Gianni Paladini.
"His personality is electric. You want to be in his company." At the same time, he says, "You wouldn't want to do anything wrong.
He loves you or he hates you. When he loves you, there is no better company in the world. You can talk about Gianni being a waiter.
You can talk about Gianni being Italian. You can talk about Gianni being an agent. But Gianni is a bloke. Gianni is a fella. A nice fella."
What if you "do something wrong"?
"If you upset him," Holloway explains, "he will hurl abuse at you. He doesn't mean it the following day.
Hopefully I can help him learn from my experience of how I used to scream at deaf children."
Does he swear in Italian?
"Normally in English."
Last year, Holloway recalls, he was at home, suffering from chronic diarrhoea, when he answered a call from Paladini.
"I was sat on the toilet - actually I couldn't leave the toilet. I had this virus. There had been rumours about me going to Wolves.
Three days before, I'd bought flowers for some ladies in the office. Gianni assumed they were a leaving present."
So you were on the toilet...
"And Gianni was going: 'You Fuc.king bastard I am going to kill you. I am going to kill you,
you Fuc.king bastard... where are you, you Fuc.king... Fuc.king hell where are you.'"
And you said...
"I am on the toilet. My wife is in the house. Ask her. He said: 'She could be at Fuc.kng Wolves with you.'"
In the end, Holloway says, he had to drive up to Leeds, to reassure the Italian. It was a journey he remembers.
"It was a terrible virus. It was coming out of both ends. I had to stop at every service station.
I shouldn't have gone. It was horrendous. I was totally dehydrated. My lips were stuck to my teeth.
I ended up in hospital, the following day. I was in for a week. I had six drips put into me."
It wouldn't be reasonable to invite any manager to criticise his chairman in public, but...
"Well I have seen people saying Holloway 'supports' Gianni Paladini. Holloway supports QPR. But I am a man of principle. If I thought there was any just cause for [the unease some have voiced about the Italian], I wouldn't be here."
Scotland Yard, Holloway points out, "has been looking into everything that's happened at the club. If there was anything untoward Mr Paladini had done, would he still be where he is?"
It can't be pleasant to be under such scrutiny.
"It isn't. As a football manager you are like... a doorstop."
A doorstop?
"You are in between the floor and the door. There's the board of directors, and the fans and the players, trying to push the door."
So who does the door represent - the board?
"Sorry?"
Is the board the door?
"Well you've got the door and the floor. I am the wedge. And someone is trying to force the door. But really it needs to be the other way round, because the board are above me."
But who is the door? (omega)
"Er... OK... forget the door." Holloway draws a triangle in the air. "I am in a three-way struggle involving the fans, the players and the board. I don't know of anybody else who has been in this situation, ever."
You did once say that you can never have complete harmony at a football club.
"Yes. But there is a difference between complete harmony and complete chaos."
And at QPR is it complete...
"Everybody out there makes it look like it's complete chaos." Gianni Paladini, says Holloway, "is Caesar and at the minute the old thumb is wobbling. The crowd are going wait a minute. I want to be Maximus. But I get a bit of a waft of fish sometimes."
This is a volatile situation that can communicate itself to the players via the fans - that's what you're saying?
"Yes. Normally you need support when things are going wrong. That is what I've found in my own life. I've needed the support of my wife and family. To me, if you're a football supporter, your love should be unconditional."...
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ian-holloway-in-a-league-of-his-own-513941.html
Bump another year
(And the game - massacre - itself
BBC
Leeds 6-1 QPR
Brian Deane
Deane's goals took his season's tally for Leeds to six
Veteran striker Brian Deane netted four times as struggling Leeds gave high-flying QPR a battering at Elland Road.
Rangers were in front inside two minutes through Gareth Ainsworth's drive but David Healy chipped in to level seven minutes later.
Deane put Leeds ahead on 13 minutes, and Jermaine Wright swept home to make it 3-1 just 10 minutes later.
Deane then scored two in two minutes before the break to complete a hat-trick and hit his fourth on 72 minutes.
Leeds boss Kevin Blackwell
"I'm pleased for Brian Deane. His professionalism is an example for all the young players at this club to follow.
"This just shows what can be achieved when players get the right service.
"Our wide men were excellent today."
QPR boss Ian Holloway
"The doorman asked me if I had a pass - we didn't have a pass all day!
"I should have stayed at home. It may be a virus or food poisoning. I thought things couldn't get any worse, then we let in six goals after being one up.
"It looks like we got Leeds really annoyed. They played superbly and we were a shadow of what we can be."
Leeds: Sullivan, Kelly, Carlisle, Butler, Pugh, Walton (Richardson 90), Gregan, Wright, Oster, Deane (Lennon 86), Healy (Joachim 77). Subs Not Used: Carson, Kilgallon.
Goals: Healy 9, Deane 13, Wright 23, Deane 42, 44, 72.
QPR: Day, Bignot, shiteeetu, Santos, Rose (Padula 11), Ainsworth, Bircham, Gallen, McLeod (Cook 45), Furlong, Cureton (Bean 45). Subs Not Used: Branco, Miller.
Booked: Bircham.
Goals: Ainsworth 2.
Att: 29,739.
