“The chairman and his board are very keen to establish strong links with the community and that’s also something which appealed. It reminds me of QPR in that sense because when Neil, Mick and I first went in there it had a really welcoming feel and that’s vitally important.
“There were good pros in the dressing room and that’s important because it means they police themselves. I’m trying to create something similar here and I think we can do that because of the character I’ve seen.”
QPR’s return to the top flight was the subject of a recent BBC documentary - “The Four Year Plan” - which painted a less than flattering picture of then chairman Gianni Paladini’s reign. Curle, though, has an altogether different take on the larger than life Italian.
“When Gianni left QPR, the heartbeat of the club went as well,” he said.
“People have a certain idea about what he was like but he was a focal point and a figurehead. He had agents and representatives of this player and that player constantly telephoning him but he was really good at filtering out what those of us on the football side needed to know and all of the superfluous stuff that would just get in the way.”
Move on
Last time I checked, nephew was family
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