Where do I begin?
Was at the Liberty stadium yesterday, and was totally unprepared for what I was about to witness.
After a run of five games which suggested that Harry Redknapp had cured our defensive frailties, the real truth emerged, and that truth being that Julio Cesar being a truly world class player, when in form is virtually unbeatable.
At Swansea, Julio's form had taken a nosedive, and any forlorn hope of keeping a clean sheet went with it. Our defence, without an in-form Cesar, is pants, pure pants.
Once again, Harry Redknapp got his tactics horribly wrong.
Playing with no strikers at all, is plainly daft. And what in the name of God was mackie doing on the left side of midfield, while Townsend was on the right, when if anything, the reverse should have been the case.
Playing with no striker up top, when you have Bothroyd and Zamora on the bench, is ludicrous.
Bothroyd may not have been an immense success since he came to Loftus Rd, but he is still better than what we had in the first half, nobody.
And Swansea, two weeks or so, away from a major cup final against Bradford City, a great chance for the Welsh club to get it's paws on a piece of English silverware, and what did we do yesterday?
We allowed them to play without fear of injury, purely because we didn't make it plain from the very start, that if they had the ball, we were going to take it, and we were going to take no prisoners in making sure we not only retained possession, but won it back having lost it.
There was no steel, no grit, no determination from our lot at all.
Now, the officials. As per usual, they were at the top of premiershyte standard.
God awful, doesn't come near to covering it.
A stonewall penalty, you won't ever see a better example of BLATANT in your life, is totally missed not only by Swarbrick, but the idiot running the line as well.
Premiershyte officials have to be the worst bunch in the world, either they are wholly incompetent, or they are on the take, or they should be looked more closely at, what with the betting scandals that are starting to engulf European football.
And anyone who says it cannot happen here, where dishonesty in society is rampant, even at the very top in Westminster, is more or less like meself, wanting to return to more saner times like the 1950s, 60s, 70s, before that bitch Thatcher started the ball rolling leading to this dump of a country we now have to endure living in.
The confidence I had in Queen's Park Rangers avoiding the increasingly inevitable, has been dented somewhat by yesterday's events, failing to get even a measly point of the Swans means that whether we like it, or not, Manchester United is now a must-win game for us.
Even though we have very little chance, we must try and win all three points from United.
We have no easy games. For us, MK Dons in the FA Cup was not easy, so going away to Southampton for instance, will be no walk in the park.
Also, we must be the slowest team on the break, in all four divisions of professional football. What seems to take other teams seconds, takes us an age. Woefully, painfully slow.
From now on Harry, play with at least one striker up top, no matter who we play, where we play, as that first half yesterday was humiliating to watch, as if we haven't been overdosed on humilliation this season already.
Was at the Liberty stadium yesterday, and was totally unprepared for what I was about to witness.
After a run of five games which suggested that Harry Redknapp had cured our defensive frailties, the real truth emerged, and that truth being that Julio Cesar being a truly world class player, when in form is virtually unbeatable.
At Swansea, Julio's form had taken a nosedive, and any forlorn hope of keeping a clean sheet went with it. Our defence, without an in-form Cesar, is pants, pure pants.
Once again, Harry Redknapp got his tactics horribly wrong.
Playing with no strikers at all, is plainly daft. And what in the name of God was mackie doing on the left side of midfield, while Townsend was on the right, when if anything, the reverse should have been the case.
Playing with no striker up top, when you have Bothroyd and Zamora on the bench, is ludicrous.
Bothroyd may not have been an immense success since he came to Loftus Rd, but he is still better than what we had in the first half, nobody.
And Swansea, two weeks or so, away from a major cup final against Bradford City, a great chance for the Welsh club to get it's paws on a piece of English silverware, and what did we do yesterday?
We allowed them to play without fear of injury, purely because we didn't make it plain from the very start, that if they had the ball, we were going to take it, and we were going to take no prisoners in making sure we not only retained possession, but won it back having lost it.
There was no steel, no grit, no determination from our lot at all.
Now, the officials. As per usual, they were at the top of premiershyte standard.
God awful, doesn't come near to covering it.
A stonewall penalty, you won't ever see a better example of BLATANT in your life, is totally missed not only by Swarbrick, but the idiot running the line as well.
Premiershyte officials have to be the worst bunch in the world, either they are wholly incompetent, or they are on the take, or they should be looked more closely at, what with the betting scandals that are starting to engulf European football.
And anyone who says it cannot happen here, where dishonesty in society is rampant, even at the very top in Westminster, is more or less like meself, wanting to return to more saner times like the 1950s, 60s, 70s, before that bitch Thatcher started the ball rolling leading to this dump of a country we now have to endure living in.
The confidence I had in Queen's Park Rangers avoiding the increasingly inevitable, has been dented somewhat by yesterday's events, failing to get even a measly point of the Swans means that whether we like it, or not, Manchester United is now a must-win game for us.
Even though we have very little chance, we must try and win all three points from United.
We have no easy games. For us, MK Dons in the FA Cup was not easy, so going away to Southampton for instance, will be no walk in the park.
Also, we must be the slowest team on the break, in all four divisions of professional football. What seems to take other teams seconds, takes us an age. Woefully, painfully slow.
From now on Harry, play with at least one striker up top, no matter who we play, where we play, as that first half yesterday was humiliating to watch, as if we haven't been overdosed on humilliation this season already.
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