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I thought he was a decent player and was hard done by for us, but he sounds like an absolute liability in the wrong circumstances. We all suspected the WATRB stuff didn’t we. Paliadini’s reputation as arsehole in chief enhanced isn’t it. I knew the Blackstock stuff was dodgy but had never heard that dimension before.
Big shame his time never coincided with Holloway’s as I’m certain they would have got on. Knew he liked a drink because I remember him necking can after can after getting egged on by fans in the Springbok after a game once.
All good behind the scenes revelations. Next; who is going to lift the lid on the Marco Ramkilde mystery? His contract runs out in June and I can see this going the way of the 1986 Milk Cup Final that never happened.
In a strange sort of way I do miss Q Block Pete's and AlbericoQPR's wierd riddles they used to post when the club was about to sign a player... It always reminded me of the sort riddles they used to do on the 3-2-1 quiz show.
Watched 5 or 10 mins of that. Can understand him wanting to set the record straight about a few things but found it a bit exhausting tbh. Take a breath Rowan, you'll pull something.
Does anyone ask why Warnock treated him in that way? Hard to get a word in edge wise.
Watched 5 or 10 mins of that. Can understand him wanting to set the record straight about a few things but found it a bit exhausting tbh. Take a breath Rowan, you'll pull something.
Does anyone ask why Warnock treated him in that way? Hard to get a word in edge wise.
I was the same. I gave up after two minutes of Danny Dyer speak.
Can anyone keep dressing room secrets anymore?
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
All good behind the scenes revelations. Next; who is going to lift the lid on the Marco Ramkilde mystery? His contract runs out in June and I can see this going the way of the 1986 Milk Cup Final that never happened.
Wasn't he just signed as an under 23 development player, never really understood the fascination with him
Wasn't he just signed as an under 23 development player, never really understood the fascination with him
Played a few 1st team games, came with a record of having payed for his country at every level up to U19 level and then just disappeared off the map, not even listed in the squads until a few weeks ago. Very strange.
Watched 5 or 10 mins of that. Can understand him wanting to set the record straight about a few things but found it a bit exhausting tbh. Take a breath Rowan, you'll pull something.
Does anyone ask why Warnock treated him in that way? Hard to get a word in edge wise.
Warnock must be the deleted bit the hosts mention at the beginning of part 2...
They clearly skip a bit on Warnock and then say "On Warnock, aside from the money..." so I guess he makes similar allegations to those made by Jason Puncheon
He didnt give any reason why Briatore didnt like Dexter Blackstock and was so keen to get rid of him!!!
There was a lot more to that story.
Sousa wasn't that fussed about Blackstock, he'd mostly had him on the bench anyway. Go back and look, he started four of the 12 games prior to his departure, mostly coming on 75mins or later.
Paladini hated Sousa, wasn't having him. Couldn't possibly speculate on the reasons why.
As Vine says, Paladini basically had his website chums kicking around on the side, pedalling his message in exchange for little bits and pieces on transfers that they could tease out as massive scoops. Lo and behold, straight after that Palace game, a post appears on WATRBs saying Sousa was outside the ground afterwards saying Cook and Helguson had bad knees and shouldn't have been signed if they'd been given proper medicals. That was the reason he got the sack, that was the "divulging confidential information", it was based on that message board post, nothing to do with the Blackstock guff, that was just a decent cover story.
When the guys who made Four Year Plan sold it to the BBC, the BBC lawyers pulled them on this bit. Said they weren't buying the Sousa departure line, wanted to make sure it was all legally sound before it could air on a public broadcaster. The makers had to go trawling back through old message board threads to make sure they were water tight on it before it could go on BBC2, because even how it plays out in the doc isn't how it played out. The key bit of that was Paladini sniping on the phone to Briatore about all these things Sousa had said, and turning the fans against them.
I called all this at the time. Paladini had tried it on with me, feeding me transfer stuff, and then a few weeks later asking whether I wouldn't mind putting a line or two out for him that he wanted to say but couldn't say himself or put on the offish. When we went on the pre-season in Sorrento I got to go up to the hotel, do interviews with the players and stuff, obviuously great for me and great for the site, but they were also pedalling this line that the players they'd left behind at home, including Bircham, weren't having Waddock or the new players and had been deliberately trying to injure Ward in training and stuff like that. I stuck it on the message board, what was I 19/20 at this time? Maybe. Just a kid. And Bircham saw it and, rightly, went apesht about it.
It was at that point that I sort of woke up a bit to what was happening - about six months after Wombat and Roley Birkin had quite forcefully warned me what was happening. And took a bit of a step back, interviews and access fine, but I'm not pedalling these dodgy off the record lines. Within a few months WATRBs started up, suddenly had all these transfer rumours, put it about that I was making a tonne of money off Rivals and they were real QPR fans running an independent message board. Everybody took it as a good laugh, all that "Ched's on the bus" and Danny Graham house in Sunbury guff, but it was sinister at times and fcking terrible for the club. As predicted, as soon as Paladini disappeared, these people evaporated too.
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