There is an interesting debate about Zesh Rehman going on at the moment on the Loft For Words forums. So, what do I think about it? We splashed out £300k for Zesh and at the time it was a lot of money for us. He showed great promise on his debut which at the time, [...]

I said I would dig out the rest of the programmes and track down those “welcome” messages, so here’s a quick update. It turns out that there are 81 welcome messages in the 21 published programmes to date. This averages out at 3.86 welcome messages per issue so far. There is a pattern and trend [...]

There is a certain amount of irony attached to the dream. The Board are not talking about promotion, they’re talking about the Champions League. That means somewhere along the line, they are expecting us to break into the elusive “top four” in the country. Just say it… Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. If you [...]

I had to chuckle when I saw we won an award for the matchday programme. I don’t like to take digs at our guys because I’m not like that, but how we can win an award when the opening line of most paragraphs is “Good afternoon [or evening] and welcome back to Loftus Road…” just [...]

Something that amuses me is the banner I made for my blog. I chose to use a photo of Dexter Blackstock and Marc Nygaard from the lap of honour at the last home game of the 2006/2007 season against Stoke City. At the time, I felt it was an ironic choice because it represented for many the [...]

I have been tinkering around with the look and feel of this site in order to make it more consistent and legible across web browsers such as Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer, which are some of the more popular ones out there. I’m still messing about with it, so you may notice things going a little bit haywire or [...]