Michael Roberts

Right Midfielder - Queens Park Rangers
19 Sep 2038
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Marked for Michael Roberts

595 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

21 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Dec 2037

A one-man rearguard from Daniel Bell

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings21 Dec 2037

Richard Koné, 34, rolls back the years — 8.28

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.28 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad21 Dec 2037

Michael Roberts: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Queens Park Rangers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad21 Dec 2037

Richard Koné is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.57 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad21 Dec 2037

Ilias Chair in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Queens Park Rangers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match19 Dec 2037

A bad afternoon for Queens Park Rangers against Hull City

1‑2 to Hull City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market21 Dec 2037

The Ronnie Edwards story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ronnie Edwards signs something — a contract at Queens Park Rangers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Player ratings21 Dec 2037

Sebastian Larsen leaves them behind him

Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings21 Dec 2037

Off the pace: Kevin Pellistri

A mark of 5.41 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

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582 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

21 Sep 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Sep 2037

Rumarn Burrell breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad21 Sep 2037

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ceyhun Bağırzadə

70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Queens Park Rangers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match19 Sep 2037

Cup progress for Queens Park Rangers

A 1‑1 win over Rotherham United, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match16 Sep 2037

Michael Roberts sends Queens Park Rangers through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Michael Roberts obliged against Rotherham United. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Queens Park Rangers.

Player ratings21 Sep 2037

Michael Roberts scores twice — 9.31

Two goals and a mark of 9.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings21 Sep 2037

Ilias Chair, 39, rolls back the years — 8.94

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.94 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad21 Sep 2037

Tempers go at Queens Park Rangers

Rumarn Burrell was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad21 Sep 2037

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Koné is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces21 Sep 2037

The crowd has taken to Michael Roberts

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

541 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

8 Dec 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom8 Dec 2036

the manager takes the Queens Park Rangers job

“I have watched this squad. There is more in it than the table says.” First press conference, first promise — the manager made the one every new manager makes, and now comes the part where it gets checked.

Squad8 Dec 2036

Stefan Despotovski breaks a bone — 76 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad8 Dec 2036

Daniel Bell keeps Queens Park Rangers in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad8 Dec 2036

Michael Roberts keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Queens Park Rangers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad8 Dec 2036

Ronnie Edwards stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ronnie Edwards and Queens Park Rangers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings8 Dec 2036

Jaden Heskey in the eights

A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief