Marked for Benjamin Taylor
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match16 Jun 2035
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Koki Saito 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.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Tariq Lamptey falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad18 Jun 2035
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolas Madsen, and the manager let it.
Match16 Jun 2035
Millwall left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad18 Jun 2035
The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Benjamin Taylor, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom18 Jun 2035
109% of the income goes out in wages at Queens Park Rangers
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings18 Jun 2035
Koki Saito runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market18 Jun 2035
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tariq Lamptey’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad24 Apr 2034
A fracture rules Benjamin Taylor out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Queens Park Rangers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Apr 2034
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Queens Park Rangers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 Apr 2034
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.
Squad24 Apr 2034
Tariq Lamptey falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings24 Apr 2034
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Boardroom24 Apr 2034
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom24 Apr 2034
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Queens Park Rangers now.
Player ratings24 Apr 2034
Koki Saito runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Apr 2034
A fracture rules Benjamin Taylor out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Queens Park Rangers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Apr 2034
Koki Saito 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.
Squad17 Apr 2034
Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tariq Lamptey 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.