Steve Cook

Central Defender - Queens Park Rangers
20 Nov 2027
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64 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad18 Oct 2027

Steve Cook says Queens Park Rangers went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Queens Park Rangers

Chris Wood 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.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Kwame Poku runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronnie Edwards 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.

Match16 Oct 2027

Chris Wood sends Queens Park Rangers past Huddersfield Town

It finished 2‑1, and it was Chris Wood’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Queens Park Rangers.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

One of those days for Koki Saito

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ben Gannon Doak, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match10 Oct 2026

Still nobody has beaten Queens Park Rangers

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match10 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Queens Park Rangers

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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Gannon Doak 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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Ronnie Edwards at his very best

Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Queens Park Rangers.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Ilias Chair

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Steve Cook gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A promise honoured for Ben Gannon Doak

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Queens Park Rangers told Ben Gannon Doak something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

6 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match5 Sep 2026

Ilias Chair breaks Milton Keynes Dons hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Ilias Chair scored in the 86th minute, Milton Keynes Dons had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Queens Park Rangers took the lot.

Market7 Sep 2026

Elijah Dixon-Bonner asks to leave Queens Park Rangers

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match5 Sep 2026

Queens Park Rangers make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Queens Park Rangers have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Queens Park Rangers

Ilias Chair 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ben Gannon Doak 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 ratings7 Sep 2026

Ilias Chair was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.89. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Benito Raman

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benito Raman, and the manager let it.

Match5 Sep 2026

Queens Park Rangers see off Milton Keynes Dons

Three points for Queens Park Rangers, 1‑0 the final word against Milton Keynes Dons in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Ben Gannon Doak

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

5 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Aug 2026

Paul Nardi keeps Queens Park Rangers in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market31 Aug 2026

Tylon Smith puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Queens Park Rangers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Aug 2026

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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benito Raman 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Justin Obikwu the difference as Queens Park Rangers beat Blackburn Rovers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Justin Obikwu. 2‑1 against Blackburn Rovers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Steve Cook

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

1 Edition

The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

9 seasons of Ilias Chair

263 appearances across 9 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Queens Park Rangers know what they have.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ilias Chair signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilias Chair and Queens Park Rangers agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Kwame Poku 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilias Chair 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Queens Park Rangers has picked up the phone to Jimmy Dunne

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Market3 Aug 2026

Queens Park Rangers and Steve Cook are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief