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Football focus: Queens Park Rangers’ Four Year Plan on film

Mat Hodgson's new film about the takeover of QPR is dynamite – a rare chance to witness the sparks that fly when business, football and machismo meetIt feels wholly appropriate to be talking to Mat Hodgson the day after Queens Park Rangers sacked the...

Neil Warnock was loved at QPR, but he had his limitations as a manager | Michael Hann

Against Norwich, one QPR defender shouted to Neil Warnock: You've got to change it! It's five against four! They've wing backs!A new documentary about life at QPR under Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone, The Four Year Plan, shows Neil Warnock arriv...

A summer of discontent for Queens Park Rangers and Neil Warnock | Michael Hann

Last season, QPR had it all. They played with style and won with ease, but since then things have taken a turn for the worseWhat kind of club do you think would provoke these kinds of comments on message boards?"I've had my fill tonight of the club, th...

Why football makes grown men cry | Michael Hann

QPR's promotion brought tears of joy and for other reasons tooThe glory of sport is that, even in the moments of greatest triumph, it is filled with sadness. There is the pain of seeing another's success – there can't be too many Liverpool fans feeli...

What the craze for Haynes car-manual T-shirts says about the economy | Michael Hann

Britain no longer manufactures anything useful that sells – but it's great at turning irony into cold, hard cashCould the raised eyebrow of the hipster be the thing to save Britain from complete economic collapse? I ask because empirical observation...