QPR players ‘not aware Paul Hart was their boss'

I have always looked at QPR with a certain amount of hilarity. After Gerry Francis hung up his corset they became the original wannabee team with wannabee fans. Plastic pitch, subbuteo stands, twattish chairman John Gregory and funny looking fans from Ealing and Uxbridge. But it wasn't until recently that the real fun began when Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone took over, with a little help from the world's 5th richest person, Lakshmi Mittal. Then the real comedy began. QPRhahahabloodyha. I liked this little post from the website Back of the Net after Paul Hart was relieved of his duties last week:

After yet another managerial upheaval at Loftus Road, QPR’s players looked on the bright side yesterday, saying that Paul Hart’s departure had not disrupted them too much as most of them ‘in all honesty, hadn’t realised he was the manager’.

Rangers showed grit to bounce back from behind twice and claim a point at Blackpool yesterday, despite being left managerless for the 615th time in three years after crazed megalomaniac owner Flavio Briatore fell out with Hart, appointed after Briatore fell out with Jim Magilton, appointed after Briatore fell out with Paulo Sousa, appointed after Briatore fell out with Ian Dowie. Goalscorer Matthew Connolly, asked what effect Hart’s sudden exit had on the dressing room, said: ‘Paul…? What, the old geezer with the coat and the…? Oh, I didn’t realise he was the new gaffer, to be fair. He did say something about having taken over as manager, thinking about it. But a lot of people say that round here.’

‘We did think it was odd he sort of wandered in on Boxing Day [when Rangers played Bristol City],’ admitted Abel Taarabt, ‘and started telling us to be ruthless. But we thought he was just a harmless old guy who was a bit gone in the head. Most people at this club are. And, you know, it was Christmas and that, so we let him stay.’

Even club captain Martin Rowlands claimed it was ‘news to him’ that the ineffectual Hart had managed QPR for five games. ‘That explains why he was at the training sessions watching from the sidelines. I figured he must be someone’s dad. Is he the guy who was at Portsmouth? I vaguely remember him from Match of the Day or something. Oh well. I guess I’ll kind of miss him, then, if he was the manager. Yeah.’

Briatore moved quickly to calm angry fans after this latest indignity in the Hoops’ bizarre recent history, saying in a statement that he was ‘confident of finding a successor quickly and sacking him almost immediately.’ At the time of going to press, fewer than a thousand people in the United Kingdom had not been the manager of QPR.