Friday 29 April 2011

Warnock & QPR Face 15 Point Deduction

So, Neil Warnock may yet miss out on automatic promotion as the FA impose a 15 point deduction on the Championship leaders for knowingly playing Alejandro Faurlin in breach of Third Party Agreement rules. There's is something wonderfully ironic here, given the rules were tightened after the Tevez affair and Faurlin is, himself, Argentinian.

The fact the Warnock is at the helm is, of course, the icing on the Royal Wedding cake. With Sheffield United looking odds on to drop out of the Championship in the opposite direction and West Ham likely to crash out of the Prem, there seems some sort of divinely organised closure of the Tevez affair here. All we really need is for Carlos to bugger off to Real Madrid in the summer and all trace will have disappeared!

So, our own relegation apart, there will be plenty of smiles from West Ham fans if all this happens, even though we bear no grudge towards QPR - in fact, they were my second team in the days of Bowles, Thomas, Francis and Givens.

However, the joyous reaction might be short sighted. If we do go down, we don't really want QPR staying in the division do we? They would then start favourites to finish top next season. The clubs finishing just outside of the relegation places of the Prem would be delighted to see Norwich and Cardiff coming up automatically.

Then there is the little matter of Warnock himself. If QPR are promoted, he will want to manage in the Prem; but if they stay down, might he not be tempted to move across London to manage West Ham?

Warnock and West Ham, now there is a marriage made in hell!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

You really are a sad man

Peter S said...

I don't think God would be that cruel to give us Warnock after lumbering us with Gollivan and gon on legs Brady, would he????

Hammersfan said...

He gave us Zola and Grant! And Dyer and McCarthy!

Anonymous said...

warnock wouldn't let it go over Sheff Utd, so now I'm loving it every time I hear his comments about 'unfairness'. Also, S-United getting relegated is the icing on the cake.


As for WHU, we are rubbish - rubbish owners [since Cearns], rubbish managers [Roeder.Pards/Curbs/Zola/Grant = all useless] too many rubbish/has-been players. The West ham way turns out to be a joke.

Anonymous said...

You missed out Rodney Marsh

fred149 said...

anon you can take curbs and pards out of that list of bad managers curbs may have played defensively but where were we under him compared to zola and grant then theres pards he never did anything wrong and shouldnt have been sacked

Sav said...

And I thought that your second team was West Ham HF. After Tottenham...

Elf 72 said...

Risking flames, I'd take Warnock now. He'd keep us up. We would grow to love him. He would rally the troops and the fans, he would take no BS from the board. COYI

Anonymous said...

12:18 what are you talking about? you LOVED Grant - you were the "voice of reason" - oh how easily and quickly you forget.

Anonymous said...

HF won't answer this one "he's move on"

Hammersfan said...

I have. Moved on from Grant!

Sav said...

Does that mean that if a miracle happens and we stay up, you will not start once again what a great coach Avram Grant is? Interesting!