QPR's Mark Hughes Cracking Under The Strain

He's losing it. He must be. I know there is a stereotype of the proverbial Welsh Windbag but Sparky talks himself round in circles and up his own back passage at the the premiere of The Four Year Plan – a documentary about QPR's rise from the brink of bankruptcy to the Premier League.

Hughes tells the world: "Everybody is aware about where we are in the Premier League" (never, really Sparky?) and then goes on to say...

"We've got a lot of quality in the club and, like I said, I have no doubt we can do it. We are confident and we need to get points on the board, but first and foremost you have to earn the right.

"It is OK saying that you've got enough quality, but you have to go out on the field and get points on the board. It is really difficult in the Premier League to get points."

Hang on Mark, hang on. So which is it? Have you got the quality to get the points on the board or not? You seem confused mate, seemingly contradicting yourself by first saying you have the quality and then saying how easy it is to say you have the quality, before adding how difficult it is to get points in the Premiership.

You would have thought that a team with "quality" would have "earned the right" to "points on the board" in games against Wolves, Blackburn and Fulham! Hughes now adds, "I feel we have enough in the building to do that" but it's no good having quality in the building because as Hughes himself admits, "you have to GO OUT ON THE FIELD and get points on the board"! Make up your mind Sparky! Is it quality in the building or quality on the pitch that counts? I mean Dyer is quality!

But Sparky isn't finished. He claims, "We've come through a period where we have probably disappointed ourselves in terms of points we have been able to accumulate given the opposition, but possibly the fact we are going up against more accomplished teams may help us in terms of focus" suggesting that the nature and quality of the opposition is crucial, but in the next gust of wind says, "We are at the point of the season where we have to get points on the board. We only have 12 games to go. Each and every one of them is going to be crucial to us so it is irrelevant really who we are up against." So hang on, I'm lost again. The opposition is important, and the tougher they are the more likely QPR are to win apparently  - even though quality is so imperative if you are to get points on the board according to Sparky - but at the same time it is irrelevant who QPR are up against! Man Utd away or Wolves at home - same difference apparently!

Warnock was at the same event and must have been thinking, "Bloody hell and I thought I talked a load of old bollocks."

Apparently a sequel is already under production. The Five Year Plan sees QPR right back where they started.