As of today
this web site is unfortunately no longer able to show any images of matches involving
Queens Park Rangers or any league club.
I am also unable to show
photographs of fans inside the stadium as well as any photos of any football stadium.
All Desktop wallpaper will also have to be removed as you are
unable to download photographs of football unless the web site has a licence which
costs well in excess of what I can afford.
The only way I can
afford to obtain this licence is by charging people to use my web site which is
something I'm not prepared to do.
This is due to action taken
by the football league against all unofficial fan run football web sites.
At
the moment I am working on ideas and ways to have some photos on the site so it
is not all text and will hopefully not look too dull even if that involes me putting
on a pair of gloves and a QPR shirt and re creating a Lee Cook corner in the garden.
If you want to see what any of our new signings look like you
can now only do that on the official QPR web site or on sites which can afford
this new licence.
This is just the latest in a long line of items
which can no longer be shown on fans web sites. You may or may not be aware that
among the things I can't show are the clubs fixtures which can only be seen on
the official web site. It's all very disappointing and makes me wonder if it's
really worth carrying on as next to be removed will probably be any reference
to what happens at matches.
This web site was started in 1998
as part of a University project and has since grown over the last eight years
reporting on every QPR match and attempting to keep QPR fans all over the world
in touch with what is happening at the club.
This is a site born
out of the love for Queens Park Rangers and football rather than a site looking
to earn a few quid. Over the years this site has cost me over a thousand pounds
to maintain with the only money coming in being when I used advertising on the
site between 1999 and 2001 and all money earned from that was not enough to afford
a season ticket when it was cheap.
In my opinion the more web
sites about QPR the better as they can hopefully promote the club, give opposition
fans information on QPR and possibly attract new fans to the club. Sadly though
the football authorities seem determined to control the fans web sites and I'm
sure would prefer it if each club just had one official web site which help to
make money for the clubs and the football league.
It's a sad day
when a fans website can no longer show photographs of Paul Furlong scoring against
Oldham in the playoffs or the lads celebrating winning promotion at Hillsborough
but I'm sure all these kind of images will be freely available from the official
site if you want to see them.
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for Real Fans