After 13 years at QPR, Danny Maddix earned a testimonial game yesterday in a disapointing match against Spurs. QPR started with Harper in goal, back three of Carlisle, Morrow and Ready, Darlington and Heinola as wing backs, Langley, Rowland and Wardley in midfield and Crouch and Kiwomya up front. The game stated pretty evenly before Spurs began to take control of midfield. Les Ferdinand gave them the lead after a mistake by Karl Ready saw Les fire home into the top corner. The second goal came after half time when a Darren Anderton cross found Tim Sherwood whose deflected shot went past Harper. We didn't play very well but Spurs were not much better. Richard Langley had a very disappointing game. Disappointing because he was so good I can see a bid coming from Spurs any day. Bollocks, why didn't you drop him Gerry?? Darlington was also good having a great battle with Ben Thatcher in the second half. Crouch was getting loads of stick within 20 minutes. He had a poor game but the stick he got was stupid. He's only 19 and he was being marked but a player who is reported to be worth £15million. The best player of the pitch was Sir Les Ferdinand who I thought as superb. He held the ball up, brought others into play, made space for his teammates and always looked dangerous. Clarke Carlisle did very well against him but seeing Les today made me wish he could come back to us. A fully fit Ferdinand at QPR and we would be champions I really believe that. We made a few changes as the game wore on, scary news was that Dowie came on for Crouch, why not Jeanne up front?? Jeanne came on and went on the wing with Connolly going up front. All in all a poor performance but the sort of match you would expect to see between a top 10 premiership team and a mid table first division team. Next week should be very different. |
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