A behind the scenes documentary on life at QPR, which may be similar to what goes on at Chelsea, Liverpool and practically any other club where the owners quite literally pick the team and think they know more than the manager.

For several years we've been following the incredible highs and lows of Queens Park Rangers Football Club. Saved from oblivion by billionaire backers, our cameras were granted enviable access from inside the boardroom, locker room and sidelines where we witnessed one of modern football's most extraordinary stories. A genuinely compelling documentary and one which will appeal to non-footballer followers as much as ardent fans, the film offers commentary not just on professional sport and business... but also the precarious financial world as a backdrop.

Up on iplayer now but if you're not in the UK: watch?v=YAAOsPMkYWk

Is this the one? watch?v=YAAOsPMkYWk
I somehow get a Japanese cartoon trailer on your link. Cheers for the movie.

Yep, slightly confused how I did that.

I also wanted to add the trailer with the summary:

Was an excellent watch. May make some think twice about Usmanov.

Looks great that trailer. Will make time to watch the whole thing soon, hopefully.

I cant click on the youtube link as well.

Hows our 5 year plan working out.......

Biggus you are a record well and truly broken.

Thanks a billion for the link GM, this is amazing. With the current state of affairs in modern football, more than anything, I'm proud to be a Gooner.

I don't think all owners are bad, Amit Bhatia came across very well and seems to have played a big role in getting QPR back to the top. Particularly like the bit where he told off the Sporting Director for swearing at the players during the game.

But wanting someone to takeover the club and quite literally using it as a plaything is too much, even if there is some success along the way I don't think I could bear the uncertainty. I can almost see something similar happening at Blackburn with Venkys or Liverpool under Gilette and Hicks.

They probably asked to document Kroenke at Arsenal but pulled out when the footage was too dull for words. 😆

The other aspect is that the general disgruntlement of the fans and the feeling that things are changing isn't exclusive to Arsenal at all, it seems to exist across the leagues. I don't think there are any groups of fans that are totally satisfied by the way the club work, on and off the pitch. Even supporting a Man City is a weird joy ride, despite being top of the league there's no guarantee that Mancini will be here next season or anything.

This is what Dexter Blackstock had to say:

Dexter Blackstock ‏ @dexblackstock23:
And remember this is the EDITED version of events at qpr some stuff could never get shown!!great insight to all football fans #fouryearplan

Coombs wrote:

Biggus you are a record well and truly broken.

We all are Coombsy, thats what happens when nothing changes in six years.

Biggus wrote:
Coombs wrote:

Biggus you are a record well and truly broken.

We all are Coombsy, thats what happens when nothing changes in six years.

Yea, its true to a large extent, but there are other things to talk about. Not great choices out there, but there ARE choices.

Four Year Plan, you're having a laugh? WTF is the context to that sounds utterly deluded

Coombs wrote:
Biggus wrote:

We all are Coombsy, thats what happens when nothing changes in six years.

Yea, its true to a large extent, but there are other things to talk about. Not great choices out there, but there ARE choices.

Like what? the team picks itself, we're all pretty much agreed that we need to sign another top striker but Wenger won't, and that he should go but probably won't......

Biggus wrote:
Coombs wrote:

Yea, its true to a large extent, but there are other things to talk about. Not great choices out there, but there ARE choices.

Like what?

Well, in this particular thread I'd suggest QPR or the documentary...

We're the last people in the world who can laugh at the way other clubs are run.
Are owners who constantly interfere in the running of things any worse than those who turn it over to technocrats and don't care about results so long as it makes a profit?
We fans still get fucked over.

Watch the documentary, Bigs, and I don't think you'd still argue we're worse run than Flavio's QPR were.

But better run for who Rick?
I don't think anyone would argue that Arsenal are run badly from a money making perspective but Qui Bono do you know what I mean, certainly not us.......

At least QPR are in the PL, wtf are their fans moaning about..........

Likewise- If Man City win the premiership and then sink back into the northern slime from whence they came, they'd still have to consider themselves better off for the experience.

QPR have since changed owners, their fans seem happy enough with Tony Fernandes.

And Man City isn't really comparable because they had nothing to lose and everything to gain by the union, I'm sorry but after watching the documentary I'd rather not go down that route. It's ridiculous.

You'd rather not go down the Man City route?
Sorry, I don't understand......

I wouldn´t.

I know that in general the teams that spend the most generally also win most of the trophies. Has been like that for ages. Chelsea took the whole spending thing to a whole new level though, and other clubs have since followed. Personally, I think it destroys a lot of the magic about the game of football. I genuinely hope, and not just from an Arsenal point of view, that the FFP initiative from UEFA will work as intended in the not so distant future.