Latest match report from one of my other loves, grassroots football coaching:

Winning ugly, learning fast - Moormead Panthers 2 - 0 Hampton & Richmond

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This week's match report for Moormead Panthers was written by manager James Kirkham while I am off galavanting in Sin City, US of A.

No QPR report for the Sheffield Wednesday game as I am away in Vegas.

I watched in our hotel room in, which wasn't without it's own drama.

Thought it to as a drab game, we take the point and move onto the Oxford game.

I was on BBC Radio London last night, talking about our upturn in form, new additions, the next two games, and Mr tres bien - Julian Stephan 🇫🇷 ⚽

My part is at about 50 minutes into the show, the Rumarn Burrell interview 🇯🇲

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Diary of a Grassroots Football Coach ⚽️

Moormead Panthers 2 Reigate Priory 2 ✍️

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Match day. 🔵⚪️🔵⚪️

#QPRSTO Oppo Profile

Stoke have won four of their first five league games, prompting hope Mark Robins may finally be the man to snap this club's seven-year stretch in the bottom half of the Championship. We spoke to Ben Rowley...

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They had the ball; we had the moments. Nardi in for Walsh, Kone’s rocket, Burrell’s winner, RND aerials, Dembele off the post → full Wrexham 1–3 QPR write-up:
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Writing about my other love in football, aside from QPR, which is coaching at the grassroots level.

A bit of a classic to start our season at Moormead, and denied a famous comeback win from 3-1 down by a dubious late decision by the ref!

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Burrell MOM

QPR played Wrexham today.

This did make me laugh.

We have never won two games in a row with a 3-1 scoreline. History makers!!

Donald, Walt, Mickey, Pluto, Elsa, Tinker Bell, Stich, Snow White, Buzz Lightyear - Your boys took one helluva beating

Didn't realise we signed prime Thierry Henry and Tony Yeboah. Lovely stuff
Burrell and Kone look like proper Championship players. Not sure how how the former managed to stay off the radar. Thought RND had another solid game, especially in the air.

Richard Kone is the first QPR player to score 3+ goals in his first 4 games for the club since Djibril Cissé in March 2012.

QPR as theatre, memory and neighbourhood—Irish pubs, Carnival streets, Bowles’ magic, protests, Grenfell, and modern fandom

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Julien Stéphan - Interview

QPR’s head coach Julien Stéphan sits down with LFW this international break to discuss his first few weeks in the job, the transfer window, an August of fluctuating emotions and form, his aims and goals for the season... and that Coventry game.

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It's a wonderful place, with great food and decent people. I played for Holywood FC for a while.

I used to keep an eye on the Glens, they were my local team and linked with the late, great, Alan McDonald, but I think I QPR’d them because their results dropped off a cliff, so I left them alone!

Used to live in Holywood, Co. Down and loved a wee trip to watch the Glens!

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