EVEN ALBION’S BOILER IS TOO DEAR FOR QPR

A FIGUre dressed as a boiler is part of a new sponsorship deal at West Bromwich. Boiler Man (left) is arguably the most bizarre matchday mascot and the source of much merriment. It has also produced this season’s best chant. ‘Our f****** boiler,’ the West Brom fans sang to QPr during Saturday’s 7-1 win, ‘he’d get in your team.’ Not if he cost money, he wouldn’t, because rangers are soon to face a transfer embargo, part of a clever Football league plan to kill football clubs. Poor executive management had already seen QPr relegated from the Premier league and treading water in the Championship, but that wasn’t enough. So £42million in fines, capitalised loans and legal costs later, rangers are such a reduced force that they are no longer competitive, and a sobering lesson to any club with the temerity to have ambition. Just imagine if Wolves were relegated this season. One imagines the Football league would find a way of busting them back to obscurity in no time.