QPR drinking claims rejected
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March 3, 2013, Sunday
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QUEENS Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp has rejected allegations that several players from his English Premier League bottom side often stayed out until 5am drinking alcohol at a training camp in Dubai last month.
Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper quoted three unnamed players as saying the training camp descended into farce with one saying it was more like a "stag party".
Redknapp, whose side is seven points adrift at the bottom of the English top flight and looking on the verge of relegation, confirmed he had stayed in a different hotel to the squad but was incredulous about the allegations.
"If it happened they must have done something I didn't see. I don't believe what you're saying. I can't see it," former Tottenham Hotspur boss Redknapp told the paper.
QPR, owned by Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, has won just twice in 27 league games despite spending big on transfers. It was playing Redknapp's former side Southampton yesterday on the manager's 66th birthday.
"Dubai was a week when we had the chance to sort out the problems. Everybody wanted to do that. But we ended up going there for a holiday. It would have been better if we'd stayed here in London," one unnamed player was quoted as saying by the Mirror.
"In the evening some players were out, until 3am, 4am, 5am - and then went to training at 8am. It was like a stag party."
Another player was equally scathing. "Some of the bar bills were enormous, huge, in the tens of thousands of pounds for one night. Two or three players couldn't train the next day. It was that bad."
Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper quoted three unnamed players as saying the training camp descended into farce with one saying it was more like a "stag party".
Redknapp, whose side is seven points adrift at the bottom of the English top flight and looking on the verge of relegation, confirmed he had stayed in a different hotel to the squad but was incredulous about the allegations.
"If it happened they must have done something I didn't see. I don't believe what you're saying. I can't see it," former Tottenham Hotspur boss Redknapp told the paper.
QPR, owned by Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, has won just twice in 27 league games despite spending big on transfers. It was playing Redknapp's former side Southampton yesterday on the manager's 66th birthday.
"Dubai was a week when we had the chance to sort out the problems. Everybody wanted to do that. But we ended up going there for a holiday. It would have been better if we'd stayed here in London," one unnamed player was quoted as saying by the Mirror.
"In the evening some players were out, until 3am, 4am, 5am - and then went to training at 8am. It was like a stag party."
Another player was equally scathing. "Some of the bar bills were enormous, huge, in the tens of thousands of pounds for one night. Two or three players couldn't train the next day. It was that bad."
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