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The Queens Park Rangers player Ilias Chair has been sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty in Belgium of assaulting a man and breaking his skull with a rock.

Chair, 26, who is a key player for the Championship side and a Belgium-born Morocco international, is expected to appeal against the verdict and his club understand he remains available for selection as the Belgian legal process continues.

“The club are, and have been, in regular contact with Ilias Chair’s legal team regarding a charge of assault which has been made against him,” QPR said in a statement. “The legal proceeding is yet to reach its conclusion. As such, the club will be making no further comment at this stage.”

On Friday the news agency Belga reported that Chair had been sentenced by an Antwerp court to two years in jail, with one year suspended, and ordered to pay €15,864 (£13,546) in damages and interest to his victim, a lorry driver who had his skull fractured after an altercation during a kayaking expedition in Belgium and France in 2020.

The assault occurred during a mass confrontation among the travelling tourists as they sought to get back on their coach in the French town of Bazeilles. The lorry driver, referred to in court as Neils T, was taken to hospital after having his skull fractured and losing consciousness. The court heard that Neils still suffers from his injuries today. Chair denied the charges but was identified in court as being the man who had struck a rock at the head of Neils T.

Two other men were also found guilty at the trial and sentenced to six and 12 months in prison respectively.

 

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56 minutes ago, Captain Kirk said:

How is Ryan Hardie doing this season?

11 goals, just shy of 1 every 2 games. Obviously Morgan Whittaker is the start of our team but he's been really good for us. Concussed himself earlier in the season and had a massive black eye for a bit. He's not helped by our other strikers being Mustapha Bundu who joined injured, got fit and got injured again immediately, Ben Waine, who is a bit shit, and Freddie Issaka who is 16.

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41 minutes ago, FestiveJack said:

11 goals, just shy of 1 every 2 games. Obviously Morgan Whittaker is the start of our team but he's been really good for us. Concussed himself earlier in the season and had a massive black eye for a bit. He's not helped by our other strikers being Mustapha Bundu who joined injured, got fit and got injured again immediately, Ben Waine, who is a bit shit, and Freddie Issaka who is 16.

He always looked like he had the ability was just missing something, probably has an outside chance of the Euros if Dykes, Shankland or Adams get injured.

Was gutted when Rangers missed out on Whittaker, looked a fantastic player.

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It's a great moment but I could do without the aggression shown by AFC players and club officials like stewards towards MK fans - booting balls at them during the warm up, and just the general unpleasantness that's being reported from the MK fans that made the trip.

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The beleaguered Reading owner, Dai Yongge, has sanctioned the cut-price sale of their state-of-the-art training ground to local rivals Wycombe Wanderers to aid cashflow amid his club’s financial crisis.

In the absence of a takeover, there are serious concerns within the League One club about covering March’s wages and required HMRC payments, with a £1m shortfall to overcome this month. Failure to pay wages or HMRC would almost certainly result in a further points deduction from the English Football League. Reading have been docked six points this season because of financial issues.

In an extraordinary statement on Monday, Reading publicly put their Bearwood Park training base up for sale. It read: “Mr Dai is currently evaluating every option at present to secure sufficient funding new ownership is confirmed. In doing so, he is open to the sale of Bearwood Park, should an appropriate offer be received.”

Potential buyers for the club are understood to have withdrawn from proceeding with a sale when it became clear that the training ground would not be part of any deal. Monday’s statement said dialogue with potential owners was progressing but that “no single party has been granted exclusivity”.

Reading’s move into the £50m training facility in 2019 was supposed to signal their intent to return to the Premier League but they have been unable to overcome financial problems that began when they missed out on promotion to Huddersfield in 2017.

Wycombe have been searching for their own training facility since being priced out of a deal to buy the Marlow Road site they lease from a three-man consortium. They have trained off-site on local 4G pitches when the facility in Marlow has been flooded and could move into Reading’s site in the summer.

Mikhail Lomtadze, a Georgian billionaire who resides in Kazakhstan, is believed to be an investor in Wycombe. It is thought Lomtadze will soon become a board member under the Wycombe owner, Rob Couhig.

 

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It's been a decent year overall but think that Stevenages play off chances are done for. Inability to get goals at home and too many dropped points doing us. Can't be too downhearted though as didn't expect to be competing for this long and it wasn't that long ago that some cunt went in to a courtroom demanding a team get shut down saved us dropping out of the league completely so can't complain too much!

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*Millwall defender tries to GTS Joe Rodon*

Ref: No penalty.

Edit: Top of the league! Obviously there's a long way to go yet, especially given how much everyone at the top wins and Leicester have a game in hand now, but it's crazy to think we were 17 points behind Leicester only a couple of months ago.

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