You all know the story - waiter delivering Champagne to George Best's hotel room finds the superstar lying on his bed with Miss World and a shedload of casino winnings. Waiter shakes his head and delivers the immortal line: "George, where did it all go wrong?"
Which kind of sums up life as a QPR fan. Bags of cash, supermodels in the stands, football from the Gods - and an accident just waiting to happen.
The latest chapter began with a 5-1 hammering by Middlesbrough and ended with our star player loitering in a public convenience at Vicarage Road, promotion aspirations seemingly down the toilet and the manager suspended amid allegations of an altercation. Even by our own sub-standards, this will take some beating.
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Sheffield Wednesday had fairly high expectations at the start of the season. Have those changed? Well, I guess there's a question mark over that at the moment because of the situation we find ourselves in, just above the bottom three in the Championship.
There are managers in the bottom five or six of this division who still seem to have ambitions of the play-offs. That just shows you how open the division is.
But we can't think about challenging for the play-offs in the situation we are in right now. We have to have the mentality of being in a dogfight because that's the only way we will start to get results.
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At first glance it's an offer that's very easy to refuse.
David Gold and David Sullivan propose taking a large stake in West Ham for a nominal fee, in much the same way they bought Birmingham City for £1 in 1993.
The duo might not be offering hard cash up front, but what they can bring, or so they say, is expertise and money for the January transfer window.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, West Ham chairman Andrew Bernhardt was hardly bowled over by this proposal when Sullivan first put it to him at a London restaurant in October.
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