QPR fans’ big screen venture shows bigwigs what really makes a club

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In painting a portrait of QPR from the fans’ perspective, the film R’Story shows it is those paying at the turnstiles and not millionaire owners who keep the flame

• The Four Year Plan: how QPR turned football into moneyball

The last time Queens Park Rangers made it to the big screen, the poor old club played the victim in a horror film. Starring Flavio Briatore and Gianni Paladini in roles that could have been played by Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi, The Four Year Plan was definitely only suitable for adult audiences.

Just about the first words heard in the film were from Briatore, newly installed as the club’s chairman in the summer of 2007 and passing judgment on a reserve striker: “I want to fucking sell this idiot!” Such was the standard of mature football analysis that led the Italian entrepreneur to go through six managers in two and a half years at Loftus Road after buying the club in partnership with his F1 pal Bernie Ecclestone, the Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and the Spanish fund manager Alejandro Agag.