Rangers Can Expect Top-Half Next Season
The 2-3 defeat to Manchester City at the weekend was, incidentally, the second time Queen’s Park Rangers have been denied a share of the spoils by a late Citizens goal. The first occurrence of this was back in November, where a 74th minute header from Yaya Toure secured all three points following a spirited, aggressive [...]
Manchester City v QPR – Mission Impossible ? Mission Accomplished.
Manchester City and QPR played out possibly the most extraordinary football match ever seen as one team came back from the dead to clinch the league title in the last seconds while QPR stayed up. In the build-up to the game, everyone was saying that it was going to be a routine win for the [...]
The Campaign to Save Cooke’s & the Other Victorian Buildings in the Goldhawk Road: The Judicial Review will be at the Royal Courts of Justice on 15th/16th May
I shall be going along to the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand on Tuesday and Wednesday in support of the campaign to save Cooke’s and the other Victorian building in the Goldhawk Road from demolition. I intend to be there before 10am.The following is from Cooke’s own website: ‘Save Cooke’s Pie, Mash and [...]
QPR Fans Meet-Up on Sunday in the Castle Bar, Enniscorthy, County Wexford
Stephen Bolger from Waterford would like to meet-up with other local R’s fans in Enniscorthy on Sunday for the televised match against Manchester City. There are usually up to seven R’s fans who meet-up from time to time for televised games, but he would love to swell the numbers for this crucial game. Steve has [...]
Simon Stainrod on Reaching the 1982 FA Cup Final
The following article was written in 1982 by Anthony Hawkswell who was in conversation with Simon Stainrod ahead of the FA Cup Final. It was extracted from a popular football magazine of the time: “QPR are every bit as good as Tottenham and I’m sure that my skipper Glenn Roeder will be the man holding [...]
Back From the Dead
Queen’s Park Rangers have a superior home record to Liverpool this season. Five wins on the trot and from relegation certainties in February to conquerors of Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, it has been a remarkable turnaround. It is hard not to attribute this entirely to the arrival of Mark Hughes. To say supporters were [...]
QPR v Stoke City – Cisse’s Late, Late Show Gives Rangers Hope
Super sub Djibril Cisse scored an 89th minute winner at Fortress Loftus Road to give QPR an outside chance of retaining Premier League status. A fraught and tense afternoon of football looked like it was going to end in frustration, what with scores coming in from other grounds, but this side has shown the patience [...]
The Independent R’s 1982 FA Cup Final Commemorative Badge
My thirteenth Indy R’s badge commemorates Rangers reaching the FA Cup Final for the first time in 1982. Limited to just 100, at the time of writing, only 27 remain. Also available are a small stock of some of my previous badges. All badges are £3.00 each and postage within the UK is £1.35 for [...]
When QPR Threatened to Quit the FA Cup
Rangers did not compete in the 1926-27 FA Cup competition because the club secretary forgot to submit the entry form in time ! The R’s could of missed out again years later for very different reasons. In 1981 the club installed a plastic pitch at a cost of £350,000 which proved to be very controversial. [...]
Chelsea v QPR – Rangers All at Sea and Out of Their Depth
QPR’s travel sickness woes continued as they were demolished by a rampant Chelsea team at a rain sodden Stamford Bridge. The 6-1 score-line even flattered Rangers as time and time again they were carved open at the back by defence splitting passes as our back-four seemed all at sea. Even the Thames Flood Barrier wouldn’t [...]
