One year ago we heard the terrible news. I was travelling up the motorway with Dave Llewellyn and Roger Stokes. We were in good spirits and looking forward to the game at Burnley. We were then stunned when Jbee phoned me on my mobile with news of the tragedy. I phoned as many other R’s Continue reading
Month: August 2008
QPR Centre Of Excellence – Germany 2008
QPR Centre Of Excellence – Germany 2008 Twenty one Youth team players travelled to their Edenkoben training base on Saturday 2nd August. They played four games against strong German opposition over a seven day period. The first pic shown below is of the U18 squad and the other is of Danny Davenport exchanging pennants with Continue reading
QPR U18 (3) – Peterborough United U18 (2)
Team: Bulmer, Harriman, ilesanmi, Smith, Harris, Wright, Nanetti, Davenport, German, Fernandez, Ehmer Subs: Brittain, Vanterpool, Waters, Perring and Daniel Bailey It was a warm, sunny morning at Harlington and as usual the game kicked off late. Rangers took a while to get going and the visitors went into the lead after 4 minutes. Michael Wright Continue reading
The Bribery Scandal
There is no need to reach for the smelling salts, QPR were the innocent party in the whole affair. During the years 1962 and 1963, a group of Football League players and their associates formed a crooked gambling syndicate with the objective of pulling off betting scams on the football results fixed odds. The famous Continue reading
Cook Gets A Chance To Make Dream Come True
It’s always goodto read about Lee Cook and the following article by Yan Tear appeared in the local Gazette this week – Steve Russell Lee Cook has promised to give his agent a big kiss for getting him back to Loftus Road after a dead-end spell down the road at Fulham. Unlike many players who Continue reading
Kilmarnock
Jimmy kindly dropped me off in Kilmarnock before driving straight back to Edinburgh for his flight home. The following day, Michael Benwell who was staying with his in-laws near-by, paid me a visit with his eldest son. After lunch and a few pints, we set off for the town and then the Ground. We met Continue reading
QPR Screen References: No.11 – ‘The Sweeney’
Episode: ‘Ringer’ There were four series consisting of 53 episodes, two Films for the big screen and started life as an ‘Armchair Cinema’ production called ‘Regan’. Apart from the title change, the basic ingredients remained intact for the TV series. Euston Films were set up by Thames TV and because they had offices in Colet Continue reading
Falkirk
I met Alan Barnes, Ron Hill, Jim Mellins, Rob Bennett and Martin Botwright at Kings Cross for the 7am departure. Because of vandalism around the Durham area my rendezvous with Jimmy (jj) in Edinburgh was about thirty minutes later than planned. He had flown up from Luton earlier that morning. The others missed their connection Continue reading