I’d like to start this report by saying what a useless specimen of a referee, Mr Kevin Friend is. Apparently he’s a Premier League standard official, could’ve fooled everyone inside Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon. Try as he might, he didn’t ruin what turned out to be a great afternoon of football as the two Continue reading
Month: November 2010
QPR U18 (1) – Luton Town U18 (1)
Team: Deane, Harriman, Sanderson, Doughty, O’Donnell, Olley, Bewick, Gibbons, Henry-Francis, Graham, Sharif. The draw for the 3rd Round of the FA Youth Cup was made recently and the U18’s will be up against Nottingham Forest at Loftus Road on Tuesday 7th December, kick-off 7pm. Following his call-up to the Northern Ireland U21 squad, 16-year-old Gareth Continue reading
Back On Top – QPR v Preston North End.
Personally, I thought Walker was a MOTM contender again, along with Adel (again). And Gorkss deserves a mention in despatches for keeping Parkin quiet, and don’t snigger, as any player who has scored 7 goals in a team bottom of the league, must be doing something right. The form book wasn’t upset today with North Continue reading
QPR OSC Ska Klub Night – Saturday 27th November.
Following the great success of the recent OSC Halloween gig in support of the ‘QPR in the Community Trust’, we are arranging a Ska Klub Night on Saturday 27th November at the Irish Cultural Centre, Black’s Road, Hammersmith from 7.30pm onwards, with the proceeds going to the Trust. The evening also celebrates 75 years of Continue reading
Nottingham Forest (0) – QPR (0)
Team: Kenny, Walker, Gorkss, Hill, Mackie, Derry, Faurlin, Smith, Taarabt (Rowlands), Ephraim (Clarke), Hulse (Agyemang). Subs Not Used: Cerny, Borrowdale, Hall, Andrade. Attendance: 22, 859 (2,076 R’s fans) The minute’s silence was impeccably observed of course and joining the players and officials were S/Sgt David Lafferty of the Royal Engineers and former Forest player, 91 Continue reading
QPR U18 (4) – Northampton Town U18 (0)
Team: Deane, Harriman, Sanderson, Doughty, O’Donnell, Olley, Bewick, Gibbons, Henry-Francis, Andrade, Sharif. Harlington was overcast and amazingly for the training ground at any time of the year, there was no wind ! We learnt that the Reserves had lost 3-5 to Hayes & Yeading during the week. Mo Sharif scored 2 and James White the Continue reading
Pompey Away – What A Night !
Team: Kenny, Hill, Walker, Gorkss, Connolly, Derry (Clarke), Taarabt (Borrowdale), Faurlin, Mackie, Smith, Hulse (Agyemang). Subs Not Used: Cerny, Rowlands, Ephraim, Andrade. Attendance: 17,818 Well that was a draw that felt like a win. On a cold and blustery night by the sea, we really had to dig in to get anything from that game. Continue reading
We Will Remember Them.
Apart from the servicemen that were associated with playing for QPR and tragically lost their lives serving their Country, there must also have been many R’s fans too including two that were killed this year in Afghanistan. In April, the following article was written by Juliet Eysenck and appeared in the local Gazette: ‘A solemn Continue reading
Deja Vu ? – QPR v Reading.
For the second time running, this fixture produced arguing points by the shed load, mostly about the ref’s performance or lack of it, plenty of goals and a master class by Messrs Faurlin and Taarabt. Warnock was forced into replacing the injured Clint Hill with Bradley Orr returning to take up his right-back berth while Continue reading
Hoganas BK (0) – QPR (6) – Julivallen, Hoganas, Sweden – 2nd August, 1986.
One of the matches played during the Summer Tour in 1986 was in the small Swedish town of Hoganas, the place where I have lived all my life. Hoganas, with a population of about 25,000, is located in the south of Sweden, 15 miles north of Helsingborg and 50 miles north of Malmo, Sweden’s third Continue reading