This article appeared in the popular football weekly, ‘Soccer Star’ on 14th July 1967. It was written by Tom Jagger and was the eighth in the series, ‘Great Managers of Today’ and featured the legendary Alec Stock: ‘There was quite a flutter backstage of the soccer scene when it was known that Queen’s Park Rangers Continue reading
Month: December 2011
QPR v West Bromwich Albion – Long Tears Us Apart Again
QPR and West Brom shared the points at Loftus Road as a late Shane Long equaliser cancelled out Heidar Helguson’s first half header. Home fans were left frustrated and some showed themselves up by booing at the end of what was by and large a decent game. QPR may have had the majority of the Continue reading
Queen’s Park Rangers: The Old Days (1939 – 1970) by John ‘gramps‚’ Clifford
John Clifford, or “gramps” to the QPR Report message board, produced his book of memories of “The Old Days” largely at his own expense. He takes the reader from 1939, through the War years and then right up to 1970 where he chose to draw a line. Work commitments and family life meant that he Continue reading
Norwich City v QPR
Team: Cerny, Hill (Bothroyd), Gabbidon, Ferdinand, Young, Traore, Derry (Buzsaky), Faurlin, Mackie, Wright-Phillips (Smith), Helguson Subs Not Used: Putnins, Orr, Hall, Puncheon Attendance: 26,781 After the utilitarian austerity of Stoke City, it was a pleasant surprise to revisit Carrow Road after a hiatus of approximately 15 years. In the interim period an extensive modernisation project Continue reading