Team: Kenny, Diakite, Hill, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Taiwo (Traore), Barton, Wright-Phillips (Buzsaky), Taarabt, Mackie, Zamora Subs Not Used: Cerny, Gabbidon, Derry, Smith, Bothroyd Attendance: 18,015 (including 3,155 away fans) This was a demoralising defeat that leaves me feeling that we will now be relegated. I had been reasonably confident that we’d stay up, but I can Continue reading
Month: February 2012
Interview With Andy Miller of Dodgy
SR: Andy, I read in the local Chronicle that you share a birthday with Keith Richards, have you ever met him ? AM: Sadly no, I have never got the call. I have met some big names, but I’ve never been a name dropper mainly because when I did meet anyone significant there wasn’t much Continue reading
QPR U18 (5) – Aldershot Town U18 (0)
Team: Lumley, McDonnell, Walker, Champion, Brown, Sendles-White, Comley, Hubble, Gibbons, Monthe, Webb. There were a number of players missing from the starting line-up for various reasons. Emmanuel Monthe had already played in a number of positions throughout the season and this time he started upfront. Despite his imposing stature, Monthe is deceptively quick and has Continue reading
One of Those 1970’s Cossack Hairspray Adverts Featuring QPR Goalkeeper Phil Parkes.
Apart from being the best QPR keeper I’ve ever seen, Phil Parkes is also remembered for those 1970’s Cossack hairspray adverts, and even their kit bag !!! It provoked plenty of banter at the time and apart from the magazine adverts, apparently there was even at least one television commercial featuring him saving a Frank Continue reading
In Memory of Neil Graham Roberts: 14th December 1957 – 19th February 2011
We knew that Neil was terminally ill, but it still came as a great shock of course when we heard the news that he had indeed passed away. Although Neil had resided in Kent for many years, Dale Matthews told me that they had both attended Flora Gardens Primary School and he was fairly sure Continue reading
The 1906 Cohen Weenen Cigarette Card Featuring QPR Goalkeeper Arthur Howes.
This cigarette card is the fourth in the series and features one of our goalkeepers from the mid-1900’s.Cohen Weenen & Co. was a small tobacco company based in London. They produced their first set of cards in 1901. Then in 1906, Series No.2 of: ‘Owners, Jockeys, Footballers, Cricketers,’ was issued. This set of 50 cards Continue reading
Blackburn Rovers v QPR
Team: Kenny, Hall (Gabbidon), Taiwo, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Traore, Buzsaky (Mackie), Taarabt, Barton, Wright-Phillips, Zamora Subs Not Used: Cerny, Hill, Derry, Bothroyd, Smith Attendance: 20,252 The 1st half was simply unacceptable against a team who had what we lacked in abundance….hunger, desire, passion and a will to win….Jamie Mackie apart. You have to earn the right Continue reading
QPR Line Up Move in Bid to Secure Academy Status
The following article was written by Ian Cooper and appeared in this week’s Brent & Kilburn Times: ‘The Premier League’s new Elite Player Performance Plan promises to change the face of youth football in England, and nowhere more so than at QPR. The EPPP scheme, which was voted through by the Football League in October, Continue reading
QPR v Wolverhampton Wanderers – Hughes Gets the Blues as Cisse Sees Red
Mick McCarthy’s Wolves won their first league match since the first week of November by coming back from a goal behind against ten-man QPR at Loftus Road. Second-half goals from Matt Jarvis and substitute Kevin Doyle may have relieved the pressure on McCarthy, but he owes a huge dollop of gratitude to QPR’s new signing Continue reading
Aston Villa v QPR
Team: Kenny, Young, Taiwo, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Derry (Ephraim), Mackie, Barton, Wright-Phillips, Hulse (Smith), Cisse (Macheda) Subs Not Used: Cerny, Hill, Hall, Balanta Attendance: 32,063 (including 1,495 R’s fans) We were not lucky to win a point. The result was a fair reflection. Rangers played them off the pitch for the first 45 minutes. We looked Continue reading