September opened with a Monday night home game against Newcastle United, beamed live by Sky Sports. Interest focused on our new acquisitions, notably ex-Toon, Joey Barton; whose first game for the Hoops was destined to be against the team he had just left to join us ! Despite a great amount of huffing and puffing Continue reading
Month: May 2012
The 1982 FA Cup Final Replay: QPR (0) – Tottenham Hotspur (1)
Team: Hucker, Fenwick, Gillard, Waddock, Hazell, Neill, Currie, Flanagan, Micklewhite (Burke), Stainrod, Gregory Attendance: 92,000 Glenn Roeder was suspended and was replaced by Warren Neill. Tony Currie took over the captaincy. Unfortunately Clive Allen was still injured so Gary Micklewhite started in his place. Albert Sewell wrote the following programme notes: ‘The continuation tonight of Continue reading
Season Review – August 2011
After winning the Championship last season – and with it the glory of promotion – we have finally finished what has been a long, long season. A season that began with great hope, but was, if I’m honest, filled with more downs than ups; has ended at last ! And what an ending it turned Continue reading
The 1982 FA Cup Final: QPR (1) – Tottenham Hotspur (1)
Team: Hucker, Fenwick, Gillard, Waddock, Hazell, Roeder, Currie, Flanagan, Allen (Micklewhite), Stainrod, Gregory Attendance: 100,000 Clive Allen’s goal at Highbury secured our place at Wembley and Tottenham had defeated Leicester City 2-0 at Villa Park so the FA Cup Final was to be an all-London affair. Elsewhere, the campaign to re-take the Falklands was still Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading