The team picture shown below was taken from the cover of that popular national football weekly, ‘Soccer Star’. Dated 14th September 1957, the caption reads: ‘Last season, Queen’s Park Rangers enjoyed one of their most successful post-war campaigns and this season, they have started at a cracking pace. Pride of place on our cover this Continue reading
Month: July 2013
The Southend Calm after the QPR Storm
QPR put behind them a turbulent week of off-the-field events with a professional yet confident 3-1 victory over League Two Southend United at Roots Hall on a balmy summers evening in Essex. Being a West London born R’s fan now living and working in Basildon, Essex, most of my journeys to watch QPR involve at Continue reading
Staines Town v QPR EDS XI
Team: Lennox, Magri, Monthe, Laurent, Young, Ben Haim, Balanta, Doughty, Hitchcock, Ephraim, Andrade This was my first visit to Wheatsheaf Park and the programme noted that the R’s had played Staines on three previous occasions. The first occasion was on 15th April 1944 against Staines Vale, as they were then, at their ‘Lino ground to Continue reading
Udinese v QPR
Team: Green, Simpson (Harriman), Hill (Ehmer), Onuoha, Suk-Young, Park (Mbia), Faurlin (Granero), Jenas (Derry), Hoilett (Sutherland), Johnson (Sharif), Zamora (Wright-Phillips) Sub Not Used: Murphy Friend of mine, Pedja and me travelled by bus for eight hours from Belgrade to Ljubljana and arrived in the Slovenian capital on Friday morning. Had a few hours of rest Continue reading
QPR were Trying to Solve their Water Problems in January 1977
The caption on the back of the photo shown below is dated 28th January 1977 and reads as follows: ‘The waterlogged state of the ground at Loftus Road is causing Queen’s Park Rangers F.C. severe problems. Five matches have had to be postponed because of the state of the ground and unless something can be Continue reading
Letter Dated 6th April 1934 from QPR Manager/Secretary Mick O’Brien to the Football League
This letter is dated 6th April 1934, and was written by the QPR Manager/Secretary to F. Howarth, the Secretary of the Football League. It reads as follows: Dear Sir – Re our claim for compensation for our match versus Northampton from that Club, respecting the game on 27th January last, postponed owing to a FA Continue reading
Peterborough United v QPR
Queen’s Park Rangers played their second first-team friendly in what incredibly was the second Saturday in July. Both sides turned out at London Road in the most punishing of British conditions with shade temperatures topping 30 degrees. (Before kick off) And like the game at Exeter in the previous midweek, it was largely uninspiring fare Continue reading
Riding for Promotion – Tommy Docherty Gives Glenn Roeder a Lift
The pic shown below is dated 27th July 1979 and the caption on the reverse side reads: ‘With the First Division firmly in their sights after last season’s dramatic relegation, Tommy Docherty, the manager and Glenn Roeder the team skipper, are hoping that they’re on their way to putting Queen’s Park Rangers back in the Continue reading
QPR’s Move to St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road in 1901
At the end of the 1900-01 season the club were forced to move from the Kensal Rise Athletic Ground because the landlord terminated the lease. Largely thanks to one of the Club’s Directors, T. R. Eagle, the R’s, or I should say the Royalists as they were then, moved to a new ground somewhere off Continue reading
From 1932 – A Walk Through Shepherd’s Bush Market
The following article appeared in the West London Observer on 1st July 1932: “Now Ladies, ‘ere you are, just the very leg you’re looking for, with a pound of sausages thrown in -‘arf a crown the lot.” The ladies looked at one another and then at the butcher who was doing his level best in Continue reading