The following article, titled: ‘On With the Show’, was written by the author Leslie Thomas and appeared in the match programme dated 9th March 1974 (FA Cup 6th Round against Leicester City): ‘There are times when I truly wish I supported an ordinary team. Staggering away from yet another Loftus Road melodrama with Coventry City, Continue reading
Month: September 2013
QPR vs Middlesbrough – Three points clear, and what? You mean there’s room for improvement?
Queen’s Park Rangers reached their final fixture of September top of the league with twenty points – a fantastic return given the patchy nature of some of their performances. So far the Superhoops haven’t taken flight in footballing terms, grinding out results in tough, tight games. This was typified by the previous game in Yeovil Continue reading
QPR’s First Southern League Match at St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road on 7th September 1901
Team: Collins, Newlands, Aston, Freeman, Bowman, Edwards, King, Pryce, Millar, McQueen, Seeley. Attendance: 5,000 The following match report appeared in the Kensington News: Disappointment was written on the faces of the majority of those four or five thousand who witnessed the meeting between the Queen’s Park Rangers and Watford representatives at Notting Hill on Saturday. Continue reading
Yeovil Town v QPR – Winning ugly in the West Country…
Team: Green, Simpson, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, Traore (Wright-Phillips), O’Neil (Barton), Carroll, Jenas, Phillips (Kranjcar), Austin Subs Not Used: Murphy, Ehmer, Faurlin, Henry Attendance: 9,108 (including 2,105 R’s fans) As I sat in the traffic jam of rubberneckers crawling past Stonehenge on the A303 to Yeovil, I couldn’t help making comparisons between the ancient monument and Continue reading
An 1899 Interview with the QPR Secretary – Mr G. H. Mousell at 89 Lancefield Street, Queen’s Park
This article with the then QPR Secretary, Mr G. H. Mousell, appeared in the Willesden Chronicle on 14th July 1899 and gives a wonderful insight into the early development of the Club: With cricket in full swing, and a visitation of tropical heat about us that makes any suggestion of violent exertion objectionable, the football Continue reading
QPR v Brighton & Hove Albion – ‘We’re Queen’s Park Rangers, We’re Top of the League’
Team: Green, Simpson, Dunne, Onuoha (Assou-Ekotto), Hill, Phillips (Traore), Barton, Henry (Jenas), O’Neil, Wright-Phillips, Austin. Subs Not Used: Murphy, Carroll, Faurlin, Hitchcock. Attendance: 17,246 Strange atmosphere last night, a lot of frustration around that we couldn’t make our second-half possession advantage count. The fact that we are top of the league seemed to pass many Continue reading
QPR v Ipswich Town – U21 Professional Development League 2
Team: Lennox, Gibbons, Monthe, Ehmer, Sendles-White, Magri, Sharif, Ephraim, Hitchcock, Kranjcar, Andrade Subs Not Used: Lumley, Brown, Kpekawa The first decent chance of the afternoon came within a couple of minutes following a corner awarded to the visitors. A good ball into the box was headed over the bar by their No.6, Jonny Leddy. However, Continue reading
Queen’s Park Rangers Vs Birmingham City 14 September 2013: Never mind the style, look at the table…
The Championship returned to Loftus Road after another of those tiresome international breaks. Just when a season is beginning to gather momentum, a blank window in the schedule comes along and lets a good deal of the air out. The day began with a visit to the Crown & Sceptre where I had the pleasure Continue reading
To Transfer or not to Transfer that is the Question?
Now the dust has settled on a difficult period of QPR’s recent history, namely the summer transfer window, I thought I’d look at the changes Redknapp has made in personnel in the First Team squad. We all knew that the First Team squad, as it was made up in May 2013, was nothing short of Continue reading
Don Givens – QPR and Irish International Legend
The 30th October 1974 will stand forever in the memory of sports fans the world over, for it was on that date that Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” in the heat of Kinshasa, Zaire. Another event happened on that historic evening in 1974 that will never be forgotten by Continue reading