The next stage of the ‘No Merger’ campaign was to demonstrate on the pitch and stop the home game against Manchester City from kicking-off. The signal to go on was to be triggered by the appearance of the referee, linesmen and the two teams. I normally stood in the Loft, but I and many others Continue reading
Month: February 2014
From 1934: Coventry City Pushed out of Second Place
Team: Mason, Barrie, Ashman, March, Goodier, Blake, Emmerson, Eaton, Blackman, Langford, Brown. Attendance: 9,701 On 18th January 1934, the R’s travelled to Coventry in a top of the table encounter. The following match report was written by “Fieldsman” and appeared in the Midlands press the next day: ‘Coventry City lost a great opportunity of greatly Continue reading
Charlton Athletic v QPR
Team: Green, Hughes, Dunne, Hill, Onuoha, Traore, Carroll (Benayoun), Jenas, Hoilett (Keane), Morrison, Doyle (Maiga). Subs Not Used: Murphy, Suk-Young, Henry, O’Neil Attendance: 17,333 (including 3,267 R’s fans) Not just another poor performance, but nothing to suggest this will get any better. Another game, another punt from Harry, another bucket load spent, but still not Continue reading
Dave Thomas on Sir Tom Finney and the 1974 Radio Times Cover Story
MP: What was the story behind you being on the front cover of the Radio Times Dave in August 1974 with Tom Finney? DT: Well it was when Don Revie had left Leeds United to become the new England manager, after Sir Alf Ramsey. The BBC wanted to run an article and I was contacted. Continue reading
Kid Jensen – Once a Ranger (Not) Always a Ranger ?
The following article must have appeared in ‘Shoot’ magazine sometime in 1979: “Hey, that was really something,” smiled top Radio One disc jockey Kid Jensen. “I’ll remember this morning for a long time to come.” Kid had accepted an invitation to train with his QPR heroes – and had the time of his life! David Continue reading
QPR v Reading
Team: Green, Hughes, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto (Benayoun), Traore, Barton, Kranjcar, Hoilett, Doyle, Keane (Zamora). Subs Not Used: Murphy, Onuoha, Henry, Jenas, Maiga. Attendance: 16,522 (including 1,279 away fans) Queen’s Park Rangers’ aspirations of automatic promotion suffered another setback as they lost despite their fellow Premier League hopefuls Reading playing the last 20 minutes with ten Continue reading
The Sixth Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – William Barnes
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This is the sixth QPR card that I have featured from the first series in 1907. These cards were issued with ‘Myrtle Grove’ cigarettes and on the reverse side of the card it reads: ‘A ripe, full flavoured Pipe Tobacco, fine cut. Continue reading
Derby County v QPR
Team: Green, Hughes, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, O’Neil (Hoilett), Carroll (Jenas), Barton, Kranjcar, Johnson (Maiga), Doyle. Subs Not Used: Murphy, Traore, Onuoha, Henry. Attendance: 23,495 (including 541 R’s fans) The Derby manager, Steve McClaren, said his jubilant players had only enough energy left to muster a satisfied smile of success, such were their exertions in victory Continue reading
Interview With Nils Guy
SR: Nils, I’ve never forgotten opening up the match programme before the Leicester City game on 22nd November 1969 and reading your letter in which you signed off as: ‘Yours truly, the only QPR supporter in Vietnam’. Can you take us back and tell us where you grew up in England and how you became Continue reading
The First Day of Irish Spring in West London
The first of February is, as every school child in Ireland knows, St. Brigid’s Day, the first day of spring and almost every infant school class will have kids making St. Brigid’s crosses from rushes or straw over the past week. This time around those good people in Ryanair chipped in with a e40 (¬£35) Continue reading