The following wide-ranging interview with Les Ferdinand was conducted by Steve Stammers and appeared in the Mirror recently: Les Ferdinand pauses, takes a sip of coffee and then offers the name of the Queen’s Park Rangers player who has proved to be irreplaceable. “Richard Langley,” said the man whose task now is to re-shape Rangers Continue reading
Month: March 2015
QPR v Everton – The Performance is Irrelevant Compared to the Result
Team: Green, Isla, Onuoha, Caulker, Suk-Young, Phillips, Barton, Sandro (Henry), Hoilett (Vargas), Zamora (Taarabt), Austin Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Hill, Ferdinand, Kranjcar Attendance: 17,706 (including 1,809 Everton fans) If not now for Queen’s Park Rangers, then when? This ought to have been the perfect opportunity for Rangers to turn their season around, to spark their Continue reading
QPR U18 (3) – Swansea City U18 (2)
Concorde Club, Cranford U18 Professional Development League 2 Team: Hudnott, Springer-Downes, Williams (J), Hamalainen, Garnett, Arthur, Komodikis, Donnellan, Alfa, Bowler, Shodipo. Paul Furlong’s side had gone down 4-2 at Ipswich the previous Saturday and as for the latest opponents, Swansea had run out 7-2 winners in November. The match kicked off shortly after 11.30am as Continue reading
The Queen’s Head, 13 Brook Green, London W6
Following some research at Hammersmith Library recently, Bernard, Colin and I headed round the corner for the short walk to ‘The Queen’s Head’. And who should be leaving as we headed to the bar, but Terry Venables, who we were told, used to live locally. I proceeded to order a steak sandwich and a pint Continue reading
Born on this Day in 1940 – Mike Keen
QPR stalwart Mike Keen was born in High Wycombe on this day in 1940. He made his 1st team debut, aged 19, against York City and went on to make over 400 appearances for the R’s. Titled ‘Ten Years Later’, Sean Kilfeather paid tribute to him in 1968 in the March/April edition of the supporters’ Continue reading
Charlie Ferris – White City Legend
As a child growing up on the White City Estate in the 1960’s, life had a familiar rhythm: football matches on the back lawns against neighbouring blocks on Sundays, which would last all day long and were played in deadly earnest, with kids taking turns to go up and have their dinner before re-joining the Continue reading
Crystal Palace v QPR – ‘Teams threatened with Relegation are supposed to give every last drop of sweat. QPR barely gave their first’
Team: Green, Furlong (Hill), Onuoha, Caulker, Suk Young, Wright-Phillips (Grego-Cox), Henry, Sandro (Kranjcar), Phillips, Taarabt, Austin Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Hoilett, Vargas, Zamora Attendance: 24,886 (including 2,650 R’s fans) Are Queen’s Park Rangers doomed? Ask their fans. “We’re going down,” they sang as they slid to defeat here, and amid the gallows humour there was Continue reading
The 11th Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – Samuel Downing
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This latest one is the 11th QPR card that I have featured from the first series issued in 1907. On the reverse side of this original card it reads: ‘A delightfully cool Pipe Tobacco, combining the sweetness & fragrance of the better Continue reading
Opposition Q&A: Crystal Palace – ” I won’t be counting any chickens until the fat lady sings at the end of the day”
This week we spoke to comedian and Palace Fan Kevin Day (@kevinhunterday) for his thoughts about the crunch clash at Selhurst Park this Saturday… Q. Crystal Palace are currently lying twelfth in the Premier League table. Are you pinching yourself? Do you think Palace can make it any higher in the final ten games of Continue reading
QPR (1) – Tottenham Hotspur (2)
Team: Green, Onuoha, Ferdinand, Caulker, Suk-Young, Isla (Hoilett), Henry (Grego-Cox), Sandro (Wright-Phillips), Phillips, Zamora, Austin Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Hill, Comley, Kranjcar, Attendance: 17,992 (including 1,744 away fans) At the end of the match Mauricio Pochettino took out his phone and photographed the celebrating away fans. Every picture tells a story and the Tottenham manager Continue reading