Team: McCarthy, Onuoha, Hill, Dunne, Suk-Young (Kpekawa), Phillips, Henry (Comley), Barton, Fer, Austin, Grego-Cox Subs Not Used: Murphy, Furlong, Hoilett, Doughty, Petrasso Attendance: 31,467 (including 1,595 R’s fans) It was party time at the King Power Stadium, hardly surprising as Leicester’s owners were offering supporters free beer before kick-off, and the home fans’ celebratory chants Continue reading
Month: May 2015
The 1977 7” Single: ‘Queens Park Rangers’ b/w ‘Drive Me Down to QPR’
In 1977, Gama Records Ltd of 153 Percy Road, Shepherd’s Bush, released the 7″ single: ‘Queens Park Rangers’. The press release read as follows: ‘The Loftus Road Runners Kick Off Mention football records and the most likely reaction is a groan – not surprisingly, because since ‘Back Home’ helped us lose the World Cup in Continue reading
Statement: New QPR CEO Lee Hoos
The Independent R’s wish to welcome Lee Hoos as the new chief executive officer of Queen’s Park Rangers. We are encouraged that the club has chosen a CEO with considerable experience in football. View image | gettyimages.com With the second relegation from the Premier League in three seasons now confirmed, our club stands at a Continue reading
The Comic Connection – No. 18 – Rover and Wizard – 23rd November 1968
Published by D. C. Thomson, ‘The Wizard’ was launched as long ago as the 22nd September 1922. Then in September 1963, it merged with ‘The Rover’. This particular issue is dated 23rd November 1968 and qualifies for this series because among the footballers featured on the front cover was R’s goalkeeper, Ron Springett. Whilst inside, Continue reading
QPR (2) – Newcastle United (1)
Team: Green (McCarthy), Onuoha, Dunne, Caulker (Suk-Young), Hill, Phillips, Barton, Henry, Hoilett (Grego-Cox), Fer, Austin Subs Not Used: Furlong, Wright-Phillips, Comley, Doughty Attendance: 17,608 (including 1,845 away fans) The dullard’s derby duly lived down to reputation, since Newcastle neglected to accept Queen’s Park Rangers’ generous offer of a free pass for another season of lucrative Continue reading
Kiyan Prince: 25th November 1990 – 18th May 2006
On this day in 2006, Kiyan Prince tragically lost his life. Alan Barnes wrote this tribute to him at the time: ‘I personally have only watched Kiyan play for the last couple of years. Firstly, at the Acton Training Ground on Sunday mornings in the U13/U14 age group and then last season when possible, on Continue reading
QPR Podcast Live – At the Good Ship Kilburn 26 May 2015
The world’s most popular QPR Podcast will be holding its traditional end-of-season party in front of a live audience at a not-to-be-missed event on May 26th The podcast regulars will also be joined on stage by Lee Cook and Kevin Gallen who’ll be on hand to give their take on the season and answer questions Continue reading
David Macintyre writes… “A decade, not just four years, of papering over the cracks”
Reproduced with permission from Dave’s blog. Follow Dave on Twitter at @davidmcintyre76. My first blog in ages. Mercifully for you, I rarely have the time. Down but probably not out I’ve never been one for doomsday scenarios when it comes to QPR. By that I mean that over the course of the 16 years I’ve Continue reading
Manchester City v QPR – Relegated in such a Desperately Pitiful Way!
Team: Green, Caulker, Dunne, Hill, Phillips, Henry, Barton, Suk-Young (Wright-Phillips), Fer (Kranjcar), Austin, Zamora (Hoilett) Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Furlong, Comley, Grego-Cox Attendance: 44,564 (including 810 R’s fans) It was near the end, when Shaun Wright-Phillips arrived from the substitutes’ bench, that the full sense of all that had befallen Queen’s Park Rangers was laid Continue reading
VE Day – Tuesday 8th May 1945
Today marks the 70th anniversary of ‘Victory in Europe Day’. This momentous occasion will be commemorated with events all across the UK. The following account is from the diary that Stella Freeman kept throughout the war years and was later reproduced in a booklet by members of the Shepherd’s Bush Local History Society, titled: ‘Around Continue reading