Team: Smithies, Hall, Onuoha, Angella, Perch, Tozser, Luongo, Henry, Phillips, El Khayati (Mackie), Washington (Polter) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Diakite, Chery, Hoilett, Petrasso Attendance: 19,233 (including 326 R’s fans) Atdhe Nuhiu’s header rescued a point for Sheffield Wednesday against QPR as the striker made amends for an earlier penalty miss. Owls striker Gary Hooper was Continue reading
Month: February 2016
Bolton Wanderers (1) – QPR (1) – ‘It is what it is‚’ – But why is it what it is?
Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Mackie (Polter), Henry (Chery), Luongo, Phillips, Hoilett (El Khayati), Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Angella, Tozser, Petrasso Attendance: 14,085 (including 743 R’s fans) It was really nice to meet up with Steve R, JJ, Paul Finney, Michael Whelan and some of my fellow Manchester R’s at the Macron Stadium Continue reading
‘Bucket & Brush’ by Irish Jack (How I got Barred from the Goldhawk Club)
Midway through ’66 with ‘Substitute’ peaking at No.5 in the charts, I was ever the peacock strutted Mod telling the world about ‘The Who’ and how they were my friends. I wasn’t earning a lot of money in any of the legal offices I worked in. Filing clerks were two-a-penny back then and any idiot Continue reading
Remembering Frankie Duguid…
Two years ago today Frankie Duguid sadly passed away after a long illness. I wrote at the time that we had been on many memorable trips around the country following the R’s. Recently, going through a load of my old photos, I found the one shown above. It was taken on the LSA coach as Continue reading
QPR U21 (4) – Bristol City U21 (5)
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Lumley, Springer-Downes, Hamalainen, Rosenthal, Wise, Manning, Prohouly, Butler, N’Guessan, Corkery, Shodipo Subs: Herdman, Blackwood, Darbyshire Eventually I met up with Keith Davies, Roger Stokes and ChrisPTenner. Looking around there was Tom Rosenthal’s father but otherwise it was mainly Scouts. I did speak to a Chinese Student staying in Queensway Continue reading
QPR (1) – Fulham (3) – A Total Shambles!
Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Phillips (Chery), Luongo, Tozser, Hoilett (El Khayati), Mackie, Polter (Washington) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Hill, Henry, Petrasso Attendance: 17,335 The nature of this defeat hurt deeply. We again managed to show the country, in style, just how poor we are. There is a constant amongst these players…a constant to Continue reading
Pete Doherty & When it was: ‘All Quiet On The Western Avenue’
The following excellent article was written by ChrisPTenner and originally appeared in a recent issue of the German sports magazine ’11 Freunde’: I first met Pete Doherty when he was a gangly 14-year-old kid. We nicknamed him ‘Young Pete’ for obvious reasons. It’s well known that he is a Queen’s Park Rangers supporter despite being Continue reading
QPR (1) – Ipswich Town (0)
Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Phillips, Luongo, Faurlin (Tozser), Hoilett (Mackie), Washington (El Khayati), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Angella, Chery, Petrasso Attendance: 17,044 Matt Phillips’ late strike helped QPR to a well-deserved first home win under Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink against Ipswich in the Championship. Ipswich keeper Bartosz Bialkowski made three good saves from Continue reading
Portrait of a Chairman…Jim Gregory, the Millionaire Boss of QPR
The following article was written by John Anthony and appeared in a football monthly, dated September 1968: ‘Fifteen minutes after Queen’s Park Rangers had won the match which put them in the First Division, I met Jim Gregory in a tiny corridor behind the main stand at Villa Park. I offered him the clumsy congratulations Continue reading
An Emotional but Happy Return for Michael Doughty
The following interview with Michael Doughty appeared in the Forest match day programme last month: ‘The year 2012 heralded perhaps the saddest news in our long history – that our owner and lifelong supporter Nigel Doughty had died aged 54. Doughty’s passing hit everyone hard – none more so than members of his family, who Continue reading