Team: Clutterbuck, Knowles, McConnell, Crawford, Tennant, Keech, Smith (T), Haywood, Bedingfield, Turnbull, Cowie Attendance: 16,000 Rangers had successfully joined the Southern League (Division 1) for the 1899/1900 season. They had won the first league match on 2nd September 6-0 against Brighton United. However, the result was later expunged as Brighton later resigned from the league. Continue reading
Month: March 2016
QPR U21 (3) – Sheffield Wednesday U21 (2)
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Hudnott, McMahon (Folkes), Lobjoit, Diakite, Wise, Kpekawa (Matthews), Prohouly (Butler), Akinola, N’Guessan, Corkery, Shodipo Sub Not Used: Brzozowski For the final U21’s game of the season at Loftus Road, Paul Hall made five changes to the starting line-up from last Friday, which included a trialist at right back, Josh Continue reading
Sammy Shields ‘put in some very apposite references’ to QPR at the Willesden Hippodrome in 1926
The following newspaper review of ‘The Greatest of all Burlesque Shows’ appeared in ‘The Era’ on 10th February 1926: ‘An item of much interest was provided for the Willesden patrons last week by the presence on the programme of Mr Arthur Hands, the eminent flautist from the Covent Garden Opera, etc. Mr Hands’ impeccable techniques Continue reading
Preston North End (1) – QPR (1)
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Angella, Hill, Perch, Henry, Faurlin, Mackie (Luongo), Chery (Hall), Hoilett (El Khayati), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Tozser, Petrasso, Washington Attendance: 11,322 (including 675 R’s fans) My young lad and I had a great trip on Saturday to Preston (a home game for us!). We left Dundee at 8.30, and after changing Continue reading
QPR U21 (2) – Watford U21 (1) – Eusesbio’s Brace Sinks the Hornets
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Hudnott, Butler, Traore, Wise, Kpekawa, Robinson (Hamalainen), Manning, Diakite, N’Guessan, Grego-Cox (Shodipo), Prohouly (Bancessi) Sub Not Used: Brzozowski I was really pleased to see Jack Robinson’s name amongst an interesting starting line-up that also included Armand Traore and Samba Diakite. Six minutes in, Rangers had two efforts on target Continue reading
QPR Ladies (1) – C&K Basildon Ladies (0)
FA Women’s Premier League (Southern Section) Team: Caldwell, Denny, Odeniyi, Dempster, Maggs, Layton, Puddefoot (Rackham), Wilson, Fogarty (Lopes), Whitter (Albert) Sub Not Used: Andersson The QPR Ladies had recorded a 2-1 win at Lewes the previous Sunday. Today’s visitors at Honeycroft were sitting in 7th place and six points ahead of the Rangers. Five minutes Continue reading
The Rise of a Ranger
Back on a cold Christmas Eve night in 1969 I came into the world at the world’s best hospital, and so my love for West London was born. My first memories are from Wendell Road, just off the Askew Road. My Dad worked at Claridges and my Mum worked part-time. We went to Ravenscourt Park Continue reading
QPR (3) – Brentford (0)
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Angella, Hill, Perch, Faurlin, Henry (El Khayati), Phillips, Chery (Luongo), Hoilett, Polter (Mackie) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Kpekawa, Tozser, Washington Attendance: 17,894 (including 3,026 Brentford fans) The key to yesterday’s win against Hounslow United was playing the same team and system as Tuesday night – Jimmy didn’t tinker and hey-ho success! I Continue reading
R’s Fan James Mills is Running in the London Marathon in Aid of Cancer Research & in his Dad’s Honour
James dad, Tony Mills, sadly has terminal cancer and James will be running the London Marathon in aid of Cancer Research. He wrote to me recently to explain why he is doing it: ‘So we was hit with the worst ever news in 2012 when we found out that my dad had terminal cancer. He Continue reading
QPR (2) – Derby County (0) – ‘That’s more like it’
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Angella, Hill, Perch, Phillips, Henry, Faurlin, Hoilett (Petrasso), Chery (Mackie), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Konchesky, Tozser, El Khayati, Washington Attendance: 14,049 (including 1,295 Rams fans) Floyd Hasselbaink’s impersonation of a Tinker man is wearing thin, now I know he wants to look at all the players, BUT don’t tinker with the Continue reading