Team: Brzozowski, Springer-Downes, Barzey, Klass, Eales, Fox, Alfa, Folkes, Eshun, Akinola, Bowler Attendance: 132 When news filtered through that an R’s side were scheduled to take on Ware, I decided to email Stephen King at the club. He soon replied and went on to inform me that QPR had played them once before on 27th Continue reading
Month: July 2016
Northampton Town (1) – QPR (1)
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Caulker, Hall, Perch, Shodipo, Henry, Gladwin, Luongo, Chery, Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Furlong, Kpekawa, Doughty, Emmanuel-Thomas Attendance: 2,423 (including 663 R’s fans) On a scorching afternoon, Joe English collected Alan Barnes, Ron Hill and myself from outside Harrow & Wealdstone Railway Station. We parked up close to the Sixfields Stadium and Continue reading
Hendon (4) – QPR U21 (5)
Team: Hudnott, Wilson, Williams, Anastasiou, Arthur, Hamalainen, Crichlow, Clarke, Adams, Darbyshire, Prohouly Attendance: 423 The pre-season friendlies were now coming thick and fast. This was my first visit to Silver Jubilee Park, and was just two days after the trip to Kings Langley on Saturday. Hendon had recently moved into the former home of Kingsbury Continue reading
Kings Langley (1) – QPR U21 (4)
Team: Lumley, Kakay, trialist (Davide?), Sandro, trialist (Matt Smythe), Arthur, Crichlow, Comley, Grego-Cox, Manning, Prohouly Sub Not Used: Hudnott Joe English picked up Alan Barnes and myself from outside Harrow & Wealdstone Station. The team sheet revealed two trialists, which included Matt Smythe (the other one wasn’t named) plus, surprisingly, Sandro. We were still finishing Continue reading
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: The 2016 Pre-Season Tour to Holland
As everyone knows the tour was to entail two friendly matches in Holland but a week before we were due to set off, Dutch Police put a spanner in the works. As it turned out, by not being allowed into the PSV game, the day eventually became one that will go down in QPR fans Continue reading
The Opening League Game of the 1939/40 Season: QPR (2) – Watford (2)
Team: Allen, Reay, Jefferson, Lowe, Ridyard, March, McEwan, Mallett, Mangnall, Fitzgerald, Bonass Attendance: 8,000 The 1939/40 season had kicked off the previous week when the R’s had taken on Northampton Town in a Football League Jubilee Fund match at Loftus Road. On 26th August, Watford were Rangers’ opponents in the first league game of a Continue reading
The 1974 7‚’ Single: ‘Give ‘Em The ‘Ol One Two’ b/w ‘Goal’
In April 1974, ‘Shoot’ magazine were giving away in a competition, 15 copies of the latest QPR single: ‘As you may know, Queen’s Park Rangers players have just released a record “Give ‘Em The ‘Ol One Two” which looks like being a real hit. Well, they’ve given us 15 copies of the disc to offer Continue reading
‘Patient Waiters’ – Ian Evans, Richard Teale, John Delve, Ron Abbott and John Beck
The following article was written by Eric Nicholls and appeared in ‘Goal’ magazine on 18th May 1974: ‘Every time Gordon Jago pinned up the Queen’s Park Rangers first-team sheet, he spared a thought for five young men, waiting in the shadows of reserve football for a chance to break into the big time. Indeed, add Continue reading
Wealdstone (1) – QPR U21’s (2)
Team: Hudnott (Brzozowski), Springer-Downes (Akinola), Kelly (Barzey), Manning (Fox), Arthur (Eales), Eales (Darbyshire), Bowler (Folkes), Anastasiou (Klass), Adams (Eshun), Eze (Clarke), Elliott Attendance: 333 Rangers took early control and on 4 minutes deservedly took the lead. Following a good move through midfield, Ryan Manning finished well from the edge of the box. QPR continued to Continue reading
Aldershot Town (2) – QPR (3)
1st half line-up: Ingram, Robinson, Perch, Hall, Hamalainen, Henry, Comley, Gladwin, Shodipo. Emmanuel-Thomas, Grego-Cox 2nd half line-up: Lumley, Onuoha, Kpekawa, Caulker, Furlong, Kakay, Doughty, Prohouly, El Khayati, Polter, Chery Attendance: 1,429 Simon Staal was over from Sweden for the weekend and I met up with him at Waterloo Station. We headed for the Crimea Inn, Continue reading