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Posted on May 23, 2013 by Finney
The following article appeared in ‘The Telegraph’ earlier in the week: ‘In a frank assessment of the club’s calamitous Premier League season, the QPR skipper also said the squad assembled by Mark Hughes last summer was woefully unbalanced, packed with players who had no experience of playing for “smaller” clubs and overloaded with midfielders. “I’m not sure what the manager (Hughes) was thinking of,” Hill said. Hill insisted he and the other less expensive members of the QPR squad would … Continue reading →
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Posted on May 22, 2013 by Finney
Team: Green, Traore, Hill, Onuoha, Harriman, Derry, Park (Hoilett), Townsend, Mbia, Remy (Granero), Zamora (Mackie) Subs Not Used: Murphy, Fabio, Ehmer, Bothroyd Attendance: 44,792 I was pleased to see 20-year-old Michael Harriman start and relieved that Jose Bosingwa didn’t. Max Ehmer was named as one of the substitutes and I would of liked to have seen him involved at some stage. Michael Harriman had a good game as did Rob Green who made a string of fine saves. From a … Continue reading →
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Posted on May 18, 2013 by Finney
Professional Development League Two Play-Off Final Team: Lumley, Furlong (Downs), Monthe, Hunt-Laurent, Wise, Kpekawa, Young (Fitzpatrick), Mitchell, Skapetis, Carreiro, Petrasso Subs Not Used: Smith, Comley, Beckles The U18’s league campaign saw Rangers winning 16 of their 20 matches and finishing runners-up to Charlton Athletic. This sealed them a place in the semi-final play-off and the R’s played the winners of the equivalent Northern Section, Leeds United. Petros Skapetis scored a dramatic winner in added time at Thorp Arch whilst Huddersfield … Continue reading →
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Posted on May 17, 2013 by Finney
The pic shown below was taken on 27th February 1976 and shows Gerry Francis being questioned by the police during a photo-shoot: ‘England soccer captain Gerry Francis is “booked” by the law. The incident happened after the Queen’s Park Rangers’ star went to buy an airgun from a shop in Redhill, Surrey. He agreed to pose outside the shop with the shotgun for the benefit of photographers, but the police blew the whistle on the move before it had fully … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 30, 2013 by Finney
Team: Green, Traore, Hill, Onuoha, Bosingwa (Fabio), Taarabt (Hoilett), Granero, Jenas, Mbia (Mackie), Remy, Bothroyd Subs Not Used: Cesar, Ben Haim, Park, Derry Attendance: 23,388 (including 1,601 R’s fans) In the end Reading and Queen’s Park Rangers conspired to put each other out of their misery. On a day when both knew that nothing less than a victory was needed to keep their faint hopes of avoiding relegation alive, all they could manage was the most humdrum of goalless draws. … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 19, 2013 by Finney
Should they lose against Stoke City on Saturday, and all the relegation-threatened sides currently above them in the table win over the weekend, QPR’s descent back to the Championship would be confirmed with fully four weeks of the season remaining. The financial impact on a club that have consistently outspent their natural resources will be vast. This is a business that, at the last count, was £89 million in debt and running at an annual loss of £23 million. Since … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 14, 2013 by Finney
Team: Cesar, Onuoha, Hill, Samba, Bosingwa, Park (Taarabt), Jenas, Granero (Diakite), Townsend, Hoilett, Remy. Subs Not Used: Green, Fabio, Ben Haim, Mackie, Bothroyd. Attendance: 34,876 Harry Houdini remains tightly buckled into a straitjacket at Loftus Road, showing little sign he is capable of wriggling free. Defeat for Queen’s Park Rangers at Everton effectively means this is one relegation escape act even Harry Redknapp, once considered the Premier League’s patron saint of lost causes, is incapable of pulling off. It was … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 5, 2013 by Finney
Queen’s Park Rangers are rather like a used British-made car. Spluttering into life briefly and intermittently, they are a fleeting joy on the odd weekend, but tend to need expensive repairs at regular intervals and often fail to start at all. Fulham, the opponents on Monday night, can be likened to a BMW from the early 2000’s. They are reliable, efficient, do not break down much and cost very little to keep on the straight and narrow, although they can … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 3, 2013 by Finney
Team: Cesar, Bosingwa, Samba, Hill (Onuoha), Traore (Mackie), Jenas, Mbia, Townsend, Taarabt (Hoilett), Remy, Zamora Subs Not Used: Green, Ben Haim, Granero, Park Attendance: 25,117 (including over 3,000 R’s fans) (The view from the back of the Putney End) The way the first-half was going it looked like a repeat of last season was on the cards. Terrible defending resulted in the home side taking a 3-0 lead with Chris Samba having a nightmare ! Our midfield appeared cluttered with … Continue reading →
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Posted on March 30, 2013 by Finney
In this day of wall-to-wall football, with every conceivable game from almost every country on dozens of channels and all the other associated programming that goes with it, it seems weird that 25 years ago this very weekend there was great excitement about a football related programme on our television screens. Especially in our little corner of West London for our Queen’s Park Rangers were to feature in a documentary on BBC1, the nation’s most watched channel, of which … Continue reading →
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