Stan Bowles made his debut for the R’s on 16th September 1972. The ‘Bush Telegraph’ programme notes welcomed him to the club: ‘Welcome to Rangers, Stan – Rangers hit the headlines last week with our purchase of Stan Bowles from Carlisle United for a new club record transfer fee of £100,000 (£112,000). As we go Continue reading
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QPR fans in charity boxing event
Two QPR season ticket holders Danny Allen & Jamie Orsmond are fighting in a charity ‘white collar’ boxing event this Christmas. It takes place at the Woodside Leisure Centre, Watford on Sunday 20th December to raise money for Cancer Research. Since they both entered the event they have been training for 8 weeks and both Continue reading
The Packhorse & Talbot, 145 High Road, Chiswick, London W4
My latest meet-up with Bill Burnett was in the Packhorse & Talbot, another historic pub in the Chiswick High Road. There is an interesting plaque close to the bar (and replicated on the wall outside), which reads as follows: ‘The Packhorse & Talbot was simply called the ‘Pack Horse’ between 1698 and 1811 and was Continue reading
QPR U21 (1) – Cardiff City U21 (0)
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Lumley, Kakay (Williams), Lobjoit, Wise (Rosenthal), Arthur, Comley, Prohouly (Komodikis), Mitchell, N’Guessan, Manning, Petrasso. Sub Not Used: Herdman International football had reduced the Loftus Road attendance considerably and also the sudden drop in the temperature may have been a factor.¬†Surveying the South Africa Road Stand, Tony Mowbray was spotted Continue reading
QPR (0) – Preston North End (0) – ‚ÄúIt’s better than being sat at Home or Fishing‚Äù – Neil Warnock
Team: Green, Angella, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Sandro (Emmanuel-Thomas), Faurlin, Phillips, Fer, Hoilett (Chery), Austin Subs Not Used: Smithies, Angella, Luongo, Tozser, Polter Attendance: 15,190 (including 1,031 Preston fans) It was great to meet up with so many in the Crown & Sceptre before the match; Steve R, Pat Harrison, Saycey, Bungers from Aberdeen, Paul Finney, Continue reading
Congratulations Northern Ireland!
Congratulations to Northern Ireland on reaching the European Finals in France next summer! Alan – your boys done you proud… Always with us, captain, leader, legend and proud Ulsterman.
QPR v Everton – The Performance is Irrelevant Compared to the Result
Team: Green, Isla, Onuoha, Caulker, Suk-Young, Phillips, Barton, Sandro (Henry), Hoilett (Vargas), Zamora (Taarabt), Austin Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Hill, Ferdinand, Kranjcar Attendance: 17,706 (including 1,809 Everton fans) If not now for Queen’s Park Rangers, then when? This ought to have been the perfect opportunity for Rangers to turn their season around, to spark their Continue reading
Crystal Palace v QPR – ‘Teams threatened with Relegation are supposed to give every last drop of sweat. QPR barely gave their first’
Team: Green, Furlong (Hill), Onuoha, Caulker, Suk Young, Wright-Phillips (Grego-Cox), Henry, Sandro (Kranjcar), Phillips, Taarabt, Austin Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Hoilett, Vargas, Zamora Attendance: 24,886 (including 2,650 R’s fans) Are Queen’s Park Rangers doomed? Ask their fans. ‚ÄúWe’re going down,‚Äù they sang as they slid to defeat here, and amid the gallows humour there was Continue reading
The 1967 League Cup Final Souvenir Ashtray
Nearly three weeks after our historic victory at Wembley, the Darlington match programme announced that: ‘In response to the continuing demand for souvenirs of this fantastically successful season, we have now obtained a special order of souvenir ashtrays which bear the club’s crest in blue and white and carry the inscription ‚ÄúFootball League Cup Winners Continue reading
The Missing Paddington Babes
In May 1965 three young children went missing in the Paddington District of London. The actual area where this happened was called ‘Maida Hill’, although few, if any locals called it that. The area was populated mostly by white working class people, with added immigration throughout the 50’s and 60’s of Irish and West Indian Continue reading
