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Posted on May 9, 2013 by Saycey
After Queen’s Park Rangers were finally relegated at the Madejski Stadium, it looked as though the cameras, reporters and tabloids would turn their attentions elsewhere. For the story was over: Rangers had sleepwalked into the Championship, squandering vast sums of money in the process, and a private disintegration was about to begin. Except this is QPR, where no crisis can ever be as bad as it seems, only worse, and any disaster must be followed by an immediate aftershock, perhaps … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 26, 2013 by Saycey
Following a testing two years in the Premier League, Queen’s Park Rangers have become a club that many supporters barely recognise. The top flight adventure has come at a heavy price indeed. On Tuesday, a photograph circulated on social network Instagram, which showed goalkeeper Julio Cesar posing with fellow Brazilian and Chelsea defender David Luiz wearing a Blues shirt. In the days of Alan McDonald and Kevin Gallen, this would have been a crime punishable by a public flogging at … Continue reading →
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Posted on April 20, 2013 by Saycey
The run-up to the Milk Cup Final in 1986 was fantastic, beating the South-West London side and singing: ‘Michael Robinson from the Half-Way Line’ and: ‘Thank You Very Much for the Milk Cup Chel$ea, Thank You Very, Very Much (the old Scaffold hit and Cadbury Roses TV advert). Then a very drunken night in Liverpool where some of us nearly didn’t make it into the ground, but the Scouse stewards and turnstile operators thought that it would be safer all … 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 March 20, 2013 by Finney
‘I Know it’s Over’. ‘This Charming Man’ we brought in as manager has, despite all his bluff and media savvy, been unable to save Queen’s Park Rangers from relegation. Continuing the theme of ‘The Smiths’, as a football club, QPR are very much ‘Still Ill’. That there are eight games remaining and “plenty of football to be played”, as the cliché goes, is irrelevant. Naturally, having netted a paltry 11 goals at home all season, Aston Villa put on a … Continue reading →
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Posted on March 8, 2013 by Saycey
Back in the summer of last year, a number of us travelled to Germany for the pre-season friendly in Augsburg. We were surprised to meet several German Rangers fans who had travelled considerable distances to be at the game. Since then several of them have travelled to the UK to attend both home and away games. Paul Finney and I discussed recently about running a feature on them for the Indy R’s site so I then mailed some of them … Continue reading →
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Posted on March 1, 2013 by Finney
Writing this guest piece for the Indy R’s site is difficult. Everything that needs to be said seems to have already been said, and we are staring down the barrel at relegation. A handful of people believe there is still hope of staying up. It is, literally, a handful. The bookies, not known for their generosity, have us at long-on odds to go down. And yet thousands of us are still making our way down to the temple of Loftus … Continue reading →
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Posted on February 28, 2013 by Finney
When news broke in 1987 of the proposed merger with Fulham, R’s fans quickly organised themselves. A number of meetings took place upstairs at McQueens (now the Springbok) and prior to the home game on 28th February against Manchester City plans were made to invade the pitch later that day. It was also decided to distribute campaign leaflets in the vicinity ahead of the game. Parked across the road from the pub was a Council truck and shown in the … Continue reading →
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Posted on February 26, 2013 by Saycey
Broaching the subject of Harry Redknapp in anything other than a positive light is often considered to be sacrilege by journalists. For this is Harry Houdini, the man that brought Portsmouth back from the brink and recaptured former glories at Tottenham Hotspur. Redknapp is a media darling, there can be no doubting this, and with good reason. Few other bosses come across as jovial, approachable or friendly as he does. Yet the warm glow that the Queen’s Park Rangers manager … Continue reading →
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Posted on February 23, 2013 by Saycey
Back in the summer of last year, a number of us travelled to Germany for the pre-season friendly in Augsburg. We were surprised to meet several German Rangers fans who had travelled considerable distances to be at the game. Since then several of them have travelled to the UK to attend both home and away games. Paul Finney and I discussed last weekend about running a feature on them for the Indy R’s site so I then mailed several of … Continue reading →
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