Chasing rainbows, learning lessons, rewriting history

Queen’s Park Rangers co-chairman Tony Fernandes has given an interview to North American-based website Vice Sports in which he talks about the club and the near six years of ownership by him and his Malaysian business partners. https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/article/ive-learnt-the-hard-way-tony-fernandes-on-football-fandom-and-attempting-to-build-the-new-qpr It’s a wide-ranging, if unchallenging, piece where Fernandes talks about lessons learned, his passion for the club Continue reading

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Corinthian-Casuals (1) – QPR Development Squad (4)

London Senior Cup First Round Team: Cant, Jude-Boyd, Shann, Sackey, Woodman, Hawkins, Adomah, Murphy, Jeche, Talla, Anthony Subs: Loades, Rendall, Bala, Ajose Attendance: 136 After a couple of postponements, this London Senior Cup tie finally got underway at King George’s Arena. It must be noted that Rangers hadn’t competed in this Cup competition since we Continue reading

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Miles Syndercombe’s Cottage on Shepherd’s Bush Green & the Plot to Assassinate Oliver Cromwell 

The following article appeared in the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald on 19th April 1890:  ‘The old-thatched cottage on Shepherd’s-bush-green standing on the premises once belonging to an ancient inn, where all the travellers in days gone by, used to stop in their journey to and from the west of England and the metropolis, is about Continue reading

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‘They are the Rangers, the Gallant Rangers, the Men Who Lead the Way’

Towards the end of a newspaper article from October 1898, “TRABBOTS” mentioned: ‘That the song written by Mr Dibsdale about Queen’s Park Rangers is very popular.’ Unfortunately, no other information about it has come to light, but I then remembered something that appeared in the ‘Club Notes’ of the Bristol City match programme in March Continue reading

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