Following their defeat in the Kinnaird Shield match against Blackburn Rovers on 4th May 1912, Rangers set off immediately after the game to Charing Cross to embark on the first stage of the Club’s first Continental tour. They travelled overnight to Calais and after a gruelling train journey they arrived at their hotel in Paris Continue reading
Month: December 2012
QPR v West Bromwich Albion – Festive Cheer in Short Supply on Boxing Day
Rangers slumped to their second defeat on the spin losing 1-2 to a visiting West Bromwich side delayed by the closure of the A40 Greenford flyover. The game was delayed by 15 minutes and took place through festive driving rain and howling wind. Harry Redknapp ordered two changes from the team which meekly surrendered at Continue reading
Newcastle United v QPR
Team: Green, Ferdinand, Nelsen, Hill, Fabio, Mackie, Mbia, Faurlin (Derry), Granero (Wright-Phillips), Taarabt, Cisse (Hoilett) Subs Not Used: Murphy, Diakite, Traore, Onuoha Attendance: 50,180 (including 922 R’s fans) Shola Ameobi came on to the pitch to the sound of boos and left to a standing ovation after his magnificent, curling shot secured a victory that Continue reading
Christmas Greetings from the Indy R’s
We would like to ‘officially’ welcome Steve Sayce to the Indy R’s and to thank him for his immediate input. Also, our thanks to Martin Percival and to everyone else that has contributed to the website over the past 12 months, It was another dramatic year for the R’s which pretty much started with the Continue reading
In Memory of Cornelius Riordan
I wrote about Neil’s sad passing in 2002 and now ten years on this is in his memory: We had heard the very sad news in December 2002 that Neil Riordan had died at his home on the Queen’s Park Estate in North Paddington. Neil was born on 12th May 1947 in Warwick Crescent in Continue reading
A QPR Christmas Miracle – Starring Adel Taarabt
Having spent the last four months rightly panning Queen’s Park Rangers for making the worst ever start to a Premier League season, pundits were forced to eat their words on Saturday. The fear was that, having entirely outplayed Fulham, but conceded late on, the R’s’ 2-1 win would appear scrappy, hard-thought, battling and all the Continue reading
The Detours Did Find their Way to Fame
On a recent trip to the Hammersmith archive, the following pre-Who article was uncovered whilst Colin, Bernard and I were researching various newspapers on micro-film for future QPR articles. There, within a local Gazette dated 21st November 1963, was the headline: ‘The Detours are Finding Their Way to Fame’. Wonderful article and the rest, as Continue reading
QPR v Fulham – Adel Taarabt Weaves his Magic and the R’s Finally Have Lift Off
Team: Green, Traore, Nelsen, Hill, Onuoha, Mbia, Faurlin, Wright-Phillips (Fabio), Mackie, Taarabt, Cisse (Ferdinand) Subs Not Used: Cesar, Diakite, Derry, Granero, Hoilett Attendance: 18,233 I think that most of us over the years have said that once Adel plays with his head in the right place he is virtually unplayable, and he is. He cut Continue reading
In Memory of Ivor Powell: 5th July 1916 – 5th November 2012
Ivor Verdun Powell was born in Bargoed in South Wales on 5th July 1916. He was the seventh son in a family of ten. He worked down the coal mines with his father and brothers until a QPR scout spotted him playing for his local side. Ivor arrived as an amateur, but didn’t initially make Continue reading
Hammersmith Bridge 2006 – West London is R’s
It was six years ago when Mo Fitzgerald came up with the idea of displaying Rangers flags across Hammersmith Bridge as part of a fundraising initiative. So we decided to meet up outside the Rutland Arms pub, on I think, a Friday evening ? A group of us then set off to unfurl a number Continue reading