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 Continue reading
Author: Finney
QPR Project may not be Derailed by Relegation
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 Continue reading
Everton v QPR
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 Continue reading
Fulham go like the Clappers against Clapped-Out QPR
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 Continue reading
Fulham v QPR – Taarabt Sparks a Rangers Revival after Defensive Nightmare, but Leave with Nothing
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 Continue reading
It’s the Hope that Kills You
‘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 Continue reading
QPR’s Wage Bill and Debt Soar in the Year to 31st May 2012
News of the club’s dramatic increase in wages and debt has just been revealed, alarming is an understatement !!! These figures will surely increase significantly again when the next set of accounts are produced. Owen Gibson wrote the following article for ‘The Guardian’: ‘The scale of the challenge facing QPR if Harry Redknapp fails to Continue reading
Public Meeting in Hanwell Regarding the Proposed Development of Warren Farm
Viv Ellis wrote the following article for ‘Ealing Today’ regarding the recent public meeting in Hanwell: ‘Around fifty people attended a meeting in Hanwell this week (26th) over the proposed development of Warren Farm – Ealing’s largest sports ground. The plans are to build an all-singing, all-dancing state-of-the-art training ground for Queen’s Park Rangers Football Continue reading
Where did it go Wrong for QPR ? A Marketing Person’s Perspective
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 Continue reading
28th February 1987: QPR Fans Begin their Campaign to Stop the Proposed Merger
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 Continue reading