Team: Smith, Furlong, Butler, Comley, Wise, Kpekawa, Young, Mitchell, Mitford, Corkery, Shodipo, Subs: Kakay, Williams, Herdman, Page, Beckles. I bumped into Rob Bennett at Acton Town Station and we later met up with the remainder of the travelling Saturday Morning Crew at Jersey Road, Osterley; Alan Barnes, Clive Kingham, Roger Stokes and Steve Bacon. An Continue reading
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Queen’s Park Rangers Vs Ipswich Town 17 August 2013: The fine start continues, this time with a sterner test…
An icy blast of winter made an unexpected August return to W12 as the ‘Tractor Boys’ came to town. Well, not really ‘icy’, but you would be forgiven for thinking so by the appearance of blankets amongst the ‘prawn sandwich brigade’ of the C Club. It wasn’t the most pleasant of summer afternoons as a Continue reading
Cooke’s Pie Shop – Goldhawk Road, Shepherd’s Bush – Letter from Audrey & Mike Boughton
The following letter from the owners of Cooke’s Pie & Mash Shop in the Goldhawk Road, appeared in the current edition of the Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle – Steve Russell (Source: Ewan Munro) ‘We are writing about the inaccuracies contained in the letter from Councillor Nicholas Botterill (Chronicle, July 26), about Shepherd’s Bush Market re-development. Continue reading
Steve Gallen on agents, Raheem Sterling and the ‘secret’ Irishman
QPR youth boss Steve Gallen says agents are making it tougher for clubs to keep their young players’ feet on the ground. More than a decade ago the then Rangers manager Ian Holloway bemoaned the unrealistic wage demands of the club’s youngsters. And Gallen believes the relentless involvement of agents even at youth level means Continue reading
Huddersfield Town Vs Queen’s Park Rangers 10 August 2013 – Everything but the result
The Superhoops made their first competitive away trip of the new season to the John Smith’s, formerly Galpharm, formerly McAlpine Stadium. Such are the vagaries of the naming value of new modern stadia. The Independent Rs team were to be found before the game sampling the local ale in the delightfully-named Gasworks Club. Whilst the Continue reading
The Comic Connection – No.10 – Tiger and Hurricane – 11th May 1968
This comic was originally known as ‘Tiger – The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly’ and launched on 11th September 1954. There were subsequent mergers over the years with various other Fleetway publications before finally coming to an end on 30th March 1985. ‘Men of Steel’ adorns the front cover – Rod Steel, all-round athlete Continue reading
Wednesday 4th September 1901 – QPR’s First Match at St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road
I recently wrote about Rangers’ move to St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road and as a follow on to that article, shown below is a match report from the Kensington News of their very first game there. Prior to the opening Southern League match of the season against Watford, a friendly was arranged against Grays United: The Continue reading
Exeter City v QPR – Capital One Cup 1st Round
Team: Murphy, Simpson, Dunne, Hill, Suk-Young, Jenas, Barton, Hoilett (Wright-Phillips), Faurlin (Derry), Zamora (Johnson), Austin Subs Not Used: Green, Onuoha, Ehmer, Henry Attendance: 5,253 (including 798 R’s fans) The following match report was written by Nigel Walrond for the Telegraph: ‘Summer signings Charlie Austin and Danny Simpson scored as Queen’s Park Rangers brushed past Exeter Continue reading
QPR v Sheffield Wednesday – New Season, New Hope, New Rangers ?
Balmy sunshine greeted Queen’s Park Rangers back into the second tier of English football at Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon. One of the few benefits of the Championship is the welcome pervasion of the 3 o’clock kick-off and the buzz of being part of a healthy league programme of simultaneous games. As expected, there was Continue reading
QPR Fans Meet-Up on 24th August at the Turf Bar in Melbourne for the Live Screening of the Bolton Wanderers Match
NZ Ranger has organised the third Melbourne R’s meet-up at the Turf Bar in Queen Street for the live screening of the match against Bolton Wanderers later this month. Although the first two were very successful they have yet to see a Rangers goal, but he has a feeling that this will soon change ! Continue reading