Team: Cunningham, Pollard, Pierce, Wiles (G), Armstrong, Yates, Coward, Burns, Goddard, Rounce, Howe Attendance: 7,534 On 12th April 1930, QPR beat Swindon Town 8-3 at Loftus Road. This match report appeared in the West London Observer the following week: ‘Queen’s Park Rangers had a day out on Saturday at Loftus Road at the expense of Continue reading
Author: Steve Russell
When R’s fans offered assistance to the Club Photographer
Issue No.5 of the Club Newspaper, the ‘Ranger’, dated Jan/Feb 1984, reported on the occasion when a group of R’s fans came to the assistance of Club photographer Keith Creckendon, who had broken down on the motorway, en route to the match at Leicester: Headlined: ‘Motorway rescue fans keep ‘Ranger’ in the picture!’ it reads: Continue reading
The 12th Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – Evelyn Henry Lintott
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This latest one is the 12th QPR card that I have featured from the first series issued in 1907. On the reverse side of this original card it reads: ‘A ripe, full flavoured pipe tobacco, fine cut. In a good well-seasoned briar Continue reading
QPR’s first ever Match at the White City Stadium
Team: Shaw, McDonald, Pullen, Ovens, Mitchell, Wake, Revill, Tosswill, McKie, Thornton, Barnes Attendance: 26,000 Rangers’ home game scheduled for the 5th April 1912 against Southampton had to be switched from Park Royal due to the consequences of sympathy action for the miners by Willesden railwaymen. This Good Friday fixture was the first time that QPR Continue reading
The 1904 QPR Club Trials – Special Trains from Paddington & details on how to get to the Ground
The following fascinating article appeared in the Willesden Chronicle on 19th August 1904: The Directors of the club have been overwhelmed with offers of help from rising amateur players, and on Saturday a trial game was given to two and twenty of these amateur “youngsters”. The teams played Whites v Stripes, the Whites eventually being Continue reading
QPR v Chelsea: ‘We are still in with a fight, everyone is disappointed and I just feel sorry for the Crowd‚’ – Chris Ramsey
Team: Green, Isla (Dunne), Onuoha, Caulker, Hill, Phillips, Barton, Sandro (Kranjcar), Henry, Austin, Zamora (Hoilett) Subs Not Used: McCarthy, Comley, Mitchell, Grego-Cox Attendance: 17,939 This is the kind of result on which fates can seem settled. Chelsea’s victorious players had gathered in front of the away support in the upper tier of the School End Continue reading
‘Skipper Mike Keen gets a Hat-Trick to shatter Luton’
Team: Springett, Brady(P), Nash, Hazell, Brady (R), Keen, Morgan (I), Collins, Leary, Bedford, Morgan (R). Attendance: 5,175 The R’s had lost 0-2 at Carlisle the previous week, but the 6th November 1964 was certainly a memorable ‘Friday Night is Rangers Night’ occasion! A report of the match follows: ‘One down after 13 minutes, Rangers staged Continue reading
Keith Friend’s 1976 Interview with Phil Nutt for the ‘Superhoop’
Issue No.3 of the Supporters Club magazine: ‘The Superhoop’, included an in-depth interview with 17-year-old Phil Nutt at the ‘Rangers Stadium’ on Friday 16th January 1976: KF: Phil, you live in Pimlico, which is not really Rangers territory, so which team did you support as a boy? PN: Spurs. I never used to go and Continue reading
When Rangers caused a Cup upset in 1900: Wolves (0) – QPR (1)
FA Cup First Round Replay Team: Clutterbuck, Knowles, McConnell, Crawford, Hitch, Keech, Turnbull, Haywood, Bedingfield, White, Hannah Attendance: 7,000 At the start of their 1899/1900 FA Cup campaign, QPR saw off London Welsh. The next preliminary stage victims were Fulham, followed by; West Hampstead, Wandsworth, the Civil Service and Luton Town. They were then drawn Continue reading
QPR U18 (0) – Leeds United U18 (2)
U18 Professional Development League 2 Team: Hudnott, Springer-Downes, Williams (J), Klass, Eales, Thompson, Komodikis, Corkery, Alfa, Darbyshire, Bowler A Nathan Corkery free kick cleared the bar but Rangers were struggling to get going. It was the visitors who were soon creating the better chances and Conor Hudnott made a great save from close range with Continue reading