Team: Clutterbuck, Knowles, McConnell, Crawford, Tennant, Keech, Smith (T), Haywood, Bedingfield, Turnbull, Cowie Attendance: 16,000 Rangers had successfully joined the Southern League (Division 1) for the 1899/1900 season. They had won the first league match on 2nd September 6-0 against Brighton United. However, the result was later expunged as Brighton later resigned from the league. Continue reading
Author: Steve Russell
QPR U21 (3) – Sheffield Wednesday U21 (2)
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Hudnott, McMahon (Folkes), Lobjoit, Diakite, Wise, Kpekawa (Matthews), Prohouly (Butler), Akinola, N’Guessan, Corkery, Shodipo Sub Not Used: Brzozowski For the final U21’s game of the season at Loftus Road, Paul Hall made five changes to the starting line-up from last Friday, which included a trialist at right back, Josh Continue reading
Sammy Shields ‘put in some very apposite references’ to QPR at the Willesden Hippodrome in 1926
The following newspaper review of ‘The Greatest of all Burlesque Shows’ appeared in ‘The Era’ on 10th February 1926: ‘An item of much interest was provided for the Willesden patrons last week by the presence on the programme of Mr Arthur Hands, the eminent flautist from the Covent Garden Opera, etc. Mr Hands’ impeccable techniques Continue reading
QPR U21 (2) – Watford U21 (1) – Eusesbio’s Brace Sinks the Hornets
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Hudnott, Butler, Traore, Wise, Kpekawa, Robinson (Hamalainen), Manning, Diakite, N’Guessan, Grego-Cox (Shodipo), Prohouly (Bancessi) Sub Not Used: Brzozowski I was really pleased to see Jack Robinson’s name amongst an interesting starting line-up that also included Armand Traore and Samba Diakite. Six minutes in, Rangers had two efforts on target Continue reading
QPR Ladies (1) – C&K Basildon Ladies (0)
FA Women’s Premier League (Southern Section) Team: Caldwell, Denny, Odeniyi, Dempster, Maggs, Layton, Puddefoot (Rackham), Wilson, Fogarty (Lopes), Whitter (Albert) Sub Not Used: Andersson The QPR Ladies had recorded a 2-1 win at Lewes the previous Sunday. Today’s visitors at Honeycroft were sitting in 7th place and six points ahead of the Rangers. Five minutes Continue reading
R’s Fan James Mills is Running in the London Marathon in Aid of Cancer Research & in his Dad’s Honour
James dad, Tony Mills, sadly has terminal cancer and James will be running the London Marathon in aid of Cancer Research. He wrote to me recently to explain why he is doing it: ‘So we was hit with the worst ever news in 2012 when we found out that my dad had terminal cancer. He Continue reading
QPR (2) – Derby County (0) – ‘That’s more like it’
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Angella, Hill, Perch, Phillips, Henry, Faurlin, Hoilett (Petrasso), Chery (Mackie), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Konchesky, Tozser, El Khayati, Washington Attendance: 14,049 (including 1,295 Rams fans) Floyd Hasselbaink’s impersonation of a Tinker man is wearing thin, now I know he wants to look at all the players, BUT don’t tinker with the Continue reading
‘The Day Rangers Struck a Blow for League Football’
The Football League Review dated 1st April 1967, declared that our historic League Cup Final victory at Wembley was: ‘The day Rangers struck a blow for league football.’ The article goes on as follows: ‘Desmond Hackett summed it up in the Daily Express, “Queen’s Park Rangers would have beaten the greatest sides in England with Continue reading
Richmond Association v QPR in 1898 – Rangers Ground Closed for 14 Days after Referee Attacked
FA Cup Preliminary Round Team: Leather, Allen, Hughes (F), Knight, Musslewhite (J), Blyth, Wallington (A), Evans, Brooks, Jones, Wallington (E) QPR’s change from amateur status was most certainly due to the circumstances following various incidents that had occurred during the FA Cup tie at Richmond on 24th September 1898. Sammy Brooks was sent off, the Continue reading
Bolton Wanderers (1) – QPR (1) – ‘It is what it is‚’ – But why is it what it is?
Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Mackie (Polter), Henry (Chery), Luongo, Phillips, Hoilett (El Khayati), Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Angella, Tozser, Petrasso Attendance: 14,085 (including 743 R’s fans) It was really nice to meet up with Steve R, JJ, Paul Finney, Michael Whelan and some of my fellow Manchester R’s at the Macron Stadium Continue reading