Category: Club

Team: Smithies, Bidwell, Onuoha, Caulker, Perch, Cousins, Henry (Washington), Luongo, Ngbakoto (Khayati), Chery, Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Kakay, Paul, Shodipo, Grego-Cox. Attendance: 13,307 (including 835 Preston fans) It was an unbelievable pedestrian performance that shocked me. Second best in every tackle (the second goal summed it up), no quality and reduced to pumping pointless Continue reading

EFL Cup 1st Round Team: Ingram, Furlong, Lynch (Polter), Onuoha, Perch, Shodipo (Chery), Henry, Cousins, Ngbakoto (Kpekawa), El Khayati, Washington Subs Not Used: Smithies, Hall, Kakay, Gladwin Attendance: 5,440 (including 866 Swindon fans) Championship QPR beat League One side Swindon Town 4-2 on penalties to avoid a shock EFL Cup first-round exit. After 120 minutes, Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Bidwell, Hall, Caulker, Onuoha, Gladwin (Cousins), Luongo, Henry, Shodipo (Khayati), Chery (Perch), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Lynch, Kpekawa, Washington Attendance: 16,764 (including 3,213 Leeds fans) A good way to start the season, plenty to enjoy and be optimistic about, albeit, against a Leeds side that were poor and hardly threatened. Gladwin didn’t Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Bidwell (Petrasso), Hall (Lynch), Caulker, Onuoha, Cousins (Henry), Gladwin (Perch), Luongo, Chery, Shodipo (El Khayati), Polter (Washington) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Kpekawa, Doughty Attendance: 4,926 (including 1,310 away fans) Polter was superb, (Bill Elkins said that I could see something in him!). Perhaps the thought that we are looking at other options upfront Continue reading

Concorde Club, Cranford. Team: Hudnott, Paul, Williams, Sandro, Arthur, Hamalainen, Crichlow, Comley, trialist, Manning, trialist A 1-8 defeat for the U18’s at the hands of Fulham the previous day had necessitated ChrisPTenner, Clive Kingham and I, to adjourn to the Club bar after the game! So it was back again to Cranford to see the Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Caulker, Hall, Perch, Shodipo, Henry, Gladwin, Luongo, Chery, Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Furlong, Kpekawa, Doughty, Emmanuel-Thomas Attendance: 2,423 (including 663 R’s fans) On a scorching afternoon, Joe English collected Alan Barnes, Ron Hill and myself from outside Harrow & Wealdstone Railway Station. We parked up close to the Sixfields Stadium and Continue reading

Team: Hudnott, Wilson, Williams, Anastasiou, Arthur, Hamalainen, Crichlow, Clarke, Adams, Darbyshire, Prohouly Attendance: 423 The pre-season friendlies were now coming thick and fast. This was my first visit to Silver Jubilee Park, and was just two days after the trip to Kings Langley on Saturday. Hendon had recently moved into the former home of Kingsbury Continue reading

Team: Lumley, Kakay, trialist (Davide?), Sandro, trialist (Matt Smythe), Arthur, Crichlow, Comley, Grego-Cox, Manning, Prohouly Sub Not Used: Hudnott Joe English picked up Alan Barnes and myself from outside Harrow & Wealdstone Station. The team sheet revealed two trialists, which included Matt Smythe (the other one wasn’t named) plus, surprisingly, Sandro. We were still finishing Continue reading

Team: Hudnott (Brzozowski), Springer-Downes (Akinola), Kelly (Barzey), Manning (Fox), Arthur (Eales), Eales (Darbyshire), Bowler (Folkes), Anastasiou (Klass), Adams (Eshun), Eze (Clarke), Elliott Attendance: 333 Rangers took early control and on 4 minutes deservedly took the lead. Following a good move through midfield, Ryan Manning finished well from the edge of the box. QPR continued to Continue reading

1st half line-up: Ingram, Robinson, Perch, Hall, Hamalainen, Henry, Comley, Gladwin, Shodipo. Emmanuel-Thomas, Grego-Cox 2nd half line-up: Lumley, Onuoha, Kpekawa, Caulker, Furlong, Kakay, Doughty, Prohouly, El Khayati, Polter, Chery Attendance: 1,429 Simon Staal was over from Sweden for the weekend and I met up with him at Waterloo Station. We headed for the Crimea Inn, Continue reading