Category: Club

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

U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Lumley, Springer-Downes, Hamalainen, Rosenthal, Wise, Manning, Prohouly, Butler, N’Guessan, Corkery, Shodipo Subs: Herdman, Blackwood, Darbyshire Eventually I met up with Keith Davies, Roger Stokes and ChrisPTenner. Looking around there was Tom Rosenthal’s father but otherwise it was mainly Scouts. I did speak to a Chinese Student staying in Queensway Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Phillips (Chery), Luongo, Tozser, Hoilett (El Khayati), Mackie, Polter (Washington) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Hill, Henry, Petrasso Attendance: 17,335 The nature of this defeat hurt deeply. We again managed to show the country, in style, just how poor we are. There is a constant amongst these players…a constant to Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Phillips, Luongo, Faurlin (Tozser), Hoilett (Mackie), Washington (El Khayati), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Angella, Chery, Petrasso Attendance: 17,044 Matt Phillips’ late strike helped QPR to a well-deserved first home win under Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink against Ipswich in the Championship. Ipswich keeper Bartosz Bialkowski made three good saves from Continue reading

The following interview with Michael Doughty appeared in the Forest match day programme last month: ‘The year 2012 heralded perhaps the saddest news in our long history – that our owner and lifelong supporter Nigel Doughty had died aged 54. Doughty’s passing hit everyone hard – none more so than members of his family, who Continue reading

Capital Women’s Cup Quarter-Final. Team: Cheadle (Caldwell), Read (Hayes), Fogarty, Denny, Rackham, Cooper, Maggs, Layton, Wilson, Puddefoot, Richardson (Whitter) Enfield Town FC were awarded a grant of ¬£81,504 in 2010 towards the first phase of work on their new ground and they relocated there in November 2011. I met up with Clive Kingham at Acton Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Luongo, Faurlin, Phillips (Chery), Hoilett (Washington), Fer, Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Angella, Henry, Tozser, Mackie Attendance: 17,030 (including 349 R’s fans) Nottingham Forest extended their unbeaten run to 13 matches, but they were shut out by QPR. Ben Osborn struck the left-hand post for Forest before Robert Tesche Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Henry (Chery), Luongo, Phillips, Hoilett (Washington), Fer, Polter Subs Not Used: Lumley, Angella, Hill, Faurlin, Mackie Attendance: 15,266 (including 1,356 Wolves fans) James Henry’s deflected effort gave Wolves a deserved point against QPR at Loftus Road in the Championship. German striker Sebastian Polter had put Rangers ahead after two Continue reading

Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Henry, Luongo, Phillips (Chery), Fer, Hoilett (Mackie), Polter Subs Not Used: Lumley, Angella, Sandro, Tozser, Petrasso Attendance: 9,594 (including 1,286 plus at least 3 in hospitality} My mission was accomplished and it was a very enjoyable day all round. Due to the harsh weather on Friday night we had Continue reading

Team: Lumley, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Henry, Faurlin, Phillips (Petrasso), Fer, Hoilett (Chery), Polter Subs Not Used: Hudnott, Angella, Luongo, Tozser, Mackie Attendance: 12,285 (including 335 R’s fans) Hope Akpan’s late equaliser earned Blackburn a draw against QPR in a tightly fought Championship encounter. Leroy Fer opened the scoring from close range after Rovers keeper Continue reading