Team: Lennox, Monthe, Simmonds, Albert, Brown, Parmenter, Sharif, Hitchcock, Hulse, Garcia, Andrade. Attendance: 739 Rangers had won the previous encounter 4-3 on 3rd August 2011. My previous trip to the Kingfield Stadium had been for a Reserve fixture with Roger Stokes about 6 years ago. It was a hot, humid afternoon, but it managed to Continue reading
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Alan ‘Macca’ McDonald: QPR Legend – God Bless Him
The Rangers Community is in a state of shock and deeply saddened following the terrible news that Alan McDonald had died. We heard that he had died suddenly after collapsing while playing golf this morning, he was only 48. Sammy McIlroy said: “I’m shell-shocked. Words can’t even enter my head at the moment. Forty-eight is Continue reading
Manchester City v QPR – Mission Impossible ? Mission Accomplished.
Manchester City and QPR played out possibly the most extraordinary football match ever seen as one team came back from the dead to clinch the league title in the last seconds while QPR stayed up. In the build-up to the game, everyone was saying that it was going to be a routine win for the Continue reading
QPR v Stoke City – Cisse’s Late, Late Show Gives Rangers Hope
Super sub Djibril Cisse scored an 89th minute winner at Fortress Loftus Road to give QPR an outside chance of retaining Premier League status. A fraught and tense afternoon of football looked like it was going to end in frustration, what with scores coming in from other grounds, but this side has shown the patience Continue reading
Chelsea v QPR – Rangers All at Sea and Out of Their Depth
QPR’s travel sickness woes continued as they were demolished by a rampant Chelsea team at a rain sodden Stamford Bridge. The 6-1 score-line even flattered Rangers as time and time again they were carved open at the back by defence splitting passes as our back-four seemed all at sea. Even the Thames Flood Barrier wouldn’t Continue reading
QPR v Tottenham Hotspur – Another Added to the List of Big Scalps at Loftus Road
A single goal from the Moroccan Magician, Adel Taarabt, put a dent in Spurs’ drive for a Champions League qualification whilst boosting QPR’s hopes of staging this league fixture again next season. This game had everything that is good and bad about Premier League football. We had the good of a sublime free kick winning Continue reading
West Bromwich Albion v QPR – Rangers Lack Guile to Break the Baggies Down
Team: Kenny, Diakite, Hill, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Derry (Wright-Phillips), Taarabt (Helguson), Mackie, Barton, Taiwo (Traore), Zamora Subs Not Used: Cerny, Young, Gabbidon, Buzsaky Attendance: 25,521 (including approx 2,700 R’s fans) We met up with bambam at the Target just after the two Supporter’s Club coaches had departed. Around 90 minutes later we pulled up outside ‘The Continue reading
QPR v Swansea City – Swans Wings Clipped by Rampant Rangers
Queen’s Park Rangers notched up their third consecutive home win in their bid for Premier League survival with yet another accomplished display. Three goals from Joey Barton, Jamie Mackie and a 25-yard screamer from Akos Buzsaky put paid to a Swansea City that had never won at Loftus Road before and also continued the visitors’ Continue reading
Manchester United v QPR: A Triple Whammy of Mistakes !!!
Team: Kenny, Taiwo, Hill, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Diakite (Wright-Phillips), Derry, Taarabt (Smith), Mackie, Buzsaky, Bothroyd (Campbell) Subs Not Used: Cerny, Gabbidon, Young, Zamora Attendance: 75,505 I took the coach up with my Dad and Brother, getting on at the Target roundabout. We left there for Manchester at around 7.30am, feeling that it was either going to Continue reading
QPR v Arsenal – The Return of the Magnificent Seven
QPR pulled off a shock win against in-form Arsenal to record back-to-back home wins for the first time this season. With seven league wins on the trot, this victory may have seemed unlikely, but with QPR’s No.7, Adel Taarabt, putting in a magnificent performance the home team were thoroughly deserving winners. The Moroccan opened the Continue reading