Category: Fanzone

Clive had been poorly for a few years. He was being prescribed what seemed to be an endless amount of antibiotics, but a year ago he phoned me to say that with the upturn in the weather, and the steady improvement in his health, he was coming to his first match in nearly a year. Continue reading

That could well have been written recently! The following letter was written by F. E. Perry and appeared in the Kensington Post on 23rd August 1935: ‘Sir, it was with feelings of uneasiness I left Loftus Road on Saturday, after having watched Queen’s Park Rangers first trial game of the season. To say I was Continue reading

The following article appeared in the West London Observer on 25th September 1931: ‘Seven passengers in a van, on their way to watch Queen’s Park Rangers’ match on Saturday, were injured when the van came into collision with a tramcar in High Road, Willesden. The accident occurred when the van swerved to avoid a child. Continue reading

The following article appeared in the West London Observer the day before the 1st Round FA Cup tie at Selhurst Park on 26th November 1938: ‘Special transport facilities for 3,000 members of the Queen’s Park Rangers Supporters’ Club have been arranged by the L.M.S. Railway for the Crystal Palace v QPR Cup-tie at Selhurst Park Continue reading

It was announced in a 1968 edition of “The Football League Review” (their official journal), that R’s fan (& Loft Boy) Freddie Mason had won their ‘Fan of the Week’ award: ‘Fred Mason (17) has seen most of the country in the last few years. He knows the major roads and motorways like the back Continue reading

The following newspaper article was written by Paul Deening and appeared in the ‘Sligo Champion’ on 31st December 2003: ‘Loftus Road and Second Division football may not have quite the same appeal as Old Trafford and the Premiership but for one Sligo fan, the home of Queen’s Park Rangers will become his theatre of dreams Continue reading

A couple of years ago, my friend John Smith tweeted out a passage from Kevin Drinkell’s autobiography (you remember him: Norwich, Cov, Rangers…Grimsby). He made a point that Drinks book was not a riveting page-turner – but there was this one bit that made his mouth drop open. In the passage, Drinks describes a fancy Continue reading

On 25th September 1964 I travelled to Loftus Road with some of my schoolmates, and as the match programme proclaimed: ‘Friday Night is Rangers Night’. The R’s beat Hull City 2-1 that night with goals from Mike Keen and Billy McAdams. The programme promoted a Supporters Association Grand Dance at Kensington Town Hall the following Continue reading

Nothing can prepare you for a day like today. Losing my Dad has been the hardest thing I have gone through in my life. My Dad was absolutely everything to me. He was a person who I looked up to and just never wanted to let down. As you all know he had been through Continue reading

On 10th January 1914, Rangers took on Bristol City at Park Royal in the 1st Round of the FA Cup. Tragically 21 QPR fans were injured on their way to the match in a Motor Bus accident. The following article appeared in ‘The People’ (described as a weekly newspaper for all classes): ‘An alarming motor-bus Continue reading