Category: History

Issue No.3 of the Supporters Club magazine: ‘The Superhoop’, included an in-depth interview with 17-year-old Phil Nutt at the ‘Rangers Stadium’ on Friday 16th January 1976: KF: Phil, you live in Pimlico, which is not really Rangers territory, so which team did you support as a boy? PN: Spurs. I never used to go and Continue reading

FA Cup First Round Replay Team: Clutterbuck, Knowles, McConnell, Crawford, Hitch, Keech, Turnbull, Haywood, Bedingfield, White, Hannah Attendance: 7,000 At the start of their 1899/1900 FA Cup campaign, QPR saw off London Welsh. The next preliminary stage victims were Fulham, followed by; West Hampstead, Wandsworth, the Civil Service and Luton Town. They were then drawn Continue reading

QPR stalwart Mike Keen was born in High Wycombe on this day in 1940. He made his 1st team debut, aged 19, against York City and went on to make over 400 appearances for the R’s. Titled ‘Ten Years Later’, Sean Kilfeather paid tribute to him in 1968 in the March/April edition of the supporters’ Continue reading

The following article from January/February 1984, appeared in issue 5 of the Club newspaper, ‘Ranger’: ‘QPR Supporters Club – welcomed throughout the league as a good-natured band – were up in arms last month over what they claimed was shabby treatment from soccer organisers. The fans, travelling by train to Sunderland, had got as far Continue reading

Team: Shaw, McDonald, Fidler, Mitchell, Hartwell, Wentworth, Wyatt, Greer, Steer, Whyman, Barnes. Attendance: 6,000 The game was played at Park Royal on 30th April 1910 and the following match report was written (from a Rovers perspective} by “Reservist”: ‘Save that Wake was absent from left-half, the home side were at full strength; but the Rovers Continue reading

The following servicemen had at some time in their careers played for Queen’s Park Rangers and all tragically lost their lives serving their country: Corporal Albert ‘Ben’ Butler – Apart from playing for QPR, he was also the first professional footballer in the ranks of the 17th Middlesex to be killed in action. Albert Bonass Continue reading

Team: Springett, Clement, Harris, Keen, Hunt, Hazell, Lazarus, Morgan (I), Sanderson, Leach, Morgan (R) Attendance: 21,438 Sub: Langley I had witnessed the 3-1 win at Rotherham a few days earlier and this was soon followed by a superb win under lights against Aston Villa. A bumper crowd of over 20,000 turned out and generated a Continue reading

Issue No.4 of the Supporters Club magazine: ‘The Superhoop’, included extracts of an interview with Dave Clement. Keith Friend recorded the interview on Friday 26th March 1976: KF: How did your career begin Dave? DC: Well, I was still at Battersea County School at the time, and I was playing for Surrey Schoolboys, when Derek Continue reading

Team: Merrick, Blackman, Watts, Cain, Mitchell, Baldock, Pidgeon, Birch, Smith (J.W.), Gregory, Donald. Attendance: 12,000 QPR played their final Southern League match on 30th April 1920. John (Jack) Gregory scored the only goal of the game in the 1-0 win over Norwich City. The following match report appeared in the West London Observer on 7th Continue reading

The following article was written by Ray Drinkwater and appeared in Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly in July 1962: ‘I haven’t always been a goalkeeper. I was an outside-left when I went to Northmead School in Guildford, Surrey. If I had stayed in that position I don’t suppose I would have got into League football. I Continue reading