Team: Mason, Barrie, Ashman, March, Goodier, Blake, Emmerson, Eaton, Blackman, Langford, Brown. Attendance: 9,701 On 18th January 1934, the R’s travelled to Coventry in a top of the table encounter. The following match report was written by “Fieldsman” and appeared in the Midlands press the next day: ‘Coventry City lost a great opportunity of greatly Continue reading
Category: History
QPR Screen References: No.19 – EastEnders Episode – 14th January 2014
South Devon R alerted me to a surprising QPR reference in a recent episode of ‘EastEnders’ on BBC One. So I then watched (part) of my first ever episode on BBC iPlayer and sure enough nine or so minutes in, Terry Alderton (who plays a cab driver) says to a stallholder in Albert Square: “Do Continue reading
In Memory of Andy Malcolm
In Memory of Andy Malcolm It is sad to have to report the recent death of Andy Malcolm, the ex-West Ham, Chelsea and QPR pro-footballer. He was a busy, energetic quality half-back who played 94 first team games for the R’s and scored 6 goals. Although the prime of his playing career was spent with Continue reading
Fred Pentland: Ex-QPR Player and the Man in the Bowler Hat who gave Spain their Footballing Identity
Last month I put up a 1920’s article about ex-QPR player Fred Pentland. Sam Hughes wrote the following article which was published a couple of years ago in the second issue of the superb football magazine, ‘Late Tackle’. Sam kindly gave me permission to use it: ‘Somewhat unsurprisingly, there was much debate about the inadequacies Continue reading
The Day after John F Kennedy’s Assassination: Luton 4 – QPR 4
Team: Springett, Brady (P), Angell, Gibbs, Brady (R), Keen. Lazarus, Leary, Bedford, Graham, McQuade. Attendance: 6,598 Most people of a certain age can recall where they were and what they were doing when USA President John F Kennedy was shot down and killed on the 22nd November 1963. I must admit that I can’t really Continue reading
Rangers’ Return to the White City was a total Washout
The following article is dated 4th October 1962 and appeared in the local Gazette and Post: ‘The biggest night in the history of Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club ended in a big washout at White City on Monday evening. After torrential rain had flooded the pitch, the referee postponed the match against Hull City half-an-hour Continue reading
The Forgotten Story of Alec Stock – The First Gentleman of Soccer
The following article appeared recently in the Guardian as ‘The Forgotten Story of Alec Stock’. It’s not a forgotten story as far as R’s fans are concerned of course. However, this article does give a further insight into the disgraceful treatment of a QPR legend: The tale of the QPR manager who took the club Continue reading
We Will Remember Them
The following servicemen had at some time 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 17th Middlesex to be killed in action (I wrote more about him in Continue reading
‘It Ain’t all Lavender’ – The Life Story of a very Ordinary Professional Footballer by F. B. Pentland
Frederick Beaconsfield Pentland was a colourful character and certainly no ordinary footballer. He later serialised his career over a number of weeks in ‘All Sports Weekly’. I only have part of this one edition which is dated 3rd December 1921: ‘I concluded last week by remarking that footballers who took things cosy during the close Continue reading
QPR on World-Wide TV Documentary
Just a short time ago at the National Football Museum in Manchester, a select gathering of guests representing football, the media and major Christian organisations attended the launch of my DVD about famous football clubs of church origin, one of which, of course, is QPR. The DVD is based on my book ‘Thank God for Continue reading