Category: History

The following article was written by Eric Linden and appeared in ‘Soccer Star’ on 6th March 1954:- ‘Queen’s Park Rangers can’t score goals. Everybody said it, and no wonder. Hadn’t Rangers just gone through a spell of ten games during which they had failed to hit the back of the net on nine (actually eight Continue reading

Team: Collins, Newlands, Aston, Freeman, Bowman, Edwards, King, Pryce, Millar, McQueen, Seeley. Attendance: 5,000 The following match report appeared in the Kensington News: Disappointment was written on the faces of the majority of those four or five thousand who witnessed the meeting between the Queen’s Park Rangers and Watford representatives at Notting Hill on Saturday. Continue reading

This article with the then QPR Secretary, Mr G. H. Mousell, appeared in the Willesden Chronicle on 14th July 1899 and gives a wonderful insight into the early development of the Club: With cricket in full swing, and a visitation of tropical heat about us that makes any suggestion of violent exertion objectionable, the football Continue reading

The 30th October 1974 will stand forever in the memory of sports fans the world over, for it was on that date that Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” in the heat of Kinshasa, Zaire. Another event happened on that historic evening in 1974 that will never be forgotten by Continue reading

For anyone under the age of 35, matches between the two countries that invented the game of football and who staged what’s regarded as the world’s first ever football international in 1872, have been few and far between. But if you grew up before the mid-1980’s, when for a variety of reasons the fixture unfortunately Continue reading

I recently wrote about Rangers’ move to St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road and as a follow on to that article, shown below is a match report from the Kensington News of their very first game there. Prior to the opening Southern League match of the season against Watford, a friendly was arranged against Grays United: The Continue reading

The team picture shown below was taken from the cover of that popular national football weekly, ‘Soccer Star’. Dated 14th September 1957, the caption reads: ‘Last season, Queen’s Park Rangers enjoyed one of their most successful post-war campaigns and this season, they have started at a cracking pace. Pride of place on our cover this Continue reading

The caption on the back of the photo shown below is dated 28th January 1977 and reads as follows: ‘The waterlogged state of the ground at Loftus Road is causing Queen’s Park Rangers F.C. severe problems. Five matches have had to be postponed because of the state of the ground and unless something can be Continue reading

The pic shown below is dated 27th July 1979 and the caption on the reverse side reads: ‘With the First Division firmly in their sights after last season’s dramatic relegation, Tommy Docherty, the manager and Glenn Roeder the team skipper, are hoping that they’re on their way to putting Queen’s Park Rangers back in the Continue reading

At the end of the 1900-01 season the club were forced to move from the Kensal Rise Athletic Ground because the landlord terminated the lease. Largely thanks to one of the Club’s Directors, T. R. Eagle, the R’s, or I should say the Royalists as they were then, moved to a new ground somewhere off Continue reading