In this day of wall-to-wall football, with every conceivable game from almost every country on dozens of channels and all the other associated programming that goes with it, it seems weird that 25 years ago this very weekend there was great excitement about a football related programme on our television screens. Especially in our little Continue reading
Category: History
Tony Currie’s Sentimental Journey
The following article appeared in ‘Shoot’ magazine in 1979: ‘It had been quite a day for Tony Currie. After putting in a hard morning’s training with Tommy Docherty and his new mates at QPR, he went back to the London streets he knew as a boy for a sentimental journey. “It was always my dream Continue reading
Bobby Cameron of Queen’s Park Rangers says: ‘You are never too Young to Start‚’
The following article dates from the 1950’s and I think it appeared in ‘Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly’: ‘Can you remember your sixth birthday ? I can. My home was in Greenock, and the local Well Park was a favourite childhood haunt. One day I walked into the park and asked a group of older boys Continue reading
QPR’s First Continental Tour in 1912: Part Two – Germany
On Thursday 9th May, the QPR party set off from Paris at 8 o’clock in the morning and arrived in Saarbrucken in time for dinner. Apart from the pics in the French magazine: “La Vie Au Grand Air” that I included in part one, I also managed to pick up around the same time a Continue reading
Gary Bannister: The Rarely Mentioned Legend – Part Two
The less said about “Black Sunday” at Wembley in the Milk Cup Final against Oxford United the better ! Rangers had done all the hard work in beating Hull City, Watford, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea and Liverpool on the way to the Twin Towers, but didn’t show up on the day. Bannister was totally ineffective, disillusioned Continue reading
QPR Screen References: No.18 – ‘Red Dwarf’ – Episode: ‘Pete – Part 1’
‘Red Dwarf’ is a sort of science fiction based sitcom which first hit the screens on BBC Two in 1988. Later, the TV Channel ‘Dave’ decided to resurrect the show in 2008 when they commissioned the production of three episodes which were screened the following year. Although I’m not a fan of the show I Continue reading
Gary Bannister: The Rarely Mentioned Legend – Part One
The spring of 1984 was not the best of times in Great Britain. The miners were at loggerheads with Maggie Thatcher’s government over pit closures, leading to violence between striking miners and the police at picket lines, WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed during a siege at the Libyan Embassy and unemployment reached a Continue reading
15th September 1979: Swansea City (1) – QPR (2)
Team: Woods, Shanks, Gillard, McCreery, Hazell, Roeder, Bowles, Goddard, Allen, Harkouk (Waddock), Burke Attendance: 16,000 The R’s had lost their first two away league games of the season, but on 15th September 1979 they recorded a 2-1 win at Vetch Field. John Burgum wrote the following match report for the local newspaper: ‘Defender Nigel Stevenson Continue reading
The 1983 Launch of the QPR /Guinness Sponsorship Deal
The News Release shown below is dated 17th August 1983 and the photo caption reads: ‘A giant bottle of Guinness was signed by both Ernest Saunders (left) Chief Executive of Guinness, and Terry Venables, Manager of Queen’s Park Rangers, to celebrate the launch of their ¬£450,000 sponsorship deal at the club’s Loftus Road ground.’ In Continue reading
QPR Screen References: No.17 – ‘Boys From The Bush’ – Episode: ‘Tall Poppies’
‘Tall Poppies’ was the fourth episode from the first series and was transmitted onto our screens on 15th February 1991. Reg’s daughter Arlene has just streaked across the pitch during a Test Match “to get herself noticed” and the fact that it was shown on television certainly helped. Although Reg is naturally horrified, his business Continue reading