Jimmy Andrews was an inside forward/winger for the R’s during the 1959/60, 1960/61 and 1961/62 seasons, playing 82 league games for the club and scoring 16 goals. He was signed by Alec Stock from Leyton orient in June 1959, having previously been at West Ham. After injury terminated his playing career he became coach and Continue reading
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In Memory of Pat Woods
Pat Woods was a good full-back and a wonderful club servant for QPR FC. He played over 300 games for Rangers during the 1950’s and early 1960’s, nearly all at right-back and scored in excess of 14 goals in all competitions. He was one of my Loftus Road heroes. In my early days of supporting Continue reading
October 1952: An Outbreak of Malicious Damage at Loftus Road & the QPR v Newport County Match
Team: Brown, Poppitt, Ingham, Clayton, Spence, Farrow, Gilberg, Smith, Addinall, Quinn, Shepherd Attendance: 14,800 ‘Behind the Scenes’ -The Editor begins his programme notes with not one, but two stern warnings: ‘A WARNING – The amount of malicious damage being done at this ground has reached such proportions that drastic steps have to be taken to Continue reading
QPR v Blackburn Rovers – The 1912 Kinnaird Shield Match in Aid of the Titanic Disaster Fund
Team: Shaw, MacDonald, Pullen, Whyman, Mitchell, Wake, Smith (A.R.), Revill, McKie, Thornton, Barnes As Southern League champions again in 1912, Rangers were invited to play in another Charity Shield match. This time they met the Football League champions Blackburn Rovers at White Hart Lane on 4th May, 1912. The match was played in continuous rain Continue reading
‘Yes I Do Dive, But Only to Avoid Injury !’ – Rodney Marsh
The following interview with Rodney Marsh appeared in ‘Shoot’ magazine sometime, I would think, during the 1970-71 season: Q: You have a reputation for being a soccer clown. Is this deserved ? A: It used to be. When I was playing for Fulham I made the crowd laugh purely by chance – I had been Continue reading
Who Was On the Phone ? It was None Other than the Rangers Chairman Jim Gregory !
We followed our memorable semi-final victory over West Brom with a league match three days later versus Orient at Loftus Road, as they were simply called then. They were dispatched by three goals to nil in front of a very disappointing crowd of 10,531. This seemed to be a trend around about the time of Continue reading
The 1982 FA Cup Final Replay: QPR (0) – Tottenham Hotspur (1)
Team: Hucker, Fenwick, Gillard, Waddock, Hazell, Neill, Currie, Flanagan, Micklewhite (Burke), Stainrod, Gregory Attendance: 92,000 Glenn Roeder was suspended and was replaced by Warren Neill. Tony Currie took over the captaincy. Unfortunately Clive Allen was still injured so Gary Micklewhite started in his place. Albert Sewell wrote the following programme notes: ‘The continuation tonight of Continue reading
The 1982 FA Cup Final: QPR (1) – Tottenham Hotspur (1)
Team: Hucker, Fenwick, Gillard, Waddock, Hazell, Roeder, Currie, Flanagan, Allen (Micklewhite), Stainrod, Gregory Attendance: 100,000 Clive Allen’s goal at Highbury secured our place at Wembley and Tottenham had defeated Leicester City 2-0 at Villa Park so the FA Cup Final was to be an all-London affair. Elsewhere, the campaign to re-take the Falklands was still Continue reading
Simon Stainrod on Reaching the 1982 FA Cup Final
The following article was written in 1982 by Anthony Hawkswell who was in conversation with Simon Stainrod ahead of the FA Cup Final. It was extracted from a popular football magazine of the time: “QPR are every bit as good as Tottenham and I’m sure that my skipper Glenn Roeder will be the man holding Continue reading
When QPR Threatened to Quit the FA Cup
Rangers did not compete in the 1926-27 FA Cup competition because the club secretary forgot to submit the entry form in time ! The R’s could of missed out again years later for very different reasons. In 1981 the club installed a plastic pitch at a cost of ¬£350,000 which proved to be very controversial. Continue reading