Category: History

Part One of this article appeared on 17th May and covered the end of Rangers 1975/76 league season, up to the final home game v Leeds United. Here’s the concluding part of the story of that epic season, 35 years ago, when so much was still to occur after Rangers final match of the season. Continue reading

The 2010/11 run proved to be a stressful one, with the results of the FA investigation into the Alejandro Faurlin transfer announced barely 90 minutes before the kick off of the final match of the season at home to Leeds United on 7th May. This year also saw the 35th anniversary of the tensest end Continue reading

On 30th December 1949, the Willesden Chronicle reported that a young QPR amateur had been seriously injured in a gun accident in South Wales: ‘David Samuel, 16-year-old Queen’s Park Rangers amateur left-half was seriously injured in a gun accident near his home at Swansea on Tuesday. Samuel was apparently out shooting when he tripped and Continue reading

Rangers had made a good start to the season winning 3-1 at Wrexham on the Saturday with two goals from Clive Allen and one from Andy King. As I cut through Batman Close, I was surprised at the length of the queue leading to the Loft turnstiles. The official attendance that night was 18,703 and Continue reading

Last year, my summer reading consisted of an interesting book by Jack Rollin called, ‘Soccer at War’ which is a complete account of football in Britain during WW2. Although the angle is football, it also draws an interesting picture of everyday life during the war years.. When Germany attacked Poland on 1st September 1939, the Continue reading

On Tuesday 10th May 1966, Rangers won the London FA Challenge Cup Final for the fourth time. The R’s lifted the trophy at Highbury after an emphatic 4-0 victory. The game kicked off at 7pm and oddly, apart from the line-up, there was no other mention of QPR inside the four page programme ! Sean Continue reading

This Loftus Road fixture was the first of many post-war friendly matches played against Scottish clubs. Subsequent encounters have included matches against the likes of; Kilmarnock, Ayr, Glasgow Rangers, Celtic, Hibernian, Hearts, Arbroath, St Johnstone, both Dundee clubs, Raith Rovers, Motherwell, St Mirren and also Nairn County from the Highland League. This Monday night game Continue reading

In Spring 1886 St Jude’s Institute FC played local rivals Christ Church Rangers in a friendly. After the match, George Wodehouse, a founder member of Christ Church Rangers, suggested on the advice of a friend that the two clubs should merge. He felt that a combined team would be much stronger than either team separately. Continue reading

Part 1 of this interview with John Brooks, a member of the highly successful Rangers Youth Team of the mid 1960’s, was run on 15th January 2011 and this is the second and concluding instalment. After running Part One, Colin Parker and Alan Davies, who were also members of that team, posted some very interesting Continue reading

Alec Stock was appointed QPR manager in the summer of 1959 as the successor to Jack Taylor. Many people at the time felt that his appointment would signal the start of a new and more successful era for the club. Stock won favour immediately by restoring the blue and white hoop shirts that had been Continue reading