Category: History

The 1929-30 season is best known for being the season that George Goddard scored 37 goals in 41 league matches – a goals-per-games ratio that is unlikely to ever be matched by another Rangers striker – and also for being the season when Loftus Road was closed due to crowd disturbances with the home game Continue reading

It was a mini-sized newspaper, cost 2d (two old pence) and hit the streets on a Thursday. In 1935, the 30th November edition of ‘Sports Budget’ included a very interesting insight into some of the players and characters at the club as part of a series titled, ‘Round the Grounds – With Peeping Tom.’ Apart Continue reading

Apart from the servicemen that were associated with playing for QPR and tragically lost their lives serving their Country, there must also have been many R’s fans too including two that were killed this year in Afghanistan. In April, the following article was written by Juliet Eysenck and appeared in the local Gazette: ‘A solemn Continue reading

One of the matches played during the Summer Tour in 1986 was in the small Swedish town of Hoganas, the place where I have lived all my life. Hoganas, with a population of about 25,000, is located in the south of Sweden, 15 miles north of Helsingborg and 50 miles north of Malmo, Sweden’s third Continue reading

Jim Towers was a prolific goal scoring forward in the lower reaches of the Football League for various clubs including Brentford, QPR and Aldershot, spanning the period from 1954 to 1965. His main role was in the Centre Forward/Inside Forward slot but he sometimes operated on the left wing. Although Jim was a supreme goal Continue reading

Team: Richardson, Clement, Gillard, Hollins, Howe, Roeder, Shanks, Francis, Eastoe, Bowles, Goddard. Sub: Busby Atendance: 25,871 This was our second league victory at Stamford Bridge but it wasn’t enough to keep us up. Pat Needham wrote the following report for the Sunday Mirror: ‘Substitute Martyn Busby appeared like a fairy godmother to guide Rangers to Continue reading

Today marks the anniversary of the friendly in Marburg, Germany on 20th July, 1975, the pre-season result that was the prelude to Rangers’ serious push on the 1976/76 Championship. ‘Bild’- the German market leading newspaper, the biggest selling daily paper in Europe in 1975 (and still is today in 2010) wrote:- ‘In front of 7,500 Continue reading

Team: Parkes, Clement, Gillard, Masson, McLintock, Webb, Thomas, Francis, Beck, Bowles, Givens. Sub: Shanks Attendance: 38,917 John Hollins captained the opposition and Ray Wilkins also played. Ken Jones’s match report appeared in the Sunday Mirror the following day: ‘Dave Sexton was delighted, but he wouldn’t let it show. Gloating is not his style. “I was Continue reading

Inside the back pages of the Daily Mirror dated, 25th February, 1987, Harry Harris wrote exclusively about Terry Venables and his consortium’ s bid to take over at Rangers from Jim Gregory. It would have been interesting to have known who else was behind the bid ? ‘Terry Venables last night revealed how he lost Continue reading

Tony Ingham, QPR legend, loyal club servant, first-class left back, captain and one of the true gentlemen of football. This is no hype I can assure you. Following his transfer from Leeds United, Tony played a record 514 league games for the R’s over the period from June 1950 to May 1963 and scored 3 Continue reading