Ray Drinkwater sadly passed away on 24th March, aged 76. He was the first QPR keeper I ever saw and he made 214 league and cup appearances for the R’s before moving on to Bath City. Michael Woodley kindly sent me the image of the Northway Youth Club team in Guildford. Ray is shown third Continue reading
Category: History
The Opening Of The New Stand At Loftus Road In 1938
The match against Crystal Palace on 29th October, 1938 marked the opening of the new Stand in the Loftus Road End. The programme notes began with an appreciation from a Shareholder. Seventy years on, we have entered a new era of even greater magnitude: ‘Today will undoubtedly stand out as a red-letter day in the Continue reading
Saturday 11th May 1968 – Second Account
The last game of the Season, and as an 11 year old, it all seemed so simple to me. All we had to do was play Aston Villa away, beat them, and we would be in the ‘Promised Land’ (the old First Division) for the first time in our history. I was lucky enough to Continue reading
Gentleman Jim
We received the very sad news in December that Jim Langley had died. I remember him as a great character, a gentleman and a QPR legend. The sliding tackles, those almighty throws and the spectacular bicycle kicks. The overlapping full back who always seemed to have a smile on his face. I couldn’t attend the Continue reading
Saturday 11th May 1968
This is the first in a new series of personal accounts to commemorate that historic day at Villa Park 40 years ago. Thanks also to Bernard for scanning some of the pics from his West London Observer souvenir supplement. The clarity isn’t the best but the images are wonderful and I will use as many Continue reading
The Club Census 40 Years Ago
On the 6th April 1968, our opponents at Loftus Road were Carlisle United and in the match programme that day were the results of a census taken of the QPR fan base. How extensive this sample was I don’t know but it would have certainly been very different if there had been one taken ten Continue reading
The President’s 17th International Cup Tournament
This annual Korean Tournament started in 1971. Originally, the participating national and club teams were mainly invited from Asia. The R’s represented Great Britain in June 1988 and the other fifteen teams were made up of Olympic, national and club sides from:- Mexico, Zambia, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Peru, Yugoslavia, USA, USSR, Nigeria, Iraq, Argentina, Hungary Continue reading
QPR Screen References: No.8 – ‘Minder’
Episode: ‘Don’t Tell Them That Willie Boy Was Here’ This is the eighth in the series and the second so far to feature ‘Minder’. This Episode was the fourth in Series 2 and was first transmitted on 9th October 1980, Paul Barber plays Willie Reynolds, a boxer known as ‘The Mersey Mouth’ who retired as Continue reading
Roma (Alec Stock’s Italian Adventure) Final Part
There were other complications too. I had little idea of the form and background of my own players, and I knew next to nothing about our opposition. I could not go out and take a look at them either, because football was played only on Sundays in Rome and our next opposition was always playing Continue reading
Roma (Alec Stock’s Italian Adventure)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the wall. A.S.Roma, the Italian First Division Club, appointed me team manager in August 1957 because they felt they needed the iron fist of an English manager; and Leyton Orient agreed to release me from a ten-year contract because they believed that when I returned Continue reading