I awoke that sunny spring morning and made every effort to convince myself that I was not still dreaming. The R’s were at Wembley in the League Cup Final. My ten years of dedicated support was about to be rewarded. The first thing I did was to rush round to the Newsagents in Askew Road Continue reading
Category: History
Saturday 4th March 1967 – Second Account
I was 19 at the time and the years between 1964 and 1968 I think, were the best ever (I hope my wife understands) Everything was great, we were a Club on the up, Gregory was Chairman, Stock was the Manager, Keen was Captain and for a 3rd Division team, we had one of the Continue reading
QPR Screen References: No.1 – ‘Minder’ – Episode: ‘The Bengal Tiger’.
The first in a series of short screen references to the R’s over the years, is from an early episode of the popular TV series, ‘Minder’ and titled, ‘The Bengal Tiger’ In it, Terry acts as a minder for an Asian Newsagent in West London. A group of Indians are seeking revenge over a proposed Continue reading
Saturday 4th March 1967
What follows is the first in a series of personal accounts of the events of Saturday, 4th March 1967. My own recollections of that memorable day are patchy to say the least so I will leave it to others to write about the greatest day in the history of Queen’s Park Rangers FC. The first Continue reading
William Keech
He was born in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, in either 1872 or 1876 ? William Keech was signed from Leicester Fosse in August 1899 and made his debut for the Rangers in September against Tottenham. By all accounts he was quite a character and a very good athlete winning three handicaps and numerous boxing titles. His brother Ben, played for the Reserves.