I have around 50 shirts, 4/5 of them are signed. For me the most special one is the play-off final shirt. I was outside the entrance at Loftus Road after the Chesterfield match the season after (03/04), when Steve Russell introduced me (cheers for that Steve!) to the then Club Director, Nick Blackburn. Blackburn brought Continue reading
Category: Memorabilia
The Comic Connection – No. 13 – Roy of the Rovers – 12th August 1978
The Comic Connection – No. 13 – Roy of the Rovers – 12th August 1978 ‘Roy of the Rovers’ has been featured a number of times already in the series and in this issue dated 12th August 1978, Roy Race meets up with John Hollins: Football is a game full of surprises. Nobody can predict Continue reading
The Seventh Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – Alfred Gittins
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This is now the seventh QPR card that I have featured from the first series in 1907. They issued another set the following year and a number of these cards would have included the same players. I have two cards for Alf Continue reading
The 15th Indy R’s Badge is Now Available
My 15th Indy R’s badge features that famous QPR pub, the Crown & Sceptre in Melina Road, Shepherd’s Bush. Limited to just 100, they are priced at ¬£3.00 each and there has already been plenty of early interest. I’m always happy to do mail order and for further details you can email me at: srussell@harrow.ac.uk Continue reading
Dave Thomas on Sir Tom Finney and the 1974 Radio Times Cover Story
MP: What was the story behind you being on the front cover of the Radio Times Dave in August 1974 with Tom Finney? DT: Well it was when Don Revie had left Leeds United to become the new England manager, after Sir Alf Ramsey. The BBC wanted to run an article and I was contacted. Continue reading
The Sixth Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – William Barnes
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This is the sixth QPR card that I have featured from the first series in 1907. These cards were issued with ‘Myrtle Grove’ cigarettes and on the reverse side of the card it reads: ‘A ripe, full flavoured Pipe Tobacco, fine cut. Continue reading
The Comic Connection – No.12 – The Hornet – 8th April 1972
SPORT! ACTION! ADVENTURE! ‘The Hornet’ was published by D.C. Thomson & Co. and ran from 14th September 1963 until 7th February 1976 before merging with ‘The Hotspur’. On 8th April 1972, Issue No. 448 featured Rodney Marsh on the front and back covers in its ‘Hornet Gallery of Sport’. ‘King Bernard’ is first up – Continue reading
The Fifth Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – Jabez (John) White
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This is the fifth QPR card that I have featured from the first series in 1907. On the reverse side of the card it reads: ‘A delightfully cool pipe tobacco, combining the sweetness and fragrance of the better class Virginia Tobaccos with Continue reading
The Comic Connection – No.11 – Roy of the Rovers – 17th December 1977
‘Roy of the Rovers’ has previously been featured four times so far in this series and this edition is dated 17th December 1977. QPR v Nottm. Forest was the ‘Big Action’ on the back page and the caption reads: ‘This exciting aerial action at Loftus Road shows Forest’s Kenny Burns and Dave Needham of QPR Continue reading
The Fourth Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – Joseph Fidler
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This is the fourth QPR card I have featured from the first series in 1907. On the reverse side of the card it reads: “These cards are issued with Taddy’s ‘Myrtle Grove’ medium cigarettes”. Joseph Fidler was born in Sheffield in 1885. Continue reading