Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Hall (Konchesky), Angella, Perch, Henry, Tozser (Phillips), Chery (Polter), Luongo, El Khayati, Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Diakite, Faurlin, Petrasso Attendance: 14,796 (including 3,664 R’s fans) Good trip, good food, and a nice pint preceded what turned out to be more of the same dross served up to the travelling faithful, who Continue reading
‘The Day Rangers Struck a Blow for League Football’
The Football League Review dated 1st April 1967, declared that our historic League Cup Final victory at Wembley was: ‘The day Rangers struck a blow for league football.’ The article goes on as follows: ‘Desmond Hackett summed it up in the Daily Express, “Queen’s Park Rangers would have beaten the greatest sides in England with Continue reading
QPR (2) – Birmingham City (0)
Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Hall, Angella, Perch, Luongo, Henry, Phillips (Washington), Chery (Tozser), Hoilett (El Khayati), Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Konchesky, Faurlin, Petrasso Attendance: 17,110 A dominant QPR won for the first time in four games to land a blow to Birmingham City’s play-off hopes. Tjaronn Chery scored the first, drilling the ball low in Continue reading
Richmond Association v QPR in 1898 – Rangers Ground Closed for 14 Days after Referee Attacked
FA Cup Preliminary Round Team: Leather, Allen, Hughes (F), Knight, Musslewhite (J), Blyth, Wallington (A), Evans, Brooks, Jones, Wallington (E) QPR’s change from amateur status was most certainly due to the circumstances following various incidents that had occurred during the FA Cup tie at Richmond on 24th September 1898. Sammy Brooks was sent off, the Continue reading
Sheffield Wednesday (1) – QPR (1)
Team: Smithies, Hall, Onuoha, Angella, Perch, Tozser, Luongo, Henry, Phillips, El Khayati (Mackie), Washington (Polter) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Diakite, Chery, Hoilett, Petrasso Attendance: 19,233 (including 326 R’s fans) Atdhe Nuhiu’s header rescued a point for Sheffield Wednesday against QPR as the striker made amends for an earlier penalty miss. Owls striker Gary Hooper was Continue reading
Bolton Wanderers (1) – QPR (1) – ‘It is what it is‚’ – But why is it what it is?
Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Mackie (Polter), Henry (Chery), Luongo, Phillips, Hoilett (El Khayati), Washington Subs Not Used: Ingram, Angella, Tozser, Petrasso Attendance: 14,085 (including 743 R’s fans) It was really nice to meet up with Steve R, JJ, Paul Finney, Michael Whelan and some of my fellow Manchester R’s at the Macron Stadium Continue reading
‘Bucket & Brush’ by Irish Jack (How I got Barred from the Goldhawk Club)
Midway through ’66 with ‘Substitute’ peaking at No.5 in the charts, I was ever the peacock strutted Mod telling the world about ‘The Who’ and how they were my friends. I wasn’t earning a lot of money in any of the legal offices I worked in. Filing clerks were two-a-penny back then and any idiot Continue reading
Remembering Frankie Duguid…
Two years ago today Frankie Duguid sadly passed away after a long illness. I wrote at the time that we had been on many memorable trips around the country following the R’s. Recently, going through a load of my old photos, I found the one shown above. It was taken on the LSA coach as Continue reading
QPR U21 (4) – Bristol City U21 (5)
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Lumley, Springer-Downes, Hamalainen, Rosenthal, Wise, Manning, Prohouly, Butler, N’Guessan, Corkery, Shodipo Subs: Herdman, Blackwood, Darbyshire Eventually I met up with Keith Davies, Roger Stokes and ChrisPTenner. Looking around there was Tom Rosenthal’s father but otherwise it was mainly Scouts. I did speak to a Chinese Student staying in Queensway Continue reading
QPR (1) – Fulham (3) – A Total Shambles!
Team: Smithies, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Phillips (Chery), Luongo, Tozser, Hoilett (El Khayati), Mackie, Polter (Washington) Subs Not Used: Ingram, Hill, Henry, Petrasso Attendance: 17,335 The nature of this defeat hurt deeply. We again managed to show the country, in style, just how poor we are. There is a constant amongst these players…a constant to Continue reading