Team: Green, Hughes, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto (Benayoun), Traore, Barton, Kranjcar, Hoilett, Doyle, Keane (Zamora). Subs Not Used: Murphy, Onuoha, Henry, Jenas, Maiga. Attendance: 16,522 (including 1,279 away fans) Queen’s Park Rangers’ aspirations of automatic promotion suffered another setback as they lost despite their fellow Premier League hopefuls Reading playing the last 20 minutes with ten 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
Derby County v QPR
Team: Green, Hughes, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, O’Neil (Hoilett), Carroll (Jenas), Barton, Kranjcar, Johnson (Maiga), Doyle. Subs Not Used: Murphy, Traore, Onuoha, Henry. Attendance: 23,495 (including 541 R’s fans) The Derby manager, Steve McClaren, said his jubilant players had only enough energy left to muster a satisfied smile of success, such were their exertions in victory Continue reading
Interview With Nils Guy
SR: Nils, I’ve never forgotten opening up the match programme before the Leicester City game on 22nd November 1969 and reading your letter in which you signed off as: ‘Yours truly, the only QPR supporter in Vietnam’. Can you take us back and tell us where you grew up in England and how you became Continue reading
The First Day of Irish Spring in West London
The first of February is, as every school child in Ireland knows, St. Brigid’s Day, the first day of spring and almost every infant school class will have kids making St. Brigid’s crosses from rushes or straw over the past week. This time around those good people in Ryanair chipped in with a e40 (¬£35) Continue reading
Claret and Phew!!! Rangers share the spoils with Burnley in a belter at Loftus Road
A humdinger of a clash was on the lunchtime menu for Sky viewers who were treated to a topsy-turvy feast of Championship football. The pendulum swung back and forth in a action-packed tie which positively crackled along. And in fact the match was preceded by a topsy-turvy week down at Loftus Road. Thursday saw the Continue reading
Tiger Feet 5 – The Sponsored Walk from Loftus Road to the Valley in Aid of the QPR Tiger Cubs
The fifth Tiger Feet walk takes place on Saturday 22nd February to coincide with the R’s match against Charlton Athletic. Fiona Hodgson forwarded the following details: ‘Following a quartet of resounding success stories over the last four years, QPR in the Community Trust are delighted to confirm details of their latest Tiger Feet walk. When Continue reading
Warren Farm – ‘Campaigners taking fight for Green Space to Court’
The following article was written by James Gates and appeared in this week’s’Ealing & Acton’Gazette: ‘Campaigners are taking Ealing Council to court over allegations it has acted unlawfully over the Warren Farm sports site. Papers were lodged at the High Court yesterday asking for a judicial review into the council’s decision to sign over 61 Continue reading
QPR v Bolton Wanderers – Injury to Charlie Austin Mars Rangers Victory
Team: Green, Traore, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, Phillips, Carroll, Henry, Kranjcar (Wright-Phillips), Johnson, Austin (Zamora). Subs Not Used: Murphy, Ehmer, Diakite, O’Neil, Hoilett Attendance: 15,097 Tuesday night’s performance in the first 45 and last 15 minutes was not good enough and showed that what looks to be a strong side on paper is way off the 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