The U18’s got back to winning ways the previous week with a 2-1 win at Coventry. From 0-1 down at half-time, Steve Gallen’s side won the match with two goals after the interval from Cole Kpekawa. For their next game at Harlington last Saturday, Rangers lined up as follows: Team: Smith, Furlong, Kakay, Comley, Wise, 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
QPR v Derby County – R’s Midfield Dominate in Demolition Derby
QPR ‘s excellent home form continued with a well-deserved 2-1 victory against Derby County in an entertaining early November encounter at Loftus Road. It keeps Rangers biting at the heels of fellow promotion hunters Burnley and Leicester City as the Championship table begins to take a settled look about it. Rangers came into the game Continue reading
Wigan Athletic v QPR – A Night of Missed Opportunities and Poor Decision Making all Round
Wigan and QPR played out a dull goalless draw at the DW Stadium with both teams missing out on the 3 points as they try and play catch up with the top two. This game was the only fixture in the Championship midweek, having been put back 28 days due to Wigan’s debut European venture. Continue reading
‘You don’t want to see that Rubbish – Come with me to Loftus Road to see Rangers get Promotion to Division One’
The following letter was written by Kevin Conlon to Ron Phillips and appeared in its entirety in the Ipswich Town match programme on 12th April 1974. One of the things I love about it is how Kevin describes student writing paper exactly how he became an R’s fan after a chance meeting with a bus Continue reading
Burnley v QPR – Unbeaten league record goes on a frustrating Lancashire afternoon
Team: Green, Simpson, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, Henry (Jenas), O’Neil (Chevanton), Barton, Kranjcar (Phillips), Hoilett, Austin. Subs Not Used: Murphy, Onyewu, Traore, Faurlin. Attendance: 16,074 This was the only QPR league fixture this season where I have not seen the R’s dominate play. Right from the kick-off we were never really in it. Overall Rangers lacked Continue reading
‘It Ain’t all Lavender’ – The Life Story of a very Ordinary Professional Footballer by F. B. Pentland
Frederick Beaconsfield Pentland was a colourful character and certainly no ordinary footballer. He later serialised his career over a number of weeks in ‘All Sports Weekly’. I only have part of this one edition which is dated 3rd December 1921: ‘I concluded last week by remarking that footballers who took things cosy during the close Continue reading
Millwall v QPR – Rangers Denied Victory in Added Time
Team: Green, Simpson, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, O’Neil, Kranjcar (Faurlin) – (Jenas), Barton, Henry, Hoilett (Phillips), Austin. Subs Not Used: Murphy, Traore, Ehmer, Cheventon. Attendance: 13,727 On a day when I’d taken a draw before the game, we got just that, but it felt like a loss. Given that we were in control for the vast Continue reading
QPR U18 (0) – Nottingham Forest U18 (1)
The U18’s came into this match with a magnificent unbeaten start to the season. The latest opponents, Nottingham Forest, were one of the sides that had been added to the fixture list last month. Rangers lined up as follows: Smith, Furlong, Kakay, Comley, Wise, Kpekawa, Young, Mitchell, Butler, Shodipo, Grego-Cox. Within minutes, Cole Kpekawa was Continue reading
Independent R’s named by Londonist.com as ‘best QPR blog‚’
We are both surprised and honoured to be named by the Londonist.com website in a list of the best London football blogs http://londonist.com/2013/10/londons-best-football-bloggers.php The article, entitled “London’s Best Football Bloggers”, cited one blog / website per London league club. It praised the Independent R’s site as follows: The writing standard on the site is excellent Continue reading