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
The Irish R’s Meet-Up on 9th November 2013 will now be held at Breathnachs Bar in Kilkenny City
The venue for the Irish R’s meet-up on 9th November for the live screening of our away match against Reading has had to be changed. It was going to be held in O’Driscolls Bar in the village of Graiguenamanagh, but because of the numbers now wishing to attend Eamonn has had to find somewhere else. Continue reading
R’s Fan Andy Morley Runs a Hotel & Activities Company in Blackpool
Andy Morley has helped many R’s fans over the years with accommodation etc. in Blackpool and with our forthcoming match there on 14th December, he put up the following message on Facebook:- ‘I have put together some packages as I run a hotel activities company. I have booked Rangers fans in Blackpool previously and I Continue reading
Austin Double has Barnsley Sliding on their Knees
QPR’s impressive start to life back in the Championship continued with another victory, this time against bottom of the table Barnsley at Loftus Road. Many R’s fans eyed this fixture as an opportunity for Harry Redknapp’s men to improve upon a goal tally to complement the excellent work in preventing goals being conceded. There were Continue reading
It’s triffic ‘Arry, but it ain’t a Fans Forum – 3 October 2013
forum, n – a place of public discussion Okay, I risk getting a lot of people’s backs up by kicking off with a negative. The club has done a good job this year engaging more with fans through the first fans forum and meetings with fan groups and websites. This has been a huge step Continue reading
From 1954 – Eric Linden Spots a Winning QPR Team
The following article was written by Eric Linden and appeared in ‘Soccer Star’ on 6th March 1954:- ‘Queen’s Park Rangers can’t score goals. Everybody said it, and no wonder. Hadn’t Rangers just gone through a spell of ten games during which they had failed to hit the back of the net on nine (actually eight Continue reading
Leslie Thomas – Once a Ranger (Not) Always a Ranger ?
The following article, titled: ‘On With the Show’, was written by the author Leslie Thomas and appeared in the match programme dated 9th March 1974 (FA Cup 6th Round against Leicester City): ‘There are times when I truly wish I supported an ordinary team. Staggering away from yet another Loftus Road melodrama with Coventry City, Continue reading
QPR vs Middlesbrough – Three points clear, and what? You mean there’s room for improvement?
Queen’s Park Rangers reached their final fixture of September top of the league with twenty points – a fantastic return given the patchy nature of some of their performances. So far the Superhoops haven’t taken flight in footballing terms, grinding out results in tough, tight games. This was typified by the previous game in Yeovil Continue reading
QPR’s First Southern League Match at St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road on 7th September 1901
Team: Collins, Newlands, Aston, Freeman, Bowman, Edwards, King, Pryce, Millar, McQueen, Seeley. Attendance: 5,000 The following match report appeared in the Kensington News: Disappointment was written on the faces of the majority of those four or five thousand who witnessed the meeting between the Queen’s Park Rangers and Watford representatives at Notting Hill on Saturday. Continue reading
Yeovil Town v QPR – Winning ugly in the West Country…
Team: Green, Simpson, Dunne, Hill, Assou-Ekotto, Traore (Wright-Phillips), O’Neil (Barton), Carroll, Jenas, Phillips (Kranjcar), Austin Subs Not Used: Murphy, Ehmer, Faurlin, Henry Attendance: 9,108 (including 2,105 R’s fans) As I sat in the traffic jam of rubberneckers crawling past Stonehenge on the A303 to Yeovil, I couldn’t help making comparisons between the ancient monument and Continue reading