I recently wrote about Rangers’ move to St. Quintin Avenue/Latimer Road and as a follow on to that article, shown below is a match report from the Kensington News of their very first game there. Prior to the opening Southern League match of the season against Watford, a friendly was arranged against Grays United: The Continue reading
Exeter City v QPR – Capital One Cup 1st Round
Team: Murphy, Simpson, Dunne, Hill, Suk-Young, Jenas, Barton, Hoilett (Wright-Phillips), Faurlin (Derry), Zamora (Johnson), Austin Subs Not Used: Green, Onuoha, Ehmer, Henry Attendance: 5,253 (including 798 R’s fans) The following match report was written by Nigel Walrond for the Telegraph: ‘Summer signings Charlie Austin and Danny Simpson scored as Queen’s Park Rangers brushed past Exeter Continue reading
QPR v Sheffield Wednesday – New Season, New Hope, New Rangers ?
Balmy sunshine greeted Queen’s Park Rangers back into the second tier of English football at Loftus Road on Saturday afternoon. One of the few benefits of the Championship is the welcome pervasion of the 3 o’clock kick-off and the buzz of being part of a healthy league programme of simultaneous games. As expected, there was Continue reading
QPR Fans Meet-Up on 24th August at the Turf Bar in Melbourne for the Live Screening of the Bolton Wanderers Match
NZ Ranger has organised the third Melbourne R’s meet-up at the Turf Bar in Queen Street for the live screening of the match against Bolton Wanderers later this month. Although the first two were very successful they have yet to see a Rangers goal, but he has a feeling that this will soon change ! Continue reading
The Third Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card – Albert Rogers
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cigarette cards in their Prominent Footballer series. This is the third QPR card to be featured from the first series issued in 1907. The reverse side of the card reads: “Grapnel Mixture2 – A delightfully cool Pipe Tobacco, combining the sweetness & fragrance of the better class Virginia Continue reading
Down at the ‘Bush’ in 1957 with Queen’s Park Rangers
The team picture shown below was taken from the cover of that popular national football weekly, ‘Soccer Star’. Dated 14th September 1957, the caption reads: ‘Last season, Queen’s Park Rangers enjoyed one of their most successful post-war campaigns and this season, they have started at a cracking pace. Pride of place on our cover this Continue reading
The Southend Calm after the QPR Storm
QPR put behind them a turbulent week of off-the-field events with a professional yet confident 3-1 victory over League Two Southend United at Roots Hall on a balmy summers evening in Essex. Being a West London born R’s fan now living and working in Basildon, Essex, most of my journeys to watch QPR involve at Continue reading
Staines Town v QPR EDS XI
Team: Lennox, Magri, Monthe, Laurent, Young, Ben Haim, Balanta, Doughty, Hitchcock, Ephraim, Andrade This was my first visit to Wheatsheaf Park and the programme noted that the R’s had played Staines on three previous occasions. The first occasion was on 15th April 1944 against Staines Vale, as they were then, at their ‘Lino ground to Continue reading
Udinese v QPR
Team: Green, Simpson (Harriman), Hill (Ehmer), Onuoha, Suk-Young, Park (Mbia), Faurlin (Granero), Jenas (Derry), Hoilett (Sutherland), Johnson (Sharif), Zamora (Wright-Phillips) Sub Not Used: Murphy Friend of mine, Pedja and me travelled by bus for eight hours from Belgrade to Ljubljana and arrived in the Slovenian capital on Friday morning. Had a few hours of rest Continue reading
QPR were Trying to Solve their Water Problems in January 1977
The caption on the back of the photo shown below is dated 28th January 1977 and reads as follows: ‘The waterlogged state of the ground at Loftus Road is causing Queen’s Park Rangers F.C. severe problems. Five matches have had to be postponed because of the state of the ground and unless something can be Continue reading