After Queen’s Park Rangers were finally relegated at the Madejski Stadium, it looked as though the cameras, reporters and tabloids would turn their attentions elsewhere. For the story was over: Rangers had sleepwalked into the Championship, squandering vast sums of money in the process, and a private disintegration was about to begin. Except this is Continue reading
18th January 1919: QPR (3) – Millwall (0)
London Combination (Principal) Team: Denoon, Mitchell, Whyman, Grendon, Wake, Baldock, Jefferson, Smith, Dale, Gregory, Fox Attendance: 6,500 The West London Observer reported on the game as follows: ‘Rangers gained a highly creditable victory at Shepherd’s Bush on Saturday, when they defeated Millwall by three goals to nil. In the absence of Wingrove, Mitchell had to Continue reading
QPR v Arsenal – Please God Let it be Over
So it was the first return to Loftus Road after the hammer came down on QPR’s Premier League tenure last weekend. The mood was understandably sombre and subdued in the warm May sunshine. Fans were, to varying degrees, trying to come to terms with the welter of interviews and press statements coming out of the Continue reading
The Comic Connection – No.9 – Roy of the Rovers – 7th January 1978
This is the fourth time a ‘Roy of the Rovers’ issue has been featured in the series. Mark Dickinson of Accrington won ¬£2 for successfully requesting a picture of Leighton James scoring the first goal in a 2-0 win over Liverpool. ‘Leighton Lashes Home the First Against Liverpool’ ! The caption reads: ‘Leighton James won’t Continue reading
C.D. Crisp – The Shepherd’s Bush Referee who was once pursued across River by an Angry Mob!
In a copy of New Penny Magazine, dated 1st February 1902, there is a wonderful article by A. Wallis Myers on some of the well known first-class referees at the time, including one who happened to come from the Bush. C.D. Crisp is described as ‘one of the most eminent authorities on the game’. So Continue reading
Tony Fernandes Reveals Being Shocked by Players’ Attitudes
With QPR finally relegated on Sunday, Fernandes unloaded yesterday with his true feelings on the embarrassing performances this season of a squad who, collectively, are estimated to have the eighth highest wage bill in the Premier League. “It has shocked me,” Fernandes said. “It’s an alien concept to me that someone takes someone’s salary, doesn’t Continue reading
Reading v QPR – ‘It Felt like both sets of Players had no Desire to Prolong the Agony’
Team: Green, Traore, Hill, Onuoha, Bosingwa (Fabio), Taarabt (Hoilett), Granero, Jenas, Mbia (Mackie), Remy, Bothroyd Subs Not Used: Cesar, Ben Haim, Park, Derry Attendance: 23,388 (including 1,601 R’s fans) In the end Reading and Queen’s Park Rangers conspired to put each other out of their misery. On a day when both knew that nothing less Continue reading
A Testing Two Years
Following a testing two years in the Premier League, Queen’s Park Rangers have become a club that many supporters barely recognise. The top flight adventure has come at a heavy price indeed. On Tuesday, a photograph circulated on social network Instagram, which showed goalkeeper Julio Cesar posing with fellow Brazilian and Chelsea defender David Luiz Continue reading
The Ripley Bros. QPR Card
When Ray’s Jazz Shop was located in Shaftesbury Avenue, there used to be a box of records described as “rare as hen’s teeth” by the counter. This particular card is probably in that category. It is not known exactly how many cards in the Ripley Bros club colours set there are or when they were Continue reading
QPR v Stoke City – Going through the Motions
So it really is all over bar the shouting down at Loftus Road. Not even the most rose-tinted of spectacles could enable the wearer to entertain that there is any hope left in this moribund Premier League campaign. Once again our beloved Hoops meekly capitulated to a poor Stoke side that had the feel of Continue reading