As I write this, exactly one year ago my wife, children and I embarked on a new adventure to live a life abroad in my wife’s native homeland, Brazil. We were due to fly out on the Monday morning (24th October) and I had only just come out of hospital the previous Friday after a Continue reading
Stan the Man: A Footballer in Limbo – ‘Street Life’ Article from June 1976 – Part Two
This article/interview titled: ‘Stan the Man: A Footballer in Limbo’ first appeared in ‘Street Life’ in issue No. 17, Volume 1 and was dated June 12 – 23, 1976: ‘In such good company, Bowles had a wonderful first season in the top division. He scored 19 goals, Rangers finished comfortably in the middle of the Continue reading
QPR v Reading – Another Nightmare for the Dream Factory
November ushered in several firsts at Loftus Road; the appearance of the yellow ball, the first truly ‘taters’ day at hoops headquarters, and the first game that by common consensus QPR had to win. The changes to the R’s line-up were generally approved by the fans. Ferdinand replaced the banned Mbia and Djibril Cisse came Continue reading
Alan McDonald Tribute Game at Seaview, Belfast – 10th September 2012
Northern Ireland X1 v Queen’s Park Rangers X1 When I heard that a game was to be played in tribute to Alan McDonald in Belfast I knew it was a match I had to be at – a game for one of my all-time favourite players. My old school friend Darren Clark and I booked Continue reading
My Thoughts on the Season So Far
We are nearly one quarter of the way through the current Premier League season and I’m reminded of the immortal words of Mark Hughes almost daily – uttered after a nail-biting climax to the 2011/12 season which saw us retain our Premier League status courtesy of Stoke beating Bolton on the final day. Hughes vowed Continue reading
Arsenal v QPR – A Little Bit of History Repeating
It was with a mixture of pride, anger and frustration that the 3,000 R’s trudged away from the Emirates on Saturday afternoon; Pride at the Tiger Cubs walk which encapsulates so much that is special about QPR; Pride at the battling display that this team had put up against the predictions of the pundits for Continue reading
Tiger Feet 4 – The Sponsored Walk to the Emirates in Aid of the QPR Tiger Cubs
Fiona Hodgson is the Business Development Manager for QPR in the Community Trust and she forwarded us the following details regarding Saturday’s ‘Tiger Feet’ walk to the Emirates: ‘QPR in the Community Trust’s last three sponsored walk events have been a great success. Our first ‘Tiger Feet’ walk was to Crystal Palace, in the second Continue reading
Oh Sparky, How We Were Right
It took a mere two minutes on Sunday for Junior Hoilett, recalled to the Queen’s Park Rangers side for the first time in the league since Tottenham Hotspur away this time last month, to make his mark. In stark contrast to Shaun Wright-Phillips, who has been largely anonymous and bafflingly ever-present thus far, he attacks Continue reading
QPR v Everton – Once Again We Gave Away a Soft Goal and Ran Out of Ideas in the Final Third
Team: Cesar, Traore (Onuoha), Mbia, Nelsen (Ferdinand), Bosingwa, Diakite, Park, Taarabt, Granero, Hoilett, Zamora (Cisse) Subs Not Used: Green, Faurlin, Mackie, Wright-Phillips Attendance: 17,959 When I saw the team sheet and subsequent bench, I thought it looked a very decent side, however, once again there too many players who didn’t perform. Zamora…not only did he Continue reading
‘Defenders Who Keep Me Guessing’ by Tom Cheetham of Queen’s Park Rangers F.C.
Last year, Colin Woodley kindly sent me a fascinating article regarding Tommy Cheetham that had appeared as part of a series in ‘Football Weekly’ in 1936. No others from the series have yet surfaced, but I did get my hands on another periodical that features the legendary centre-forward. The following article appeared in ‘Topical Times’ Continue reading