Team: Cesar, Hill, Onuoha (Hoilett), Nelsen, Mbia, Park (Diakite), Granero, Faurlin, Zamora, Cisse, Wright-Phillips (Taarabt) Subs Not Used: Green, Ehmer, Mackie, Ephraim Attendance: 17,363 (including 1,681 away fans) Many R’s fans began calling for Adel Taarabt, and when he was finally introduced, he immediately made an impact. He started to wave his magic wand without Continue reading
James Patrick Andrews: 1st February 1927 – 12th September 2012
Jimmy Andrews was an inside forward/winger for the R’s during the 1959/60, 1960/61 and 1961/62 seasons, playing 82 league games for the club and scoring 16 goals. He was signed by Alec Stock from Leyton orient in June 1959, having previously been at West Ham. After injury terminated his playing career he became coach and Continue reading
QPR v Reading – Capital One Cup 3rd Round
Team: Cesar, Dyer (Nelsen), Mbia, Hill, Onuoha, Mackie, Granero, Faurlin (Diakite), Park (Zamora), Hoilett, Cisse Subs Not Used: Green, Derry, Ehmer, Wright-Phillips Attendance: 11,562 (including 1,495 away fans) I arrived in the Crown & Sceptre nice and early and was later joined by Steve Zico, Bradleyog and Simon Staal from Sweden. Rangers got off to Continue reading
QPR’s Fringe Players Begin to Break into the Mainstream
Injuries have begun to stretch the Queen’s Park Rangers squad thin. The absence of Anton Ferdinand on Sunday brought about a return for Clint Hill, while Kieron Dyer replaced the injured Jose Bosingwa at full-back. Adel Taarabt, Jamie Mackie and Junior Hoilett have all been left out of the side at one point or another Continue reading
Tottenham Hotspur (2) – QPR (1) – Gutted and Yet Proud !
Team: Cesar, Hill, Onuoha, Nelsen, Bosingwa (Dyer), Park, Wright-Phillips (Mackie), Granero, Hoilett, Faurlin, Zamora (Cisse). Subs Not Used: Green, Ehmer, Derry, Diakite, Attendance: 36,052 I got home from Spurs and dived into a very hot shower to warm up ! And to try to spend some quiet time trying to work out just how we Continue reading
The North Pole Pub Will Be Ceremoniously Wrapped in ‘Crime Scene Do Not Enter’ Tape and There Will Be a Show of Local Dissatisfaction on Saturday to Plans for a Tesco Express Store
The North Pole is an historic pub on the corner of Latimer Road and North Pole Road, but now, it is sadly boarded up. There had been rumours for some time that firstly Sainsbury ‘s were interested in the site, but now there are plans to turn the pub into a Tesco Express store. The Continue reading
QPR U21 (3) – Barnet U21 (2)
U21 Professional Development League Two – South Team: Lennox, Harriman, Magri, Parmenter, Ehmer, Sutherland, Andrade, Doughty, Hewitt, Balanta, Sharif After losing their first game in this league 0-1 against Charlton, Rangers bounced back to win their next two against Millwall and Cardiff City respectively. On Saturday, the R’s lined up as above, with no over-age Continue reading
QPR (0) – Chelsea (0) – A Draw That Felt Like a Win
Team: Cesar, Bosingwa, Nelsen, Ferdinand, Fabio (Onuoha), Wright-Phillips (Cisse), Park, Granero, Faurlin, Zamora, Johnson (Mackie) Subs Not Used: Green, Taarabt, Dyer, Hoilett Attendance: 18,271 On a day when HQ was simply buzzing, we almost got what we deserved…3 points. Before a ball was even kicked and to the delight of the fans, Anton Ferdinand did Continue reading
In Memory of Pat Woods
Pat Woods was a good full-back and a wonderful club servant for QPR FC. He played over 300 games for Rangers during the 1950’s and early 1960’s, nearly all at right-back and scored in excess of 14 goals in all competitions. He was one of my Loftus Road heroes. In my early days of supporting Continue reading
Mike Rigg’s New Structure is Almost in Place – Dave McIntyre Explains All
Mike Rigg’s major re-structuring of the club is reportedly almost complete. Dave McIntyre explains all in his recent comprehensive article for West London Sport (I wonder what Alec Stock would have made of all this ?) – Steve Russell ‘Four-and-a- half months since his appointment as technical director, the basic model which Mike Rigg has Continue reading