Team: Lumley, Downes, Buck, Hubble, Wise, Kpekawa, Comley, Mitchell, Petrasso, Skapetis, Fitzpatrick. The temperature was still rising at Harlington as the R’s first match in the U18’s Professional Development League 2 (South) got underway. David Fitzpatrick captained the side and the match officials wore florescent bibs in contrast to Charlton’s black away kit. Rangers got Continue reading
July 1978 – Rangers’ Previous First Team Visit to Germany
As part of a series of articles where the Indy R’s look back at previous QPR visits to Germany, I interviewed Robin Haldane about the last visit that the first team made to Germany – 34 years ago in 1978 when Robin attended the first three matches of five games played in total. 1978/79 was Continue reading
‘Tis the Season to be Joey
It was November 2011. Everyone thought Bradley Wiggins was a character from a Charles Dickens book, Kim Jong-il was feeling “alright, thanks – can’t complain” and Queen’s Park Rangers were playing well. It’s hard to think that these events even happened, let alone less than a year ago. It seems so long and inaccurate it Continue reading
The Trip to Augsburg
After landing at Munich Airport, Martin Percival and I headed immediately to one of the local beer gardens before taking the train to Augsburg. ChrisPTenner met us outside the station and we walked the short distance to the hotel. After checking in, we sat outside for a very welcome beer with Ron Hill and Chris. Continue reading
Season Review: Final Part – May 2012
We are now facing the moment of truth – two games left ! One is a home game on Saturday 6th May against gritty Stoke. The other is the little matter of an away trip, on Sunday 13th May, to title hopefuls Manchester City. Will we have enough in the locker so that, as the Continue reading
Wycombe Wanderers (0) – QPR (3)
Team: Green, Onuoha, Ferdinand, Hill, Traore (Ephraim), Mackie (Johnson), Park (Derry), Fabio, Wright-Phillips (Doughty), Taarabt (Dyer), Cisse (Zamora) Subs Not Used: Murphy, Ehmer, Connolly, Harriman Attendance: 3,787 Gary Waddock had said ahead of the game: “QPR is a great football club and I had a number of years there and it was a big part Continue reading
Hanwell Town (0) – QPR U18 (0)
Team: Joe Lumley, Darnell Furlong, Jordan Buck, Brandon Comley, Harly Wise, Cole Kpekawa, Conor Hubble, Abdul Adegbola, Michael Petrasso, Petros Skapetis, David Fitzpatrick. Looking down the team sheet I noticed that the Hanwell squad included our ex-Youth team player, Terry Smith who was listed at No.6. Of the 21 named R’s players I knew around Continue reading
Heidar Helguson – Portrait of a Flawed Club Legend
The news broke on Wednesday evening that Heidar Helguson had departed Queen’s Park Rangers to join Cardiff City for an undisclosed fee. Given the enmity existing between the two sides – following Rangers Championship win two years ago and Cardiff’s play-off final success – it would be akin to treason to wish for the Icelandic Continue reading
Season Review – April 2012
We headed north on Sunday 8th April for an Easter weekend fixture at Old Trafford which was, once again, to be shown on Sky Sports at lunchtime. (I am certain we were being punished by all these lunchtime kick-offs way up north !) That we lost the game 0-2 after spending the vast majority of Continue reading
I Had a Dream (Growing Up In the Bush Saga)
I have produced various items for this site which have covered my growing up period from 1946 (from 1950 in Shepherd’s Bush). Several contributors of more tender years than I have commented on the uncluttered (but deprived !) times we lived in. For those of you who grew up from the late 60’s onwards I Continue reading