This cigarette card is the fourth in the series and features one of our goalkeepers from the mid-1900’s.Cohen Weenen & Co. was a small tobacco company based in London. They produced their first set of cards in 1901. Then in 1906, Series No.2 of: ‘Owners, Jockeys, Footballers, Cricketers,’ was issued. This set of 50 cards Continue reading
Blackburn Rovers v QPR
Team: Kenny, Hall (Gabbidon), Taiwo, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Traore, Buzsaky (Mackie), Taarabt, Barton, Wright-Phillips, Zamora Subs Not Used: Cerny, Hill, Derry, Bothroyd, Smith Attendance: 20,252 The 1st half was simply unacceptable against a team who had what we lacked in abundance….hunger, desire, passion and a will to win….Jamie Mackie apart. You have to earn the right Continue reading
QPR Line Up Move in Bid to Secure Academy Status
The following article was written by Ian Cooper and appeared in this week’s Brent & Kilburn Times: ‘The Premier League’s new Elite Player Performance Plan promises to change the face of youth football in England, and nowhere more so than at QPR. The EPPP scheme, which was voted through by the Football League in October, Continue reading
QPR v Wolverhampton Wanderers – Hughes Gets the Blues as Cisse Sees Red
Mick McCarthy’s Wolves won their first league match since the first week of November by coming back from a goal behind against ten-man QPR at Loftus Road. Second-half goals from Matt Jarvis and substitute Kevin Doyle may have relieved the pressure on McCarthy, but he owes a huge dollop of gratitude to QPR’s new signing Continue reading
Aston Villa v QPR
Team: Kenny, Young, Taiwo, Ferdinand, Onuoha, Derry (Ephraim), Mackie, Barton, Wright-Phillips, Hulse (Smith), Cisse (Macheda) Subs Not Used: Cerny, Hill, Hall, Balanta Attendance: 32,063 (including 1,495 R’s fans) We were not lucky to win a point. The result was a fair reflection. Rangers played them off the pitch for the first 45 minutes. We looked Continue reading
Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly Star Strip Featuring Les Allen in July 1967
This full page cartoon strip by R. Bond appeared in Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly in July 1967. It features Les Allen who had arrived from White Hart Lane in the summer of 1965 for what was then a record club fee of ¬£21,000. With Jim Gregory at the helm, there were a number of other Continue reading
QPR v Chelsea
FA Cup 4th Round Team: Kenny, Hill, Young, Hall, Ferdinand, Mackie, Buzsaky (Hulse), Barton, Smith, Wright-Phillips, Helguson (Macheda) Subs Not Used: Cerny, Orr, Derry, Ephraim, Onuoha Attendance: 15,728 (including 3,114 visitors) Not a great performance from the R’s and I had the feeling that Chelsea did not really get out of second gear. I’d have Continue reading
Brann Bergen (0) – Queen’s Park Rangers (7) – 29th September 1976 – Brann Stadium, Bergen
Team: Phil Parkes, Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, John Hollins, Frank McLintock, Dave Webb, Dave Thomas, Mick Leach (sub Martyn Busby), Don Masson, Stan Bowles, Don Givens. Attendance: 11,527 Rangers had won the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie at Loftus Road two weeks earlier 4-0, in the clubs first ever competitive game in Europe, Continue reading
QPR v Wigan Athletic – Revitalised Rangers Rip Wigan Apart
QPR hauled themselves out of the bottom three with a thoroughly deserved 3-1 win over bottom placed Wigan at Loftus Road. A penalty from Heidar Helguson was followed by two sublime strikes by firstly Akos Buzsaky and then Tommy Smith, either of which will no doubt feature in the running for the ‘Match of the Continue reading
QPR U18 (3) – Northampton Town U18 (1)
Team: Deane, Downes, Monthe, Champion, Brown, Sendles-White, Sutherland, Simmonds, Henry-Francis, Monakana, Webb. This fixture was due to be played last Saturday at Harlington, but was re-arranged because of the FA Youth Cup tie on Thursday. The game kicked off slightly late at 12.10pm and the trialist from Arsenal, Jeffrey Monakana, was in the starting line-up. Continue reading