According to Steve Cotterill, Pompey were the better team and played us off the pitch as they did at Fratton Park (again his words). They ‘out-bullied us’ would be a better way of putting it as their game plan seemed to just use their physicality to stop us playing and IF the ball should manage Continue reading
To Hull And Back…Well Not Really, As I Live There.
Team: Kenny, Orr, Hill, Gorkss, Connolly, Derry, Taarabt, Faurlin (Vaagan Moen), Routledge, Smith (Hulse), Miller (Ephraim). Subs Not Used: Cerny, Hall, Chimbonda, Shittu. Attendance: 20,601 I woke up with a feeling that we were gonna run riot at the KC Stadium, funny how halfway through the game that changed and the uproar was of a Continue reading
John Brooks – Mid 1960’s Youth Team Goalkeeper – Part Two.
Part 1 of this interview with John Brooks, a member of the highly successful Rangers Youth Team of the mid 1960’s, was run on 15th January 2011 and this is the second and concluding instalment. After running Part One, Colin Parker and Alan Davies, who were also members of that team, posted some very interesting Continue reading
QPR v Coventry City – Back To Winning Ways (Steve Claridge Must Be Gutted)
Rangers extended their lead to 5 points at the top of the Championship as they came from behind to beat Coventry. Goals by Adel Taarabt and new loanee Wayne Routledge saw us win our first game of 2011 to complete a league double over Coventry, a mere 26 days after the away fixture. Routledge was Continue reading
Johnny Brennan – Irish R & Stand-Up Comedian.
John used to be a season ticket holder in the Lower Loft, but is now based back in Dublin. Over the last ten years or so, he has been taking comedy much more seriously and last year he won the ‘Stand Up Ireland’s National Nothin But Funny Competition’ in the Laughter Lounge, Dublin. When he Continue reading
Burnley v QPR
Team: Kenny, Orr, Hill, Gorkss, Connolly, Derry, Taarabt (Hall), Faurlin (Clarke), Vaagan Moen, Smith, Hulse (Helguson). Subs Not Used: Cerny, Borrowdale, Cook, German. Attendance: 14,819 After my trip to Blackburn last week, I thought I would take the train for my journey to Burnley, how I would regret that later ! Arrived in Burnley to Continue reading
John Brooks – Mid 1960’S Youth Team Goalkeeper – Part One.
Alec Stock was appointed QPR manager in the summer of 1959 as the successor to Jack Taylor. Many people at the time felt that his appointment would signal the start of a new and more successful era for the club. Stock won favour immediately by restoring the blue and white hoop shirts that had been Continue reading
QPR U18 (1) – Northampton Town U18 (0)
Team: Deane, Brown (Ben), Sanderson, Walker, Parmenter, O’Donnell, Bewick, Sutherland, Gibbons, Henry-Francis, Sharif. The match was switched to Harlington because the Northampton pitches were water-logged. That said, there had also been plenty of rain locally overnight and for the previous few days too and I half-expected the game to be cancelled when I arrived. There Continue reading
Blackburn Rovers v QPR
FA Cup 3rd Round. On this occasion I’m a lucky Ranger as it only took me two hours along the M62 and a road that looked like something out of ‘American Werewolf In London’ (the moors part) and I was at the Fernhurst Pub near Ewood Park at 1pm, where a fair few QPR fans Continue reading
‘To Help Not Hinder’ – The Early Days Of The QPR Supporters Club & The 1936-37 Badge
Some time ago, I managed to pick up the 1936-37 Supporters Club badge. It must be quite rare now and it seems that it was also the very first one that they issued. In the 1936-37 handbook, the ‘Club Chatter’ pages refer to the formation of the Supporters Club the previous season:- ‘A year ago Continue reading