Pre-Season Friendly Team: Francis-Pownall, Carolan, Searle, Jordinson, Lewin, Owen, Harris, Hill, Nygaard-Parsons, Stanley, Petit Good luck, and thanks to the seven players who moved on during the summer, namely; Mel Hall, Brogan Moore, Nicole Leys, Ellen Wardlaw, Katie McLean, Gabby Bishop and Chloe Gunn respectively. Included in the starting line-up was former Rangers player, Emily Continue reading
Bedford Town (1) – QPR Development Squad (2)
Team: Salamon, Drewe, Larkeche, Woodman, Hawkins, Aoraha, Duke-McKenna, Pedder, Dixon-Bonner, Armstrong, Kargbo Subs: Cant, Jude-Boyd, Harrack, Kolli Sammy collected us from Park Royal and we made the journey to the New Eyrie Stadium in good time. Match programmes were available, and a number of R’s fans were already in attendance. The ground was opened in Continue reading
In Memory of Michael Hellawell
Mike Hellawell, QPR FC star winger of the 1955-57 era has sadly recently passed away, aged 85. He was just one season before my time, so I never got to see him play for the R’s. Although as a young kid, older adult supporters often used to tell me what an exceptional wing-forward talent he Continue reading
AFC Wimbledon (1) – QPR (1)
Team: Begovic, Kakay, Dunne, Gubbins, Paal, Dozzell, Field, Chair, Richards, Willock, Dykes Attendance: 5,138 (including over 2,000 R’s fans) With no let-up in the incessant rain, we decided to enter the Cherry Red Records Stadium upon arrival and, although the away end had been sold out, we were informed that we could sit anywhere. Rangers Continue reading
Frank Sinatra’s Charity Performances at the Gaumont Cinema, Hammersmith
At the end of May 1962, Frank Sinatra’s private aircraft, ‘The Christina’, landed at Heathrow Airport. He brought his own band with him, which included his long-time pianist, Bill Miller, plus Emil Richards, Ralph Pena, Irving Cottler, Harry Klee and guitarist Al Viola. Frank firstly appeared at the Royal Festival Hall on 1st June. The midnight performance was for the Invalid Children’s Aid Association. The following (partial) report was written by Continue reading
Enfield Town (0) – QPR Development Squad (1)
Team: Cant, Jude-Boyd, Leahy, Harrack, Rendall (capt), Angelov, Petrie, Talla, Balla, Murphy, Kolli Attendance: 310 After Sammy had collected Alan Barnes, Simon Staal and Ifrom Park Royal, we arrived at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in good time. A limited number of programmes appeared, which had been printed off from their website and later team sheets also became available. The young Rangers squad included a number of trialists. With some players unavailable, the Enfield side was made up witha Continue reading
The Blue Jeans’ Skiffle Group
The following article appeared in the West London Observer on 17th May 1957: ‘Further news of ‘The Blue Jeans’ Skiffle group – the boys, under leader George Plummer, of Shepherd’s Bush, who have been providing musical entertainment at the Classic cinema during the past fortnight: They now possess a silver cup. They won it on Tuesday evening at an Continue reading
QPR (4) – Luton Town (1) – ‘The Rangers Started as if the Result was a Forgone Conclusion’
League Division 3 Team: Hill, Blackman, Grimsdell, Grant, Mitchell, O’Brien, Faulkner, Birch, Smith, Gregory, Middlemiss After a goalless draw at Reading the previous week, it was Luton Town who travelled to Loftus Road on 25th September 1920. A match report, from a Luton perspective, appeared in the Beds & Herts Pictorial three days later: ‘It was the first time I had seen the Town Continue reading
QPR (3) – Arsenal (2) – ‘It was Soon Evident that Our Lads were Bent on Winning’
Football League South Team: Gregory, Rose, Abel, Forsyth, Ridyard, Attwell, Sibley, Daniels, Heathcote, Mallett, Darragon Attendance: 10,000 On 6th January 1945, QPR took on Arsenal at Loftus Road. The Rangers side included four guest players, namely; Gregory, Forsyth, Attwell and Sibley. An appeal on behalf of the Red Cross Prisoners-of-War Fund was made in the match programme: ‘You are earnestly asked to be as generous as Continue reading
‘They are the Rangers, the Gallant Rangers, the Men Who Lead the Way’
Towards the end of a newspaper article from October 1898, “TRABBOTS” mentioned: ‘That the song written by Mr Dibsdale about Queen’s Park Rangers is very popular.’ Unfortunately, no other information about it has come to light, but I then remembered something that appeared in the ‘Club Notes’ of the Bristol City match programme in March Continue reading