Pre-Season Friendly Team: Clarke, Searle, Brooks, Lewin, Doyle, Owen, Ali, Mehmet, Stanley, trialist, Dzyadyk Subs: Blodgett, Wellesley-Davis, Gotch, Leach, Munro, Makowska QPR FC Women’s final pre-season friendly took place against AFC Wimbledon on the pitch adjacent to Tooting & Mitcham’s Imperial Sports Fields Stadium. On a very hot afternoon in Morden, the R’s starting line-up Continue reading
QPR Development Squad (3) – Coventry City U21 (4)
U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Fittall, Petrie, Adjetey-Brew, Balogun, Majesty, Dyke, Scarlett, Neziri, Oluwabusola, trialist, Coomes Subs: Taylor, Cuthbert, Boddy, Neill, O’Brien After the U18’s had lost 1-2 earlier in the day, we waited in the car park again for the commencement of the Development Squad game at 2pm. With no Paul Furlong and Continue reading
QPR U18 (1) – Crewe Alexandra U18 (2)
U18 Professional Development League 2 Team: Taylor, Skeete, Moore, Mitchell-Abadom, Sandiford, Ikoroha, McAvoy, Whitehead, Edouard-Marrison, McCormack, Poku Subs: McKenna, Liverpool, McNeil On an extremely hot morning at Heston, it was the Railwaymen who created the first opportunity of the match. A long ball from Ethan Roberts into the box was headed wide of the target. Continue reading
Swindon Town (0) – QPR (3) – ‘The Spectators then Closed Round the Referee, Hooting & Booing’
Southern League (Division One) Team: Collins, White, Aston, Newlands, Bowman, Freeman, Seeley, McQueen, King, Wheldon, Stewart Attendance: 4,000 On 18th January 1902, Rangers travelled to Wiltshire to take on Swindon Town in a Southern League match and a Kilburn Times journalist went with them: ‘The Rangers are improving by degrees and are going steadily forward. Continue reading
Survivor of the Titanic – Mrs Ellen Barber of 113, Wendell Road, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12
My thanks to Dougie Gray for alerting me to this amazing story on Facebook. The article had appeared in the Acton Gazette on 11th July 1958: ‘A little grey-haired woman of 73, who survived the Titanic disaster, this week broke a 46-year silence when she spoke to me about the night 1,500 people perished in Continue reading
Wealdstone (6) – QPR Development Squad (2)
Pre-Season Friendly – July 29, 2025 Team: Salamon, trialist, Friel, McCann, Balogun, trialist, Petrie, Dixon-Bonner, trialist, Pearman, Coomes Used Subs: Cuthbert, Neziri, Scarlett, Boddy, Dillon Sub Not Used: Halliday Attendance: 615 The kick-off was originally set for 7.45, but this was changed to 7.30 a couple of days before the match. Wealdstone, who included former Continue reading
In Memory of Gordon Jago MBE
Gordon Jago was born on 22nd October 1932 in Poplar, East London. After playing for non-league Dulwich Hamlet, Gordon then moved to Charlton Athletic in 1954. He coached Fulham at the end of his playing days before managing Eastbourne United. In 1967, Gordon then began what was to be his long association with coaching/managing in Continue reading
Hanwell Town (3) – QPR Development Squad (2)
Pre-Season Friendly Team: Warren, Friel, trialist, Cuthbert, McCann, Dyke, Neziri, Dixon-Bonner, trialist, Talla, Coomes Subs: Halliday, Adjetey-Brew, Balogun, Aoraha, trialist, Boddy, Scarlett Attendance: 372 In goal for the Geordies was 37-year-old Sam Beasant, son of Dave Beasant. Eighteen-year-old Charlie Warren was the Rangers keeper, and the outfield players included Elijah Dixon-Bonner plus two trialists. Meanwhile Continue reading
Winchester City (2) – QPR Development Squad (2)
Pre-Season Friendly First-Half: Halliday, Putman, Wilkie, McCann, Leahy, Aoraha, trialist, Kennedy, trialist, O’Brien, trialist Second-Half: Halliday, Adjetey-Brew, Cuthbert, McDowell, Friel, trialist, Dyke, Neziri, trialist, Talla, Coomes At one point I didn’t think we would make it to the Charters Community Stadium as signal failure at Waterloo Station was causing chaos! The Stadium was developed last Continue reading
QPR (1) – Brentford (0) – ‘He Banged it into the Net after Williams had Made an Ineffective Effort to Save’
Southern League (Division One) Team: Shaw, McDonald, Fidler, Lintott, McLean, Downing, Pentland, Cannon, Walker, Gittins, Barnes Attendance: 10,000 On 7th March 1908, Rangers’ opponents at Park Royal were Brentford. The following match report appeared in the Middlesex Chronicle a week later: ‘The meeting of these clubs at Park Royal in the Southern League on Saturday Continue reading