Why I support QPR

Great post kensalr and great thread!

I can only dream of what it was like to support QPR in the heyday of the 70's.

Personally I picked it up from my Dad, I was never forced to support QPR; I just loved going to my first match (even though we lost 4-1!) and loved everything to do with QPR - I'd draw the players, create kits, I was QPR mad and that has stuck with me (hence this site!). Aside from my Dad I don't personally know any QPR fans which is why I have always enjoyed forums to see other peoples opinions and to feel fully abreast of how the team is doing as I don't get to see a fair amount of matches.

Where I live and growing up everybody was/is Man Utd or Liverpool supporters with a few for Everton. When I started to support QPR in the early-mid 90's we were still in the Premier League which I guess probably helped and could be where others struggle to get their children to support QPR these days.

I always felt special supporting QPR, I liked that I had my 'own' club that I didn't share with any of the other kids. Even now old teachers and friends will always still mention QPR to me straight away, because of QPR I stood out and people remember me for it.

As I have got older I also appreciate supporting a club like QPR. The victories and great days are so much sweeter for all the hard times and defeats.

I only hope my son can pick up the same mentality. He actually has a QPR shirt on today and knows to kiss the badge when he scores a goal in the garden but he doesn't know what 'QPR' is yet, he just knows how to say it

Hopefully we will see northwesthoop junior on the prediction competitions before too long! (if we ever play another match that is!)

Loved reading both your threads.

2 very different posts but you can just feel the emotion and passion in both.

guess thats why we support QPR

I was very lucky. My Dad was an Arsenal fan but we lived in Wembley and he had some friends who were season ticket holders at LR. The year after the League Cup win he started taking me along. My first match, aged 7, was 1-1 home v Hull in March 1968. Unbelievably 52 years ago. We then had season tickets through to 1980 when I went to university. What a period to be a fan.
After university I lived in the Midlands for a while and life & kids meant that I went less often even when I moved South again. All my kids have been taken to matches and brought up properly though!! My youngest and my Dad were with me at the playoff final. I now get to a handful of games a season.
Sites like this are great to share the passion with other fans even though I don’t go every week.

Yep we’re old,well I am
Born in 1971 and a father of 3 and grandfather of 3
There was another forum I was on and it was full of crap lots of puns that only young fans would come out with
I gave this a go and I felt a more mature approach to QPR was obvious on here
I was on the old qpr.net with some great people too and most came over to here
Coronavirus won’t defeat us or QPR

Most of you were bloody Liverpool or arsenal fans to start with 🤣

My son-in-law is a retained firefighter on the Saltash Fire Station (so just across the Tamar Bridge from you stoatey). They live in Laira so he is only on-call when working in Saltash, and recently he realised their was excessive smoke coming from a nearby industrial unit. Moving others away to safety he went to investigate and found it was a genuine fire, but before he could rush to the station, and attend, the fire engine turned up! He was peeved!!

Been to a kiddies nursery session in Crownhill, plus walked (on a sunny day) around the Crownhill. We will have to have a beer when normality (or what passes for it) returns and I am down there again!