One Word - Summer Game

Antagonistic

He really seemed to get under the skin of opponents and fans. Even clubs with no previous with QPR, once Bircham was on the pitch it was like a war!

Fanatic

one of us, the biggest QPR fans ever, to have his dreams come true like it did for him to play for his boyhood club must have been surreal, if it was me it would have felt like winning the lottery and the moment he joined us he instantly became our mascot. to have not one but possibly 3 QPR fans in the starting 11 at the same time Birch, Gallen and Lee Cook was something else and i think it was that fanbase that carried us through those rough times of having no money and got us through some dark dark days.

Maestro

one of my ultimate heros when we signed him i think he was between 33-35 and we already had Peter Reid who was similar age and i was thinking even back then at 14 what are we doing? he has no hair but the first game i saw him live away at Palace we won 3-0 he and Peter Reid ran the whole game and i couldnt believe his array of passes he was brilliant for us i actually cried when i heard he passed away.

met him on several occasions and he was a great man and spoke so knowledgeable about the game

he played for us until he was 40 years old he was that good shame he wasnt as good a manager as he was a speaker or player because he really did look like he was going to be a great manager

easily in my top 5 hoops of all time

1.Les Ferdinand
2 David Bardsley
3 Butch Wilkins
4 Terry Fenwick
5 Alan McDonald

this GIF on a closer inspection Charlies quite porky these days eh?

obviously because of covid because he cant be less than perfect because hes in my all time top 10 QPR players

hes not fat is he?

My hero.

I know that is breaking the rules - but I also know most of you will allow this one indiscretion. My absolute all time number one. Every shirt I own has Wilkins on the back. I love the man. My greatest tragedy is that I did not see him play live.

Like Tomcat - I have very very fond memories - I'm slightly jealous that you met the great man.

So happy that he was included in this offering.

Long live King Ray!

Ash

like stoaty says he was an absolute gentleman too everyone warmed to him just thinking about him now is actually bringing a tear to my eye that hes no longer with us

its one thing i can agree with that lot down the road is that not only was Ray a superb player but a genuine nice guy i dont think of him as an ex chelsea player i think of him as a QPR legend a real class act on the pitch and in life.

that team of the 90s we had revolved around Ray he made them tick i saw him score a superb chip it was either against Sheff Weds or coventry my dad and i looked at each other when he scored it and said only he could have scored that goal. whoever we played it was 1-1 in the end would love to find the clip of it if anyone could would be much appreciated.

saw him score a header in the 6-1 thrashing of Luton at home too in 1990 or 91?

i dont think i ever saw him give the ball away in a game  and like northwest says he was in control of every single game funny i didnt notice him when he played for england i know he was sent off against Morrocco in the 86 world cup in mexico but my eyes were on everything Terry Fenwick did in 86 as he was my hero then.

one of my biggest memories of ray on the pitch was when i was standing in our school end with the away lot (dont ask) we were playing Chelsea we won 1-0 with a roy wegerle penalty in the very first minute and to celebrate the goal i had to get by by shouting abuse at wegerle when he scored but inside i was laughing. outside i was giving it to him saying you Chelsea reject and taking the mick of his perm but was the best moment of my QPR life then. the thing is before Chelsea bought there super status which they are now they tend to forget we beat them on a regular basis and often finnished higher than them in the league.

i was in the away lot with chelsea i was only 15 and none of them would go in the QPR end with me and it was packed so i couldnt have got in anyway but managed to get in the away end because we got there really early

back to the story of Ray Wilkins during this game he was battle weary and Justin Channing was on the floor and Ray picked him up by the scruff of the neck and shouted at hiim to get up he didnt swear but you could see the anger and desire for us to beat Chelsea. Channing got himself up and sprinted to where Ray told him to go.

just love the fella
loved that whole team under Gerry Francis everyone of them 1-11 my heros

1 Stejskal 2 Bardsley 3 Wilson 4 Wilkins 5 McDonald 6 Maddix 7. Impey 8 Barker 9 Ferdinand 10 Wegerle 11 SInton

for me our best team loved everyone of those 11 and even back then hardly cost a penny to assemble

Stejskal 750k back then was a huge amount for a keeper and he struggled at first then became what we thought he would
Bardsley 200k swap with Mark Stein
Wilson 450k from chelsea
wilkins free transfer rangers
mcdonald youth product
maddix free transfer spurs
impey very very small fee from Yeading
Barker 400k Blackburn
ferdinand 100k from Hayes 
wegerle 1 million from Luton a big fee one of first 1 million signings and was our record for years before we got ned zelic who u say? Ned Zelic dont ask
Sinton 300k or 400k maybe 450k from Brentford