QPR - On This Day

Wow! Looking back you realise what an achievement that was and how much it meant to the players, the club and Ollie!! I did smile at the reference to the Half Time talking that 'Ollie must have given' to explain the improved play - somethings never change..

Yuk!

13 May

On this day 6 years ago on 13 May 2012 QPR lost 3-2 to Manchester City in perhaps the greatest ever Premier League match. Definitely the most dramatic!

It is often overlooked that QPR were fighting relegation and that the 2 late Man City goals would have sent us down had Bolton defeated Stoke. As Bolton could only draw the R's were safe by the time Agueeeeeeeroooooo scored late in stoppage time.

QPR barely got out of their own half in the first period and were 1-0 down at the break.

From nowhere we found ourselves 2-1 up thanks to goals from Cisse and Mackie despite going down to 10 men when Lord Joseph of Barton saw the red mist and went on one man rampage.

We were of course still 2-1 up as the clock struck 90 minutes but the rest as they say is history and Man City stole the title and thankfully didn't relegate the hoops.

Infamously after the match Mark Hughes said "we'll never be in this position again as long as I'm in charge".

We didn't win again under December, Hughes got the sack and we went down the next season instead.

Any chance Stoke fancy letting in 10 goals today?

22 May

On this day 36 years ago on 22 May 1982 QPR played in the FA Cup Final for the first time ever, drawing 1-1 against Tottenham.

QPR were of course a Division 2 side at the time and despite it being a mostly cagey affair goalkeeper Peter Hucker was the standout R's player making numerous crucial saves, especially from Archibald twice in one on one situations.

Glenn Hoddle appeared to have won it for Tottenham in extra time with just 10 minutes left, when he struck from distance past Hucker.

Tottenham's celebrations were cut short however when Fenwick headed home for QPR 5 minutes later after a long throw routine that saw a clever flick from Hazell.

A replay was needed to separate the two sides the following Thursday....

First Match highlights below:

My girlfriend was working for the FA at the time and got me tickets in the posh seats with the FA big wigs .


Could be one of the reasons why I married her   

24 May

4 years ago today, 24 May 2014: Derby County 0 v Queens Park Rangers 1

Need I say any more?

Best. QPR. Day. Ever.

A video you may not have seen is below with Redknapp and McClaren talking about their memories of the day:

Very good video and you can see the emotions are still raw!