QPR - On This Day

22 December

Let's roll back 44 years to 22 December 1973, Slade was the Christmas Number 1 pipping Wizzard in the battle of the Christmas classics, and down at Loftus Road Stan Bowles gave the R's faithful an early Christmas present scoring the winning goal as QPR defeated Newcastle 3-2 in a cracker of a match.

Dave Clement and Don Givens put the hoops 2-0 up in the first half and the R's were cruising.

But Newcastle fought back after half time thanks to a massively lucky deflected strike and then capitalising on sloppy defending from a free kick.

However, Stan Bowles sealed all 3 points for QPR in the 90th minute with a beautiful first touch and left foot finish on a quagmire pitch.

Glorious days.

24 December


Christmas Eve is here and it means it is of course Happy Birthday to the ultimate R's legend Stan Bowles. Stan is 69 today. Happy Birthday and Happy Christmas to Stan from everybody at Hoops & Dreams!

Nice goal and a reminder of what Adel could do if he tried!

It is always annoying when you miss that game! The game where the team performance was faultless, where crosses connected with strikers to make goals, and where shots goalwards actually went in!! I think ranger-boy that someone needs to develop a 'QPReactor' that detects how the team will perform so you would never miss that magical performance! I am sure they would sell and sell...   

01 January

Happy New Year, 2018 is here and we couldn't let New Years Day without travelling back 26 years to 01 January 1992...

You all know the script, QPR travel to Old Trafford and win 4-1 giving Manchester United a footballing lesson.

Sinton gets the first, Bailey gets perhaps the most famous QPR hat-trick of all time and 1992 started with a bang for the R's!

When you watch the highlights we could easily have been 5-0 up at half time!!

10 minutes of pure bliss below:

05 January

On this day a decade ago on 05 January 2008 QPR lost to Chelsea 1-0 in the FA Cup.

It was the first time the 2 sides had met for 12 years at that point.

The R's put in a good account of themselves and the only goal of the game was a lucky own goal for Chelsea as the ball hit the post and went back in off Lee Camp.

Here was the R's line up a decade ago:

QPR: Camp, Hall, Stewart, Barker, Ainsworth (Agyemang 46), Connolly, Mahon, Rowlands, Ephraim (Balanta 65), Blackstock, Buzsaky (Lee 50).
Subs Not Used: Bolder, Walton.

08 January

On this day 6 years ago on 08 January 2012 QPR sacked Neil Warnock.

The club were 17th at the time of the sacking - the position they would eventually still finish that 11/12 season in - but had not won in their previous 8 league games after a promising start to the season at the time of the sacking. Warnock was then sacked on the back of an FA Cup draw with MK Dons the previous day.

Was this day everything went wrong for QPR? If you could rewind time would you keep Warnock that day?

Bringing in Mark Hughes had catastrophic effects the next season and beyond.