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TOTAL FOOTBALL COMES TO LOFTUS ROAD - THE 1975/76 SEASON by Hugo Greenhalgh
QPR fans disillusioned with their recent state of affairs (Four Year Plans, F1 moguls, narcissistic midfielders and the rest of it) will always hark back to the 1970s as the most glorious period in the club’s history. The pinnacle of this was the 1975-6 season, their ‘annus mirabilis’, in which Rangers finished runners-up in the First Division, to this day their highest ever finish.
36 years ago, having completed all their fixtures, QPR sat atop the First Division and had to wait for Liverpool to play Wolves, after the Reds finished their two-legged final of the UEFA Cup against Club Brugges. Wolves were leading for 77 minutes, before three goals gave Liverpool the title. As a team who’d been in the Third Division just 9 years previously (playing the likes of Workington, Grimsby and Darlington), many QPR fans were just happy to be the ‘Champions for 10 days’.
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