Who loses out most...

[qpr_rich]

I sympathise for all the die hard QPR fans feeling so gloomy about the recent events at QPR. But who I feel most sorry for are the youngsters who are growing up watching this football. I grew up with my first game being the year we were relegated to what is now league 1. Gillingham away, it was the only away game we won that year and Crouch scored a header from a Kiwomya cross. I must have been about 6 but I can still remember it perfectly.

I, like many others of our generation, loved to hear from our dads about the 70s when QPR were the finest London team beating Chelsea 6-0 and Man United 2-1 whilst going on to mention Sinclair's overhead kick etc. I love QPR with a passion in an age where glory hunting has become all too common and the reasons why football is such a lovable game have been forgotten.

Watching Bircham get players sent off for sitting on them, watching Sh*ttu block a striker off and padula headbutting a seat at Brentford are memories that will remain with me forever and at this rate what memories are the future QPR disciples going to remmeber? A bit melodramatic I'll admit but during the ups and downs QPR have always been a popular club based on traditional values and day by day our club moves further away from that and closer towards politics and commercialism.

[vanhoop]

great post rich, beating chelsea was in the 80,s the only home game i missed all season sure it was 84-85 or 85-86 probably the latter,as for kids growing up and deciding their future team i think its its already installed in them at birth.ive told my kids there be no bed here tonight on supporting opposistion.might get a bit of a backlash here but the dad has,nt done his job if his kids support any one but Rangers

[BUSHRANGER1982]

great post rich, beating chelsea was in the 80,s the only home game i missed all season sure it was 84-85 or 85-86 probably the latter,as for kids growing up and deciding their future team i think its its already installed in them at birth.ive told my kids there be no bed here tonight on supporting opposistion.might get a bit of a backlash here but the dad has,nt done his job if his kids support any one but Rangers

You sound like you're doing a great job being a dad, mate.

As for that great Chelshyte game, I think we played them on the Easter monday, after they had lost to West Ham on the previous saturday, they still had a chance of winning the first division title, but our whopping 6-0 win put paid to their title dreams that year. I must have bought every newspaper in fleet street the next day. I was standing on the Loft that day, amongst a 15-16000 crowd, quite a small turn-out for a match against the **** in those days, and I'm sure it was 1985, I think!

[vanhoop]

how old are you bushranger? i was so gutted i missed the chelsea game as i had been to every home and away game that season.remember everton away with only 200 hoops there,man city at maine rd and wba away and we all lined up against a brick wall at some poxy midland station waiting for the london bound.oh the memorys

[ahR]

My boy is R's through and through it's just that.......

great post rich, beating chelsea was in the 80,s the only home game i missed all season sure it was 84-85 or 85-86 probably the latter,as for kids growing up and deciding their future team i think its its already installed in them at birth.ive told my kids there be no bed here tonight on supporting opposistion.might get a bit of a backlash here but the dad has,nt done his job if his kids support any one but Rangers

He doesn't know it yet as he's only 3yrs old....... I felt it was my duty to indoctrinate my boy from birth and when Flav and Co rolled into town I thought here we go. I told him he was a lucky little sausage as daddy had endured pretty much a lifetime of disappointment, false expectation, hope, embarrassment and a modicum of success. But, as I told him a couple of years ago, this was all about to change.........

What a muppet and how wrong could I be. These days I keep expecting social workers to knock on the door and accuse me of child abuse forcing him to support the R's........... Just aswell I don't live in Haringey..................... baby QPR....!!!!!!!!!!!:waaaht:

[vanhoop]

He doesn't know it yet as he's only 3yrs old....... I felt it was my duty to indoctrinate my boy from birth and when Flav and Co rolled into town I thought here we go. I told him he was a lucky little sausage as daddy had endured pretty much a lifetime of disappointment, false expectation, hope, embarrassment and a modicum of success. But, as I told him a couple of years ago, this was all about to change.........

What a muppet and how wrong could I be. These days I keep expecting social workers to knock on the door and accuse me of child abuse forcing him to support the R's........... Just aswell I don't live in Haringey..................... baby QPR....!!!!!!!!!!!:waaaht:

keep up the good work ahr,my eldest boy is now 12 and hoops mad,double glazing has worked wonders for me;D

[BUSHRANGER1982]

how old are you bushranger? i was so gutted i missed the chelsea game as i had been to every home and away game that season.remember everton away with only 200 hoops there,man city at maine rd and wba away and we all lined up against a brick wall at some poxy midland station waiting for the london bound.oh the memorys

I'm 46, but feel like I'm 65! I used to go home and away late 70's all through to the late nineties when I had to start working for a living. Now it's every home and an away when I can.
Going back to that game against Chelshyte, I remember the Loft rocking like never before, and having a bit of a run-in with the knuckle-draggers in Blomfontein Road after the game, they were spitting feathers, then a few were spitting teeth, then it was off to the Adelaide for a drink-up that lasted till closing time. A great day, amongst many great days. Oh, the memories, indeed.

[LBLOCK]

Easter time in '85 a day we do recall
When Chels** came to Loftus Road and never touched the ball
They had high hopes for the title
and were on a mighty run
But Rangers we got SIX that day and Chels** they got none.

The second verse I never really got to grips with.........!

[vanhoop]

Easter time in '85 a day we do recall
When Chels** came to Loftus Road and never touched the ball
They had high hopes for the title
and were on a mighty run
But Rangers we got SIX that day and Chels** they got none.

The second verse I never really got to grips with.........!

lb my mate jimmy c sings that song word for word and i still dont know the second verse.could there be someone on here that does.on a par if not better than captain jack

[BUSHRANGER1982]

Easter time in '85 a day we do recall
When Chels** came to Loftus Road and never touched the ball
They had high hopes for the title
and were on a mighty run
But Rangers we got SIX that day and Chels** they got none.

The second verse I never really got to grips with.........!

Poetry, sheer poetry. Shakespeare eat yer heart out!

If the first verse is anything to go by, then whoever penned it did the day great justice. Nice one, LBLOCK.

[LBLOCK]

Resplendant in his flat cap and trilby coat

All I know is "some would say that Stanley's king...."

[vanhoop]

lblock,you know father mick?

[LBLOCK]

Father Mick? Lost me there -- I do know Father Ted however.

Humming that second verse but it just wont fall out of my head

[vanhoop]

lblock keep humming,great song.father mick is a lovely man thats been going to Rangers for years and years.will phone him for the second verse as that song needs to be known by all at QPR.watch this space