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Time to lift the mood and recycle an old thread
One of my earliest memories as a child was sitting on my dads shoulders up to in 1982 marching with the Rangers to Wembley before he handed me to my mother to continue marching on. That year the ole man destroyed some of my mums best bedsheets by spray painting them with slogans such as 'Big Bad Bob Bites your Balls' and hanging them outside the house on Blomefontein Road for all the fans marching past.
I have seen the photos from 67 of the coffin carrying on Blom with the Al Jolson lookalike and Klu Klux Clan dressed fan (not politically correct I know but it did happen) and I remember the march in 86 because I marched all the way .
I think the QPR march to Wembley is legendary, I know not of another club who does anything like this and whilst I think we nicked the idea of some Cardiff fans spotted carrying a coffin to play Arsenal at Paddington station a few years earlier, we've made it our thing to do.
In this day and age I think such an event would attract a lot of media coverage, almost taking the viewer back to a bygone era when football fans were not all Sky Sports Generation Cardboard Cut Outs. The next time QPR march to Wembley I hope to see it go down in folklore as an event etched into football fans memory up and down the land.
Should QPR reach another Wembley Final will we march again, how many would join the precession, what is the official route, what are your memories???
Anyone care to put a figure 67. 82 & 86 of those fans who marched?
One of my earliest memories as a child was sitting on my dads shoulders up to in 1982 marching with the Rangers to Wembley before he handed me to my mother to continue marching on. That year the ole man destroyed some of my mums best bedsheets by spray painting them with slogans such as 'Big Bad Bob Bites your Balls' and hanging them outside the house on Blomefontein Road for all the fans marching past.
I have seen the photos from 67 of the coffin carrying on Blom with the Al Jolson lookalike and Klu Klux Clan dressed fan (not politically correct I know but it did happen) and I remember the march in 86 because I marched all the way .
I think the QPR march to Wembley is legendary, I know not of another club who does anything like this and whilst I think we nicked the idea of some Cardiff fans spotted carrying a coffin to play Arsenal at Paddington station a few years earlier, we've made it our thing to do.
In this day and age I think such an event would attract a lot of media coverage, almost taking the viewer back to a bygone era when football fans were not all Sky Sports Generation Cardboard Cut Outs. The next time QPR march to Wembley I hope to see it go down in folklore as an event etched into football fans memory up and down the land.
Should QPR reach another Wembley Final will we march again, how many would join the precession, what is the official route, what are your memories???
Anyone care to put a figure 67. 82 & 86 of those fans who marched?
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