QPR 75/76 Team

[Hertford Hoop]

Phil Parkes 10m
Dave Clement 8m
Ian Gillard 7m
Frank Mclintock 1.5m
Dave Webb 2m
Don Masson 5m
John Hollins 2.5m
Gerry Francis 22.5m
Don Givens 10m
Dave Thomas 15m
Stan Bowles 33m
Mick Leach 1.5m

Total £118 million minimum

[Factamondo]

A 'big up' also for the mercurial manager...............mr dave sexton!

[stainrodisalegend]

In the Stan Bowles autobiography - which I recommend to you as just about the only sports biography I've really enjoyed cover to cover - he describes it as the best side never to win the championship. Which in a way sums up QPR to me. Lots of swashbuckling style, laced with heartache. Although of course I'd have loved it if we had won the league ultimately I'd rather to have played so brilliantly people are talking about it 30 yrs later rather than be like chelsea or blackburn when they won by just grinding it out horrible wins.
One of the more poigniant passages is about the afternoon Liverpool won it, and gerry francis invites stan back to his house where francis's wife is cooking dinner - but bowles just felt too inconsolable to go.