Saturday 27th March (this coming weekend)

[QPRDave]

Heads up for all us old farts
The Big Match Revisited. ITV 4, 10:30 am.
Its December 1979 and QPR are at the Abbey Stadium.
Cambridge United v Queens Park Rangers.
The undercard consists of some team with a chicken on their shirt versus Manu or someone.
And other manc versus a pack of wild animals .

[Abseits]

I'm pretty sure I went to that match. I remember a game there when their "mob" got round the back of our end, about 8 steps of open terrace, and started lobbing cabbages they'd pulled up from the farmer's field behind that end over the wall onto us.
I will look for meself in the crowd..... I'll be the one with long hair with a centre-parting!

[QPRDave]

Cabbages
Sunday dinner sorted then!

Should've spawned a new song

Feed the Rssssrssssrsss let them have a cabbage each.
To the feed the world track, that hadn't actually been written or performed back then.
Bob was still not liking Mondays

[wormholt]

I'm pretty sure I went to that match. I remember a game there when their "mob" got round the back of our end, about 8 steps of open terrace, and started lobbing cabbages they'd pulled up from the farmer's field behind that end over the wall onto us.
I will look for meself in the crowd..... I'll be the one with long hair with a centre-parting!

a little group of us got in on the side line, it got a bit naughty, and we were put in with the rangers lot on that narrow terrace behind the goal.
got covered in mud after though, going across that field.

[Fraggy]

Wasn't there an old rickety wooden footbridge in that field?

[stanistheman]

I recall that game and a great finish from an acute angle by Clive Allen.

[72bus]

I went their in 81 pre season friendly , I hadn't been to football for over a year and wanted to reconnect with some old friends . I remember outside the away end it was painted on the wall "chelsea's main firm will be axed" in massive letters . It was just before the police cracked down on them and they jailed that pleb the general and his cohorts

[Darkranger]

I'm pretty sure I went to that match. I remember a game there when their "mob" got round the back of our end, about 8 steps of open terrace, and started lobbing cabbages they'd pulled up from the farmer's field behind that end over the wall onto us.
I will look for meself in the crowd..... I'll be the one with long hair with a centre-parting!

I was at that game as a youngster with my dad. I always thought it was bricks they were throwing over, I remember we were instructed to stand flat against the wall. I do recall Clive Allen's goal though.

[Stainrod]

Think the Clive Allen goal was a later game early 80s .This game Stan Bowles scored .

[72bus]

The worst I've seen is ipswich away it would of been 76-78 they were breaking off bits of the stand and throwing them over the fence that seperated us . Lots of head injuries , u couldn't get out of the way as the away end was packed

[Stainrod]

The worst I've seen is ipswich away it would of been 76-78 they were breaking off bits of the stand and throwing them over the fence that seperated us . Lots of head injuries , u couldn't get out of the way as the away end was packed

Had a mad night at Ipswich 85 milk cup quarter final , carried on into the replay at loftus Road .

[stanistheman]

I just watched the game against Luton that was posted on this board a few weeks ago.
I noticed that the red kit QPR wore looked like a much deeper red than the current one that looks a bit pinkish in comparison.

[Darkranger]

Think the Clive Allen goal was a later game early 80s .This game Stan Bowles scored .

Yes, that's it. It would have been about 81/82. I recall being terrified as missiles were coming over the wall and people did have head injuries near us. Who would have thought that East Anglian teams would be so violent.

[QPRDave]

Typical Rs, I give em the big build up and they go and lose

[stanistheman]

Think the Clive Allen goal was a later game early 80s .This game Stan Bowles scored .

Yes that's correct, I didn't pay much attention to the date. The Clive Allen Goal came in our title winning season under Venables management.