Alan McDonald - in tribute

[bushcelt1]

When the lads and i reminise on the good old days during our current travels Alan MACCA always comes up in the conversation as the thoughts of him stridding up the pitch on a bleak Tuesday night at Grimsby in the cup to take the decisive penalty in a shoot out that seemed to go on forever. But as we thought "oh no, not Macca" he calmly slotted it into the bottom corner to send the travelling fans home with a smile on our faces.

remember it well mate. every ranger there held their breath and he was cool as you like. our minibus got a bottle thru the side window driving off after-cold,long journey home!!!

[mork]

Rangers through and through. 402 appearances for us over 16 years. Anyone know of anyone else who played for us longer than 16 years. Gutted, club needs to do something big.

[72bus]

im choked , gone but never forgotten R.I.P big man

[NW9_RANGER]

Absolute legend, I was lucky enough to meet the man and all I can say is he was a top bloke and a great player. Rest in peace Macca

[Kit]

Only just heard this terribly sad news. God bless you Macca RIP one of my true heroes and a Rangers Legend. His games against Sparky remain firmly in my memory and 9/10 Macca ended the game as Man of Match. Goodbye Macca

[rainham r]

rest in peace macca surely one of the most loyal players ever to don the hoops and also one of the best centre halfs as well.remember watching him playing for the youth team and thinking he was poor(in fact he was just raw)but boy did he rapidly become one of my favourites,no doubt sparky still has some scars of their battles.macca simply the best top top bloke gone but never forgotton.

[Stedders]

Macca is my favourite ever footballer and it seems unreal that he is gone so soon. I was lucky enough to meet him once and I told him he was my favourite player and he replied "you're easily pleased!" which I thought was cool.

A player like him is rare these days with loyalty to the £ more stronger than club loyalty. It's sad to think he is gone but I will always be inspired by him and how he played and carried himself.

RIP Macca.

[californiahoop]

Thanks for the memories

[Sminky]

Bit of a shocker. I've only been a supporter for 21 years, started following QPR as an 13 year old lad, I was quite late to football - I think it was all the plastic Liverpool fans at my junior school that did it for me, put me right off.

Looking back, the team of 92 was a vintage and Macca was the heart of that team along with Ollie and Les.

RIP Macca.

[LoftusRoadLad]

RIP...one of our true legends.

[BAZZA1966]

Macca my hero.

To all R,s fans.

Typing this is so hard to do as tears are falling from my face as ive just heard the devastating news of the passing of Mr QPR.
Ive been on a boys booze weekend and just got text message from little sis.

ABSOLUTELY GUTTED.

Alan was a lovely fella who i was extremely fortunate to meet on many occasions.

REST IN PEACE BIG FELLA.

MACCA YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED.

As soon as i,m home i will get my signed macca shirt out and reflect on all that was good about my footballing hero..

[Mighty Devon White]

How desperately, desperately sad.

Like having the music you grow up with suddenly taken away.. . count myself as fortunate enough to have seen the big fella from a rather shaky start.. I seem to recall an away game at LooTown early on when he looked like a rabbit in the headlights... to go on to be the cornerstone of the team that I followed home and away for many years.. the one you always look back on with such affection..

And for every Stanley.. every Rodney.. there was a Macca... holding it all together.. making it work... the one that those fans who went week in, week out saw... appreciated... loved...

All the best big fella... and thanks

[MYU]

Alan McDonald: 1963 – 2012

Alan McDonald, former QPR captain and assistant manager and the club's most capped international player, has died suddenly at the age of 48. Clive Whittingham and Paul Finney pay tribute.

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[QPRDave]

Just looked at Ian Taylor's twitter page, and saw all these tributes to Alan from Joey, Hogan, John Gregory, Mick Harford, and others, nice touch from everyone, well liked man!

http://twitter.com/IJTaylor81

[hammer]

Rest in Peace.

see macca play many a game for rangers and he was a full hearted tough player who gave his all.He was a much better player than he was given credit for.As i said to my rangers mate last nite you have had more skillfull/better footballers but none of em with a bigger heart and more courage than Macca.