October 1952: An Outbreak of Malicious Damage at Loftus Road & the QPR v Newport Coun

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Team: Brown, Poppitt, Ingham, Clayton, Spence, Farrow, Gilberg, Smith, Addinall, Quinn, Shepherd Attendance: 14,800 ‘Behind the Scenes’ -The Editor begins his programme notes with not one, but two stern warnings: ‘A WARNING – The amount of malicious damage being done at this ground has reached such proportions that drastic steps have to be taken to ensure that it stops. Therefore WE NOW GIVE WARNING THAT OBSERVATION WILL BE KEPT AND ANY OFFENDERS, WHATEVER THEIR AGE, WILL BE PROSECUTED. It is … Continue reading →

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[qprted]

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its strange ,once i was having a drink in harlow and i was talking to an ex referee he said only two clubs ever had there ground shut due to crowd disturbences


he claim qpr and millwall,so maybe this is what he was talking about,I have never been able to find any details of these ground closeures

[LoftusRoadLad]

Wasn't me !! a few years before my time !

[Shania]

Wasn't me !! a few years before my time !

Sorry, but

[BUSHRANGER1982]

Hooliganism is nothing new.
Think I read somewhere that Loftus Rd was closed to spectators as a result of crowd trouble, in the 1930s!!!!