Football League Division 2 Team: Brown, Poppitt, Powell (G), Clayton, Heath, Gilberg, Waugh, Smith, Addinall, Cameron, Shepherd Attendance: 13,291 On Monday, 3rd September 1951, the R’s kicked off at 6.30pm against Blackburn Rovers at Loftus Road. Charles Buchan filed his match report the following day for ‘The Chronicle’. ‘Five minutes from the end, when lights from the adjoining flats brightened the gloom and Rangers’ supporters were giving the Continue reading
Chislehurst Glebe (4) – QPR Development Squad (5)
London Senior Cup Third Round Team: Halliday, Street, Smith, Wilkie, Adjetey-Brew, Dyke, Aoraha, Coomes, Sanyaolu, Hassan, Vaughan Subs: Warren, Leahy, Neill, Trujillo, Scarlett Attendance: 146 Glebe FC was established in 1995 as the junior team known as Glebe Globetrotters. This changed in June 2025 to Chislehurst Glebe ‘to reflect our permanent home in Chislehurst’. Still raining as we turned into a narrow, dark, Foxbury Avenue, we carefully tried to negotiate the traffic and Continue reading
RIP Alan Barnes – One of ‘R’ Own
Last week, over 100 QPR fans congregated in Kensal Green to pay their respects to a gentleman who has been part of our lives for decades. That person was Alan Barnes. A man who, with no exaggeration, has attended more QPR games than any other human being. His first Rangers game was in 1952 I believe. Quite a few of us Continue reading
QPR Development Squad (0) – Burnley U21 (1)
Premier League Cup Team: Warren, Adamson, Putman, Wilkie, Akindileni, Alemayehu, Sanyaolu, Dyke, Bennie, Pearman, Coomes Subs: Halliday, Leahy, Neill, Hassan, Scarlett Following an early affirmative morning pitch inspection, it was later cleared just before 6pm, ten minutes or so before the Burnley team arrived. Rangers suffered an early casualty, when Kealey Adamson was forced off after seven minutes, and Jake Leahy came on to replace him. Then Continue reading
QPR FC Women (2) – Milton Keynes Dons Women (2)
Women’s National League One (South-East) Team: Crierie, Cooper, Searle, Lewin, Hill, Wellesley-Davies, Owen, Orchard, D’Santos, Adebowale-Arimoro, Dzyadyk Subs: Smith, Monaghan, Sampson, Munro, El-Bergui Ninety seconds or so into the game, Erika Lempek was put through and facing Caitlin Crierie, she belted the ball over the crossbar. After seven minutes, a heavy challenge on Juliet Adebowale-Arimoro, left the R’s striker in need of some attention and the culprit getting booked. After being helped off, Continue reading
QPR U18 (2) – Swansea City U18 (7)
U18 Professional Development League 2 Team: Taylor, Shaqeel, Adjetey-Brew, Sandiford, Balogun, Wiles, McAvoy, Neziri, Wright, Edouard-Marisson, Scarlett Subs: Fittall, Moore, Majesty, Ikoraha, Boddy With the sun making an appearance and Rayan Kolli trotting around the perimeter of the adjacent pitch, two minutes in, the Swans took the lead. After the initial attempt had been blocked, Alex Godfrey was on hand to follow up from close Continue reading
In 1947 the Loftus Rd Ground Work was carried out by the Players
The pic shown below comes from a 1947 weekly newspaper, headlined: ‘Footballers Make Ground Improvements’, and the caption reads: ‘Players of the Queen’s Park Rangers football club assisting in the installation of 500 tip-up seats purchased from an East End cinema. This is part of the London club’s plans for providing better accommodation and comfort for their spectators.’ And the 1946/47 Handbook reported that: ‘You Continue reading
QPR U18 (5) – Oxford City U18 (1)
FA Youth Cup Team: Fittall, Street, Adjetey-Brew, Balogun, Akindileni, Wiles, Sanyaolu, Tarbotton, Hassan, Neill, Trujillo Subs: Taylor, Cuthbert, Moore, Brunson, Scarlett, Neziri, Oluwabusola Under the lights at Loftus Road, the R’s took the lead in the 10th minute after winning a corner. And following an excellent stop, captain, Teddy Tarbotton found the top corner after letting fly from around 25 yards. At the other end two minutes later, Georgios Tzengko’s header forced Alfie Fittall into a Continue reading
London Bees (2) – QPR FC Women (0)
FA Women’s National League Division One (South-East) Team: Crierie, Searle, D’Santos, Lewin, Wellesley-Davies, Hill, Brooks, Owen, Dzyadyk, Adebowale-Arimoro, Orchard Subs: Smith, Cooper, Sampson, Gotch, Ali, Munro After getting soaked to the skin on my last visit to the Hive, it was good to see that a roof had been provided in the standing area. Following a fairly even opening, Annie Dzyadyk’s cross to the far post resulted Continue reading
Cray Valley (PM) (3) – QPR Development Squad (7)
London Senior Cup 2nd Round Team: Salamon, Putman, Smith, Akindileni, Street, Aoraha, Alemayehu, Sanyaolu, Bennie, Pearman, Coomes Subs: Warren, Moore, Dyke, O’Brien, Hassan Attendance: 125 Very heavy rain descended upon the Artic Stadium before kick-off, and it pretty much continued throughout the match. I really did think that the game may well be postponed or eventually abandoned! The home side won two successive corners in the opening minutes, but it was the R’s Continue reading