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You support QPR because it's your club and that's that.
Most match-going fans will never or rarely see their team win a major trophy. We get the odd promotion (usually a few seasons after a miserable relegation) and we get memorable wins along the way in derbies or games we weren't expected to win. We sometimes have absolute sh ithouse owners who threaten our clubs' existence, and we sometimes get benevolent but clueless owners who threaten our clubs' existence. We get ownerships who view people who have loyally followed their clubs and held season tickets for decades, as an inconvenient impediment to revenue growth. We have TV companies who actively seem to conspire with football authorities and the railway companies to make our lives as difficult and costly as possible.
But at its best, a football club is a proper community. The day after my mum died, I went with my dad to watch his local football team, where he's a season ticket holder. Between getting to the turnstiles and kick-off, he must have had 15+ people pass on their sympathies, invite him round for dinner, etc. The kindness that he was shown had me in bits. They've even stuck a plaque on a seat for my mum - free of charge and unsolicited - even though she never went to a match in her life. My dad goes to watch them every week, sits in that seat, and I know that he has the company of some great people that he otherwise probably wouldn't see, and that even though he's in his 80's, it's something he is still buzzing about when I speak to him midweek, and on a Saturday morning. That's what football can do for you.
If you're lucky enough to get to matches, then for most of you, I'm sure you will have had more laughs, and deep chats with family and friends that you go to matches with, than the average football on the telly fan will have had watching Liverpool in the pub this season. My joint favourite season is still the Micky Adams promotion from division 4. We still talk about that season all the time. For those of us who don't support the biggest clubs, our successes might be more modest than those of the richest clubs, but they're probably even sweeter. Life won't always been a grind - you'll celebrate again. As the great Micky Adams used to say: keep the faith.
unless i was made manager, or chairman, there is absolute f...all that i can do.
next season will be my 57 th year following the thing i love second to my wife/family. next may will be 50th year with my wife.....thats besides the point.
every season i expect us to do well, i dont follow us to under achieve, even though i know the ins and outs of qpr.....they are my social life.... before games, home and away, are where i meet mates, family and new friends, a bad season is where the 90 minutes gets in the way, but i stay until the very end every game, i love qpr....that to me are what following the r's are about. from early 1990's i've taken my children, nephews and nieces, and grandson to qpr, and am proud to say that not one person in our family supports anyone other than qpr. yes, i will be there next season, so whatever my views on qpr, our club, i' think i deserve the right for my sometimes strange comments on the r's, but they are always meant well. i'll never give up on this mad club....if we win something or come close, it's a bonus....
chin up people.
Every time I hear on the radio or see an advert on tv about being missold I glance up for a second to see if there’s a group claim against QPR, were you miss sold QPR in the late 80’s / early 90’s? Did Roy Wegerle dancing around defenders make you think QPR was the club for you?
The truth is I didn’t have a choice and I’m happy with my lot, bit gutted at the moment , I liked Marti but no one is bigger than this beautiful depressing club!
Also congrats keeping all the family Rangers fans, I turn my back for a minute and my nephews wearing a Salah Liverpool shirt these days
There is no logic behind supporting QPR, like there is no logic why Marti Cifuentes is on garden leave. We'll just try to make sense of it all, by going on QPR message boards
There is no logic behind supporting QPR, like there is no logic why Marti Cifuentes is on garden leave. We'll just try to make sense of it all, by going on QPR message boards
The wonders of modern technology.
On her phone, my much better half, somehow seems to get goal alerts and final score notifications on her phone, she has not searched or looked at anything QPR related on her phone, but I think as I obviously use the same wi fi, somehow alerts have been linked to her mobile also....
She is not herself interested in football. However, it helps her as she will be aware of my moods when returning home.
I asked her last night, "you did know we lost five nil at home last week"
"Yes I knew that" was her subtle reply.
I often write so much nonsense on here or am reading likewise, when I am supposedly listening to her, and she generally knows when I am on here by my fraught expression
The point of supporting QPR is that there is never any logical explanation.
I have five nephews who all have been born and grown up in Berkshire. All support Liverpool.
I think they have only ever been to a few games in their lives.
So in a logical world, I will start following Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich.
However logic and football, don't go together if you follow QPR.
We are and always have been a complete basket case of a football club...
There are many clubs like this but we are extremely proficient in this sense.
Madness and QPR go together.
Am asked like most on here, must have been.
"Why do you go - you don't seem to enjoy it very often"
I usually reply - do you think I haven't asked myself that question over and over...
This club will outlive us all and decades later, our descendants will be asking that same question over and over again - poor buggers !!!
It's done because there will be that game, there will be that run, there will be that season, there will be that player - it seems to happen less and less, but those are the days we live for.
No doubt like many on here, i do question my own sanity, that this is supposedly a leisure activity, something I do for fun, something away from the other inevitable stresses of life, we all experience in one way or another.
There is no logical answer to what's the point in supporting QPR.
There is no point in it at all.
We just do.
We are all fools really, I could follow Liverpool like all of my nephews but there is no fool like an old fool or even a young fool.
Yes, so the answer is simply "We just do"
Certainly a life sentence and feels custodial often but on infrequent occasions we are out on parole and enjoying ourselves !!!!!
You support QPR because it's your club and that's that.
Most match-going fans will never or rarely see their team win a major trophy. We get the odd promotion (usually a few seasons after a miserable relegation) and we get memorable wins along the way in derbies or games we weren't expected to win. We sometimes have absolute sh ithouse owners who threaten our clubs' existence, and we sometimes get benevolent but clueless owners who threaten our clubs' existence. We get ownerships who view people who have loyally followed their clubs and held season tickets for decades, as an inconvenient impediment to revenue growth. We have TV companies who actively seem to conspire with football authorities and the railway companies to make our lives as difficult and costly as possible.
But at its best, a football club is a proper community. The day after my mum died, I went with my dad to watch his local football team, where he's a season ticket holder. Between getting to the turnstiles and kick-off, he must have had 15+ people pass on their sympathies, invite him round for dinner, etc. The kindness that he was shown had me in bits. They've even stuck a plaque on a seat for my mum - free of charge and unsolicited - even though she never went to a match in her life. My dad goes to watch them every week, sits in that seat, and I know that he has the company of some great people that he otherwise probably wouldn't see, and that even though he's in his 80's, it's something he is still buzzing about when I speak to him midweek, and on a Saturday morning. That's what football can do for you.
If you're lucky enough to get to matches, then for most of you, I'm sure you will have had more laughs, and deep chats with family and friends that you go to matches with, than the average football on the telly fan will have had watching Liverpool in the pub this season. My joint favourite season is still the Micky Adams promotion from division 4. We still talk about that season all the time. For those of us who don't support the biggest clubs, our successes might be more modest than those of the richest clubs, but they're probably even sweeter. Life won't always been a grind - you'll celebrate again. As the great Micky Adams used to say: keep the faith.
PS. Sorry, I've had a drink...
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Wonderful Konk.
Hopefully you'll be taking your son to Wembley in a few weeks time.
Under Ainsworth I did decide to miss one game as I couldnt bare the thought of seeing my club go through another tortured performance. That was the first time since 1967 that I had felt like that.
I have travelled back from Asia for a home match then flew back out again that night, last time was against Preston, we lost 2-1
QPR is in my DNA and that of my 2 boys we cant give it up
You support QPR because it's your club and that's that.
Most match-going fans will never or rarely see their team win a major trophy. We get the odd promotion (usually a few seasons after a miserable relegation) and we get memorable wins along the way in derbies or games we weren't expected to win. We sometimes have absolute sh ithouse owners who threaten our clubs' existence, and we sometimes get benevolent but clueless owners who threaten our clubs' existence. We get ownerships who view people who have loyally followed their clubs and held season tickets for decades, as an inconvenient impediment to revenue growth. We have TV companies who actively seem to conspire with football authorities and the railway companies to make our lives as difficult and costly as possible.
But at its best, a football club is a proper community. The day after my mum died, I went with my dad to watch his local football team, where he's a season ticket holder. Between getting to the turnstiles and kick-off, he must have had 15+ people pass on their sympathies, invite him round for dinner, etc. The kindness that he was shown had me in bits. They've even stuck a plaque on a seat for my mum - free of charge and unsolicited - even though she never went to a match in her life. My dad goes to watch them every week, sits in that seat, and I know that he has the company of some great people that he otherwise probably wouldn't see, and that even though he's in his 80's, it's something he is still buzzing about when I speak to him midweek, and on a Saturday morning. That's what football can do for you.
If you're lucky enough to get to matches, then for most of you, I'm sure you will have had more laughs, and deep chats with family and friends that you go to matches with, than the average football on the telly fan will have had watching Liverpool in the pub this season. My joint favourite season is still the Micky Adams promotion from division 4. We still talk about that season all the time. For those of us who don't support the biggest clubs, our successes might be more modest than those of the richest clubs, but they're probably even sweeter. Life won't always been a grind - you'll celebrate again. As the great Micky Adams used to say: keep the faith.
PS. Sorry, I've had a drink...
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Great post as usual Konk and good luck with the playoffs.
This is exactly where I am. 53 years of visiting Loftus Rd - through the good, the bad, the indifferent. It's in the blood and like 68, I'm happy to say my kids, their kids and all my nephews and their kids are QPR. I love this club - I don't love 90% of the charlatans that have either managed, owned or represented this amazing institution in the heart of West London, but my support for the pure QPR is ceaseless, enduring and relentless. Players, Managers and owners come and go - we remain. 100%
Although I would like nothing more than a QPR European tournament to follow them on with my son. Although it would be great to trade blows with the big boys again. Although it would be splendid to win every week, I do not envy the supporters of teams who have all those riches. I honestly would not swap nigh on 60 years of loving this rabble with any other experience. The point of supporting QPR is that you support QPR, we are QPR, us, me and you and my boy and the old boy who sits over the aisle and the LGBTQ rabbi and the punk rock star and the numerous lads named Stanley and the daughter of the man behind me who died and she took over his season tivcket, and Victor and Kenny and the Herberts who are now old men and the mob from Northolt and the Norwegians and the Korean bloke who cam to one game, fell in love and now goes home and away an... We suppirt QPR because we are lucky.
You support QPR because it's your club and that's that.
Most match-going fans will never or rarely see their team win a major trophy. We get the odd promotion (usually a few seasons after a miserable relegation) and we get memorable wins along the way in derbies or games we weren't expected to win. We sometimes have absolute sh ithouse owners who threaten our clubs' existence, and we sometimes get benevolent but clueless owners who threaten our clubs' existence. We get ownerships who view people who have loyally followed their clubs and held season tickets for decades, as an inconvenient impediment to revenue growth. We have TV companies who actively seem to conspire with football authorities and the railway companies to make our lives as difficult and costly as possible.
But at its best, a football club is a proper community. The day after my mum died, I went with my dad to watch his local football team, where he's a season ticket holder. Between getting to the turnstiles and kick-off, he must have had 15+ people pass on their sympathies, invite him round for dinner, etc. The kindness that he was shown had me in bits. They've even stuck a plaque on a seat for my mum - free of charge and unsolicited - even though she never went to a match in her life. My dad goes to watch them every week, sits in that seat, and I know that he has the company of some great people that he otherwise probably wouldn't see, and that even though he's in his 80's, it's something he is still buzzing about when I speak to him midweek, and on a Saturday morning. That's what football can do for you.
If you're lucky enough to get to matches, then for most of you, I'm sure you will have had more laughs, and deep chats with family and friends that you go to matches with, than the average football on the telly fan will have had watching Liverpool in the pub this season. My joint favourite season is still the Micky Adams promotion from division 4. We still talk about that season all the time. For those of us who don't support the biggest clubs, our successes might be more modest than those of the richest clubs, but they're probably even sweeter. Life won't always been a grind - you'll celebrate again. As the great Micky Adams used to say: keep the faith.
PS. Sorry, I've had a drink...
[Post edited 2 May 23:56]
Praise be to Konk, a proper R
PS - the one day I hope we can meet up as I have some wonderful inside stories about Fulham.
In a strange sort of way I quite like that we are a bit rubbish as it confirms loyalty,.
I’ve convinced myself that if I supported a top side (Liverpool, Arsenal etc) the wins they get would mean so little but I’ve cherished and loved every single one of our 14 wins this season, have got fond memories of them all. I have a weird and quite unexplained devotion to Rangers, with no family or local connection to the club but one I can’t get rid of and would never want to.
In a strange sort of way I quite like that we are a bit rubbish as it confirms loyalty,.
I’ve convinced myself that if I supported a top side (Liverpool, Arsenal etc) the wins they get would mean so little but I’ve cherished and loved every single one of our 14 wins this season, have got fond memories of them all. I have a weird and quite unexplained devotion to Rangers, with no family or local connection to the club but one I can’t get rid of and would never want to.
Spot on Westonsuper. At my son's school there is literally only one other child in all the year groups that supports a championship side. My son proudly wears his rangers kit at any opportunity and you would not believe how many kids haven't even heard of the championship, let alone QPR.
The amount of plastic fans nowadays is unbelievable.
But the best bit is that my son appreciates the wins so much more because we see so few of them. Wins are to be cherished. Which is why I came on here and had a wobbly when some were moaning about our performance in the 4-0 Derby win. He has also learned that when there are losses and knocks, we pick ourselves up and go again. No need to dwell, we try and right the wrong next time.
It's the only decent thing that QPR has given him so far. This poxy club that we love...
Some very good posts in this thread already so all I can add is my visual representation of how supporting QPR has felt for me over the last 40 years.
Those highs though....will stay with me for life, so I'm OK with that.
I think it’s a cocktail of nostalgia, regret, hopes and ‘mares - all mixed with some highly addictive fentanyl and served up in a chipped, crystal highball.
Football’s most imperfect perfection of a club (foot).
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Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
Hopefully you'll be taking your son to Wembley in a few weeks time.
Thanks Terry, Harbour, and Kerry. I think there were about 5 minutes in the second half where they dropped-out on the play-offs, at which my son buried his head in my armpit, blatantly having a cry, but obviously not wanting his mates to clock it. I was absolutely gutted for him at that point. For them to drop out after being in the play-offs for a few weeks would have been pretty tough on him and his mates, but thankfully everything worked out in the end. We've done enough aways to qualify for tickets for the second leg, so I’ll be taking him up to Sheffield on Monday. Whatever the outcome, it’s nice that they’ve had something to get excited about by reaching the play-offs (although there will definitely be tears if they lose on Thursday and/or Monday!).
Thanks Terry, Harbour, and Kerry. I think there were about 5 minutes in the second half where they dropped-out on the play-offs, at which my son buried his head in my armpit, blatantly having a cry, but obviously not wanting his mates to clock it. I was absolutely gutted for him at that point. For them to drop out after being in the play-offs for a few weeks would have been pretty tough on him and his mates, but thankfully everything worked out in the end. We've done enough aways to qualify for tickets for the second leg, so I’ll be taking him up to Sheffield on Monday. Whatever the outcome, it’s nice that they’ve had something to get excited about by reaching the play-offs (although there will definitely be tears if they lose on Thursday and/or Monday!).
Best of luck, Konk.
Never been a fan of them, but I'll be hoping they do well now for yeer sake.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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