| RIP Gordon Jago 10:49 - Jul 6 with 7102 views | hubble |
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| RIP Gordon Jago on 09:22 - Jul 7 with 1410 views | SW_Ranger |
Not much you can say that hasn’t already been said. Mr Jago was a humble, but firm, respectful and a gentleman. He left us a legacy to look after. Thank you Mr Jago. RIP. |  | | |
| RIP Gordon Jago on 09:24 - Jul 7 with 1410 views | w7r |
Just before my time, but his DNA ran through the team I first watched in 1977 as a spotty 13yr old, and got me hooked.
Thanks for the memories and the legacy Gordon.
RIP Mr Jago |  | | |
| RIP Gordon Jago on 09:55 - Jul 7 with 1335 views | francisbowles |
I thought I had posted this yesterday but it seems to be lost so:
For me Gordon is in the pantheon of QPR greats with Stan, Rodney, Gerry, TV, Alec Stock, Dave Sexton, Les, Tony Ingham and Jim Gregory.
Thank you Gordon and R.I.P. | | | |
| RIP Gordon Jago on 10:20 - Jul 7 with 1279 views | connell10 |
My Dads favorite Rangers Manager, he was miles ahead of his time. R.I.P Gordon |  |
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| RIP Gordon Jago on 12:52 - Jul 7 with 1141 views | westberksr |
RIP Gordon
i only benefitted from seeing the great team you left behind; missed you by a couple of years but am fully aware of what you did to make QPR everyone's second team!
To have built a team with such flair and style to wear the mighty hoops; legendary status acquired! [Post edited 8 Jul 12:52]
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| RIP Gordon Jago on 23:08 - Jul 7 with 900 views | Hooping_Mad |
RIP Gordon. x | |
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| RIP Gordon Jago on 08:31 - Jul 8 with 756 views | CheshireR |
It was Gordon's 1973-74 team that I fell in love with as an impressionable nine year old. They were an absolute breath of fresh air to watch with Francis and Venables pulling the strings in midfield and providing the ammunition for a Bowles, Thomas and Givens led attack.
As mentioned previously it was the excellent foundations laid by Gordon that Dave Sexton would later build upon.
His aptly named book "Pioneer" is well worth a read. |  | | |
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| RIP Gordon Jago on 11:09 - Jul 8 with 609 views | francisbowles |
What an amazing life! | | | |
| RIP Gordon Jago on 15:24 - Jul 16 with 308 views | Michael_Hunt2 |
There is a brilliant obituary to him in today's telegraph covering every aspect of his life.
"Gordon Jago
Footballer and manager who helped
develop soccer' in the US
GORDON JAGO, who has died aged 92, was an English
footballer whose playing career was eclipsed by his
achievements as an innovative manager, coach and
administrator, which included laying the foundations
for the most successful team in Queens Park Rangers'
history and promoting the development of "soccer" in
the United States.
In 1974, when Jago
was managing
QPR, he was
interviewed for the
position of
manager of the
England team after
the sacking of Sir
Alf Ramsey, but the
job went to Don
Revie.
Gordon Harold
Jago was born in
Poplar, east
London, on
October 22 1932.
During the Second
World War his
Jago: he played nearly 150 games for
Charlton Athletic
parents uprooted
from the East End
to Kent to escape the Blitz. Jago, then an inside-
forward, was recruited by the amateur club Dulwich
Hamlet and captained their junior side.
After being switched to central defence because he
stood six feet tall, he was signed by Charlton Athletic.
They loaned him to Maidstone United, then came
National Service in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
But he continued to progress, and after captaining the
England youth team he made his First Division debut
against Arsenal in 1955 in front of 48,000 at the Valley.
He compiled nearly 150 appearances for Charlton,
scoring once, before an eye injury sustained against
Middlesbrough prompted his retirement at 28.
Jago had already taken the Football Association's
preliminary coaching certificate, and in 1962 Jimmy
Hill offered him the opportunity to assist him in his
capacity as manager of Coventry City. He opted
instead to apply his attacking principles at non-League Eastbourne United.
His success there led to an offer to become coach to Fulham. When they played an exhibition match in the US in 1967, his imagination was fired. He soon agreed to manage the Baltimore Bays in the National Professional Soccer League, impressing sufficiently to be asked to lead the US into a two-leg World Cup playoff against Haiti. Both games were lost, however, and in 1970 Jago returned to London.
He served as coach to Les Allen at QPR, yet was about to resign to join St Louis Stars in Missouri when Allen was sacked. Jago took over instead and used the £200,000 Manchester City paid for Rodney Marsh to rebuild.
He bought Don Givens, Stan Bowles and Dave Thomas, who, with the emerging talents Gerry Francis, Dave Clement and Ian Gillard, formed the basis of the team Dave Sexton would guide to second place behind Liverpool in 1975-76.
Jago had led QPR to promotion in 1972-73, and the next season, after capturing Frank McLintock from Arsenal, to their highest-ever position, eighth. Their quickfire passing game earned plaudits as well as points.
But he fell out with QPR's irascible chairman-owner, Jim Gregory, who insisted he take the squad on a tour to Jamaica (later cancelled) rather than accept a temporary post with England Under-23s. In 1974 Jago alleged that Gregory interfered in other aspects of his job, leading him to resign on what he called "the most disappointing day of my life".
Resurfacing at Millwall, he endured relegation in his first season but won promotion in the second before a BBC TV Panorama programme about the hooligan gangs that supported the club made him question his position, and he returned to America.
He spent most of the rest of his life there, coaching Tampa Bay Rowdies and the indoor team Dallas Sidekicks before becoming executive director of the prestigious Dallas Cup youth tournament.
QPR tempted him back as general manager in 1984, but Gregory reversed the appointment after one week.
In 2006 Jago was appointed MBE for services to football.
Gordon Jago married June Loveday, a Metropolitan Police officer, in 1960. She died in 2014 and he is survived by their daughter Kim.
Gordon Jago, born October 22 1932, died July 6 2025 " | | | |
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