| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 10:23 - Sep 30 with 1546 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Oh no...you haven't.... |  |
|  |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 12:07 - Sep 30 with 1338 views | kernowhoop |
That 2-1 win at Portsmouth was on Sky. This would never be allowed to happen today, but, the badly-injured Kevin Gallen was interviewed by Sky at the end of the match. I think he may have done the interview leaning on the shoulder of a colleague. If he had received the care then that he would get in 2025, I wonder if we would have seen him playing again much sooner? |  | | |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 12:47 - Sep 30 with 1222 views | Dorse |
That photo - the View From kit(s) are still my all-time favourites but I remember being really cheesed off with the way they bunged the sponsor's transfer on with Pritt Stick. The Compaq version had the sponsor as part of the fabric and looked awesome. Still got mine (unless Dorse Jr had half-inched it in that way of his). |  |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
| |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 13:51 - Sep 30 with 1112 views | TheChef |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 12:47 - Sep 30 by Dorse |
That photo - the View From kit(s) are still my all-time favourites but I remember being really cheesed off with the way they bunged the sponsor's transfer on with Pritt Stick. The Compaq version had the sponsor as part of the fabric and looked awesome. Still got mine (unless Dorse Jr had half-inched it in that way of his). |
Yeah was rubbish - and if you turned the shirt inside out you could see the Compaq logo still there... |  |
| |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 14:24 - Sep 30 with 1054 views | thehat |
That 4 v 1 drubbing at The Manor Ground in 1998 still haunts me today. I split up with my girlfriend and had been to see my Dad in hospital who was gravely ill with leukaemia before the game. I continued my journey to Oxford to stand in the open away end in the pissing rain watching probably the worst performance I have seen in my 50 years following QPR. Woke up in the morning with tonsillitis and spent the next few days ill in bed.
Oh the joys…… | | | |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 18:03 - Sep 30 with 904 views | Northernr |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 12:47 - Sep 30 by Dorse |
That photo - the View From kit(s) are still my all-time favourites but I remember being really cheesed off with the way they bunged the sponsor's transfer on with Pritt Stick. The Compaq version had the sponsor as part of the fabric and looked awesome. Still got mine (unless Dorse Jr had half-inched it in that way of his). |
The Ericsson transfer, and the CSF one before it, was made with some horrible felt as well that turned into a brick as soon as it got wet. |  | | |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 19:35 - Sep 30 with 805 views | stainrods_elbow |
I've never forgiven Smith and his backroom for the debacle in 1986 and never will. Absolutely shocking and utterly embarrassing to every QPR supporter - he actually came out and said he was proud of them and not us on the day, and went out of his way to have the craic with them in the tunnel rather than motivate his own team. The bald-headed tosser should have been sacked by the Board that weekend.
'Talking of proud moments, when I led QPR out at Wembley for the 1986 Milk Cup Final, I felt immensely proud that my team had made it – Oxford not QPR. We were in the tunnel for an age before the game and there was more banter between me and the Oxford lads than my current team – I knew them a lot better than my own lads. I couldn’t really lose that day. People say I looked dejected and shell-shocked, but the reality was that my team had won the Cup, with the greatest respect to Maurice Evans and I couldn’t celebrate with them, for obvious reasons. It was a bit like getting married and divorced all in one day!' [Post edited 30 Sep 19:41]
|  |
| |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 20:21 - Sep 30 with 741 views | themodfather |
i effing hate jim smith, based on the build up to milk cup final and the media bigging up oxford and his time there, not a quiet word by him, look i am at qpr now and had a nice time at oxford but i must focus on qpr. but no.
ok they had a fair side then and all that but so did we . rumours that some of our team had sleeping pills or something the night before don't help we played that day like zombies .
how might our path have gone IF we WON that day. guinness were going to sponsor us for a million a season? uefa cup trips.
bloody oxford, bah! | | | |
Login to get fewer ads
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 21:24 - Sep 30 with 671 views | stainrods_elbow |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 20:21 - Sep 30 by themodfather |
i effing hate jim smith, based on the build up to milk cup final and the media bigging up oxford and his time there, not a quiet word by him, look i am at qpr now and had a nice time at oxford but i must focus on qpr. but no.
ok they had a fair side then and all that but so did we . rumours that some of our team had sleeping pills or something the night before don't help we played that day like zombies .
how might our path have gone IF we WON that day. guinness were going to sponsor us for a million a season? uefa cup trips.
bloody oxford, bah! |
They weren't 'rumours' - it was credibly reported from the mouth of the legendary club secretary Ron Phillips that half the team were drugged up with 3 x 5mg Mogadon (three times the recommended dose) to ensure their rest the night before. The clown responsible, who obviously trained at the same school as Michael Jackson's personal pharmacist, has never been revealed, but perhaps he also worked with Smith at Oxford. Peter Hucker is also one who's alluded to dark forces around the club who wanted to see us fail, and I don't see any reason why he'd make that stuff up. A Guinness director walked out of Wembley at 0-2, and, yes, the club lost a likely fortune in sponsorship as a result.
As I say, Smith's a shocking stain on our history, and let's hope he's still in purgatory getting cleansed for his crimes against QPR.
https://www.indyrs.co.uk/2014/05/28-years-later-the-milk-cup-nightmare-lives-on/ [Post edited 30 Sep 21:32]
| |
| |
| A tricky opening day, The Bald Eagle, and a cup final to forget - History on 08:52 - Oct 1 with 366 views | NorthantsHoop |
That performance against Oxford in 1986 Milk Cup Final had a profound affect on my support for QPR for many years, I ditched my season ticket for the following season and didn't re-engage properly by going to games again until 2014. |  | | |
| |
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
