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Reply | The Big Match - ITV4
at 16:09 12 Jun 2025
Absolutely!
That, along with the smell of Sunday roast dinner cooking and the Weekend World theme tune, is my abiding memory of late 1970s Sundays. |
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Reply | The Big Match - ITV4
at 13:42 12 Jun 2025
Superb stuff! It's the archaeology of football, the actual true essence of football itself.
When I die, my only wish is for my coffin to be carried in to the sound of the Big Match theme tune. [Post edited 12 Jun 13:47]
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Reply | The Big Match - ITV4 (n/t)
at 13:38 12 Jun 2025
Harsh pen on Howe. Seemed to have got the ball from Dalglish? [Post edited 12 Jun 13:44]
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 10:12 12 Jun 2025
Well, he's won the French Cup, and achieved qualification for the Europa and Champions League, so if he does all of that in his first three seasons here, I'll probably just about give him a pass... |
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Reply | old obscure qpr highlights
at 18:46 9 Jun 2025
Yes I was at that Orient game, standing on the School Lower. Clive Thomas was the ref. Think he sent one of our players off? |
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Reply | Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read?
at 17:10 3 Jun 2025
I must get around to that series of his books. I missed the TV adaptations of them too.
I've enjoyed all his football ones - 'Damned United', 'Better Red Than Dead'- about Shankly's time at Liverpool and his recent one, 'Munichs', about the 1958 air crash. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 13:53 2 Jun 2025
Lady at work - QPR fan, says latest she's hearing is: Jose Mourhino - not sure what her sauce is? Pinot Grigio possibly?
Personally, I'd prefer Marcelo Bielsa with Roberto Baggio as his assistant. |
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Reply | W*nkions League thread
at 05:30 1 Jun 2025
Another victory for Sportswashing.
In the end those petro billions make all the difference.
As long as fans see their teams win by playing scintillating football who cares about human rights abuses eh?
This is the main reason I've given up with top level football. |
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Reply | Chet Baker
at 18:36 10 May 2025
Love him. I think he loved London too and Europe.
Beautiful voice and exquisite trumpet. |
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Reply | National League Conundrum ?
at 18:56 5 May 2025
See you down at Arbour Park next season for the Slough Town game. Ebbsfleet walked the League last season, surprised they didn't compete in the National League. Just shows the gulf. Probably similar to that between the Championship and Premiership. Torquay had nearly 6000 in for their play off against Borehamwood but lost. NLS will be a tough division next season |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 07:06 5 May 2025
Yes that was an important goal in retrospect. Game had been so disappointing and on way out remember telling some Hudds fans they would be alright and we were definitely going down! They're now mid table in League One the poor sods. Could just as easily have been us. |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 18:30 4 May 2025
Great thread. Hope Jimmy stays.
In terms of last gasp goals, Bircham's last minute winner at Brentford in the 2003 play off season was pretty special. Celebrated so hard I was out of breath. |
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Reply | Our away end
at 17:30 26 Apr 2025
I remember being in the SA Road for the 0-0 Cup Game
v Spurs Jan 81. Spurs (literally about 8K) of them, were in the old roofless Loft. Rangers in new School End. Just under 29K in the ground that day. [Post edited 26 Apr 17:31]
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 18:26 20 Apr 2025
Yes definitely stick. We need some continuity. Got a feeling next season will be better than this one. The dreadful start to this campaign was a shock after the way we finished last season. We need to hit the ground running next season, we can't waste the first 3 months like we have done over the past 2 seasons. Obviously, a lot depends on what happens transfer wise over the summer, but a fully fit Chair and Kelman coming back will be like two new signings. Clark Salter another.
Looking forward to seeing Morgan, Morrison and Kolli furthering their development and hopefully Madsen and Celar too. Surely we can't be as unlucky with injuries as
we were this season? A fit Field and Varane too and we have the makings of a very decent side. Hopefully, we'll be seeing the culmination of what Marti's been trying to achieve here finally take shape. He knows this group of players inside out now and what we need to move forward. Who else is out there that we could seriously take a risk on? How would they do a better job with the resources and constraints that the club has? Would be a terrible gamble.
Let's hope Marti stays and we don't have to find out the answers to those questions. [Post edited 20 Apr 18:28]
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 07:01 11 Apr 2025
That is superb. Had me chortling all the way through.
Staring into The Ark of the Covenant is better for your skin complexion than managing this rabble. 😆😆😆 |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 08:08 9 Apr 2025
Well said. I loved the Warburton years. We generally played good football, Warbs dug the philosophy of our club and although the last few months were disappointing I always thought he would come up with a new plan. The Eze period was sublime. Football heaven. And the period a bit later culminating in the 4-0 defeat of Reading in January 2022 was just about as good as it gets. He also got us to the 5th round of the Cup for the first time in decades. Chair was breaking through as a bright young thing and Willock looked unplayable. It wasn't that long ago and maybe it can happen again? |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 01:08 9 Apr 2025
VAR, 100 million pound players, 50 + quid ticket prices, thousands of pounds for season tickets, the 'race for 4th place', bottom 3 promoted clubs effectivley relegated weeks before the end of the season, tourist fans galore, murderous club owners, endless entitlement and hysterical media hype, etc etc.
Not for me thanks. I find all of that tedious and disheartening. I'm not a fan of the modern football industry.
Where did I say that Arsenal beating Real Madrid is 'a load of old crock'?
The football Arsenal played tonight was outstanding . But, often it isn't. Have you ever had to listen to their fans endlessly moaning or to West Ham ones who are even worse?
I can't get excited about the rising 'middle class' of Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford all finishing mid table every year or watching City win another FA Cup or the billionaire Geordie journalist murderers picking up a League Cup.
If that makes me deluded, then so be it. |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 21:53 8 Apr 2025
I find the Premiership tedious to be honest. Yes, Brentford and Fulham are doing brilliantly and well done to them but would I want to be them? No.
No more than I would want us to be like Arsenal. And I'm currently watching them stuff Real Madrid with a swagger.
I think most of us just want us to be more competitive in this league and like you say have a tilt at the later stages of one of the Cups occasionally. But, both of these things seem a distant dream. We're more likely to end up like Charlton in League 1. I can live with that.
We're still a great club, (a big, small club) with fantastic support, a wonderful, old, atmospheric stadium like no other in England and we're situated in a wonderful location.
If we could just play a bit of decent football now and again with a team with a consistent line up that always gives it all, then I would be delighted. We're not that far away from that. In fact, even at the end of January that felt like a tantalisingly realistic prospect. [Post edited 8 Apr 22:08]
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Reply | Two Bristol City fans walking to the QPR game
at 20:55 8 Apr 2025
Ha ha Boston. I used to dive but no longer. Funnily enough, I do a fair bit of swimming. Not in the canal though if I can help it. I fell in it once and the water has a very gritty aftertaste. I wouldn't recommend it. I wouldn't mind kayaking along it, but it would be a fair old hike from Hanwell to Shepherds Bush on the last paved leg of the journey with a canoe on my back!
One day I'd like to do the whole walk to Birmingham along the Grand Union but reckon it would take at least 3/4 days...
I enjoy the walk and the scenery. It's surprisingly beautiful along large stretches. It means I have a great day out no matter how dire the football is. |
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