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Without thinking, I told him that it was none of his business. With hindsight I could have said a number of reasons. However, I quickly offered this child-like, poetic and somewhat arrogant response, and it felt good. I know enough about the history and present times of certain other clubs to render me a fan of that team, and yet I despise them. Had my father's uncle taken him to Luton vs West Ham on Boxing Day, 1953, I may well have been a 'Hatters' fan, but fortunately for my brother and I, he didn't. Strangely, Luton are a team I despise too, purely on the basis of the treatment my brother and I received by the locals one pre-season friendly/cup game a decade and a half ago (I can't remember the exact day, score or purpose of the game, we've all been there).
So I wondered why people supported our club rather than another club, especially if like me, you've never lived anywhere near the club. I support the Hoops because of my father and his uncle, post-war. I wonder why others have an allegiance?
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 00:50 - Sep 4 with 10482 views
Funny post that, reads slightly like one of those spam messages you get full of random phrases like "I'm not working at the moment but the papers decided whole wheat is a con and for a day or so, I admit that I gave in to the same belief. If we spent billions on the biggest party in the world, you would buy your favourite lube here now"
If you're asking why we support QPR then I would say my old man owned some local restaurants the rangers team used to go to, he became mates with Gerry Francis, who came over to our house for dinner. I got bollocked for not showing him enough respect, but we saw every home game in 75-76 and then i was hooked. And click here for cheap viagra.
Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 00:50 - Sep 4 by jamois
Funny post that, reads slightly like one of those spam messages you get full of random phrases like "I'm not working at the moment but the papers decided whole wheat is a con and for a day or so, I admit that I gave in to the same belief. If we spent billions on the biggest party in the world, you would buy your favourite lube here now"
If you're asking why we support QPR then I would say my old man owned some local restaurants the rangers team used to go to, he became mates with Gerry Francis, who came over to our house for dinner. I got bollocked for not showing him enough respect, but we saw every home game in 75-76 and then i was hooked. And click here for cheap viagra.
Hmm great to be a kid from the 70s., although I'm sure the same is said in every decade. I hope Gerry ruffled your hair and told you 'to run along you young scallywag'. click here for Russian models who want to meet you.
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 01:10 - Sep 4 with 10450 views
Similarily, I really had no choice, but if my old man hadn't been so adamant in my selection and Rangers have not been pretty good at the time, I could have easily been Leeds, as I liked Eddie Gray. I was 38 then.
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 01:15 - Sep 4 with 10438 views
He went to a party many years ago, got drunk, and took a fancy to a girl because she was wearing a blue and white hooped top that he mistook for a QPR shirt.
30-odd years later, here I am.
QPR and alcohol - I literally wouldn't be here without them...
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 01:23 - Sep 4 with 10430 views
Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 01:15 - Sep 4 by Match82
My old man is a QPR fan.
He went to a party many years ago, got drunk, and took a fancy to a girl because she was wearing a blue and white hooped top that he mistook for a QPR shirt.
30-odd years later, here I am.
QPR and alcohol - I literally wouldn't be here without them...
Your very existence because of the club? True blood!
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 07:50 - Sep 4 with 10230 views
Dennis Bailey is directly responsible for me supporting QPR. When i was younger i didn't really support anyone, sort-of supported Liverpool insomuch as i knew who Souness and Dalglish were, but no more than that. Drifted out of football until NYD '92, saw the 4-1, and was a QPR fan ever since...
Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 08:31 - Sep 4 by Jeff
Dennis Bailey is directly responsible for me supporting QPR. When i was younger i didn't really support anyone, sort-of supported Liverpool insomuch as i knew who Souness and Dalglish were, but no more than that. Drifted out of football until NYD '92, saw the 4-1, and was a QPR fan ever since...
Watched highlights of that game only two days ago, it was a truly magical day.
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 08:41 - Sep 4 with 10113 views
I had a magnetic football game, one set of players wore yellow the other set red jerseys with black shorts. It was 1982 it was the FA Cup final weekend. My older brother wanted to be Spurs, a three year old me got to be QPR... It stuck ever since. My first QPR replica shirt was the Guinness one.... here's me wearing it on a family holiday in Spain.
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 09:08 - Sep 4 with 10052 views
My family were working at the club in the late 60s and early 70s. My dad's family came down from Manchester so my first photograph wearing a kit was in a Man City kit. Then when I was 5 we went to QPR by invite of some of the family that worked there and won against Aston Villa 3-2 I think. I liked our hoops and that was it. We were QPR supporters. 42 years later we are still as stupid and misguided as we were then.
If anyone ever asks me why I support QPR when there are more successful teams in London I alwasy just presume they're the kind of person who geniunely thinks deadline day is the best day of the season, hasn't been in the same postcode as the team they "support" and uses the hashtag #EPL, and therefore not worth my breath
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 09:58 - Sep 4 with 9945 views
Never really had a choice. Dad, Uncle, Grandad were all QPR. Every 2nd weekend I spent staying with my Dad, who was Sheperds Bush born and bred. So when we were not in the pub we were at LR. I had no other interest in anybody else and by the time I moved to Tottenham when I was 8 I couldnt have defected even if I wanted to, it was in the blood.
A gift and a curse I am sure we are all familiar with.
ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 10:09 - Sep 4 with 9916 views
As you can see from my user name, I'm a local boy. My dad supported Rangers so obviously my brother and I were always going to be Rangers as he'd take us all the time. I'll never forget walking up the steps and seeing the pitch and the stadium for the first time. Best feeling in the world.
So two choices round my way, Rangers or Chelsea (thanks dad for getting us to fall in love with the right club). I went to Holland Park comprehensive. The dislike between us and Chelsea was so bad that we'd sit on one side of the classroom and the scum the other. Anyone else that supported Man U, Liverpool or any of the others (there wasn't that many) was told to fu@ck off and find a seat in the non segregated areas of the classroom. Good times.....
I got all a bit nostalgic there.....
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 11:20 - Sep 4 with 9834 views
My Grandad was brought up in Notting Dale before the first world war, my Dad was brought up in Notting Dale before/during the second world war, both myself and my brother are at least third generation supporters, (maybe fourth don't know about our great-grandfather), other than the knowledge that he made a living as a bare knuckle boxer over Wormwood Scrubs. Both my son and daughter are fourth generation. Like myself, they didn't have a choice, and I really cannot understand some posters who say that they are trying to convince their kids to be Rangers supporters rather than glory-hunt some of the so called bigger clubs. You just tell them and take them and you buy them the kit. Job done.
Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 08:47 - Sep 4 by Toast_R
I had a magnetic football game, one set of players wore yellow the other set red jerseys with black shorts. It was 1982 it was the FA Cup final weekend. My older brother wanted to be Spurs, a three year old me got to be QPR... It stuck ever since. My first QPR replica shirt was the Guinness one.... here's me wearing it on a family holiday in Spain.
we sometimes fail to see eye to eye toast but thats a great picture mate .
nice one for posting it
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"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 11:29 - Sep 4 with 9814 views
First game was in 1980 standing in the loft side of the paddock, couldnt see a bloody thing!
Spent the next few years getting in for free (the away end mind) as a mates Dad knew the guy on the gate!
Back to the standing loft from there and the rest is history!
Please to say I still sit with my old man and brothers... and brother in law (who's united but is almost fully converted now!) up in the Upper Loft block Mu.
Dont know why we bother. .... but we do!
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 11:38 - Sep 4 with 9795 views
Rangers were the first team I ever saw, in 1977. But as a kid I was a Man U fan — I'm originally from Manchester but we moved south when I was young. I stopped supporting Man U when I went to Leeds University and met people who actually used to go on the Stretford, as opposed to watching them on TV. I started going to Elland Road every week, and when I moved to London after university I wanted to carry on watching football. A process of elimination meant QPR were the only club acceptable to me. It didn't take long before I was hooked.
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Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 13:16 - Sep 4 with 9639 views
Somebody just asked me why I support Queen's Park Rangers. on 01:10 - Sep 4 by SonofNorfolt
Similarily, I really had no choice, but if my old man hadn't been so adamant in my selection and Rangers have not been pretty good at the time, I could have easily been Leeds, as I liked Eddie Gray. I was 38 then.
Eddie Grey...wow
we all used to play gripping our sleeves in our hands and trying to jink down the wings in an ape like stance
I had plenty of choice not to support QPR. Family going generations back were from Hammersmith but most of 'em Fulham, Nan & Grandad were Arsenal ST holders in the 70s till the trouble got too bad, Dad was Man Utd/Celtic cos his Dad was mates with Matt Busby. But an R's-supporting uncle took me to my first game in 75 against Leicester (I think) and that was that.
While I wasn't press-ganged, my kids have been - their mother's a Liverpool fan so had to get in quick.
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