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The Rs second season back in the top flight finishing as top London team for the first time in the club’s history. Was looking good for Europe too but ran out of steam towards the end. Nonetheless a magic season. One I’m particularly fond of as I made my debut - in the Shed. A six-goal ding-dong baptism of fire.
My Grandad was pushing Liverpool on me at the time, and he almost succeeded, but I defy you show any 8 year-old that team in that kit back then and they would end up Rangers for life. The tracksuit (above) was pretty special too.
I’ve trawled YouTube and found approximately a third of the season in various shapes and sizes. Will post below.
So Leicester City were advertising porno mags in their matchday programme. This is surely a flagrant breach of something. Could we retrospectively have the Quarter Final rescinded or at least replayed?
A Fantastic thread & fantastic contributions & clips. It's amazing given how long ago this was, how fresh in the memory some of the games are. Obviously the 2 x Big Match DVDs, the internet/YouTube & this thread help that but so many particular elements of these games come back in an instant. The Leeds away 2 2 & disallowed goal, Venners eyebrows at Derby, the end to end Wolves away goal etc etc. Top research in getting the clips together in one place, the Chelsea FAC3 replay clip is holy grail for me,unlike every other clip on here, I don't think I've ever seen it :-) Are there any clips left to come Danny, by my (far from definitive) reckoning, there aren't too many more out there?
Quite right. Jago never really got the credit he deserved for building the nucleus of that squad and Sexton was fortunate to inherit it. Mind you, he made it even better and sadly we will never see the likes of that team in the Ranger's strip again.
Yes indeed, Dave Thomas, and speaking as one of those old farts, we are quite right to keep banging on about him. That game aginst Wolves was classic Rangers, just like the Parkes/Thomas/Bowles goal. What a goal, what a team. Also a mention for the late Mick Leach, a wonderful teamplayer and not always fully appreciated by some fans.
I just watched again Stan's interview he did with the club a few years back.
On the pitches
Yeah modern pitches would have helped a lot for players who played in his time, just would have had to be a bit fitter, but a lot of players now, would not have got into our reserves back then.
Yes indeed, Dave Thomas, and speaking as one of those old farts, we are quite right to keep banging on about him. That game aginst Wolves was classic Rangers, just like the Parkes/Thomas/Bowles goal. What a goal, what a team. Also a mention for the late Mick Leach, a wonderful teamplayer and not always fully appreciated by some fans.
Is that you Terry? Or a different texasranger?
When I first went to Rangers there was another Terry in our party & he moved to Texas decades ago. He also used to post on Report under this moniker. The trip to Villa in '68 was our travelling highlight!
A bit more on which games were filmed, to the best of my knowledge. This is not a full definitive list & maybe someone can unearth a bit more like that Chelsea FAC3 replay clip :-) Some clips are "out there" & easy to find, ie on the previously mentioned DVDs, YouTube & indeed this thread, ie.. BBC Arsenal H, Brum H FAC4, Spurs H, Leicester H FAC6. ITV Chels*a H, Cov H, Newcastle H, Everton A, Leeds A, Newcy A, Wolves A, Derby A. News clips Chels FAC3R , Cov H FAC5Replay
Games broadcast where footage seems harder to come by (there are no victories here so maybe no surprise?)
BBC Man C A ( 0 1) and Sheff U H (0 0) ITV Stoke A (1 4) not shown in London Chels A FAC3 (0 0) was shown in London Cov A FAC5 (0 0) was shown in London Anyone know where any of these might be found?
This doesn't include any games that may have been filmed for news bulletins like the 2 FAC replays above.
As a final footnote, I read for both Cov FAC5R H and Leeds H last game, QPR denied requests for both to be broadcast
Good spot Cambers. I didn’t realise the Leicester stat. Good old Shilts. Stands resolute for four and half hours against the Rs. Throws one in the fkin net for Poland against England. I guess even in a great season there’s a bogey team or two that either has the rub of the green or works you out. In 2010/11 it was Millwall and Norwich we couldn’t score against. In 73/74 it was Leicester and Ipswich.
Time for some more action,
A short clip and our first (edit: second) sight of Loftus Road. Jesus I miss the place. I went for a run the other day, took a detour and did a lap around. The stadium was quiet but still held the eye like a sleeping beauty, a girlfriend in a coma. She sends her love. 1973 was the first time we beat Arsenal. Stan’s goal. Even an open goal he takes with such aplomb and style. He looks like he going to sky it but no 2-0. Just beautiful.
Another away game. Another Saturday afternoon where Stanley gets kicked up in the air only to pick himself up uncomplaining, dust himself down, and go on to have the last laugh. A full house at a mild and misty Baseball Ground. Derby 4th in the league at the time. Rs mid table but stariting to put a run together. Gerry Francis’s deft strike for the first is world class. Another dodgy penalty goes the other way. Decent defensive cameos from Parkes and Mancini. Venables, a footballing Mike Baldwin, always something to say, once more constantly in the face of the ref, and in this instance the penalty taker.
Yet another away game and a greater football travesty in the seventies you will not find. We visit the league leaders in December who are already soaring away with a 6 point lead at the top of the table (9 points in today’s money). Though they are unbeaten at home we run rings around them. A hard snowy pitch whatever. This is the future of football (QPR) playing the ghost of football’s past (Leeds). The Rs are cruising it 1-0 and score a timely well-worked second just before half time only for the referee, obviously from Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, and a close relative of Don Revie, to rule it out. Second half workmanlike Leeds claw their way in front. What’s the point of having a sexy orange football to stand out in the snow if the home team are running around camouflaged in all white like a bunch of extras from the heroes of Telemark? Bowles and Francis with a piece of continental brilliance eventually level the score. Leeds will go on to win the league and spend the next forty years telling people they also won the European Cup.
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Was at that Leeds away game; a few of us went up on the football special from St Pancras. The train was stopped in freezing fog somewhere north of Derby whilst we waited to hear whether it was postponed or not. In the end the game was on and we arrived in Leeds where we were escorted on special busses to the ground. All through the game there were running battles behind the goal and with about a minute to go we thought it prudent to leave. Unfortunately the whistle went and we had to run the gauntlet through their mob to get back to the busses; my mate got a right shoeing as he couldn’t run as fast as me but eventually made it back to the bus. Back at the station just as I was about to alight (old hop on - hop off busses) their mob turned up again and another major ruck kicked off. As I entered the station the police let the dogs loose, it was mayhem. Luckily I spotted an elderly gent and his son that we’d shared the compartment up with; so knowing that they were waiting in the tunnels for any QPR I grabbed hold of his arm and pretended to be guiding him back to the train and got through without any bother. Eventually my mate arrived (he’d disappeared in the scrum) and had to stand all the way back as he’d taken a second shoeing at the station! I was 16 and didn’t go back to ER until “that” cup game in the 80’s.
Loved the roof of that stand at Molineux, proper old football ground it used to be.
Always amused me when they built the John Ireland stand in the late 70s, they built it behind the old stand first which they knocked down afterwards, leaving a huge gap to where the pitch was!
Probably a very strange decision at the time but in time it proved a masterstroke as it later enabled them, after knocking down the other stands/terracing, to be able to shift the pitch 30m or so to the left and completely properly rebuild the rest of the ground.
If the pitch had stayed where it was they wouldn't have been able to do much to that old stand facing the John Ireland stand being so tight to that main road behind it.
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