| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! 17:05 - Apr 1 with 922 views | numptydumpty |
Weird Random Fact
I found out today that the ex England cricketer and captain Mike Gatting was on trial as a goalkeeper for QPR at the age of 14.
He wasn't successful but the other trialist that day was chosen.
A certain Philip Parkes !!
Qpr's loss was England crickets gain. Poor old Mike was told he was too fat and too short. Hence fat Gatt took up cricket instead...
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| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 17:17 - Apr 1 with 860 views | Rsole |
Sheffield Wednesday regularly beat QPR and sit above them
In the table - despite not paying their players’ wages. |  |
| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 17:24 - Apr 1 with 833 views | Clive_Anderson |
Grimsby Town have a higher attendance at Old Trafford than Man Utd.
Sporting don't have Lisbon in their name at all, but their city rivals Benfica do. |  | | |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 18:00 - Apr 1 with 775 views | Paddyhoops |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 17:17 - Apr 1 by Rsole |
Sheffield Wednesday regularly beat QPR and sit above them
In the table - despite not paying their players’ wages. |
10 points deduction incoming. Wednesday will escape any punishment. | | | |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 19:22 - Apr 1 with 705 views | numptydumpty |
Oh bugger !!!!
Original is my middle name.....
Darn it !!! | |
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| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 20:19 - Apr 1 with 644 views | derbyhoop |
Fat Gatt played cricket for Brondesbury before joining Middlesex.
I played for Shepherds Bush and we lost the U18 final against them. Gatting couldn't get in their team, although, I guess, he is a few years younger than me. |  |
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| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:22 - Apr 1 with 535 views | perpignanR |
Sorry, but why would Parks be on trial? In 1970 Parks had been a professional with Walsall for 2 years. He signed in June 1970 when Gatting would have been 13 years old. | | | |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:24 - Apr 1 with 532 views | numptydumpty |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:22 - Apr 1 by perpignanR |
Sorry, but why would Parks be on trial? In 1970 Parks had been a professional with Walsall for 2 years. He signed in June 1970 when Gatting would have been 13 years old. |
It read that Gatting was 14, so feasible...
Obviously bit of artistic licence
Am guessing we were considering to sign Parkes for first team squad, whilst Gatting on trial for schoolboys.
Anyhow, spoil sport !!! 🙂 [Post edited 1 Apr 22:27]
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| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:27 - Apr 1 with 521 views | perpignanR |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:24 - Apr 1 by numptydumpty |
It read that Gatting was 14, so feasible...
Obviously bit of artistic licence
Am guessing we were considering to sign Parkes for first team squad, whilst Gatting on trial for schoolboys.
Anyhow, spoil sport !!! 🙂 [Post edited 1 Apr 22:27]
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Gating was born in 1957 which makes him 13 in 1970. | | | |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:34 - Apr 1 with 499 views | perpignanR |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 22:27 - Apr 1 by perpignanR |
Gating was born in 1957 which makes him 13 in 1970. |
Then again, it is April 1st. | | | |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 23:55 - Apr 1 with 434 views | MrSheen |
Dr Marie Stopes wasn’t a medical doctor but a Paleobotanist. She was a world authority on the geology of coal. |  | | |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 21:32 - Apr 2 with 115 views | Mick_S |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 23:55 - Apr 1 by MrSheen |
Dr Marie Stopes wasn’t a medical doctor but a Paleobotanist. She was a world authority on the geology of coal. |
Digging down is the way forward. |  |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 21:35 - Apr 2 with 107 views | izlingtonhoop |
| Weird Random Facts - QPR related or anything related !!! on 21:32 - Apr 2 by Mick_S |
Digging down is the way forward. |
Very good.
She didn't do much paleo once she opened her clinic. But she tried to keep her hand in... |  | | |
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