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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:42 - Jan 18 by Tonytone
Great question
Originally from Liverpool and was an Everton fan growing up, and still am (great result at Villa today). A few of the lads from school went to uni in London and one was in a shared house in Shepherd's Bush, which was very like south liverpool. We would often go and crash at his place for a weekend in the late '80s and went to a few games back then and Loftus Rd always felt special.
Since then I've lived in Newcastle, Cardiff and Stoke but never felt any affinity to the local teams (and loved singing "Stoke is a s#@t hole, I wanna go home" yesterday even though home is Birmingham now). My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there most weekends. She's Colombian and would never go to a game because her nephew was shot dead by some ultras over there a few years ago, but 2 years ago her daughter went to watch Cali Deportiva, the local team, (and a similar team to QPR in lots of ways) and told her she would love it - lots of noise and crowds, everything the Colombians seem to love. I explained that Chelsea wasn't even an option and there's only 1 team in West London and the stadium is only 20 minutes away on the 72 bus from Hammersmith Bridge and we started going regularly last season - both loving it.
Two other things too. She'd heard a lot about racism at English football stadiums and her first visit to loftus Road put her mind at rest. For me, seeing a couple of QPR flags at the St Patrick's Day bash at Trafalgar Square 2 years ago was amazing being second generation Irish - didn't realise there was such a big Irish hoops contingent.
Because of stainrods_elbow or maybe because my dad was brought up in Wembley and we were his nearest club; he also followed Wasps (a strnge pastime if truth be told!).
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:55 - Jan 18 with 1174 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:44 - Jan 18 by Boston
Everton would be my second team.
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I'll have a hell of a dilemna for those two games if we do make it upto the premiership in the next couple of years lol. Think I'd just dress in blue and white and keep quiet for 90 minutes
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 20:00 - Jan 18 with 1150 views
QPR just finished runners up and asked my dad, in his wisdom he suggested rangers. Its been nearly 50 years of heartache interspersed with moments of joy. No regrets,character building. RTID
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 20:32 - Jan 18 with 1077 views
I lived in Stevenage as a kid. Back then — the mid 1950s — it was very much a New Town. I was from Sheffield and my schoolmates came from all over: Glasgow, Coventry, Liverpool, but most were from London. Their families, naturally, had football allegiances. London Transport catered for these by laying on football 'specials' to Highbury and White Hart Lane on Saturdays. My friends and I would watch the trickle of red and white, or blue and white, scarves pass our windows around midday every weekend.
One day a few of us were hanging out on our street at about 9:00am when this one geezer wearing a blue and white muffler walked by. One of mates started giggling. Then whispered: "See that bloke?" We nodded. "He's a QPR fan. Silly bugger has to get up at sparrer's fart to go and see his team play!" Smirks and titters all round. But I thought about this a bit and wondered why he'd do it. He must think this Third Divison South team were a bit special eh? Where was this "Queens Park" anyway? His dedication impressed me and stuck in my juvenile mind. So the first seed was sown.
Gerry Francis is the man to blame. Back in the days when the Home International England v Scotland was the biggest game of the year (and one of very few that was shown live on the telly) I watched this match with my Grandpa.
Gerry scored 2 goals and I decided to support the team he played for.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 20:49 - Jan 18 with 1035 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:42 - Jan 18 by Tonytone
Great question
Originally from Liverpool and was an Everton fan growing up, and still am (great result at Villa today). A few of the lads from school went to uni in London and one was in a shared house in Shepherd's Bush, which was very like south liverpool. We would often go and crash at his place for a weekend in the late '80s and went to a few games back then and Loftus Rd always felt special.
Since then I've lived in Newcastle, Cardiff and Stoke but never felt any affinity to the local teams (and loved singing "Stoke is a s#@t hole, I wanna go home" yesterday even though home is Birmingham now). My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there most weekends. She's Colombian and would never go to a game because her nephew was shot dead by some ultras over there a few years ago, but 2 years ago her daughter went to watch Cali Deportiva, the local team, (and a similar team to QPR in lots of ways) and told her she would love it - lots of noise and crowds, everything the Colombians seem to love. I explained that Chelsea wasn't even an option and there's only 1 team in West London and the stadium is only 20 minutes away on the 72 bus from Hammersmith Bridge and we started going regularly last season - both loving it.
Two other things too. She'd heard a lot about racism at English football stadiums and her first visit to loftus Road put her mind at rest. For me, seeing a couple of QPR flags at the St Patrick's Day bash at Trafalgar Square 2 years ago was amazing being second generation Irish - didn't realise there was such a big Irish hoops contingent.
Nuff respect mate
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 21:09 - Jan 18 with 980 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:55 - Jan 18 by Tonytone
I'll have a hell of a dilemna for those two games if we do make it upto the premiership in the next couple of years lol. Think I'd just dress in blue and white and keep quiet for 90 minutes
Half-and-half scarf?
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 22:18 - Jan 18 with 888 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:42 - Jan 18 by Tonytone
Great question
Originally from Liverpool and was an Everton fan growing up, and still am (great result at Villa today). A few of the lads from school went to uni in London and one was in a shared house in Shepherd's Bush, which was very like south liverpool. We would often go and crash at his place for a weekend in the late '80s and went to a few games back then and Loftus Rd always felt special.
Since then I've lived in Newcastle, Cardiff and Stoke but never felt any affinity to the local teams (and loved singing "Stoke is a s#@t hole, I wanna go home" yesterday even though home is Birmingham now). My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there most weekends. She's Colombian and would never go to a game because her nephew was shot dead by some ultras over there a few years ago, but 2 years ago her daughter went to watch Cali Deportiva, the local team, (and a similar team to QPR in lots of ways) and told her she would love it - lots of noise and crowds, everything the Colombians seem to love. I explained that Chelsea wasn't even an option and there's only 1 team in West London and the stadium is only 20 minutes away on the 72 bus from Hammersmith Bridge and we started going regularly last season - both loving it.
Two other things too. She'd heard a lot about racism at English football stadiums and her first visit to loftus Road put her mind at rest. For me, seeing a couple of QPR flags at the St Patrick's Day bash at Trafalgar Square 2 years ago was amazing being second generation Irish - didn't realise there was such a big Irish hoops contingent.
Aged 6 or 7, my brother (5 years older and an Ipswich supporter) instructed that i need to support a team. Showed me the 1st Div and i quite liked the name. And that was it, with the extreme good fortune that it was just up the A3.
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:18 - Jan 18 by sdm1508
Dad supported them. Mums side of the the family were Chelsea. First game was QPR vs Arsenal in the mid 80's. I remember Gary Bannister. Think we won 1-0. It became our thing more so after mum and dad split up. Would always be late to pick me up and then the drive from Bracknell then the 15 minute walk to the ground. In my 30's dad moved overseas and I put the wife through the trauma. Always wanted the chance to drive my dad to a game but sadly won't ever get the chance. QPR is more than just a football club. It's why I get so annoyed when people use every opportunity they can to bash the club
First line of your post applies to me too . My dad made it his goal in life to make me hate them . He succeeded pretty quickly
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 22:48 - Jan 18 with 844 views
Brought up in the sixties, Nore in welwyn garden city council house. All friends arsenal, spurs, man utd as a contrary 11 year old I decided I liked a third division team that won the league cup and the league. Just stuck guys, fanatical fan ever since! No regrets !
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 22:53 - Jan 18 with 831 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:56 - Jan 18 by WestonsuperR
No connection to QPR at all, was a kid and liked the kit and the name (important when you are 6). 40 years later I am still going and have various family members now also fans.
Think I’m the same. The kit and the name cannot be underestimated. Mum was Charlton (grew up in a pub in Woolwich) and Dad was Tottenham (out of Edmonton). I still remember him telling me about a Spurs player, John White, who’d been struck by lightning on a golf course and killed. Dad took me to his amateur football games every Saturday and on the way back we’d pick up the Evening Standard to read the match reports. For some reason I thought that Rangers’ Loftus Road ground in Shepherd’s Bush sounded rather exotic and this sparked my initial curiosity about them.
Fast forward several years and I still hadn’t settled on a team I could call ‘mine’. Then a group of us from school, probably because QPR were on a bit of a roll at the time (1973), decided to trek across London one Tuesday night for a League Cup game against Plymouth Argyle. Rangers lost 3-0 but there was something about those shirts and the grass (it was green in those days) under the floodlights that got me hooked. I was hospitalised soon after with a slipped disc and my Dad, unknown to me, sent off my treasured copy of Dennis Signy’s ‘History of Queens Park Rangers FC’ book, to the club asking Stan Bowles to autograph it. Stan duly obliged with a ‘Get Well Soon’ message and that cemented our relationship for life.
The only family connection I’ve since managed to uncover concerned my maternal grandfather, a publican who at one time kept the Red Lion Hotel, Harrow. A bright lad by all accounts, he was nevertheless forced to leave school early to find work to help out his family. His first job, I’m told, was ‘whiting the lines at QPR’!
(It also helped that Stray, a band I followed as a teenager, all went to Christopher Wren School in Shepherd’s Bush, so that was a bonus).
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 23:47 - Jan 18 with 765 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 22:04 - Jan 18 by TwoHalves
Half-and-half scarf?
I'd love one of those if I ever see one. I could always wear my new Colombia world cup top I got from my partners daughter for Christmas who is visting at the moment. We're taking her to the Wrexham game on saturday for a treat before she flies back on Sunday
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 05:37 - Jan 19 with 656 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 23:47 - Jan 18 by Tonytone
I'd love one of those if I ever see one. I could always wear my new Colombia world cup top I got from my partners daughter for Christmas who is visting at the moment. We're taking her to the Wrexham game on saturday for a treat before she flies back on Sunday
Treat you say? Let's hope the poor girl isn't traumatised on the flight home!! Seriously, lovely story and hope she brings us luck.. u rrrrrrrr's
Bring a Colombian flag?
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 07:04 - Jan 19 with 593 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:08 - Jan 18 by PlanetHonneywood
Dad took me to see George Best's last game for United. QPR won 3-0 and that was that.
I frequently saw Best in a pub near where I worked in 1990 and wanted to say, why couldn't you have waited until Chelsea or Arsenal, whereupon I'd have years of silverware.
But then, I wouldn't have been a quarter of the man supporting QPR makes you and requires you to be. So, thank you George, thank you!
George Best packed up drinking and smoking.He said that was the worst 20 minutes of his life.
We lived in Roehampton and had 3 clubs all within a few mile radius.My mum’s friend was a season ticket holder at QPR and offered to take me to football with him,and the rest is history.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 07:38 - Jan 19 with 560 views
I liked the name and wanted "my own" team to follow. Not just jump on the band wagon, Arsenal, Liverpool etc., like my mates from school did (this is the late 80s). Look how well that turned out...
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 09:02 - Jan 19 with 467 views
I grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere in South Africa, late 80's I subscribed to the newsletter of "The Cure" which I got once in a quarter. They were (and still are) my favourite band. In one newsletter, someone asked Robert Smith if he followed football and he responded yes, QPR fan. (and also that he was a pretty decent #10 himself, which I had my doubts about).
Also at the time Roy Wegerle (born in South Africa) played for us.
These two "links" combined was enough to get me onboard the crazy train.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 09:46 - Jan 19 with 418 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:42 - Jan 18 by Tonytone
Great question
Originally from Liverpool and was an Everton fan growing up, and still am (great result at Villa today). A few of the lads from school went to uni in London and one was in a shared house in Shepherd's Bush, which was very like south liverpool. We would often go and crash at his place for a weekend in the late '80s and went to a few games back then and Loftus Rd always felt special.
Since then I've lived in Newcastle, Cardiff and Stoke but never felt any affinity to the local teams (and loved singing "Stoke is a s#@t hole, I wanna go home" yesterday even though home is Birmingham now). My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there most weekends. She's Colombian and would never go to a game because her nephew was shot dead by some ultras over there a few years ago, but 2 years ago her daughter went to watch Cali Deportiva, the local team, (and a similar team to QPR in lots of ways) and told her she would love it - lots of noise and crowds, everything the Colombians seem to love. I explained that Chelsea wasn't even an option and there's only 1 team in West London and the stadium is only 20 minutes away on the 72 bus from Hammersmith Bridge and we started going regularly last season - both loving it.
Two other things too. She'd heard a lot about racism at English football stadiums and her first visit to loftus Road put her mind at rest. For me, seeing a couple of QPR flags at the St Patrick's Day bash at Trafalgar Square 2 years ago was amazing being second generation Irish - didn't realise there was such a big Irish hoops contingent.
Could see the floodlights from my bedroom on the east acton estate , uncle took me down first 1970 then dad took over being an alcholic him not me until later life, he sussed it was an easy way to extend oppening hours for him. so he spent time in the bar and i watched us battle through the mud for 90 mins. started fully travelling away outside london. 1981 and not stoppped since .
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