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My dad was an unusual football fan in that he switched allegiance according to where he lived. He was a prison officer and was posted to Wormwood Scrubs in 1972 so started watching Rangers then, started taking me a few years later and here I am.
He was expecting to be posted to Stoke when the Scrubs posting came through so things could have turned out very differently.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 10:09 - Jan 19 with 1130 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 10:08 - Jan 19 by Maggsinho
My dad was an unusual football fan in that he switched allegiance according to where he lived. He was a prison officer and was posted to Wormwood Scrubs in 1972 so started watching Rangers then, started taking me a few years later and here I am.
He was expecting to be posted to Stoke when the Scrubs posting came through so things could have turned out very differently.
Good God!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Mum and dad both came from Willesden, I grew up in Cricklewood, then Wembley. Dad took me along at age 5 (no, I don't remember it, I was on his shoulders apparently) and the die was cast.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 11:42 - Jan 19 with 1003 views
Combination of my next door neighbour who was older than me by 10 years who was a big fan and stewarded most games. He would go along to watch the mid 70's team train over at the Polish war memorial and bring back signed photo's. They were also semi local and doing well at the time. Used to see tons of QPR shirts in Hayes.
Smells like a trout farm in here
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 12:02 - Jan 19 with 981 views
As all my family on my mums side came out of Bermondsey they all supported Millwall and my first ever game I attended (probably around the age of 4) was at The Den
However, my cousin liked the QPR kit and in 1974 we had the makings of a great team, roll on 75/76 season - Bowles, Francis, Thomas etc and that was it....a life sentence of supporting QPR was handed down.
Funny enough my turncoat cousin is back supporting Wall. Not a bad thing as he has tickets for the Executive boxes and I will be sitting on my hands in their later in the season, surrounded by the rest of the Wall family massive.
Now all my wife's family are from Canning Town and staunch West Ham. The wedding was interesting when someone thought playing 'Bubbles' was a good idea.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 12:15 - Jan 19 with 963 views
As all my family on my mums side came out of Bermondsey they all supported Millwall and my first ever game I attended with my Grandad (probably around the age of 4) was at The Den
However, my cousin liked the QPR kit and in 1974 we had the makings of a great team, roll on 75/76 season - Bowles, Francis, Thomas etc and that was it....a life sentence of supporting QPR was handed down to me.
Funny enough my turncoat cousin is back supporting Wall. Not a bad thing as he has tickets for the Executive boxes and I will be sitting on my hands in their later in the season, surrounded by the rest of the Wall family massive.
Now all my wife's family are from Canning Town and staunch West Ham. The wedding was interesting when someone thought playing 'Bubbles' was a good idea.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 12:50 - Jan 19 with 917 views
A friend at school supported them, so I started looking out for their results. It was early 1978 and I was 8.
A short while later I mentioned a QPR result to my friend and he told me he no longer followed them. That was the precise moment my interest in QPR turned into devotion - how could he desert the Superhoops?
Another short while later my friend's family emigrated to New Zealand and QPR got relegated, leaving me alone to carry the curse he'd passed on.
Irish grandad ended up in Cleverly Estate in Shepherds Bush when he came over before the war and as a result his three sons, plus all their kids, and now mine, make up four generations of long-suffering fans. We’re still in the same seats he used to sit in as well.
At least the older generation got to see some cup finals, we’re still waiting!
I had a stab at supporting West Ham for a year or so after they won the FA Cup in 1980 but soon got it beaten out of me.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:19 - Jan 19 with 647 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:49 - Jan 18 by flynnbo
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!).
Wonder did I know your dad. I lived an easy walk to Vale Farm and occasionally slipped in through the hedge.
I honestly think it was the blue and white hoops: think I may have chosen QPR as I had them as a Subbuteo team as a little kid. It certainly wasn’t the style of football or success on the pitch as I started supporting them in the late 70s just before we got relegated.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:34 - Jan 19 with 546 views
I think it's a great question, but I've been thinking about the reasons I kept following us as well.
It would have been easy to stop, or even switch teams when I was a kid. We moved to Ireland for a lot of my childhood and my brother deserted Rangers and most kids I knew were swapping teams all the time. There was no shame to it, it seemed.
And my Dad didn't really care any more.
I think I stuck with us becuase loyalty was big in the comics and books I read as a kid, heroes were loyal, and I wanted to do the heroic thing. The kit was definitely a factor - it was just SO. DAMN. COOL. I think the style of football was also a factor - whenever we were on Match of the Day we were artistes compared to the other caveman teams.
Also, it was just great to be different! It felt good. Felt right.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
I was there at Uni and was taken to Hull City games by blokes from our digs. Enjoyed it so much that I looked for games at home in the Easter vac. Home being Northolt and QPR was the easiest to get to. Also at that time QPR were fighting out the Third division with Hull and Millwall. Hull were flying, with 25,000+ crowds and epic games with Chelsea in the 6th round of the cup. Hull and Millwall went up and it was Rangers turn as clear champions the following year.
What I found at Loftus Road was a very entertaining team (Rodney Lazarus etc) and a great happy atmosphere including loads of humour. The final hook though must have been the League Cup win in 1967. Some great memories along the way.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 21:42 - Jan 19 with 432 views
Moved to Kensal Rise from Paris in 1986. Went to see arsenal, told the newsagent (corner of Chamberlayne road and Clifford Gardens - we used to call him owright mate), and he gave me a bollocking, saying here is QPR, not the arse, so I went to see a game at LR, absolutely loved the place, and I saw Mick Jones at the game, so that was it :)
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 00:48 - Jan 20 with 327 views
Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:34 - Jan 19 by BrianMcCarthy
I think it's a great question, but I've been thinking about the reasons I kept following us as well.
It would have been easy to stop, or even switch teams when I was a kid. We moved to Ireland for a lot of my childhood and my brother deserted Rangers and most kids I knew were swapping teams all the time. There was no shame to it, it seemed.
And my Dad didn't really care any more.
I think I stuck with us becuase loyalty was big in the comics and books I read as a kid, heroes were loyal, and I wanted to do the heroic thing. The kit was definitely a factor - it was just SO. DAMN. COOL. I think the style of football was also a factor - whenever we were on Match of the Day we were artistes compared to the other caveman teams.
Also, it was just great to be different! It felt good. Felt right.
Maybe, I should start another thread Brian ;
"Main Reason You Carried on Following QPR"
My answer, probably like many others, could be summed up in one word -
Parents divoreced and my Dad had us every other weekend. Took us to Arsenal, QPR, Charlton. When we came to LR we saw a 4-2 win against Wolves and went back to my Nan's nearby - East Action - for crumpets after the game. I badgered him to bring us again - Ipswich 3-1 win, a couple of weeks later Man City 1-0 win, Asa Hartford sent off.
Could have been the kit, always magnificent and distinctive.
Could have been that special player, a certain Mr. Stan Bowles, although as a seven year old watching the Big Match, I probably couldn't explain why.
So I went for Other as I started supporting QPR in my first year of junior school. Everyone else had a team and where I'm from there were plenty of West Ham, a lot of Tottenham, some Arsenal and Orient and given the era inevitably Liverpool. But no, me, I had to be different.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 17:59 - Jan 20 with 163 views
I started following football properly in my early teens, and fell in love with the Gerry Francis team of the early 1990s. Stejskal, Bardsley, McDonald, Peacock, Wilson, Impey, Holloway, Wilkins, Sinton, Ferdinand, Allen.
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Lazarus etc) and a great happy atmosphere including loads of humour. The final hook though must have been the League Cup win in 1967. Some great memories along the way. 
