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I was in Melbourne and didn't know the replay date.
I popped into an Internet cafe to check emails and noticed my inbox was rather full. First one I open is from a Chelsea mate and after reading the first line (Having just bought Liz (his wife) a Corsa, I feel I've contributed to...). I immediately thought 'Oh FFS' went on the Beeb website and then hung my head in utter shame.
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I was flying back from Florida myself in the days when mobiles didn’t work in America, and had been away for a while so couldn’t really remember there was a game on. When I turned the phone on having a fag outside arrivals I shat myself with all the texts flying in.
Went to both games….. proper low (obviously). Chester’s ground was okay and not a bad little spot for a weekend
I still remember watching the draw in the B&W that season…. Oh how we laughed, bloke next to me says “kinell; we’re playing a bunch of car mechanics - we have to beat them; who’d you want next round?”
I couldn’t of hated Karl Connolly anymore
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
Went to both games….. proper low (obviously). Chester’s ground was okay and not a bad little spot for a weekend
I still remember watching the draw in the B&W that season…. Oh how we laughed, bloke next to me says “kinell; we’re playing a bunch of car mechanics - we have to beat them; who’d you want next round?”
I couldn’t of hated Karl Connolly anymore
I was at the replay and it was a horrendous day all round
I was at the replay and it was a horrendous day all round
I was there too. We really were at a low point. I don't even remenber being angry about it, just depressed. Did stay and clap them, what a day if you were in that team for Vauxhall Motors.
My non QPR firends still remember it, which shows how bad a result it was.
I was there too. We really were at a low point. I don't even remenber being angry about it, just depressed. Did stay and clap them, what a day if you were in that team for Vauxhall Motors.
My non QPR firends still remember it, which shows how bad a result it was.
I was there too and I agree it was depressing rather than incurring wrath at the time, even though there was plenty of that. They deserved the win on the night. Anyone who says we have played badly recently should go and check that game out on YouTube or the highlights. It will reassure some fans that we have to plummet quite some distance to be as bad as we were that night.
I was there too and we could, and should, have been 3-1 down at half time. VM deserved the victory overall.
What is often forgotten though is that after this result we only lost six league games for the rest of the season (three of those in the few weeks after the VM game).
It was 20 years ago today That Vauxhall Motors taught us how to play We'd been going up and down a while But they certainly guaranteed a smile So may I introduce to you The club you've known for all these years Queens Park Rangers Charity Football Team
It was 20 years ago today That Vauxhall Motors taught us how to play We'd been going up and down a while But they certainly guaranteed a smile So may I introduce to you The club you've known for all these years Queens Park Rangers Charity Football Team
A few days after our humiliation, I was at work and had to leave my desk to go and talk to a colleague in another part of the building. I came back and carried on working.
Then, a little while later, I needed to fire up my web browser. I clicked on the icon and then something weird which I didn't recognise flashed up on my screen. I closed it down and the same thing happened again. Where was my normal home page? Then I looked closer and the penny dropped: Someone had reset my browser and made Vauxhall Motors' website my new home page! Very inventive!
I made some enquiries and found out who the culprits were and oh, I got my revenge (pause for cackling). I sent one of them, who I had not ever 'phoned before, a text message where the full content was "QPR" repeated until it used up all available characters. I later asked him if he had had any viruses on his mobile recently because I had received some and there was an epidemic of them. He said he thought he had, he had received a mysterious text which filled his whole screen with just three, endlessly repeated characters. Bullseye!
I nabbed the other guy while he was driving home. I called his mobile from the department fax machine, knowing that he had a mobile car kit, that he was travelling with a colleague, and that he would almost certainly pick up the call. He duly and I was in hysterics as he was saying "Hello. Hello. HELLO! It's a fax machine!"
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Certainly high on the nadirs list in my time of following Rangers. I ran a double decker coach that day, about 75 of us, I'm not really sure why? Or why it was full? Actually a mad day out, although I don't think I was allowed to use that coach company again. I vaguely recall informing the driver about half an hour back from Chester that heading to Carlisle was the wrong way home. Stopping for more refreshments by West Brom's Hawthorns ground much to the surprise of the clueless local Baggies thinking that we were Villa I think? It's fine lads, we'll win the replay and be on the telly at Macclesfield in Round Two, which was scheduled, new ground an all..... Those were the days. Or were they?
Certainly high on the nadirs list in my time of following Rangers. I ran a double decker coach that day, about 75 of us, I'm not really sure why? Or why it was full? Actually a mad day out, although I don't think I was allowed to use that coach company again. I vaguely recall informing the driver about half an hour back from Chester that heading to Carlisle was the wrong way home. Stopping for more refreshments by West Brom's Hawthorns ground much to the surprise of the clueless local Baggies thinking that we were Villa I think? It's fine lads, we'll win the replay and be on the telly at Macclesfield in Round Two, which was scheduled, new ground an all..... Those were the days. Or were they?
Didn’t your coach arrive late at the game as well?
I have a vivid memory of being in the stand and over to the far right hand corner a copper coloured double decker pulling into the car park and you boys falling off the chariot
Clearly as everyone has said this game was one of the big lows of recent decades; but, it’s what makes us love this crazy club of ours isn’t it? Sometimes I hate it so much but then I bounce back and love the bones of it as the good moments are appreciated so much more.
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
Didn’t your coach arrive late at the game as well?
I have a vivid memory of being in the stand and over to the far right hand corner a copper coloured double decker pulling into the car park and you boys falling off the chariot
Clearly as everyone has said this game was one of the big lows of recent decades; but, it’s what makes us love this crazy club of ours isn’t it? Sometimes I hate it so much but then I bounce back and love the bones of it as the good moments are appreciated so much more.
Indeed we did, about ten past three. Some, including my dad, watched fifteen minutes of the game then got a cab into Chester for a drink. Probably a wise move.
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Very inventive! 
