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When I landed in London in 1988 I spent the first decade in Hammersmith and Ladbroke Grove. Then the next decade in Kensal Rise. I guess I'm old school and you just have to support your local team. Not that I did a huge amount about it other than reading the match reports in the Standard.
It was when my son was born that I met another dad who was a big fan. I started going with him and his mates and I just haven't stopped since.
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
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:26 - Jan 18 with 2150 views
My Dad was a Ranger, grew up in the Grove, went to Wembley in ‘67 just before I was born. Came home p!ssed at midnight, slapped a rosette on my mum’s heavily pregnant stomach and that was that!
Growing up in SE london and being QPR wasn’t that easy, surrounded by Wall, Charlton and Wet Spam fans but by ‘eck it’s been worth it.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:31 - Jan 18 with 2129 views
Home to Clapham Rovers, my first game - a 0-0 draw. Clapham's custodian Isambard Butterfoot kept 'em in it with some fine saves. We could have so easily got both points.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:36 - Jan 18 with 2092 views
I should be Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii as my grandad was from Kennington / Walworth road. I used to go to the old den from 84 to 88 if we weren't playing.
How it started t I was in school with a Scottish bloke called Gareth,,,Sept 74 who was a QPR fan so I copied him and got got lumbered with this bunch lol, Didn't miss a home game between 5-0 v cambridge 1981 until Cov 1-1 NYE 1989
So here's the weird thing my Mum's cousin who she was very close was married to a geezer called Russell Bowman and it turned out (1979 style) he was proper QPR as his dad was QPR manager at some point in the war years and his sister was married to George Goddard lol No backing away at that point!
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:52 - Jan 18 with 2030 views
My brother is to blame. That said, apparently he once bought me a West Ham shirt in an effort to get some sort of sibling rivalry going but I called bullshit on that.
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:56 - Jan 18 with 2017 views
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.
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 19:02 - Jan 18 with 1973 views
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!
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Main Reason you started following QPR ?? on 18:35 - Jan 18 by colinallcars
Home to Clapham Rovers, my first game - a 0-0 draw. Clapham's custodian Isambard Butterfoot kept 'em in it with some fine saves. We could have so easily got both points.
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.
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