Ferdinand runs sword through promoted Hammers – History Tuesday, 6th Oct 2026 13:11 by Clive Whittingham Ahead of QPR’s trip to The London Stadium this Friday, LFW looks back at a meeting between the two sides at Upton Park in 1993 when Les Ferdinand was in typically formidable form. Memorable MatchWest Ham 0 QPR 4, Saturday August 28, 1993, Premier League A narrow lead at half time then and no real indication of the massacre to come. Things were all too easy for Rangers initially as Bardsley played a ball forwards for Wilkins to chest into the path of Penrice — all three in acres of space in the West Ham half — and when Penrice then lofted a speculative ball in behind a static back line Les Ferdinand reacted quickest to beat Miklosko to the ball, and then force it beyond him and into the net with the power of his shot and double QPR’s lead with just two minutes played. The Wilkins and Peacock set piece combination worked well again in the fifty third minute when the ageing midfielder dollied a free kick up to the back post for Peacock to nod back into the danger area. Penrice controlled the ball on the edge of the six yard box with his back to goal, swivelled and struck a third goal that once again the goalkeeper probably should have done better with. And the mood of the home fans wasn’t improved much 20 minutes from time when Sinclair punted a ball forwards for Ferdinand to chase and, despite being easily third favourite behind Colin Foster and Miklosko, seize possession on the edge of the area, turn a full 360 degrees to bamboozle the ragged home defence, and then finish into the open net for 18 yards out. Manager Gerry Francis sent on striker Bradley Allen as a late substitute to join his brother Clive and cousin Martin on the field. No fewer than five of the West Ham players that day either played for QPR previously, or went on to join the R’s later including Miklosko despite his horror show here. The teams shared a goalless draw at Loftus Road later in the season as the Hammers rallied to finish thirteenth. QPR finished ninth. West Ham: Miklosko, Breaker, Potts, Foster, Dicks, M Allen, Robson, Butler , Rowland, Morley, C Allen Subs not used: Gale, Peyton, Holmes QPR: Roberts, Bardsley, Peacock, McDonald, Wilson, Sinclair, Wilkins (Ready 76), Barker, Impey, Penrice (B Allen 83), Ferdinand Sub not used: Stejskal Attendance: 18,084 Classic encountersLFW regular and AKUTR’s columnist Dave Barton has set up a QPR Memories YouTube channel, with a mixture of clips, classic games, and old highlights packages. His three recent meetings at West Ham are embedded below, give him a subscribe on YouTube or follow @QPR_Memories on Twitter. Recent MeetingsWest Ham 2 QPR 1 AET, Sunday January 11, 2026, FA Cup Third Round QPR ran Premier League strugglers West Ham close on their first visit to the London Stadium but ultimately came up just short. Crysencio Summerville opened the scoring in an extended period of first half stoppage time but a travelling support in excess of 9,000 was sent into second half delirium by Richard Kone’s headed equaliser. That was enough to force extra time, but with injury-hit Rangers running out of warm bodies it was unfortunately the home team and Castellanos supplied by the excellent Summerville who made the crucial breakthrough. West Ham: Hermansen 6; Todibo 5, Mavropanos 5 (Pablo 46, 5), Kilman 5; Wan-Bissaka 4 (Walker-Peters 90, 6), Magassa 5 (Soucek 70, 7), Potts 5, Mayers 6 (Scarles 90, 5); Bowen 7, Castellanos 7 (Rodrigues 111, -), Summerville 8 Subs not used: Golambeckis, Herrick, Irving, Kante Goals: Summerville 45+10 (assisted Magassa), Castellanos 98 (assisted Summerville) Yellow Cards: Magassa 57 (foul), Wan-Bissaka 59 (foul), Rosdriguez 111 (foul) QPR: Walsh 7; Mbengue 6 (Adamson 100, 5), Dunne 7, Cook 7, Norrington-Davies 6 (Field 83, 5); Dembele 5 (Bennie 83, 5), Madsen 6, Hayden 7, Saito 5 (Smyth 18, 6); Kone 6, Kolli 7 (Morgan 93, 6) Subs not used: Akindileni, Hamer, Esquerdinha, Smith Goals: Kone 65 (assisted Dembele) Bookings: Mbengue 54 (foul), Kone 69 (foul), Kolli 75 (foul) QPR 0 West Ham 0, Saturday April 25, 2015, Premier League A surprise 4-1 win at West Brom and 3-3 draw at Aston Villa had given QPR a chance of Premier League survival under caretaker manager Chris Ramsey, but with a heartbreaking late home defeat to Chelsea and games away at Liverpool and Man City to come they really needed to beat a poor West Ham side with nothing to play for at home and take the chance to move out of the bottom three for the first time in 2015. Unfortunately a drab game was defined by Charlie Austin’s penalty miss and the 0-0 all but sealed Rangers’ fate with the subsequent games at Anfield and City predictably one-sided defeats. QPR: Green 6; Onuoha 6, Dunne 5, Caulker 6, Hill 6 (Yun 64, 6); Phillips 6, Barton 6, Sandro 6, Henry 6; Austin 5, Zamora 5 (Fer 67, 5) Subs not used: Kranjcar, McCarthy, Taarabt, Isla, Wright-Phillips Bookings: Austin 76 (foul) West Ham: Adrian 8; Jenkinson 6, Collins 5, Burke 6, Cresswell 7; Jarvis 5 (Cole 55, 5), Nolan 4, Kouyate 5, Noble 6, Downing 6; Valencia 6 Subs not used: Carvalho, O’Brien, Amalfitano, Poyet, Jääskeläinen, Oxford
West Ham 2 QPR 0, Sunday October 4, 2014, Premier League QPR turned in one of their worst performances of the season at Upton Park back in October. Live on Sky on a Sunday afternoon, they fell behind after just four minutes when Nedum Onuoha inadvertently diverted a Stuart Downing corner into his own net — Enner Valencia had glanced it into his path with a hand but only Robert Green appealed. Rio Ferdinand’s horrendous early season form reached a nadir here, and his attempts to stop centre half James Tomkins hooking a ball back across the face of the QPR goal after half time for Diafra Sakho to tap in had to be seen to be believed. Rangers, with manager Harry Redknapp motionless on the bench throughout, barely managed a shot in anger. West Ham: Adrian 6; Jenkinson 6, Tomkins 7, Reid 7, Cresswell 7; Song 8, Zárate 7 (Nolan 76, 6), Amalfitano 6; Downing 8; Valencia 7 (Jarvis 85, -) Sakho 8 Subs not used: Jääskeläinen, Poyet, Cole, Burke, Lee Goals: Onuoha own goal 4 (assisted Downing), Sakho 59 (assisted Tomkins) Bookings: Tomkins 48 (foul), Cresswell 82 (foul) QPR: Green 5; Onuoha 5, Caulker 6, Ferdinand 4, Traore 5; Henry 5, Sandro 4 (Taarabt 67, 6); Hoilett 4 (Zamora 46, 6), Fer 5, Kranjcar 6 (Mutch 78, 5); Austin 5 Subs not used: McCarthy, Isla, Dunne, Vargas Bookings: Sandro 13 (foul), Henry 88 (foul)
West Ham 1 QPR 1, Saturday January 19, 2013, Premier League Loic Remy scored on his QPR debut but Rangers were indebted to a fabulous performance from goalkeeper Julio Cesar for preserving a point on their visit to Upton Park in January 2013. The R's were deep in the relegation mire, and would eventually slip into the Championship, but the £8m capture of Remy had raised spirits and the Frenchman raced onto a fine pass from Adel Taarabt to slam in the opening goal after a quarter of an hour. Joe Cole equalised in the second half, having spurned QPR's attempts to buy him and gone to West Ham instead just the week before, but the real headline maker was Cesar who made a string of unlikely saves to keep the home side at bay. West Ham: Jaaskelainen 6, Demel 6, Reid 7, Tomkins 6, O’Brien 6, Noble 7, Diame 7, Nolan 8 (Vaz Te, 88 -), Jarvis 7, Cole 7, Chamakh 6 (Cole 62, 6) Subs not used: Spiegel, Potts, Collison, Taylor , Diarra Goals: J Cole 68 (assisted Jarvis/C Cole) Bookings: Tomkins 72 (foul) QPR: Cesar 9, Onuoha 6, Hill 7, Nelsen 7, Da Silva 7, Derry 6, Mbia 7, Mackie 5 (Bothroyd 67, 5), Wright-Phillips 5 (Traore 58, 6), Taarabt 7 (Park 82, -), Remy 6 Subs not used: Green, Ferdinand, Faurlin, Hoilett Goals: Remy 14 (assisted Taarabt)
QPR 1 West Ham 2, Monday October 1, 2012, Premier League
Subs not used: T McClenahan, R Brevett, J Walker
Previous ResultsHead to Head >>> West Ham wins 23 >>> Draws 20 >>> QPR wins 19 2025/26 West Ham 2 QPR 1* (Kone) 2014/15 QPR 0 West Ham 0 2014/15 West Ham 2 QPR 0 2012/13 West Ham 1 QPR 1 (Remy)
ConnectionsTrevor Sinclair >>> West Ham 1998-2003 >>> QPR 1993-1998 As you’ll see when we get to the ‘Others’ shortly, these two clubs are not short of player connections over the last 40 years, but the talent has been flowing pretty much one way right back to the days of Phil Parkes and Paul Goddard heading East. That was never more the case than with Trevor Sinclair, scorer of perhaps QPR’s greatest ever goal but also the subject of the club’s most catastrophically bad transfers. Sinclair, initially, was the Richard Thompson model working at Loftus Road. The club had signed Andy Sinton for low six figures from Brentford, turned him into an England international winger, and sold for a large profit to Sheff Wed. Gerry Francis and the club’s recruitment team already had the next cab off the rank in the form of Sinclair, then a promising dreadlocked winger who’d become Blackpool’s youngest ever player at 16. A few of the Northern R’s had seen him playing against Scunthorpe in a Wembley play-off final and were delighted when it turned out it was us who’d won the race to sign him for £600k. Given his young age and step up in levels you’d expect a settling in period but not a bit of it. Sinclair was Premier League ready. Starring in an August 4-0 win against West Ham at Upton park, and bagging his first goal for Rangers that midweek at home to Sheff Utd. Rangers had an electric autumn in which they won ten of 14 league and cup games, losing only two, to help set the early Premier League pace. Although things, typically, fell away after Christmas, and at one point the club dissolved into anger and protest over the sale of Darren Peacock to Newcastle, there were notable wins to finish the campaign at home to Everton and away to Spurs at White Hart Lane on the final day when Sinclair scored twice. Already an England Under 21 international at this stage, Sinclair continued to grow into an established top flight threat in 1994/95/ He scored on opening night at Loftus Road as Sheff Wed lost 3-2, Kevin Gallen’s first for the club sealing the deal, and his diving header from David Bardsley’s cross in a 2-1 home victory against Liverpool was top class. Sadly behind the scenes politics saw Gerry Francis depart after that win but Sinclair was then a key member of a Ray Wilkins side which finished top half and made an FA Cup quarter final at Old Trafford – Wilkins’ decision to bench Sinclair and double up with Rufus Brevett and Clive Wilson against Andrei Kanchelskis proved to be an error. Rangers had again beaten the Hammers in the cup at Loftus Road as part of that run. Little personal aside… Sinclair was not selected for an FA Cup Third Round tie at home to Aylesbury for which I was mascot, and he was charged with looking after us and showing us around the dressing rooms pre-game. He’d noted from the programme that I’d listed him as my ‘favourite player’ and in the kit room said that although he couldn’t give me his shirt, as he wasn’t in the line up, I could have one of Les’ instead. Come ten minutes to kick off the teams are lining up in the tunnel and a very angry, very topless Les Ferdinand is rampaging around wanting to know who’s had his shirt away (by now very safely stored away in my Thunderbirds backpack upstairs). I had to very delicately raise my hand as a ten-year-old in front of the QPR team of 1994/95 and say that I thought I, perhaps, knew where it was. Sinclair found this hilarious. Alan McDonald did not. Of course, Les was to be sold that summer, and predictably relegation followed in 1995/96 as the team fell apart with the likes of Clive Wilson released and David Bardsley injured. A disastrous summer transfer intake with the money received sealed Rangers’ fate. Sinclair was the best player in that team be an embarrassing margin, in the end seconded as an auxiliary striker through the back half of the campaign. A goal in a 3-1 win at Leeds a rare highlight. Regularly linked with moves to Arsenal and others, it was remarkable that Sinclair ended up staying with QPR for a 1996/97 First Division season which included his memorable bicycle kick at home to Barnsley in the FA Cup. He was still here a season later too, as the club started to descend into the financial mire under Chris Wright and plummet down even the First Division under first Stuart Houston and then Ray Harford, who’d infamously promised Wright a promotion if given a chance to manage a team with a forward line of Gallen, Sheron, Spencer and Sinclair (to be fair to him, that was ridiculous at that level). Sinclair’s agitations for a move saw his name booed by the crowd before a home game against Man City, and he responded by lobbing the goalkeeper from 50 yards. With the financial collapse in full swing QPR then made the unfathomable decision to let a winger who they’d been knocking back £8m bids for not so long ago move across town to West Ham for a basic fee of about £2.3m plus a job lot of ageing, creaking Hammers who would go on to be remembered as some of Rangers’ worst players from a bleak time in our history - Keith Rowland and Iain Dowie, soon to be chased around the North Circular by Tim Breacker and Ludek Miklosko. West Ham had Andy Impey from the other side of that team, and soon Rufus Brevett as well. Fume. As Rangers collapsed into administration and the Second Division, West Ham played European football and Sinclair started on the flank for England at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. He enjoyed a stellar top flight career with the Hammers and later Man City. He retired after a spell at Cardiff and has worked as a pundit on television and radio since, though that work has rather subsided since comments made in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Others >>> Harrison Ashby, QPR (loan) 2024-2025, West Ham 2020-2023 >>> Jordan Hugill, West Ham 2018-2020, QPR (loan) 2019-2020 >>> Ravel Morrison, QPR (loan) 2017, (loan) 2014, West Ham 2012-2015 >>> Robert Green, QPR 2012-2016, West Ham 2006-2012 >>> Paul Konchesky, QPR 2015-2016, West Ham 2005-2007 >>> Mauro Zarate, West Ham 2014-2016, QPR (loan) 2015 >>> Bobby Zamora, QPR 2012-2015, West Ham 2004-2008 >>> Harry Redknapp, QPR (manager) 2012-2015, West Ham (manager) 1994-2001, 1965-1972 >>> Mobido Maiga, West Ham 2012-2015, QPR (loan) 2014 >>> Rio Ferdinand, QPR 2014-2015, West Ham 1992-2000 >>> Hogan Ephraim, QPR 2007-2014, West Ham 2004-2008 >>> Gary O’Neil, QPR 2013-2014, West Ham 2011-2013 >>> Yossi Benayoun, QPR 2013-2014, West Ham 2007-2010 >>> Kieron Dyer, QPR 2011-2013, West Ham 2007-2011 >>> Anton Ferdinand, QPR 2011-2013, West Ham 2003-2008 >>> Tal Ben Haim, QPR 2013, West Ham (loan) 2010-2011 >>> Danny Gabbidon, QPR 2011-2012, West Ham 2005-2011 >>> Nigel Quashie, QPR 2010, 1995-1998, West Ham 2007-2010 >>> Iain Dowie, QPR (manager) 2008, 1998-2001, West Ham 1995-1998 >>> Steve Lomas, QPR 2005-2007, West Ham 1997-2005 >>> Rufus Brevett, West Ham 2003-2005, QPR 1991-1998 >>> Les Ferdinand, West Ham 2003, QPR 1987-1995 >>> Terrell Forbes, QPR 2001-2004, West Ham 1999-2001 >>> Keith Rowland, QPR 1998-2001, West Ham 1993-1998 >>> Tim Brecker, QPR 1999-2001, West Ham 1990-1999 >>> Ludek Miklosko, QPR 1998-2001, West Ham 1990-1998 >>> Darren Peacock, West Ham (loan) 2000, QPR 1990-1994 >>> Neil Ruddock, West Ham 1998-2000, QPR (loan) 1998 >>> Andy Impey, West Ham 1997-1998, QPR 1990-1997 >>> Martin Allen, West Ham 1989-1995, QPR 1984-1989 >>> Clive Allen, West Ham 1992-1994, QPR 1981-1984, 1978-1980 >>> Leroy Rosenior, West ham 1990-1992, QPR 1985-1987 >>> Paul Goddard, West Ham 1980-1986, QPR 1977-1980 >>> Phil Parkes, West Ham 1979-1990, QPR 1970-1979 Pictures - Reuters Connect Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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