George Goddard is our all time top goal scorer with 172 league goals. He scored 37 in the 1929/30 season. Please add some facts about QPR that we might/might not know
Our highest ever attendance at Loftus Road was 35,353 against Leeds United in 1975. I was sat on the touchline just in front of where Staines sits now. I was only nine years old. I hope that attendance figure is correct, as I did it from memory.
If our initials were placed in alphabetical order we would be known as PQR and probably would have stormed football's highest citadels and been accorded all the accolades our undoubted high lineage would have merited. Sadly, by a quirk of linguistic scattering, that inexcusable jumbling of our lettering has damned us to eternal meandering through the blind alleys and poor dead ball placements of our recent history.
I was on a cruise last summer and we were paired with two other couples for dining every evening. One of them, a guy called Malcolm, was a Leeds supporter and told me he was in our record crowd the day they finished the 73-74 season as champions and he was one of many hundreds of Leeds supporters who invaded the pitch at the end when they'd won 1-0. He reckoned there were at least 10,000 Leeds fans there that day. Small world that we met again 38 years later...
I've just looked it up. It was 35,353 against the mighty Leeds on 27/04/74. I was 9 yrs old back then. It is a small world indeed Sooper. I don't think the old school end held 10,000 though.
The road names around the ground all have links to Australian or African locations. This is because the majority of the work force that constructed "White City" (south Africa) and the ground were mainly from these locations. It was decided by the then council to honour the workers that had constructed the most developed and forward thinking showpiece of London. A special plaque was also mounted alongside the entrance to Bloomfontien Road that was delivered by the South African Rugby Team. They played at Loftus, Bloomfontien Road, South Africa and were due to play a showpiece game against the England National Squad. due to ilness the game was cancelled and the pitch was not used for rugby until Wasps had a ground share with QPR............Probably!!!!...........
There were Leeds fans all over the stadium that day as there wasn't the same type of security in those days, I was in the corner of the Loft that day as I was late arriving and there were lots of Leeds fans in the Ellerslie and up the sides, it was their day really...
Was thet the one that we lost 1-0 even though there was only one team in it US...and they scored in thefirst few minutes and we bombarded them for the next 85! Sorry saw Soopers quotes...yes gutted I was there too with my Dad
QPR (Southern League Champions)played in the first ever Charity Shield vs Man United (football league champions) and we drew...losing the replay
There were also 35k in the ground the following year when we played Leeds in our final home game. I was 14 then and crammed into the loft with my older Brother. We won 2-0 and were League "Champions" for a few days till Wolves capitulated to Liverpool to put us 2nd by 1 point! That 1pt was surrendered when we lost at Norwich earlier in the season............hence one of the main reasons why I ****ing hate Norwich!
