I've done a search through google IMAGES to see what QPR players & fans photos come up. Here's a selection of images to start off with. All sources are credited but if someone wants a image removed for whatever reason, please advise. If anyone wants to add more images to the collection, please do. Cheers, Aussie please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
I can't believe that Dave Clement is reading his text messages after just winning The Evening Standard 5 a side trophy.
Ha Ha, my first thoughts it looks like that or at least it would these days but the phones then were bigger than the cup
some good pics there Aussie....Love the Shepheards bush Skinheads...not one of them has a crew cut !! Much as i hate to publicise it. If you visit QPRREPORT. Bushman has an amazing section featuring QPR memorabillia and phots. Best collection /section I have ever seen. not seen anything close. Its worth visiting thier board for 2 reasons. 1. So look through the collection 2. They are fellow QPR brothers & sisters. Enjoy
75-76 we had a 21 man squad, at least 8 of whom barely got a kick between them as far as I can remember, for a 42 match season plus FA and League Cups. And players like Kenny Burns and Ron Harris to deal with. Clearly there has been a rapid decline in hamstring evolution since then.
Plus Stan don't forget the state of the pitches in those days....mud heaps in winter and bone hard in spring none of this billiard table surfaces that they play on these days......maybe the diet of beer, ***s and chip butties helped them to stay fit!!!!
I know I haven't changed my hair style for 20 years, but it was very conservative to start with. But when you start with an extreme mullet, and dont change it for 30 years (plus a little extra weight). What do you get ? A Gerry Francis horror mullet
I am very prone to misty eyed sentimentalism about that era, but they all looked like men who were enjoying themselves, rather than sulky kids .....just watched some old YouTube footage of the time (I'll start working when the Yanks wake up....)including a Manchester derby from 1970, when George Best (accidentally) broke Glyn Pardoe's leg. A Manc mate who was at that game told me many years ago you could hear his leg snap like a rifle shot all around the ground. On the footage he just sits up and beckons to the sidelines. Best was quite upset to be booked.........also great clip from the Leeds - Chelsea cup final replay where Eddie McReadie kicks Billy bremner in the head in a high altitude tackle. Ref saw it and waved play on......
If that Leeds-Chelsea game had been refereed under today's rules/guidelines it would have been abandoned for having too few players remaining on the pitch. I was at Craven Cottage when Paul Went broke Martyn Busby's leg and that was just about the worst I have seen.
Thanks Queenslander for the plug. Some of the pics AussieQPR has posted are from my collection. I add new stuff every week, a lot not seen online before. Link below: QPR Report History Board. http://qprreport.proboards.com/board/5/history-qpr-photos Link for my Celebs at Rangers below: http://qprreport.proboards.com/thread/21470/celebrities-rangers
My Dad was convinced that Martyn Busby and Ian Evans were going to be superstars. Both suffered leg breaks and never fulfilled their huge potential. We could have been even better!
I was there that night as well stroller, standing fairly close to where it happened, it was not nice.......As a post script Martyn actually ended up it the hospital bed next to my father who had broken his leg a few weeks previous falling from a ladder.....so when my mother and i went in to visit there were some of the R's players visiting Martyn, remember Ian Evans being one of them......These days they wouldn't be on a public ward......
That is seriously impressive Bushman. Quite an astonishing collection. I shall take a more comprehensive look when I find the time.
There were many at the time felt that Martyn was even better than Gerry and but for the broken leg could have both been in the same England side...
I have just registered for that Site. Some great material on there. Amazing what someone said earlier about that 75/6 squad. The same team played virtually every week.
Bushman's collection is amazing. For anyone with an interest in QPR's history his archive is an Aladdin's Cave. I had the privilege of meeting him at the Comms and Media meeting earlier this year, he is a really lovely fella too.
Igor, I'm genuinely confused. What on earth was there to make you hit 'dislike' in that post? Honestly, I need to know!
