QPR at Wembley

The Sky commentator last night claimed that QPR had to date played at Wembley five times. Is this correct?

There was the two League Cup finals in '67 and '86, as well the '82 FA Cup final and replay, but if there was a fifth occasion, when was it?

Could he have been mistakenly thinking of the 2003 League One play-off final which, of course, was held at the Millennium Stadium and not Wembley?


If the answer is bloody obvious, then it's alluding Old Lame Brain here.

 

Did we play a charity shield once?

 

I think we played the first Charity Shield over 100 years ago, before the original Wembley was built...

 

I remember us winning the Five-a-side at Wembley in Stan's days, but that was in the Empire Pool if my memory is right...

 

There wasn't a LC final in 86, that never happened,

 

It bloody did cos I was bloody there and travelled back along the M40 with thousands of bloody Oxford fans!!

 

I bloody live in Oxford!

 

Can we take this OP down? The headline is making me very nervous and could be a jinx!!

 

It's the only bloody game I ever took my bloody wife to see!

 

I can only come up with the four occasions that you have indicated, perhaps he meant to say this would be our fifth Wembley appearance?.

If we do make it to Wembley again, let's hope we don't repeat this (non) performance:-

1986 League Cup final: Oxford v QPR

http://that1980ssportsblog.blogspot.ca/2013/02/1986-league-cup-final-oxford-v-qpr.html

Going in to the final Smith must have been confident that his new side would beat his old one. In the eight league matches leading up to Wembley, Rangers had won five - including a victory against Man Utd, and a 6-0 win over Chelsea which the Daily Mirror described as 'BLUE MURDER' - and drawn three. Speaking after a 4-1 win at Leicester six days before the final, Smith sounded surprisingly cautious: "I just hope we haven't peaked too early."

Rangers, it has to be said, simply did not turn up on the day, and as the second half began their supporters could have been forgiven for wondering if the team in front of them was the same one that had overcome the major hurdles of Chelsea and Liverpool to reach the final. In the 52nd minute Hebberd again was at the centre of the move that would lead to Oxford's second. After superb work in his own half, Hebberd latched on to a Ray Houghton through ball, successfully breaking Rangers' offside trap that was about as well drilled as their overall performance on the day. Showing great intelligence, Hebberd surged into the area before cutting the ball back to Houghton, who gave Barron no chance. "You won't see a better goal than that," commented the excellent Brian Moore, and although you could argue the point, you kind of knew what he was getting at.

As the half progressed Rangers did little to indicate that they were likely to get back into the match. They were kindly put out of their misery in the 87th minute, when former Rangers man Charles tapped in after Barron could only parry Aldridge's original effort. The last ever Milk Cup had seen the biggest margin of victory in a Wembley League Cup final, in a match so one-sided that any aliens amongst the 90,396 crowd would have been confused as to which team were languishing at the bottom of the table. Smith neatly summed up Rangers' display: "We were diabolical. We just froze - we were frightened of the occasion." That was probably a kind assessment too.

 

Thanks all. I think the conclusion is that we've only had four Wembley appearances so far. Perhaps in my near comatose state watching last night proceedings I misheard the commentator. Nah, Col, I don't believe is jinxes and other superstitious mumbo jumbo, so this OP shouldn't have any adverse effect (fingers crossed).

 

Yeah, I was there too. Having dispatched the mighty Liverpool over two legs in the semis I thought a Rangers win was nailed on. Bloody Trevor Hebberd (who went to my school, incidentally) was MotM that day.

(I got an amazing consolation shag that night, as I remember, from my girlfriend at the time)

 

It proves that sometimes there's more important things to life than football.

 

Ok mate. On your head be it!!

 

Hopefully I won't have to try and play that card with my wife if we do make it to Wembley.
(p.s. I could use one of those once in a while though since despite being 60 I am still functional!)

If we are shaping up for a Sat May 24th final at Wembley, it represents a major problem for me since that happens to be the date of my oldest daughter's university graduation ceremony, and out of town too!

 

She'll understand...

 

Yeah, but she left me for a wannabe jockey* half my height three years later.

(*I guess he could breathe through his ears and lick his eyebrows)

 

Back them a shag was more important, now I just need a good nights sleep.

 

...so a muff diving short arsed little bastard?

 

..that's about the size of it (or him).