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The RIP Thread

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by durbar2003, Feb 3, 2016.

  1. qprbeth

    qprbeth Wicked Witch of West12 Forum Moderator

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    RIP Gordon possibly our best ever manager definitely our most innovative.

    A forward thinker and initiator of the modern game
     
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  2. Stroller

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    A ‘proper’ football Manager.

    RIP <rose>
     
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    Certainly one of the most forward thinking coaches of his era. Built most of our greatest team and had the vision to allow TV to coach as well. The progress he oversaw left his successor the perfect platform to play exciting attacking football that was way ahead of it’s time. We owe him so much. RIP...
     
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  5. Hoops Eternal

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    Really sad news. Laid the foundations of the greatest team we've ever had, they were exciting times to be a hoop.
    RIP Gordon and thanks for the fantastic memories.
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    Can't add anything else to what's been said already....

    RIP Gordon <rose>
     
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    I would put Alec Stock up there too. Just bought the Gordon Jago autobiography on Amazon.

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    One of our best ever managers who took us a quantum leap forward and build the foundation our legendary '75/76 team.

    May he Rest in Peace.
     
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    'The Chingford Skinhead', one of Maggie's right hand men. Famously made an arse of himself with his 'Cricket test' where he claimed children born here to immigrant parents should support England, he should have tried England v Windies at the Oval where most of Brixton decamped a mile up the road to produce the best atmosphere you'd ever get at cricket in the 60s & 70s.

    One of the last of that era to pass away it's a very different England now. RIP...
     
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  16. Hoops Eternal

    Hoops Eternal Well-Known Member

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    Also famously represented on Spitting Image.
    Maggie's hatchet man.
    RIP
     
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