I was football mad as a kid with the nearest team to me being Reading (but they were pants) , but surprisingly didn't want to support Man Utd like every other kid. One day, my aunty came over to my house with a surprise. She was a midwife and operated around west Surrey and told me she had delivered Andy Sinton's wife's baby the day before. Knowing I was a keen footballer she asked him for an autograph on my behalf, so he obliged and gave her a photograph of him in his QPR football strip with a personal message and autograph. I was so chuffed. The rest is history......and so are the barahe of insults I would receive on a daily basis from my mates for supporting QPR!!
Simple really,my Dad came over from Dublin when he was 18 and like most irish people he lived in the bush. But it could of all gone wrong as my Mum was a season ticket holder at stamford bridge thanks to her older brothers,I was born and brought up in chelsea as well but my Dad took me to my 1st Q.P.R game when i was 8 months old, Now i take him and my son 5 year old son so i've passed the curse onto the next generation.
Born Ducane road Hospital 1954,Christopher Wren School, Lived in Hadyn Park Road,1st game Feb 1961 stood in the small sectioned off part of Loftus road,all my mates were Chelsea fans but i was 3rd generation Rangers, my sons now go and have just started taking my Grandson,its in the blood once a Ranger always a Ranger
Come from Willesden, my brother was five years older than me and had a QPR scarf on our bedroom wall, it was the first football anything I ever saw, I was 3 or 4 years old, I remember painting the blue n white hoops on birthday present “striker” (you pushed the heads down and they kicked) all my mates were QPR and lived in Queens Park, now in NZ but still astro travel to where ever the super hoops play.
My dad took both my older brothers to the milk cup final when I was 5 gutted I was remember them leaving telling me "your not going I am" since that day qpr through and through season ticket holder from 89 to 99 wouldn't change anything I love this club with a passion and it all started cause I couldn't go to a game.
i'm not really sure why I supported the R's I just always knew that I did! I was born and bred in Hanger Lane and remember being Ian Gillard in the playground when everyone else was being Kevin Keegan!! I went to mt first game in 81/82 when I was eleven - I missed the first game on plastic bit did see our first win. The game was against Newcastle and my mate who took me told me not to wear anything too obvious. I therefore wore a T shirt with a big badge on it, with a scarf tied round my waist - I can still remember the look on his face. There have been many ups and downs but being back in the prem has made it all worthwhile and it brought a tear to the eye when we lifted the trophy.
Please read my profile, You will read how Im became a Rangers supporter! saves me writing it all out again , but to wet your appaite ?? I first went to see Rangers in 1946 at the school end for 6pence (real money then) now worth 2.1/2 new pence!
I live 2 miles from the ground. My Dad first took me to see the R's in the FA Cup 3rd round tie against Aylesbury in 1995 when I was 5. (we won 4-0 Maddix, Sir Les, Gallen, Meaker). I didnt really appreciate it at the time and he always likes reminds me of when I said 'can we go home yet' 20 mins before KO! When I was in year 6 in 1999/2000 I was invited to the QPR study support programme with added bonuses of a ground tour, players coming in to talk and most importantly match tickets. I always remember 1 game during that time when I was sitting in the loft and Karl Ready scored from a corner after I previously said to my Dad to pass to him as he'll score!
Born in Ladbroke Grove, went to Middle Row and St Clement Danes (as it was then), played footie down the ´Little Scrubs´ religiously every Sunday morning...... oh yeh and my Dad was a Chelsea fan!!!
That's the time I started going & also saw the 5 all game with Newcastle which left me speechless - although at 4:0 at half time I was less so Use to be whole bunch of school mates that use to get the 237 bus from Sunbury to the Bush & was always an exciting/fun day out.
Family originally from Kilburn and QPR through and through. My first game was around '92 with my dad against Palace which finished 1-1. Being the age I am I've spent most of my life convincing people that rangers were good at some point (my dads tales of stan and rodney sold it to me!) despite what they were reading in the press at the time. Which is why the dwarf and the permatanned one are doing my nut in, the first time I get to hold my head high as an R's supporter in my life and these two are sodding it up. It wouldn't be rangers if the wheels werent about to fall off at any moment and to be honest I kinda love the chaos
I grew up in Ealing, West London...and as my uncle was a QPR fan, I was a QPR fan...I have a picture of me in a Rangers shirt aged 4 (1989). I got my two younger brothers to support us, and then my Dad to start a little later. First game was when we beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 in the Premiership in around 1995 I think.
that would be a memorable afternoon watching the Rs beat Birmingham 5-2 on the Big Match in October 1970 and feeling a sense of joy at the way the football was being played then moved to the Bush (behind the shopping precinct) in 1975
I note my little input on this subject has been taken off ? No matter, I am sure there are some amazing stores that will be printed, say going back all of 20 years!!
Didn't really have a choice! Lived within 500 metres of Loftus Road my whole life and my whole family (even the cousins and stuff) are R's fans. Well, my mums fam at least, my dads a manc.
An oft-told story..... Back in the summer of 69 (Not the Bryan Adams one, either!) I was just a small child. My Great-Grandfather lived in a flat on the White City estate, and I can vividly recall going to his front door. I can still remember looking over the balcony, and seeing into Loftus Road, for the first time. Blue and White hoops are what I remember. Now, I was born in May of that year, so I can only have been a few months old. How can I date it so accurately? The South Africa Road Stand was being built at the beginning of the 69-70 season, so was not obstructing the view, as it would when finished. This is my very first memory, which I treasure greatly. Although neither my great, or my grandfather (Fulham) supported the Hoops, I was drawn to them, as they were just down the road from my Grandparents (Bentworth Road....Just across the Westway). I STILL remember getting my family to rush back from the pub, when we were on holiday at Leysdown, in 76, to see MotD. QPR V Liverpool, and Francis score the goal of the season, on the very first day of the season. My own son is now 6, nearly 7, and a confirmed Ranger too.
