I find a lot of local football history fascinating, in South London some of the games in the Isthmian League which was amateur at the time were incredibly competitive and matches between Dulwich Hamlet and Nunhead in the 1920s & 30s regularly attracted crowds of over 20,000 to Dulwich's Champion Hill Stadium. A hero of Dulwich was Edgar Kail who played three times for England whilst still an amateur, the last non-league player to do so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Kail
it seems like QPR are cursed, even when we got the news we were going to be allowed to be champions, I still couldnt celebrate as I was convinced they take it back. Hopefully its just that LR is built on an old burial ground and we will have more luck with a new stadium.
Wouldn't be surprised that when they dig up the pitch they find Chelsea shirts and other Satanic items buried. If it was up to me I'd get a priest in to exorcise the ground and bless the sprinklers so they produce Holy Water.
http://www.indyrs.co.uk/?p=125 please log in to view this image Extract:- "Back in the summer of 1904, the ground was little more than a dump â literally. Contractors building the ânewâ Underground railway from Shepherdâs Bush to the City had left Loftus Road four feet deep in heavy London clay. Shepherdâs Bush Football Club was looking for a new home because its Wormholt Farm ground was being developed for housing. The Loftus Road site was ideal but massive piles of clay had to be removed before a professional contractor could come in to lay the pitch. Fencing, entrances, pavilion, stand and press box were installed. This was all achieved within a four-month deadline (and ahead of final planning approval given on 15th October by Hammersmith Borough Council !)." http://shepherds-bush.blogspot.ca/2011/09/wormholt-park-snake-infested-wood.html please log in to view this image
I love all the history stuff, so genuine thanks to Kilburn and Co. for their research. Wouldn't you all just love to go back to 1856 and walk around the place? If you met the developers in 1904, would you say,"don't bother, chaps, it'll just lead to generations of angst and misery"?
doing a bit of research, it appears that loftus rd could be on top off a massive burial site for the black death (plague)! will keep researching and keep you informed.
Seriously or a joke? Would seem unlikely that far out of the then London. Plague pits are sometimes suspected of still posing possible health risks, there was major paranoia during the excavation of Spanish Flu victims in either Greenland or Iceland a few years back. Permafrost and all that.
We could always return to this locale - on the plus side we'd have a captive audience and if Barton re-joins us, we wouldn't have far to travel to drop him off for future misdemeanors? please log in to view this image
Does that mean something really good has to happen to us now, like mid table obscurity or something??!!
Well Grinning since we won the Championship (and we couldn't celebrate until 20mins before the Leeds game) we have sunk like the proverbial stone in the ocean! everything that could go wrong has, and there seems no let up on that score at the moment. I feel next season will also be disastrous, cos we've got a **** load of baggage we can't get rid of! I also feel that TF has made another of many mistakes in hiring HR!
Perhaps Newcastle would like him on the cheap to complete their French connection? At least the Scrubs is in our neighbourhood? He could be player/coach for an inmates team?
