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Can anyone see any coincidences between the Liverpool team that played today and a QPR team of Yesteryear, probably obvious to most.

 

Winning at Norwich?!

 

I did think that but not the answer I am looking for

 

Liverpool in their title chase went to Norwich and won 3-2, likely going on to be champions.

1975-76 season at Easter we went to Norwich needing a win and lost 3-2, with Liverpool eventually becoming champions by 1 point.

Three games to go, QPR were 1pt ahead of Liverpool, and the Easter period was a busy one, with 2 games in 3 days. QPR travelled to mid-table Norwich. Norwich took the lead, QPR equalised with a good goal from Dave Thomas, but Norwich then scored twice, although Phil Boyer looked offside. QPR managed a goal back when Powell lobbed his own keeper, but the 2-3 defeat hurt.

http://footballspeak.com/post/2012/01/31/A-Moment-in-Time.aspx

 

nice try but no see post 2

 

Okay, I thought that was the coincidence, Liverpool visiting Norwich at Easter and winning 3-2 to possibly become champions, and us going to Norwich in 1975-76 season at Easter, but losing by that same scoreline and eventually missing out on becoming champions by 1 pt to Liverpool.

So are we perhaps looking for a QPR team with a youth prodigy (like Sterling) that played at Norwich where he scored 2 goals, winning 3-2?

 

nope

 

Aha! Got it.

The clue is in the question.

Any coincidences between the Liverpool team that played today and a QPR team of yesteryear?

Flanagan and Allen

 

Spot on

 

Great little teaser Loveitupthebush.

My dad used to work in Fleet Street in the 70s / 80s and got hold of a couple of black and white photos for me of QPR players from his colleagues.

I'm sure I have them somewhere, but couldn't put my hand on them earlier.

One is Mike Flanagan and Clive Allen linking arms and kicking their legs out music hall style with a 'Flanagan and Allen' caption. If I dig it out, I'll scan it in and post it up.

 

Ex-QPR Mike Flanagan Profiled and Interviewed

Yet another fine profile and interview on the QPR Official Site. This time, Mike Flanagan: One of Terry Venables' signings from Crystal Palace and half of the "Flanagan and Allen" pairing.

http://qprreport.blogspot.ca/2008/04/ex-qpr-mike-flanagan-profiled-and.html

 

Thanks for putting that up, Kilburn. I loved that era. I said on the 'Rio Ferdinand' thread how there was something romantic about the ex-pros of yesteryear dropping out to run pubs and the like. Reading how Flanagan was up a ladder doing this interview further demonstrates just how far from the people the modern professional footballer seems to have risen. Whilst I'm sure Flanagan would have loved to have made a quarter of the money an average PL player can make in 2014, as a typical Joe Public footie fan I rather like the fact that chaps like Flanagan can rise from the people, enjoy a career in football, then return to the people afterwards. No mansions, hair transplants and WAGs for the like of him.

(I hope he doesn't read this and chuck himself off the ladder, though...)

 

Yes Ive noticed it a few times on TV recently when they have passed to each other. I also thought you were talking about the side of 75/76 as they attack like Rangers did a la Dave Thomas with no real centre forward, Bowles, Givens, Francis etc