Was that not the season we won a record number of games in a row 1-0? I remember late in that season beating Spuds 5-0 and Coventry 8-2 at The Dell, but I am sure we weren't free scoring early on. After all, we did have Frankie Worthington up top
Just looked that up. We won 7 or 8 games 1-0... might not have been a record In looking it up, though I noticed that we played Everton away on 30th March (lost 1-0), then the horrible semi-final at Highbury on 13th April, followed by the league game at The Dell on 16th April. We played them three times in 17 days and they dumped us out the cup and cost us the league!!!!
wow wow wow yeah that qpr team was brilliant we had both the england captain gerry francis and the scottish captain don massson and don givens the famous irish striker what a team it was
dave thomas was an amazing player he was one of my favourites as i liked to play on the wing so i copied some of his moves
Swift and skilful winger, who was thoroughly underused for England. because they were out of style. Anyone who catches some Burnley or QPR footage from the 60-70's take note of the bloke out on the wing with the swagger, the mop of curly hair and the rolled down socks. Then watch him make the opposition FB look silly.
I don't know how old he was when he was my coach, but he was unbelieveable. He would try and get us to "stand a cross up" to the far post with a dink from the goal line. We would be spraying balls everywhere, and every time, he would put it up, over the keeper and down by the far post for someone to nod in. It was like he had a sand-wedge on the end of his foot. *goes off to work out how old he was then* Edit: He would have been 40. Here is an article from December about Dave and the fact he is now registered blind. Top Man. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ather-rejecting-Don-Revie-s-mighty-Leeds.html
Read to the very bottom of that article on Dave Thomas and there is a fabulous bit about how Don Revie and Leeds tried to sign him after his Dad had committed to Burnley. This is the extract. How times have changed!!! It was his granddad who taught him to play football, but he plainly had plenty of inherited natural talent. At 15, he was playing for England Schoolboys and had agreed terms with Burnley. But then Don Revie's mighty Leeds United came after him. Literally. Thomas's father had a motorbike and sidecar — 'like Wallace and Gromit' — and after a county match one day in 1965, Revie and his chief scout followed father and son back to their terraced house in West Auckland. 'Revie talked to my Dad, said he wanted me to join Leeds, but Dad said I'd signed for Burnley and that was that. So Revie said he'd come back in 48 hours with a director to try to persuade us. My Dad said 'you can bring who you like'.' 'Well, blow me, he was true to his word. Two days later a Rolls-Royce turns up in our little terraced street. Don Revie and (Leeds director) Manny Cussins. Everyone in the street is looking at it. None of them has ever seen a Roller before. They come in and Manny Cussins says, 'Mr Thomas, how much have Burnley offered your David?' He says, 'He's getting £4 a week and they're paying his digs on top. I think that's a good deal'. 'Now, bear in mind that my Dad was a welder with British Rail, working night shifts, which he did for 42 years. So Manny Cussins goes, 'Look, what if we pay him £30 a week and pay his digs? Will that tempt him?' 'That was a lot more than my Dad was earning and I was only 15! Then, on top of that, they produce two grand in five-pound notes, in a black case. It would've bought the whole street. But my Dad looked at it and said, 'I'm sorry, but I've given my word to Burnley that David will play for them'. He was emphatic. And as he was leaving, Manny Cussins turned round and said, 'I respect you for that, Mr Thomas. Not many people would have done that'.' It's a great story and there is a moving postscript. Thomas's father, David Lloyd Thomas, died 18 months ago, aged 97. He was totally blind by then, stricken by the glaucoma that now afflicts his son. He was also, to the end, a man of principle, integrity and decency. Maybe that is hereditary, too.
fatletiss you have made my day telling you that you met dave thomas i really loved him because my position was on the right wing and although i wasnt the completed article ie i was a coward and would never go for a fifty fifty ball,but i could really throw a body swerve boy was i trickie but something stan bowles said was that dave thomas wasnt that good at ball controll but could he do keepy uppy etc
