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Top Ten Worst… Premiership moments

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  1. Northolt-QPR

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    4 – Cantona’s 96th minute equaliser

    For the second time this week I find myself writing about the stand out worst moment of my childhood. I went to junior school in Hampton Hill where the majority of the in mates supported either Tottenham (possibly fair enough) or Manchester United (unforgivably). What the hell is the point in supporting a team that plays 250 miles away that you never get to see just because it wins all the time? What a soulless existence. The fact that they’d never even driven past Old Trafford, never mind been inside, didn’t shame the horrible little bastards enough into not waiting for those of us who supported proper football teams and went to see them with our dads (when dads could still afford to take their sons to the football) on the playground on Monday mornings to take the piss out of us because of our latest defeat at Oldham.

    I hated them, and Man Utd, even before they broke my heart in 1996. My first QPR game was Southampton away in the FA Cup in January 1992, a week after the famous 4-1 success at Old Trafford. From that moment on the chocolate box terrace at The Dell I had longed to see this blue and white hooped team beat Man Utd so I could go into school and stick it to the glory hunting Cockney Reds. We’d gone close – only some fine goalkeeping from Schmeichel denied us more than a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford in 1992/93 and a season later Bradley Allen gave us the lead before Cantona turned it on and we lost 2-1. Later that season Clive Wilson put is in front but we lost 3-2 and a year later Ferdinand scored the first and last goal in another 3-2 defeat at Loftus Road and missed an absolute sitter to make it 3-3. We just couldn’t get over the line and fulfil my dream of beating the scum of the earth and my existence on the concrete wilderness of Hampton Hill Junior School’s playground remained a downtrodden and lonely one. Even the year four teacher who supported Tranmere Rovers gently mocked me when the mood so took him.

    In 1996 there was added importance to the game, because QPR were not so much standing on the trap door at this stage as dangling freely down the shaft and clinging on by their finger nails. Unlikely victories against tough opponents were required, and when Danny Dichio put Rangers ahead, not altogether undeservedly, in the second half it seemed that the moment for me and the team had arrived. I’ve recounted what happened next, Cantona heading home so deeply into injury time that Sunday morning was almost dawning to deny us and the referee blowing for full time almost the second the ball hit the back of the net, once already this week and will not go into detail again. I cried. I remember slumping over the hoardings at the front of the Q Block and crying, and sitting in the Goldhawk afterwards and crying, and crying on the tube home. I will always, always, always hate those bastards.
     
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  3. andrewqpr

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    I remember that Cantona equaliser like it was yesterday
    I also knew then that we were going to be relegated
    Selling Ferdinand to Newcastle was what done us in though,we were always going down that season from that moment on
     
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    I was at this game also, on the left hand side of the Loft....

    Can remember it vividly for a number of reasons....

    First football was being played after the Dunblane massacre...was very proud to witness a minutes silence observed respectfully from both Utd and Rangers fans before the kick off.

    The match on a whole, UTD were all over us first half, Beckham missed an absolute sitter when one on one with the Rangers keeper. QPR seemed to live a charmed life as UTD missed chances galore. Then Danny Dichio scored, and it was like Rangers were going to stay up with a precious lifeline of 3 points.

    Then the match, seemed to go on, and on, and on, and on. Like the ref's watch had stopped or something. I couldnt believe it when UTD equalised with a Cantona header in what seemed like the EIGHTH minute of stoppage time...

    Then there was almost a riot in the Loft after the UTD goal, remember one Rangers fan evading the stewards and confronting Schiemichal in the Loft end goalmouth. What was hilarious, was the Ranger fan seemed to shrink as he approached Schmichael, whereas the UTD keeper seemed to get bigger and bigger. They stood toe to toe for a number of seconds glaring at each other, Schmichael didnt seem to say anything....Then the Rangers fan thought better off it, and legged it off the pitch with a number of stewards chasing him...

    Heard a lot of cars belonging to UTD fans parked close to Shepeherds Bush got their windows smashed in after the game. Absolute mayhem....felt we were really cheated that day.

    I'm convinced if we had won that game we could have stayed up....

    Stan
     
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