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Givens hat-trick floors champion Derby side — history
Monday, 19th May 2014 19:35 by Clive Whittingham

Ahead of QPR's Wembley meeting with Derby County, LFW looks back at a memorable match between the sides from 1975 when Don Givens scored a fine hat trick at Loftus Road.

Recent Meetings

Derby County 1 QPR 0, Monday February 10, 2014, Championship

Steve McClaren came back to haunt his former employers with a 1-0 win for his Derby side against QPR at Pride Park in front of the Sky cameras back in February. The R’s had good cause to complain that the goal — a looping header from John Eustace after 19 minutes — should have been disallowed for a foul by Chris Martin on Gary O’Neil on the line with Robert Green isolated by a foolish attempt to reach the original corner. However Green had already made a fine save to deny Buxton who’d inadvertently directed the ball goalwards with a lucky ricochet. It took until just before half time for the R’s to register a serious shot on goal — Aaron Hughes’ header well saved by Lee Grant — and Junior Hoilett found the side netting in the second half but overall Rangers struggled to create chances, or cope with very physical approach from the Rams.

Derby: Grant 6; Wisdom 7, Buxton 7, Keogh 6, Forsyth 6; Eustace 7, Bryson 7, Hughes 8 (Hendrick 68, 6); Ward 7 (Russell 42, 7), Bamford 7 (Sammon 81, -), Martin 8

Subs not used: Bennett, Legzdins, Whitbread, Thorne

Goals: Eustace 19 (assisted Hughes)

Booked: Forsyth 59 (foul), Grant 87 (time wasting)

QPR: Green 5; Hughes 6, Dunne 6, Hill 6, Assou-Ekotto 6; O'Neil 5 (Hoilett 45, 5), Barton 6, Carroll 5 (Jenas 79, 5), Kranjcar 5; Johnson 5 (Maiga 45, 4), Doyle 5

Subs not used: Traore, Onuoha, Henry, Murphy

Booked: Assou Ekotto 22 (foul), Kranjcar 50 (foul), Barton 64 (repetitive fouling), Dunne 76 (foul)

QPR 2 Derby County 1, Saturday November 2, 2013, Championship

Jermaine Jenas ruined Steve McClaren’s first return to Loftus Road with a goal in each half as the R’s beat Derby 2-1 in W12 back in November. Jenas bundled in the first after 11 minutes after Charlie Austin had forced Matt Phillips’ cross towards goal and then inadvertently diverted a header into the net on the hour when a free kick from Ale Faurlin caused panic in the heart of the Derby defence. Dawkins had equalised for the visitors after 23 minutes and Rangers did well to come back and win against stiff opposition but the whole thing was overshadowed by the latest cruciate knee ligament injury suffered by Faurlin in the second half which brought his season to a premature end.

QPR: Green 7; Simpson 7, Dunne 6, Hill 7, Assou-Ekotto 7; Faurlin 8 (Henry 77, 6), Barton 8; Hoilett 6 (Traore 80, -) , Jenas 7, Phillips 7; Austin 6

Subs not used: Johnson, Onyewu, Wright-Phillips, Chevanton, Murphy

Goals: Jenas 11 (assisted Phillips/Austin), 63 (assisted Faurlin)

Bookings: Faurlin 65 (foul), Hoilett 67 (foul)

Derby: Grant 6; Wisdom 7 (Bennett 90, -), Keogh 6, Buxton 6, Forsyth 6; Ward 7, Eustace 6, Bryson 6, Hughes 7, Dawkins 6 (Sammon 72, 6); Martin 5

Subs not used: Smith, Jacobs, Freeman, Ball, Morch

Goals: Dawkins 23 (assisted Ward/Buxton)

Bookings: Martin 26 (diving), Wisdom 41 (foul), Eustace 45 (foul), Forsyth 61 (foul)

QPR 0 Derby County 0, Monday April 18, 2011, Championship

QPR were on the cusp of the Championship title when these sides last met at Lotus Road back in 2011. A win in front of the Sky cameras could have helped nudge the R’s over the line and the Derby goal led a charmed life at times but the visitors escaped with a point that kept their hosts sweating on not only on the pitch matters, but also the forthcoming Ale Faurlin FA hearing, a little while longer. Robbie Savage rejoiced in Tweeting after the match about his man marking job on Adel Taarabt but in truth the Moroccan had much the better of the first half and was unlucky not to score with a chipped effort cleared from the line.

QPR: Kenny 7, Orr 6, Gorkss 6, Connolly 6, Hill 6, Derry 7, Faurlin 6, Routledge 6 (Miller 83, -), Taarabt 6 (Agyemang 71, 5), Smith 7, Helguson 6 (Hulse 85, -)

Subs Not Used: Cerny, Buzsaky, Ephraim, Shittu

Booked: Routledge (dissent)

Derby: Jones 7, Brayford 6, Barker 7, Ayala 7, Roberts 6, Savage 6, Bailey 7, Pearson 7 (Anderson 89, -), Robinson 5, Ward 8, Steve Davies 6 (Leacock 90, -)

Subs Not Used: Atkins, Porter, Doyle, Bueno, Ben Davies

Booked: Savage (foul), Ayala (foul), Bailey (foul), Brayford (foul)

Derby County 2 QPR 2, Saturday August 28, 2010, Championship

Few games in the 2010/11 promotion season typified the spirit of Neil Warnock’s QPR side as the August trip to Derby County. Rangers scored twice in injury time at Pride Park to extend their unbeaten run on that ground to six matches. The Rams had seemed set for all three points when Kris Commons drilled home from close range just before half time and youngster James Bailey did likewise in the second half. But QPR got a goal back against the run of play when substitute Patrick Agyemang ran clear and cleverly rolled the ball home and when Paddy Kenny made a fine save in the fourth minute of added time to prevent Derby scoring a third there was still time to launch the ball down field and equalise through Jamie Mackie who peeled off his shirt and celebrated manically in front of the QPR fans.

Derby: Bywater 6, Brayford 6, Leacock 6, Barker 5, Roberts 6, Doyle 7 (Martin 57, 7), Green 7, Savage 8, Bailey 7, Commons 8 (Cywka 45, 8), Moxey 7 (Ball 90, -)

Subs Not Used: Deeney, Buxton, Pringle, O'Brien

Booked: Moxey (foul)

Goals: Commons 40 (assisted Moxey), Bailey 59 (assisted Cywka)

QPR: Kenny 7, Orr 6, Gorkss 6, Connolly 5, Hill 6, Derry 6 (Buzsaky 61, 6), Faurlin 5, Ephraim 6, Mackie 7, Helguson 5 (Agyemang 62, 6), Taarabt 6 (Clarke 69, 5)

Subs Not Used: Cerny, Leigertwood, Ramage, German

Booked: Hill (foul), Mackie (over celebrating)

Goals: Agyemang 90 +1 (assisted Clarke), Mackie 90+5 (unassisted)

QPR 1 Derby County 1, Tuesday March 23, 2010, Championship

QPR and Derby shared the spoils in a dire encounter towards the end of the previous season at Loftus Road. Both sides were just about safe in the league, while still casting nervous glances over their respective shoulders, and in the end a draw was a more than fair result after a dour spectacle. QPR took the lead in first half injury time when Adel Taarabt escaped the clutches of his man marker Robbie Savage to set up Lee Cook for his one and only goal of the season. QPR were well below par though and Derby deserved their equaliser which came in the form of a fine individual goal by defender Shaun Barker just over 20 minutes from time.

QPR: Ikeme 7, Ramage 7, Stewart 7, Gorkss 8, Connolly 8 (Hill 33, 6), Faurlin 5, Leigertwood 5, Cook 6 (German 59, 7), Taarabt 7, Vine 6, Simpson 6 (Ephraim 78, -)

Subs Not Used: Cerny, Buzsaky, Balanta, Priskin

Booked: Faurlin (foul)

Goals: Cook 45+2 (assisted Taarabt)

Derby: Bywater, Anderson, Barker, Hunt (Davies 61), McEveley,Tonge, Pearson, Savage, Green, Sunu (Leacock 46),Porter (Hulse 82)

Subs Not Used: David Martin, Teale, Moxey, Dave Martin

Booked: Leacock (time wasting)

Goals: Barker 67 (unassisted)

Previous Results

Head to Head >>> Derby wins 17 >>> Draws 18 >>> QPR wins 13

2013/14 http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/34075/mcclarens-sup 1 QPR 0

2013/14 QPR 2 Derby 1 (Jenas 2)

2010/11 QPR 0 Derby 0

2010/11 Derby 2 QPR 2 (Agyemang, Mackie)

2009/10 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Cook)

2009/10 Derby 2 QPR 4 (Taarabt, Mahon, Simpson, Buzsaky pen)

2008/09 Derby 0 QPR 2 (Routledge, Leigertwood)

2008/09 QPR 0 Derby 2

2006/07 Derby 1 QPR 1 (Rowlands)

2006/07 QPR 1 Derby 2 (Smith)

2005/06 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Nygaard)

2005/06 Derby 1 QPR 2 (Ainsworth, Gallen)

2004/05 Derby 0 QPR 0

2004/05 QPR 0 Derby 2

1990/91 Derby 1 QPR 1 (Wegerle)

1990/91 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Wegerle)

1989/90 Derby 2 QPR 0

1989/90 QPR 0 Derby 1

1988/89 QPR 0 Derby 1

1988/89 Derby 0 QPR 1 (Stein)

1987/88 Derby 0 QPR 2 (Allen, Fereday)

1987/88 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Bannister)

1982/83 Derby 2 QPR 0

1982/83 QPR 4 Derby 1 (Stainrod 2 Gregory, Fenwick pen)

1981/82 QPR 3 Derby 0 (Hazell, Fenwick, Flanagan)

1981/82 Derby 3 QPR 1 (Gregory)

1980/81 QPR 3 Derby 1 (Francis 2, Flanagan)

1980/81 QPR 0 Derby 0* (QPR won 5-3 on pens)

1980/81 Derby 3 QPR 3 (King 2, Langley)

1980/81 Derby 0 QPR 0*

1978/79 QPR 2 Derby 2 (Goddard, Walsh)

1978/79 Derby 2 QPR 1 (Howe)

1977/78 Derby 2 QPR 0

1977/78 QPR 0 Derby 0

1976/77 Derby 2 QPR 0

1976/77 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Givens)

1975/76 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Nutt)

1975/76 Derby 1 QPR 5 (Bowles 3, Thomas, Clement)

1974/75 QPR 4 Derby 1 (Givens 3, Thomas)

1974/75 Derby 5 QPR 2 (Leach, Bowles)

1973/74 QPR 0 Derby 0

1973/74 Derby 1 QPR 2 (Francis, Bowles)

1972/73 Derby 4 QPR 2** (Leach, Givens)

1969/70 QPR 1 Derby 0** (Mackay og)

1967/68 Derby 4 QPR 0

1967/68 QPR 0 Derby 1

1947/48 Derby 5 QPR 0

1947/48 QPR 1 Derby 1 (Hartburn)

Memorable Match

Queens Park Rangers 4 Derby County 1, Saturday February 1, 1975, First Division

When Derby County came to Loftus Road in February 1975, they found a Rangers team building something truly special in W12.

The R’s had been promoted from Division Two second behind Burnley at the end of the 1972/73 season and consolidated their position in the top flight with an eighth place finish.

Despite winning promotion and keeping the R’s up, manager Gordon Jago was shown the door by ruthless chairman Jim Gregory in October 1974 after a mediocre start to the season that included just two wins — albeit one of them against title chasing Leeds — from the first 11 matches. The team that Jago had built was a formidable one though with the likes of Phil Parkes, Gerry Francis, Dave Clement, Dave Thomas and, of course, Stan Bowles all coming into their prime.

Gregory made an inspired decision to give former Chelsea boss Dave Sexton the top job at Loftus Road and although Derby ran riot against the R’s in November — wining 5-2 at the Baseball Ground despite goals from Bowles and Mick Leach — they had a terrific second half of the season which in turn led into the 1975/76 campaign.

Derby meanwhile had been champions of England for the first time in their history in 1971/72 under the inspirational management of Brian Clough. However, against a backdrop of boardroom arguments against Clough’s unique style, the Rams followed that up with final positions of seventh and third and he resigned, along with his assistant manager Peter Taylor, in October 1973 as their relationship with chairman Sam Longson deteriorated.

Longson had previously denied Clough permission to take his family on a pre-season tour of Europe, and been angered by Clough’s conclusion of expensive transfers without board approval — David Nish for £225,000 from Leicester went through, an ambitious attempt to take Bobby Moore from West Ham did not. Clough was also charged with bringing the game into disrepute as his outspoken appearances on television, and columns in newspapers, continued to rub people up the wrong way. Longson was also forced to apologise to Derby fans, and distance himself from his manager, after Clough called the Baseball Ground faithful a “disgraceful lot” for only singing once the team had gone 2-1 up in a game against Liverpool and not when the scores were level.
Despite the controversial departures, Derby would win the league again in 1974/75 with a team built by Clough but managed by one of his most influential signings Dave Mackay.

When the Rams arrived in West London on the first Saturday in February they found a QPR team in excellent form — four wins and a draw from the previous six matches including a Boxing Day 4-2 thrashing of Leicester and a New Year 3-0 win at Chelsea. But awful weather and the poor state of the Loftus Road pitch, and a cup replay with Southend, meant the R’s had played only twice in the league during January — losing to Burnley, drawing at West Ham.

Derby were in terrific touch. They’d won six and drawn one of their previous seven, including a 2-0 win at home to title rivals Liverpool. They took the lead in Shepherd’s Bush as well — Bruce Rioch making light of a difficult pitch to hammer in a left footed shot from 25 yards at the Loft End for his fifteenth goal of the season.

But the R’s drew level before half time when Don Masson dollied a straight free kick up towards the back post, deceiving two Derby defenders with the flight of the ball, and Don Givens’ low cross-shot was nudged over his own line by Nish.

That’s how it stayed until ten minutes from time when Derby, with Francis Lee off the field injured, suddenly imploded. A round of head tennis on the edge of the Rams’ penalty box was finished off emphatically by Givens who caught a loose ball flush on the volley and sent it tearing into the roof of the net.

The game was then sealed by Dave Thomas who waded through ankle-deep mud on the Ellerslie Road side of the ground to advance into the Derby penalty area unchallenged before belting an unstoppable shot into the top of the net for 3-1. And, unless you’re counting the first as an own goal, Givens was able to complete his hat trick in the final minute when Bowles, typically, bamboozled two would-be tacklers with close control and skill in the area before rolling the ball across the face of goal for Givens to slam in at the far post unchallenged.

The defeat sparked a trough in form for Mackay’s side who were subsequently dumped out of the FA Cup by Leeds and beaten 3-0 at Ipswich. But after that they lost one, won eight and drew three of their remaining games to claim the title again.

Rangers rather stumbled through to the end of the season — five wins, three draws, five defeats — and finished eleventh. The following season though Sexton’s men led the First Division right through until the final day of the season only to be denied a first ever league title by Liverpool winning a game in hand at Wolves after the regular season was over.

QPR: Parkes, Clement, McLintock, Webb, Gillard, Thomas, Francis, Masson, Givens, Beck, Bowles

Attendance: 20, 686

Highlights >>> QPR 2 Derby 1, 13/14 >>> Derby 2 QPR 2, 10/11 >>> Derby 2 QPR 4, 09/10 >>> Derby 1 QPR 1, 90/91 >>> QPR 1 Derby 1, 90/91 >>> Derby 2 QPR 0, 89/90 >>> QPR 0 Derby 1, 89/90 >>> QPR 0 Derby 1, 88/89 >>> Derby 0 QPR 1, 88/89 >>> QPR 1 Derby 1, 87/88 >>> Derby 3 QPR 3, 80/81 >>> QPR 4 Derby 1, 74/75 >>> Derby 1 QPR 2, 73/74 >>> Derby 4 QPR 2, 72/73

Connections

Dave Webb >>> QPR 1974-1977 >>> Derby 1978-1980

Dave Webb is, unfortunately, more known for his connections to QPR’s bitter near neighbours Chelsea than his achievements at Loftus Road. He scored the winning goal in the 1970 FA Cup final replay for the Blues against Leeds and then collected a European Cup Winners’ Cup medal a year later into the bargain beating Real Madrid in the final after a replay.

Chelsea had actually been fortunate to get to a replay in that final, with Leeds dominant in the first game at Wembley and Webb absolutely tormented by winger Eddie Gray. For the replay, manager Dave Sexton moved Webb to centre back and used Ron Harris as a man marker on Gray to great effect. Webb headed in ian Hutchinson’s long throw to win the trophy in extra time.

He joined Rangers for £120,000 in the summer of 1974, one of the final signings made by Gordan Jago who’d won promotion with Rangers 12 months previous. But it was under Jago’s replacement Dave Sexton, remembered as one of QPR’s greatest ever managers, that Webb really started to excel.

Sexton had worked with Webb at Stamford Bridge during that prolific, trophy winning, era of the late 1960s and early 1970s but when ground improvements at Stamford Bridge almost bankrupted the club Sexton lost his best players like Peter Osgood and found himself out of a job. He arrived at QPR midway through the 1974/75 season and paired Webb at centre half with veteran former Arsenal star Frank McLintock.

Although he bizarrely retired from the game abruptly in February 1975 he returned soon after saying he’d resolved some personal business issues and he became known in W12 for his commitment and enthusiasm. Webb was a key part of the wonderful Rangers team that finished second to Liverpool in the First Division in 1975/76.

Webb missed a crucial penalty in a shoot out defeat to AEK Athens in March 1977 but showed his sense of humour and character by placing the ball on the spot at the Loft End during the warm up of the following match and slamming it home with a wry smile. After 147 appearances for Rangers, and 11 goals, he spent the 1977/78 season with Leicester City, and 1978-1980 with Derby where he made 26 appearances.

He then moved into management with player-manager positions at Bournemouth and later Torquay. He has had three separate spells in charge of Southend as well as stints with Chelsea, Brentford and Yeovil.

Webb had initially started as a junior at West Ham but joined near neighbours Leyton Orient and made his senior debut for them in 1963 after failing to make the grade at Upton Park. He made 75 appearances for Southampton before the successful six year stint at Chelsea.

Others >>> Steve McClaren Derby (manager) 2013-present, QPR (coach) 2013 >>> Rob Hulse QPR 2010-present, Derby 2008-2010 >>> Tommy Smith, QPR 2010-2012, Derby 2004-2006 >>> Tamas Priskin, Derby (loan) 2010-2011, QPR (loan) 2010 >>> Dean Sturridge, Derby County 1991-2001, QPR 2005-2006 >>> Bob Malcolm, QPR 2007-2008, Derby 2006-2008 >>> Inigo Idiakez QPR 2007, Derby 2003-2004 >>> Adam Bolder, QPR 2007-2009, Derby 2000-2007 >>> Lee Camp, Derby 2002-2007, QPR (loan) 2004, (loan) 2007, 2007-2009 >>> Dexter Blackstock QPR 2006-2009, Derby (loan) 2005 >>> Ian Evatt, QPR 2005-2007, Derby 1999-2003 >>> Warren Barton, QPR 2003-2004, Derby 2002-2003 >>> Paul Peschisolido, Derby 2004-2007, QPR (loan) 2000 >>> Kevin Lisbie Derby (loan) 2006, QPR (loan) 2000-2001 >>> Mikkel Beck QPR (loan) 2000, Derby 1999 >>> Danny Dichio, Derby (loan) 2003, QPR 1993-1997 >>> John Gregory, QPR (manager) 2006-2007, 1981-1985, Derby 1985-1988, (manager) 2002-2003 >>> Jim Smith Derby 1995-2001, QPR 1985-1988 >>> Paul Goddard, Derby 1988-1989, QPR 1977-1980 >>> Leighton James, QPR 1977-1978, Derby 1975-1977 >>> Steve Wicks, QPR 1981-1986, 1979-1981, Derby 1978-1979 >>> Gary Micklewhite Derby 1985-1993, QPR 1979-1985 >>> Don Masson, Derby 1977-1978, QPR 1974-1977 >>> Gordon Hill, QPR 1979-1981, Derby 1978-1979 >>> Dave Webb, Derby 1978-1980, QPR 1974-1977

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TacticalR added 16:50 - May 20
At least the Givens hat-trick in the 1975 win against Derby is available on YouTube. A great volley from Givens for his second goal.
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HastingsRanger added 21:50 - May 20
Those lucky enough to have seen this game will remember what an incredible performance this was. At 1-1 the game looked as if it could go either way and with 10 minutes remaining Derby decided to shut up shop, as perfected by Liverpool in the 80's.

For me, what made this special was not that we scored the 2nd and potentially deciding goal, the team went on to hit in another two in the remaining few minutes. The concept of taking the ball to the corner flag was not in their (or indeed most teams) psyche.

This was a very fine team indeed!
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QPRski added 08:59 - May 21
I remember the match in '75. Don was a great player and it was truely a great team, with very modern management techniques for the time.

A true benchmark for all future QPR teams!

I hope our team of this Saturday will also enter history as a "legendary day" and the team as "very memorable."
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