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By chance I recently bought this semi-rare programme of an abandoned QPR game from the 60s. It plopped thru the door only Thursday. And then Friday I heard Saturday’s game was called off. Spooky.
Your starter for ten is why was the game against Walsall abandoned and what are the tenuous links to a flying pig and a stranded kangaroo?
Ah! I remember a power outage in London when I was a young teen - 1963 or 64. Wasn't that to do with a fire at Battersea Power Station? Which could explain the flying pig reference on a Pink Floyd(?) album. Still don't know about the kangaroo unless it started the fire.
I was into astronomy at the time and it was a rare night when the darkness over London allowed a clear view of the stars.
Edit: just looked up the QPR results at end of that season.
4 games in the last 7 days.
And we were unbeaten in all of them.
25 Apr 1964 Notts County v Queens Park Rangers D 2-2 League Division Three 27 Apr 1964 Queens Park Rangers v Barnsley D 2-2 League Division Three 29 Apr 1964 Queens Park Rangers v Luton Town D 1-1 League Division Three 01 May 1964 Queens Park Rangers v Walsall W 3-0 League Division Three
Check the Walsall right back too (No.2) Palin Granville. In the rearranged fixture he was replaced by Granville Palin. Maybe Granville started the fire to give the QPR programme editor a second chance at his name.
Well done Bucks. There was indeed a fire at the Battersea Power Station which apparently put West London in darkness. Also affected was the BBC studios who were launching BBC2 that very evening. They’d been using a kangaroo as a logo and thought for the first night they get a real Kangaroo. It got trapped in a lift when the power went and apparently went mental.
Its just struck me I got trapped (very briefly) in a lift in the BBC Centre last week. How weird. Could there be some cosmic meaning to all this? Was I a kangaroo in a previous life? What would Glen Hoddle say?
That was a truly shocking team we had assembled in 1963/64, but it was my first full season of supporting the R's. This was when I had left school and I could afford the 3 bob entry,the tanner for the programme and the half crown return fare on the 105 bus and the Piccadilly line. When you start work on £3 a week - thats a big financial commitment.
The R's were so awful that they were actually fun to watch. They just managed to stay out of the relegation places that year. I was one of the 3,265 home crowd that saw them beat Oldham 3 -0 in December when I had most of the school end to myself,
I loved the smell of that old ground, stale fags and damp clay.
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Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me!
6 "O" levels - and good bye school and hello London County Council at 16. Watching Rangers was grown up stuff then. None of your poncey bottles of lager and greasy burgers. A pint and a packet of Percy Daltons standing on the half way line and I was in heaven then. Football has been going down the whazz ever since.
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Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me!
*They’d been using a kangaroo as a logo and thought for the first night they get a real Kangaroo. It got trapped in a lift when the power went and apparently went mental.*
Not to sure how I'd have reacted to waiting for a lift and when it turned up and the doors opened there was a kangaroo going mental.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
I was in a lift with John Simpson at TV Centre once.
Little known fact about John Simpson. He knows a lot about the politics of the world. But before he got in that lift, he didn’t know much about QPR. That sixty second journey was an education for him.
I remember being in the Olympia Exhibition Centre, or the annexed building on the Hammersmith Road called Olympia 2 and I’m in this big service lift and the lift has its own operator who opens the gated doors for you, asks you which of the three floors you want (seeing as you’re already on one of the floors there’s only really a choice of two) and presses the desired button for you. So there we are just me and the old boy lift attendant - kitted out in a cap and a uniform - and I thought I’d strike up a conversation with him so I ask him if he enjoyed working in the travel industry. He sort of smiled but didn’t reply. Maybe you’re not supposed to talk to them while the thing is moving.
Why was that a 'truly shocking team'.....some decent players there. Bedford, Johnny Collins, proper CB in Ray Brady, very good left footer in Peter Angell and there are a few more too, Stuart Leary as well.
If you watched that lot every game at home and about 50% of away games you wouldn't need to ask that question. Ray Brady, Pat Brady, Terry McQuade, George McLeod, Vic Mobley, Andy Malcolm, Frank Smith and company just avoided relegation that year. The following year the juniors took over and you could see the difference between the two teams then.
Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me!
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