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They often say you create your heroes in your formative years (whatever they are!). People talk about Pele, Maradona and others but for me it was always Cruyff.
Similarly for Rangers I saw Bowles, Thomas and co but was a bit too young to appreciate it. My first season ticket was in the 81/82 season and it was always about Stainrod, so skillful and played with a swagger and confidence.
Anyway tonight he is inducted into the Forever RS club. Gutted I cant be there.
Stainrod was Videodrome, Naked Lunch, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Performance, Brian Eno, Timothy leary,Howard Devoto, LA Dusseldorf and NEU! rolled into one fantastical technicolour funkadelic association footballer.
He took the wheel when needed, the back seat when he pleased. Because he could. I named my son after him and I Salute him. Congrats Simon.
"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
I can't remember the game but I remember him trying a 'scorpion' kick in a game at the School End. It just missed and he was offside but I'd never seen anything like it before.
Stainrod was Videodrome, Naked Lunch, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Performance, Brian Eno, Timothy leary,Howard Devoto, LA Dusseldorf and NEU! rolled into one fantastical technicolour funkadelic association footballer.
He took the wheel when needed, the back seat when he pleased. Because he could. I named my son after him and I Salute him. Congrats Simon.
Love Simon Stainrod. One of our best number 10's He had it all - skill, flair, goals, creativity and amazing self belief / confidence (and he was hard) He had a swagger which I have rarely seen since. Delighted he will be back at Loftus Road tonight - gutted I won't be there to chant his name. Simon Simon Stainrod U R's
About ten years ago a company that does the big screens at sports grounds came in for a meeting at my then job.
I was sat there in the meeting room waiting for them and in walked... Simon Stainrod (he was one of the investors).
Was a bit starstruck and not much really got agreed, and afterwards he was a total gent, posed for a few pictures, and then we went out for a couple of pints next door while I listened to all his Rangers tales.
Stainrod beats up DJs Stainrod beats up DJs la la la la la la la la.
A song sang at Barnsley in 1982 3 days after his 'altercation'.
Anyone who beats a DJ up for playing shoite music is a legend. He asked for some punk/new wave to be played but the DJ refused. Everyone loves the Exploited surely ??!!!
Which game was it where he aimed at one corner, and the ball swerved and hit the other post from miles out? My other favourite memory of him was when he stepped over the ball and let Warren Neill score against Arsenal.
A friend of mine growing up idolised Simon Stainrod so much, he walked into a hairdressers with a picture of him and asked for his hair to be done the same.
The rest of us ripped him for it 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
People talk about Adel, Byrne, Stan, Rodneeeeee, Currie , Wegerle as legends and rightly so they were brilliant players but the likes of Stainrod & Paul Goddard always fall under the radar and hardly get a mention , a well deserved induction for a brilliant player who if he was playing today would have 100 England caps
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
I have this vague recollection that stainrod was only selected once for the england squad.. the brazil tour of 1984. May well be complete bollocks but I seem to remember him getting a late call up because of injuries??.
"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
I have this vague recollection that stainrod was only selected once for the england squad.. the brazil tour of 1984. May well be complete bollocks but I seem to remember him getting a late call up because of injuries??.
I was going to mention it on the Ray Wilkins thread. He and, I think, Clive, were on the the 1984 tour. After the 2-0 in Rio - Fenwick played - loads of us stayed up in the college TV room to watch the next game against Uruguay. Most to see if Barnes and Hateley (boo) could repeat their scoring, me to see if our two strikers could get on. The highlight of a 2-0 defeat for me was Ray trotting towards a ball boy with his hand out to take a throw demanding loudly “Gissa Farking Ball” right into a pitchside mike. How we laughed as Barry Davies apologised to the nation.
PS just checked, Allen came on against Brazil and started the other two games, Stainrod didn’t get on at all, even a minute, in three games.
I'll never look up the stats because I might disavow my belief that in those days every time I checked the results the word QPR would invariably be followed by (Stainrod, Allen).
I used to stand in the Loft in the Stainrod/Allen days and I seem to remember one bloke giving Stainrod absolute pelters all game (2-bob he used to shout out all game). How he didn't get punched I don't know.
He hit the bar once from what seemed like 35/40 yards out. Swerve and went like a rocket - I think the crossbar is still shaking to this day.
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