As beleaguered QPR prepare to head north to Everton, LFW’s records one of several thumping wins for the R’s against the Toffees in the mid-1990s.

Recent Meetings

QPR 1 Everton 1, Sunday October 21, 2012, Premier League

QPR couldn’t really have asked for much more help against Everton at Loftus Road in October as they attempted to snap a run of eight matches without a win at the start of the season. The R’s tok the lead in the second minute in front of the Sky Sports cameras when Junior Hoilett ran from halfway before unloading a shot past Tim Howard and into the net via a hefty deflection off Leighton Baines. But Rangers were vulnerable from set pieces and conceded an equaliser on the half hour when Sylvain Distin was left unmarked at a free kick and his header rebounded into the net off the back of goalkeeper Julio Cesar having initially struck the post. Referee Jon Moss rather harshly dismissed Steven Pienaar for two yellow cards after half time but he turned down a stone wall QPR penalty appeal as well and the wait for a win went on and on and on for two more months with the R’s forced to settle for a point in this one.

QPR: Cesar 6, Bosingwa 6, Nelsen 6 (Ferdinand 83 -), Mbia 6, Traore 6 (Onuoha 72, 6), Park 6, Diakite 7, Granero 7, Taarabt 6, Hoilett 7, Zamora 5 (Cisse 71, 5)

Subs not used: Green, Wright-Phillips, Faurlin, Mackie

Goals: Hoilett 2 (unassisted)

Bookings: Diakite 66 (foul), Granero 90 (foul)

Everton: Howard 7, Coleman 6, Distin 7, Jagielka 8, Baines 6, Osman 6, Pienaar 6, Neville 6, Mirallas 6, Jelavic 6 (Heitinga 83, -), Anichebe 5 (Naismith 52, 6)

Goals: Cesar og 33 (assisted Distin/Pienaar)

Bookings: Pienaar 51 (foul), 60 (foul)

Sent off: Pienaar 60 (two bookings)

QPR 1 Everton 1, Saturday March 3, 2012, Premier League

Rangers were circling the drain when Everton came to Loftus Road in March last season. The R’s had lost five out of six at home over the Christmas period including damaging set backs against Norwich, Wolves and Fulham and were now facing a daunting run in that would see Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool head to Shepherds Bush after Everton. When Paddy Kenny allowed a long distance strike from Royston Drenthe to squirm away from him and in for the opening goal the writing seemed to be on the wall, but the crowd was lifted late in the half by the bizarre antics of a squirrel on the pitch and amid the farce Bobby Zamora nodded in an equaliser. That’s the way the game finished, but Rangers won all five and a half home matches played after that squirrel turned up and ultimately survived on the final day of the season.

QPR: Kenny 6, Onuoha 7, Ferdinand 6, Hill 8, Traore 7, Derry 7, Barton 7, Wright-Phillips 6, Buzsaky 7, Taarabt 7 (Mackie 80, -), Zamora 7.

Subs Not Used: Cerny, Gabbidon, Bothroyd, Young, Smith, Taiwo

Booked: Derry (foul)

Goals: Zamora 36 (assisted Buzsaky)

Everton: Howard 7, Hibbert 6, Heitinga 7, Distin 7, Baines 7, Drenthe 7 (Osman 63, 6), Fellaini 8, Neville 6, Pienaar 7, Cahill 7 (Jelavic 63, 6), Stracqualursi 6 (Coleman 88, -)

Subs Not Used: Mucha, Jagielka, Gueye, Barkley

Booked: Drenthe (foul), Pienaar (dissent)

Goals: Drenthe 31 (assisted Pienaar)

Everton 0 QPR 1, Saturday August 20, 2011, Premier League

After a 4-0 opening day defeat at home to Bolton nobody gave QPR much of a prayer in their first away game of last season at Goodison Park. Because of the previous week’s riots that saw Everton’s opener against Spurs postponed this was actually the Toffees’ first match of the season but they were stunned by Neil Warnock’s QPR side that launched a trademark smash and grab raid on a ground that they have always enjoyed visiting in the Premiership era. Tommy Smith got the only goal of the game in the first half, finishing nicely after Akos Buzsaky found him in the area intelligently, and although Tim Cahill missed an absolute sitter and Leighton Baines hit the bar with a free kick the Londoners held on for their first win of the Premiership season.

Everton: Howard 6, Neville 6, Jagielka 6, Distin 6, Baines 7, Barkley 7, Heitinga 6 (Saha 74, 6), Rodwell 5 (Arteta 54, 5), Osman 6, Cahill 6, Beckford 4 (Fellaini 63, 5)

Subs Not Used: Mucha, Hibbert, Vellios, Anichebe

Booked: Osman (foul)

QPR: Kenny 8, Orr 7, Hall 7, Gabbidon 7, Connolly 7, Derry 8, Faurlin 7, Smith 7 (Ephraim 66, 7), Buzsaky 7, Taarabt 6, Agyemang 5 (Bothroyd 55, 8)

Subs Not Used: Murphy, Gorkss, Perone, Moen, Andrade

Booked: Hall (foul)

Goals: Smith 31 (assisted Buzsaky)

QPR 3 Everton 1, Monday April 8, 1996, Premier League

When these sides met for the final time in QPR’s previous Premier League stint it was an Easter Monday fixture in the 1995/96 season. QPR would finish that campaign in the bottom three having started a rally of results, particularly at home, just too late. Everton were one of three sides suddenly beaten with some ease by QPR in W12, Southampton and West Ham would follow, but it wasn’t enough to keep the R’s up. In this game Kevin Gallen, Mark Hateley and Andy Impey scored the goals for Rangers who won 3-1 despite not forcing a corner in the entire game. John Ebbrell scored for Everton, then managed by Joe Royle.

QPR: Sommer, Bardsley, McDonald, Yates, Brevett, Impey, Holloway, Wilkins, Sinclair, Gallen, Hateley

Subs not used: Ready, Brazier, Dichio

Goals: Gallen, Hateley, Impey

Everton: Southall, Unsworth (Short 63), Watson, Horne (Grant 73), Parkinson, Holcrft, Ebbrell, Kanchelskis, Ferguson, Limpar (Branch 46), Hottinger

Goals: Ebbrell

Previous Results

2012/13 QPR 1 Everton 1 (Hoilett)

2011/12 QPR 1 Everton 1 (Zamora)

2011/12 Everton 0 QPR 1 (Smith)

1995/96 QPR 3 Everton 1 (Gallen, Hateley, Impey)

1995/96 Everton 2 QPR 0

1994/95 QPR 2 Everton 3 (Gallen, Ferdinand)

1994/95 Everton 2 QPR 2 (Ferdinand 2)

1993/94 QPR 2 Everton 1 (White, Ferdinand)

1993/94 Everton 0 QPR 3 (Allen 3)

1992/93 Everton 3 QPR 5 (Ferdinand 3, Impey, Bardsley)

1992/93 QPR 4 Everton 2 (Sinton 3, Penrice)

1991/92 Everton 0 QPR 0

1991/92 QPR 3 Everton 1 (Barker 2, Bailey)

1990/91 QPR 1 Everton 1 (Wegerle)

1990/91 Everton 3 QPR 0

1989/90 Everton 1 QPR 0

1989/90 QPR 1 Everton 0 (Sinton)

1988/89 Everton 4 QPR 1 (Falco)

1988/89 QPR 0 Everton 0

1987/88 Everton 2 QPR 0

1987/88 QPR 1 Everton 0 (M Allen)

1986/87 QPR 0 Everton 1

1986/87 Everton 0 QPR 0

1985/86 Everton 4 QPR 3 (Bannister 2, Byrne)

1985/86 QPR 3 Everton 0 (Bannister 2, Byrne)

1984/85 Everton 2 QPR 0

1984/85 QPR 0 Everton 0

1983/84 Everton 3 QPR 1 (Mickelwhite)

1983/84 QPR 2 Everton 0 (Charles 2)

1978/79 Everton 2 QPR 1 (Goddard)

1978/79 QPR 1 Everton 1 (Gillard)

1977/78 Everton 3 QPR 3 (Shanks, Hollins, Howe)

1977/78 QPR 1 Everton 5 (Eastoe)

1976/77 Everton 1 QPR 3 (Leach, Masson, Bowles)

1976/77 QPR 0 Everton 4

1975/76 Everton 0 QPR 2 (Bowles, Leach)

1975/76 QPR 5 Everton 0 (Francis 2, Givens, Masson, Thomas)

1974/75 Everton 2 QPR 1 (Givens)

1974/75 QPR 2 Everton 2 (Givens, Busby)

1973/74 QPR 1 Everton 0 (Givens)

1973/74 Everton 1 QPR 0

1968/69 QPR 0 Everton 1

1968/69 Everton 4 QPR 0

1951/52 Everton 3 QPR 0

1951/52 QPR 4 Everton 4 (Shepherd 2, Waugh, Gilberg)

1949/50 QPR 0 Everton 2*

1914/15 QPR 1 Everton 2* (Birch)

* - FA Cup

Memorable Match

Everton 0 QPR 3, Saturday November 20, 1993, Premier League

QPR haven’t been short of memorable matches against Everton through the 1980s and 1990s and when famous trips to Goodison Park are recalled it’s usually the 5-3 win over the Easter break of 1993 that springs immediately to mind with Les Ferdinand scoring the second of two hat tricks in three days.

But the players in that wonderful Gerry Francis-led side of the early Premier League days often mention the trip to the blue half of Merseyside the following season as their personal highlight. Rangers were in flying form when they arrived at Goodison Park in November that season with seven wins and a draw from their previous nine matches and the only defeat coming in very unfortunate circumstances at runaway league leaders Manchester United. Big-spending, title-chasing Blackburn Rovers had been beaten 1-0 in W12 during the week and the R’s headed north with confidence coursing through them.

Everton had won six of their first nine games but only one of the previous six prior to Rangers’ visit and they were comprehensively taken apart by the Londoners. Les Ferdinand always seemed to play well against the Toffees, and in his autobiography he cited the racial abuse he’d suffered there early in his career as a reason for that, but on this occasion it was his link play rather than goals that helped his team to victory. The scoring was done exclusively by Bradley Allen who had followed in the footsteps of his father Les and brother Clive in hitting a first senior hat trick for the Hoops in a League Cup tie with Barnet a month beforehand and scored seven goals in six matches going into this game. He made that ten in seven with three more here – goals of such quality that even the Everton fans were applauding by the end.

Allen gave Rangers an early lead at the Gladwys Street end of the ground. He’d been involved in the build-up - feeding a knock down from Les Ferdinand wide to David Bardsley - and when the cross came over and was nodded back across the face of goal by Trevor Sinclair, Allen controlled it with his chest, bamboozled Gary Ablett with a cute shoulder drop and then wrong footed Neville Southall with a neat finish.

The lead was doubled after half time and if the first goal had been all about Allen’s close control and finishing ability, then the second showcased his hereditary predatory instincts in the penalty box. Everton stood off Ferdinand as he attacked the right channel and that gave him the time to find Sinclair whose fierce 25 yard drive was tipped onto the post by Southall but the save left the goalkeeper helpless to deal with the rebound that Allen reacted too quickest and slid into the empty net.

The goal of the game sealed Allen’s hat trick. Roared on by a jubilant travelling support the R’s constructed a patient move through midfield with ray Wilkins at its heart. Nobody took more than two touches as the ball was worked through Wilkins to Simon Barker, Sinclair, Ferdinand, Wilkins again, David Bardsley and finally Allen in the penalty box who brought the ball down with his chest and toed it past Southall and into the corner as the goalkeeper sprang from his line. A magnificent, total football goal.

Afterwards Allen said: “It was our best performances of the season. We played some great football and I had the good fortune of scoring three goals. We passed the ball, the movement off the ball was very good and the defence was rock solid.”

Rangers were now fourth in the Premier League, three points shy of second placed Aston Villa. And what happened next? Well, something only QPR could conjure. They managed to become the first team to lose at newly promoted Swindon Town who had lost ten and drawn five of their first 15 Premier League games and had a man sent off just 17 minutes into the game.

Typical Rangers.

QPR: Stejskal, Bardsley, Peacock, Yates, Wilson, Sinclair, Wilkins, Barker, Impey, Ferdinand, Allen

Highlights >>> Everton 0 QPR 3, 93/94 >>> Everton 3 QPR 5, 92/93 >>> QPR 4 Everton 2, 92/93 >>> QPR 1 Everton 0, 87/88 >>> Everton 2 QPR 0, 84/85 >>> QPR 0 Everton 0, 84/85 >>> QPR 1 Everton 5, 77/78 >>> QPR 5 Everton 0, 75/76 >>> Everton 0 QPR 2, 75/76

Connections

Dave Thomas >>> QPR 1972-1977 >>> Everton 1977- 1979

Dave Thomas was an unprecedented piece of business for Second Division QPR when he arrived for a fee of £165k in 1972 – a record fee for the division at that time. The young winger, famed for tearing up and down the sideline and riding some horror tackles with his socks rolled down to his ankles and no shin pads, was the league’s hottest property and Burnley were QPR’s big rivals for promotion that year. He’d become Burnley’s youngest ever player when he made his debut and manager Gordon Jago knew exactly what he was getting and the side was promoted that year with something to spare.

In the First Division, under first Jago and later Dave Sexton, Thomas absolutely excelled and won eight England caps. He played in the great QPR side of 1976 that was so heartbreakingly pipped to the title by a single point by Liverpool. In total he managed 220 appearances and 33 goals for the R’s.

After missing out on the title the side began to break up, and QPR were actually relegated three seasons later. After 220 senior appearances for Rangers and 33 goals he moved back to Lancashire with Everton for £200k in the summer of 1977.

In 1977/78 he helped Latchford reach 30 goals with many assists, including two for his four goals at Loftus Road in a 5-1 wn. He had brief spells with Vancouver Whitecaps, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth as his career wound down in the 1980s and then worked as a PE teacher in Chichester before retiring. He was one of the QPR players featured on Sky’s Time of Our Lives documentary on the club that aired last year.

Others >>> Kevin McLeod, Everton 2000-2003, QPR 2003-2005 >>> John Spencer, QPR 1996-1998, Everton 1998-1999 >>> Matt Jackson, Everton 1991-1996, QPR (loan) 1996 >>> Kenny Sansom, QPR 1989-1991, Everton 1993 >>> Peter Reid, Everton 1982-1989, QPR 1989-1990 >>> Andy King, Everton 1976-1980, QPR 1980-1981 >>>Dave Thomas, QPR 1972-1977, Everton 1977- 1979 >>> Peter Eastoe, QPR 1976-1979, Everton 1979-1982 >>> Mickey Walsh, Everton 1978, QPR 1978-1981

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probbo added 10:07 - Apr 11 Dave Thomas - socks round his ankles, no shin pads, searing runs down the left wing, a terroriser of defenders - what a legend.
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