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THE OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC 2021/22 SEASON<br />
ISSUE 20 £3.50<br />
v HULL CITY<br />
SATURDAY 19TH FEBRUARY, 2022<br />
KICK-OFF 3PM
HOOPS<br />
#QPRHUL<br />
SATURDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 2022<br />
CLUB DIRECTORY<br />
<strong>Queens</strong> <strong>Park</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong> FC<br />
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STAFF<br />
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Amit Bhatia<br />
QPR Holdings Ltd Vice-Chairmen:<br />
Tony Fernandes, Ruben Gnanalingam<br />
Board members:<br />
Tony Fernandes,<br />
Ruben Gnanalingam, Amit Bhatia,<br />
Datuk Kamarudin Meranun<br />
CEO: Lee Hoos<br />
Financial Director: Ruban Ghandi<br />
Director of Football: Les Ferdinand<br />
First Team Manager: Mark Warburton<br />
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PROGRAMME<br />
Editor:<br />
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Contributors:<br />
Tony Incenzo, Simon Cheshire,<br />
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21 36<br />
04 THE GAFFER<br />
Words from Mark Warburton<br />
09 NEWS + MESSAGES<br />
All the latest from W12<br />
12 THE BIG READ<br />
Interview with Jeff Hendrick<br />
19 COLUMNIST<br />
Ben Summer has his say<br />
21 VISITORS<br />
An in-depth look at our oppo<br />
29 ONE OF ‘R’ OWN<br />
Focusing on our U18s<br />
32 ANDY SINTON<br />
Our ex-winger pens his column<br />
36 1981/82 FEATURE<br />
A chat with Ian Gillard<br />
42 KEY FIXTURE<br />
A vital clash from 1981/82<br />
44 OTHER USES OF LR<br />
The ground has seen it all<br />
50 JUNIOR HOOPS<br />
Test your knowledge<br />
56 MIKE DONOVAN<br />
A trip down memory lane<br />
60 QPR FC WOMEN<br />
R’s fight back for late point<br />
62 FIXTURES & RESULTS<br />
Stay updated this season<br />
65 STAT PACK<br />
Key facts from the Champ<br />
66 AIDAN MAGEE<br />
The view from the press box<br />
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HOOPS<br />
The Gaffer<br />
FIRSTLY, MAY I EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO SHOTA<br />
ARVELADZE, HIS STAFF, PLAYERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WITH<br />
HULL CITY FOOTBALL CLUB.<br />
H<br />
ull arrive here fresh from a<br />
good point away at Sheffield<br />
United and they have picked<br />
up vital points in recent weeks to give<br />
themselves a battling chance of<br />
retaining Championship status.<br />
They possess good individual talent<br />
and an evident collective team spirit<br />
and we know we face another tough<br />
challenge here this afternoon. As<br />
always, we look forward to the game<br />
and wish all of our guests a safe return<br />
journey home.<br />
I am writing these notes the morning<br />
after a very disappointing away<br />
performance and result against Millwall.<br />
As I stated after the Barnsley fixture at<br />
the weekend, we take plaudits when<br />
we do well but similarly have to be<br />
honest and admit when we are below<br />
par. We failed to match the intensity<br />
of our opponents and likewise failed<br />
to impose ourselves on a game that<br />
was finally lost to two goals that should<br />
have been easily avoided.<br />
We lost too many duels and challenges<br />
and never truly threatened the<br />
opposition goal and as such, never<br />
deserved to take anything from the<br />
match. Two bad displays and zero<br />
points leaves us feeling angry and<br />
frustrated and we are very aware that<br />
we need to respond and deliver a level<br />
of performance that we have clearly<br />
shown so many times throughout this<br />
season.<br />
Despite the disappointment of the<br />
results, the plain fact is that the<br />
players’ efforts have taken us into this<br />
promising league position. They have<br />
delivered a number of high-quality<br />
displays and the table certainly does<br />
not lie after 30-plus games have been<br />
played.<br />
They deserve enormous credit for<br />
how they have worked thus far but,<br />
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You, our supporters, have<br />
played such a big part so far<br />
and the backing undoubtedly<br />
helps each and every player<br />
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HOOPS<br />
as we all know, we are now entering the<br />
‘business’ end of the season and we<br />
need to ensure that we maintain focus<br />
and concentration in the weeks ahead.<br />
What is very important is that we do not<br />
allow ‘expectation’ to negatively impact<br />
the overall positive feeling around the club.<br />
At the start of the campaign, I was asked<br />
what would represent a good season and<br />
I stated that, having finished last year in<br />
ninth place, two points off seventh, we had<br />
to look at improving our league position<br />
and therefore we should aim for the playoffs.<br />
With the players having performed so<br />
well, and with other clubs dropping points,<br />
suddenly automatic promotion became a<br />
possible ‘target’.<br />
We must not lose sight of clear and<br />
specific goals. Our budget is below midtable<br />
and therefore a play-off spot would<br />
represent an excellent achievement<br />
by the players. If we can indeed secure<br />
that goal, we then challenge ourselves<br />
to finish the job and deliver the type<br />
of performances that such occasions<br />
deserve and demand.<br />
You, our supporters, have played<br />
such a big part so far and the backing<br />
undoubtedly helps each and every player.<br />
We will need the continued backing in the<br />
weeks ahead if we are indeed to have the<br />
type of season we all hope for. As always,<br />
such support is greatly appreciated and<br />
never taken for granted.<br />
Finally, we were all delighted to hear that<br />
Osman Kakay and his partner had a baby<br />
girl safely delivered late last week. Mother<br />
and baby Aneesa are doing well and I am<br />
sure you will join me in sending warmest<br />
wishes to Ossie and his family.<br />
Enjoy the game!<br />
Gaffer<br />
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COOK AND EAT<br />
QPR in the Community Trust are continuing to support Cook<br />
and Eat – the activity sessions which teach basic cookery<br />
skills to children living in the neighbourhood around the Kiyan<br />
Prince Foundation Stadium.<br />
Club ambassador Andy Sinton presented Trust chief executive<br />
Andy Evans with a cheque for £1,000 – an FA donation to the<br />
charity from the Community Shield.<br />
OSCAR<br />
Happy birthday to football<br />
fanatic Oscar Shepherd, who<br />
turned seven on Monday! Oscar<br />
is a goalkeeper and wants to be<br />
just like Super Sen! We hope you<br />
enjoyed your special day – lots<br />
of love always, Mummy Daddy &<br />
Harrison xx<br />
SCOTT<br />
Wishing Scott Hampton a very<br />
happy 50th birthday on 28th<br />
February. From all your family and<br />
QPR mates.<br />
LEAH<br />
Congratulations to Leah<br />
Winchester, attending her first<br />
game at the Kiyan Prince<br />
Foundation Stadium. We hope<br />
you have a great day! Lots of love,<br />
Dad, Mum, Nan and Agent Pete.<br />
BECKY<br />
Happy 19th birthday for tomorrow<br />
to Becky McFarland! Becky and her<br />
family never miss a game, home<br />
or away, often making a 400-mile<br />
round trip from Wakefield. Love<br />
from Mum, Dad and Ryan and all<br />
your friends at QPR.<br />
BOBBY<br />
A very special hello to Bobby<br />
Lowin, who turned four on<br />
Wednesday 2nd February, we<br />
hope you had a great day.<br />
BRENDA<br />
Happy birthday for yesterday<br />
to QPR superfan Brenda<br />
Ravening from P Block! Hope<br />
you have a great day and QPR<br />
pick up three points. Love from<br />
all the family xx<br />
PETE<br />
Happy 60th birthday for<br />
tomorrow to Pete Copeland.<br />
Wishing you a great day, Emma<br />
and Tom.<br />
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ALFIE & LIAM<br />
Happy 30th birthdays to Alfie<br />
Hill and Liam Smith! Born six<br />
weeks apart, they share a love<br />
for QPR and their home town of<br />
Brighton. Alfie and his dad have<br />
been season ticket holders for<br />
over 20 years, recruiting a young<br />
and impressionable Liam, his<br />
brother Ali and many others.<br />
Have a great day.<br />
DANIEL & CALEB<br />
Welcome to Daniel and Caleb<br />
Pollington, who are travelling over<br />
from Belfast with their dad Andy<br />
and big brother Frankie to see<br />
the Hoops in action against <strong>Hull</strong>!<br />
Hope you all enjoy the game.<br />
JON<br />
Happy birthday to Jon Blower –<br />
39 today!<br />
ALEX<br />
Alex Aires is a Supa Hoop, he’s<br />
13 today! We all love you to<br />
bits. Love from Mummy, Daddy,<br />
George and all the family xx<br />
PETER<br />
Happy birthday to Loft Upper<br />
season ticket holder Peter<br />
Cracknell, who is 70 years old<br />
today! Hope you’re enjoying your<br />
birthday – getting another three<br />
points today would be the icing<br />
on the cake! With lots of love<br />
from your wife Alison.<br />
ALFIE<br />
Buon Compleanno Alfie! Love<br />
you! X Cece<br />
JOEL<br />
Happy 14th birthday to Joel<br />
Curtis, love from Granny and<br />
Grandad Xx<br />
HENRY<br />
Welcome to Henry Robert<br />
Bond, who was born on 4th<br />
February and joins a long list of<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> supporters in the family!<br />
Congratulations to proud parents<br />
Charlie and Emily, who have<br />
season tickets in the Loft Upper.<br />
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RYAN, ERIN & KERRY<br />
Belated congratulations to<br />
three season ticket holders<br />
who have all reached milestone<br />
birthdays this season. Erin was<br />
18 in October, Kerry turned 50<br />
in January, and Ryan was 16 on<br />
Wednesday. Wishing all three a<br />
very happy belated birthday, with<br />
love from John Quinlan – and<br />
a big welcome to Ryan’s mates<br />
Harry, Connor and Jack who are<br />
joining him at today’s game.<br />
MEGAN<br />
Welcome to 10-year-old<br />
Megan Stirling from Burcott,<br />
Bedfordshire, who is attending<br />
her first QPR game today in the<br />
South Africa Road stand with dad<br />
Colin, family friend Sean Gordon<br />
and his son James. Colin has<br />
supported QPR for almost 50<br />
years, following in the footsteps<br />
of his dad Ian – who also took<br />
Sean to his first QPR game back<br />
in 1975!<br />
OBITUARY<br />
JAMES LOCKE<br />
James Locke, a lifelong QPR fan<br />
since his first game in 1971, sadly<br />
passed away after a hard long<br />
fight against cancer. We’re all<br />
thinking of you today and always,<br />
from all your family and friends.<br />
DENNIS<br />
Happy birthday to<br />
Dennis McIntyre, who usually<br />
sits in the East Paddock but is<br />
celebrating turning 70 today in<br />
W12 with Matt, Dan, Callum,<br />
Dave and George. Dennis is<br />
pictured at the 2014 play-off<br />
final with grandson Ted.<br />
VAL<br />
Happy 75th birthday to<br />
wonderful mum, sister and<br />
nanny Val Kempson! We hope<br />
you have an amazing day! Lots of<br />
love from Lou, Allan, Jon, Keith,<br />
Catewyn and Irys xxxxx<br />
OBITUARY<br />
JACQUI CHUBB<br />
Today we commemorate and<br />
celebrate Jacqui Chubb. An<br />
incredible wife to Gary and mum<br />
to Oli who will be remembered<br />
for her love of life, family, friends<br />
and her beloved QPR. Always and<br />
forever in our hearts.<br />
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Looking to be back<br />
at our best<br />
JEFF HENDRICK<br />
INTERVIEW: BEN KOSKY<br />
HAVING CELEBRATED HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY<br />
BY JOINING QPR ON LOAN FROM<br />
NEWCASTLE, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND<br />
MIDFIELDER JEFF HENDRICK GIVES HIS<br />
THOUGHTS ON RECTIFYING RANGERS’<br />
RECENT DIP IN FORM – AND EXPLAINS A<br />
SUBTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM AND<br />
STEFAN JOHANSEN…<br />
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HOOPS<br />
Jeff, many of our readers would<br />
consider signing for QPR on their<br />
birthday the ideal gift – was it an<br />
unexpected move for you?<br />
For me I would also say it was the perfect<br />
gift! It wasn’t really unexpected because I<br />
wanted to go out on loan and play games<br />
and there were a couple of other clubs<br />
interested, but it was about finding the<br />
right club that I thought would suit me,<br />
somewhere I’d want to go. I remember<br />
watching the QPR game against Derby<br />
back in November, texting my agent<br />
and saying ‘QPR look good!’ – so who<br />
knows, maybe I planted a seed in his<br />
mind without even knowing it. Obviously<br />
I needed the club to want me as well, so I<br />
was pleased to learn that they did.<br />
I’d imagine the opportunity of playing<br />
regularly becomes even more important<br />
at this stage of your career…<br />
Obviously I wanted to play games, but<br />
the important thing for me was to come<br />
into a side who are doing well. The<br />
chance to come in and help this group<br />
in any way I can, to achieve their goal of<br />
getting to the Premier League, that was<br />
massive for me. If I can do that it’d be<br />
brilliant and I’d love nothing better. I’ve<br />
only been here a short time, but I’ve been<br />
given a great welcome from the players,<br />
the staff and the fans.<br />
In the games you’ve played so far,<br />
Middlesbrough had more of the ball<br />
and we managed to take a point, on<br />
other occasions we’ve had plenty of<br />
possession but not made it count – how<br />
would you sum it up?<br />
When I came on for my debut in the<br />
cup tie at Peterborough, they had two<br />
chances in the whole game and scored<br />
both of them when we’d been the better<br />
team. Middlesbrough was one I enjoyed<br />
watching from the bench – it was end to<br />
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I can’t remember ever having<br />
this situation before - maybe<br />
I should go straight into the<br />
hairdresser’s now<br />
end, with two good teams going at it –<br />
and I enjoyed it just as much after I came<br />
on. Then at Barnsley we had a better first<br />
half than second half, but we lacked that<br />
bit of quality in the final third, or maybe<br />
that desire to score the goal. The longer<br />
a game goes on, the teams that are<br />
scrapping for their lives are going to get<br />
chances. So they’ve been different kinds<br />
of games, but we have to look at this and<br />
find a mix – not mess around with the<br />
ball and try to have 700 passes before<br />
we score.<br />
You and Stefan Johansen have replaced<br />
each other a couple of times – with your<br />
similar hairstyles, is that a deliberate<br />
strategy to confuse the opposition?!<br />
Ah, possibly! But if you look more closely,<br />
Stefan wears a white headband and I<br />
wear a black one. It’s been quite funny<br />
though, I’ve had some of my family and<br />
friends messing about saying they don’t<br />
know which is me and which is Stefan on<br />
the pitch. I can’t remember ever having<br />
this situation before – maybe I should go<br />
straight into the hairdresser’s now!<br />
At your first club, Derby, you were often<br />
part of a team challenging for promotion<br />
– yet teams always hit a sticky patch at<br />
some stage. It seems we have one right<br />
now at QPR, so what message would you<br />
want to get across?<br />
As you said, every team does go through<br />
that and for me the message would be<br />
not to be too worried about it and let it<br />
get you down. It’s about staying together<br />
as a group, trying to stop that run you’re<br />
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HOOPS<br />
We need to get going<br />
again and put more points on<br />
the board and this is a great<br />
opportunity<br />
on and getting back to winning ways<br />
as quickly as possible. This is a really<br />
important time of the year and the key<br />
is to stay calm and be sensible when you<br />
play, to get the results you need. The<br />
more experienced lads can play a big part<br />
in that, with the knowledge they have,<br />
but I think it’s good to have a bit of a mix<br />
– the younger ones have that element of<br />
fearlessness and go for it.<br />
Today’s opponents, <strong>Hull</strong>, have also been<br />
on a lean run recently but would it be<br />
dangerous to assume that makes this an<br />
ideal opportunity to bounce back?<br />
At the back end of the season every<br />
game’s going to be difficult and you’ve<br />
got to approach it in the right manner.<br />
On the one hand we’ll be cautious of <strong>Hull</strong><br />
with the run they’re on and we’ve got to<br />
be ready for them – at the same time<br />
we’re at home and we’re in the position<br />
we’re in for a reason. We need to get<br />
going again and put more points on the<br />
board and this is a great opportunity<br />
as long as we go out there, play good<br />
flowing, attacking football, and score as<br />
many goals as possible.<br />
Jimmy Dunne’s a player you’d have seen<br />
coming through when you played at<br />
Burnley – would you expect him to be<br />
knocking on the Republic of Ireland door<br />
fairly soon?<br />
Yes, it’s brilliant to see Jimmy at a club<br />
where he’s playing so regularly. He’s<br />
someone who was always going to be<br />
in with a chance at international level<br />
when he’s playing regularly and playing<br />
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HOOPS<br />
I used to watch the<br />
Dublin games and played<br />
myself, although Gaelic sport<br />
was more a hobby really -<br />
it was always going to be<br />
football for me<br />
well. For the manager, it doesn’t matter<br />
what league you’re in or what level you’re<br />
playing at. If you’re doing well and he<br />
thinks you’re a good player, he’ll bring<br />
you in. I think Jimmy’s got every chance<br />
– I’ve talked to him and I know it’d be a big<br />
dream for him to get into the Ireland setup<br />
and win a cap. I’d love to see that.<br />
I believe you were a pretty useful Gaelic<br />
footballer as a youngster so, with quite<br />
a few GAA teams around this part of<br />
London, will you be taking in a game or<br />
two on your days off?<br />
To watch or play?! Possibly, I might get<br />
down to see a game once the weather’s<br />
good. As a kid, I used to watch the Dublin<br />
games and played myself, although<br />
Gaelic sport was more a hobby really – it<br />
was always going to be football for me.<br />
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HOOPS<br />
Football is a game of many opinions, but<br />
there is one that we must all share. There is<br />
no place for discrimination in our game. If<br />
you do not agree, then you are not welcome.<br />
If you see or hear discrimination in this<br />
stadium, please report it to the nearest<br />
steward or via the Kick it Out App.<br />
Because we are all<br />
#TogetherAgainstDiscrimination<br />
Download the Kick it Out app for free from your app store.<br />
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Columnist<br />
‘R’ GENERATION WRITER BEN SUMMER SHARES<br />
HIS LATEST COLUMN<br />
T<br />
witter is simultaneously one of the best<br />
and the worst things to have happened<br />
to football.<br />
My dad has always refused to join it, and<br />
sometimes I can’t blame him.<br />
But he’s missing out on Andy Watkins’ brilliant<br />
full-time tweets, wholesome content like Chris<br />
Willock picking Seny Dieng up from the airport<br />
after AFCON, and more memes than I could<br />
possibly forward to him on WhatsApp.<br />
The site has also been home to some heartwarming<br />
and emotional stories. Sebastian<br />
Garcia telling the tale of how friends he met on<br />
QPR forums flew him over from Argentina to<br />
attend a game.<br />
Jacob Tingle and his collective of merry<br />
Americans, who inexplicably fell in love with the<br />
club on a class trip and have remained diehard<br />
fans ever since.<br />
The story of Dottie, a wonderful young girl who<br />
was filmed laughing in an Albert Adomah shirt<br />
during her long journey with chemotherapy –<br />
with Charlie Austin’s wife Bianca set to climb<br />
Snowdon in financial aid of her cause.<br />
You look at that, and wonder how anyone could<br />
deny themselves the chance to hop on Twitter,<br />
follow every QPR account they can, and glue<br />
their eyes to the screen.<br />
Then the game against Barnsley happened.<br />
Immediately, people who have been wrong for<br />
the past three seasons about Warburton, wrong<br />
for the past two seasons about Dykes, wrong<br />
for all of this season about what our targets are,<br />
decided now was the time to throw all the toys<br />
out of the pram.<br />
We’d have been delighted at avoiding relegation<br />
last Christmas and we’d have been delighted<br />
at the prospect of play-offs at the start of the<br />
season. It will remain a massive achievement if<br />
we do it.<br />
Of course our recent run of form has meant<br />
we have higher expectations. Of course it’s<br />
annoying to lose to rock-bottom Barnsley. Of<br />
COURSE you’re allowed to be annoyed about it.<br />
Get on Twitter if you want, to rant and swear and<br />
moan and do all the rest – I’ve got no issue with that.<br />
But if your first instinct is to slag off every player<br />
whose name you’ve been singing for the past<br />
few months and the manager who’s responsible<br />
for all these successes, I hope you can gain a bit<br />
of perspective.<br />
Football snatches you up in an emotional<br />
whirlwind like little else. Anger, frustration and<br />
heartbreak are all part of it. But it doesn’t give<br />
grown men the God-given right to act like<br />
petulant children.<br />
It’s the Championship, and it’s our best season<br />
in the division for years. I’m obviously not telling<br />
you to be happy when we lose. But if you want to<br />
be insufferable, keep it to yourself.<br />
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Today , s Opposition:<br />
HULL CITY<br />
IN THE CABINET:<br />
FOOTBALL LEAGUE<br />
CHAMPIONSHIP (LEVEL 2)<br />
Runners-up: 2012/13<br />
Play-off winners: 2007/08, 2015/16<br />
CLUB FACTS:<br />
STADIUM:<br />
[ MKM Stadium ]<br />
OPENED:<br />
[ 2002 ]<br />
CURRENT CAPACITY:<br />
[ 25,400 ]<br />
RECORD ATTENDANCE:<br />
[ 25,280 ]<br />
CLUB COLOURS:<br />
[ Amber & Black ]<br />
FOOTBALL LEAGUE ONE (LEVEL 3)<br />
Champions: 1965/6, 2020/21<br />
Runners-up: 1958/59, 2004/05<br />
Promoted: 1984/85<br />
FOOTBALL LEAGUE TWO (LEVEL 4)<br />
Runners-up: 1982/83, 2003/04<br />
FA CUP<br />
Runners-up: 2014<br />
H U L L C I T Y F A C T F I L E<br />
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HULL CITY<br />
OPPOSITION<br />
OVERVIEW<br />
O P P O S I T I O N O V E R V I E W<br />
<strong>Hull</strong>’s 11 years under the ownership of the Allam family were far<br />
from uneventful – they incorporated three promotions, as many<br />
relegations, a foray into European competition for the first time<br />
and a controversial attempt at rebranding.<br />
However, the Tigers faithful will be hoping for a little more<br />
stability following the recent takeover of the club by Turkish<br />
media personality Acun Ilicali – with the first task to confirm<br />
Championship status for next season.<br />
Former manager Grant McCann – who led <strong>Hull</strong> back to the second<br />
tier at the first attempt last season – oversaw impressive back-toback<br />
victories over Blackburn and Bournemouth to put some distance<br />
between themselves and the relegation zone.<br />
However, those wins proved to be McCann’s parting gift to the fans<br />
as he was immediately dismissed and replaced by Shota Arveladze,<br />
a familiar figure to the new owner due to his previous coaching<br />
experience in Turkey.<br />
<strong>Hull</strong>’s winning streak initially continued as they overcame Swansea in<br />
Arveladze’s first game in charge, but the run of defeats that followed<br />
means they still have work to do to ensure survival.<br />
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M<br />
SHOTA ARVELADZE<br />
Age: 48<br />
Nationality: Georgian<br />
Year Appointed: 2022<br />
Succeeded: Grant McCann<br />
[ THE GAFFER ]<br />
FORMER Glasgow<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> striker Shota<br />
Arveladze arrived on<br />
Humberside just a few<br />
weeks ago after the<br />
club’s new regime opted<br />
to terminate Grant<br />
McCann’s two and a half<br />
year spell in charge.<br />
The 48-year-old, who<br />
helped the Ibrox club to<br />
a treble during the<br />
2002/03 season, also<br />
won a stack of league<br />
titles in his native<br />
Georgia with Dinamo<br />
Tbilisi, along with the<br />
Eredivisie crown at Ajax<br />
during an impressive<br />
18-year playing career.<br />
Arveladze, who became<br />
his country’s record<br />
scorer with 26 goals in<br />
61 appearances, took his<br />
first steps into coaching<br />
as assistant manager at<br />
AZ Alkmaar, working<br />
under Louis van Gaal,<br />
Ronald Koeman and Dick<br />
Advocaat.<br />
He then spent more than<br />
five years in Turkey,<br />
coaching Kayserispor,<br />
Kasimpasa and<br />
Trabzonspor prior to a<br />
six-month spell at<br />
Maccabi Tel Aviv and then<br />
took over at Uzbek side<br />
Pakhtakor Tashkent.<br />
Having guided Pakhtakor<br />
to two league titles and<br />
three cups, he departed<br />
at the end of 2020 and<br />
spent a year out of the<br />
game before the Tigers<br />
came calling last month.<br />
H U L L C I T Y T H E G A F F E R<br />
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H U L L C I T Y K E Y Q U A R T E T<br />
#<br />
1<br />
[ SAFE HANDS ] [ THE ROCK ]<br />
MATT INGRAM<br />
GOALKEEPER<br />
Age: 28<br />
Nationality: English<br />
Signed From: QPR<br />
Well known to the W12<br />
faithful following his<br />
three-year spell in<br />
west London,<br />
goalkeeper Matt<br />
Ingram has been a<br />
regular between the<br />
posts for <strong>Hull</strong> over the<br />
last season and a half.<br />
Ingram spent six years<br />
at Wycombe, eventually<br />
making 140<br />
appearances for the<br />
Chairboys before QPR<br />
signed him midway<br />
through the 2015/16<br />
campaign.<br />
However, he struggled<br />
to force his way into the<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> side and<br />
moved to <strong>Hull</strong> in 2019,<br />
becoming a key<br />
member of the Tigers’<br />
promotion-winning<br />
team last year and also<br />
featuring in the<br />
majority of their games<br />
this season.<br />
Another example of <strong>Hull</strong>’s<br />
flourishing youth set-up,<br />
Jacob Greaves only broke into<br />
the side in September 2020<br />
but has already developed into<br />
an important component in<br />
their back line.<br />
The son of former Tigers<br />
defender Mark Greaves, he was<br />
loaned to Cheltenham during the<br />
2019/20 campaign but soon made<br />
the step up to senior football at<br />
the MKM Stadium and made 41<br />
appearances in all competitions<br />
last season.<br />
The 21-year-old has also<br />
been ever-present in <strong>Hull</strong>’s<br />
Championship line-up so far<br />
this term, although the search for<br />
his first professional goal remains<br />
an elusive one.<br />
CLASSIC KIT<br />
DEAN<br />
WINDASS<br />
2008<br />
#<br />
4<br />
JACOB GREAVES<br />
DEFENDER<br />
Age: 21<br />
Nationality: English<br />
Signed From: Academy<br />
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[ THE HIT MAN ]<br />
44<br />
#<br />
44<br />
DODGY BARNET<br />
CHRIS<br />
BENNETT<br />
1997<br />
10<br />
#<br />
10<br />
GEORGE HONEYMAN<br />
MIDFIELDER<br />
Age: 27<br />
Nationality: English<br />
Signed From: Sunderland<br />
[ THE MAESTRO ]<br />
VOTED <strong>Hull</strong>’s Player of the Year<br />
at the end of their promotionwinning<br />
campaign, attacking<br />
midfielder George Honeyman has<br />
made quite an impact at the MKM<br />
Stadium following his arrival from<br />
Sunderland.<br />
Honeyman joined the Black Cats<br />
at the age of 10 and, aside from a<br />
brief loan spell at Gateshead,<br />
remained with the club until 2019,<br />
making his senior debut in the<br />
Premier League and accumulating<br />
97 appearances and 15 goals.<br />
He was also appointed<br />
captain during his final campaign<br />
at the Stadium of Light and netted<br />
his first goal for the Tigers in their<br />
2-1 victory against QPR in<br />
December 2019.<br />
MARCUS FORSS<br />
FORWARD<br />
Age: 22<br />
Nationality: Finnish<br />
Signed From: Brentford<br />
A member of<br />
Finland’s Euro 2020<br />
squad, Forss was<br />
brought in to bolster<br />
<strong>Hull</strong>’s forward line in a<br />
loan move from<br />
Brentford until the<br />
end of the season.<br />
The striker was signed<br />
by West Brom at the<br />
age of 13 and<br />
progressed through<br />
their youth set-up,<br />
but made just one EFL<br />
Trophy appearance<br />
before signing for the<br />
Bees in 2017.<br />
After a loan spell at<br />
AFC Wimbledon,<br />
Forss played his part<br />
in Brentford’s<br />
promotion to the<br />
Premier League last<br />
season, scoring the<br />
decisive goal in their<br />
play-off semi-final<br />
victory over<br />
Bournemouth.<br />
H U L L C I T Y K E Y Q U A R T E T<br />
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H U L L C I T Y D A N G E R M A N<br />
[ DANGER MAN ]<br />
HOMEGROWN forward<br />
Keane Lewis-Potter has<br />
become a key member of<br />
the Tigers’ line-up since<br />
he burst onto the scene<br />
during the 2019/20<br />
campaign.<br />
Lewis-Potter, who usually<br />
operates on the left flank,<br />
was initially loaned to<br />
National league North<br />
side Bradford <strong>Park</strong><br />
Avenue at the age of 18<br />
and made his debut for<br />
<strong>Hull</strong> six months later<br />
against West Brom.<br />
The native Humbersider<br />
has gone on to amass<br />
more than a century of<br />
appearances in a <strong>Hull</strong><br />
shirt, netting 15 times in<br />
all competitions last<br />
season to help fire them<br />
to the League One title.<br />
Lewis-Potter scored on<br />
the opening day of the<br />
campaign as the Tigers<br />
marked their return to<br />
the second tier by<br />
sweeping aside Preston<br />
4-1 and continues to<br />
pose a threat despite the<br />
team’s struggles.<br />
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11<br />
KEANE LEWIS-POTTER<br />
FORWARD<br />
Age: 20<br />
Nationality: English<br />
Signed From: Academy<br />
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FAMILIAR FACE:<br />
JAY<br />
SIMPSON<br />
Former Arsenal striker Jay Simpson ended his sole season at QPR<br />
as the club’s leading scorer before joining <strong>Hull</strong> in a £1m move the<br />
following summer.<br />
Simpson, who had already completed loan spells at Millwall and West<br />
Brom, joined <strong>Rangers</strong> on a temporary basis at the start of the 2009/10<br />
campaign and went on to register 13 goals in all competitions.<br />
His goal tally for the Tigers was identical during his three-year stint on<br />
Humberside – which also included another loan at Millwall – but he was<br />
allowed to leave after their promotion to the top flight in 2013.<br />
Simpson moved to Thai club Buriram United, but soon returned to<br />
London for a two and a half year spell at Leyton Orient before going<br />
on to play for Philadelphia Union and, most recently, Greek side Nea<br />
Salamina.<br />
QPR Apps: 42 Gls: 13<br />
2009-10<br />
HFC Apps: 86 Gls: 13<br />
2010-13<br />
H U L L C I T Y D A N G E R M A N<br />
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Matteo Salamon<br />
ONE OF<br />
‘R’ OWN<br />
A CLOSER LOOK AT QPR’S UNDER-18<br />
SQUAD AS WE FIND OUT MORE ABOUT<br />
THE POTENTIAL STARS OF TOMORROW.<br />
INTERVIEW: LENNIE HARVEY<br />
MATTEO SALAMON<br />
GOALKEEPER<br />
From: Born in Brazil,<br />
raised in Camden<br />
Joined QPR: Age 11<br />
Pre-match Meal: Porridge<br />
How did you get scouted?<br />
I looked forward to playing every week with my local team and at the<br />
age of 11 I was lucky enough to be invited to trial at QPR. This is where<br />
my journey really began as I was offered a contract to join the U12s<br />
and six years later I am blessed to still be a part of this great club.<br />
What’s the highlight of your career so far?<br />
It has to be my first FA Youth Cup game against Swansea away. It<br />
was a great experience to show confidence under pressure due to<br />
the significance of this tournament, which resulted in some good<br />
decision-making and some good saves, one being a point-blank<br />
reaction save tipped onto the crossbar.<br />
Who’s your favourite player or inspiration?<br />
Being half Italian, I grew up regularly watching Italian football with my<br />
dad as he pointed out players who dominated the league and one of<br />
those was Gianluigi Buffon. Buffon has had (and is still having) such<br />
a successful career, it speaks for itself. I cannot forget Seny Dieng,<br />
as he has just won the Africa Cup of Nations and played a big part in<br />
it too. Seny is athletic and has all the attributes required to be a top<br />
quality keeper, this why he is also one of my favourite players.<br />
Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?<br />
I see myself pushing to play first-team football at a high level;<br />
constantly learning and gaining experience, and continuously<br />
improving my game by being mature and consistent between the<br />
posts.<br />
Which of your team-mates is most likely to become a coach or<br />
manager one day?<br />
My centre-backs, Kayden (Harrack) and Henry (Hawkins). They both<br />
share great vision and knowledge about the game and their positions.<br />
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FREEZEFRAME<br />
A PICTORIAL LOOK BACK AT A PREVIOUS<br />
CLASH WITH TONIGHT’S OPPONENTS…<br />
<strong>Hull</strong>’s Sam Collins grabs a handful of Damion Stewart’s<br />
shirt, but QPR come out on top, marking new manager<br />
John Gregory’s first game in charge with a 2-0 win in<br />
September 2006.<br />
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OUR CLUB AMBASSADOR’S<br />
VIEWS ON ALL THINGS QPR…<br />
G<br />
ood afternoon everyone and<br />
welcome back to the Kiyan Prince<br />
Foundation Stadium for today’s game<br />
against <strong>Hull</strong> <strong>City</strong>.<br />
<strong>Hull</strong> have experienced a difficult season so far on<br />
the pitch and have seen a change of ownership<br />
and manager in recent weeks. They gained an<br />
excellent point at Sheffield United in midweek<br />
and will provide a tough test as we look to get<br />
back to winning ways after a disappointing<br />
couple of weeks and results. With the nature<br />
of the Championship, if you are below your<br />
best in terms of performance, individually and<br />
collectively as a team, you will come unstuck.<br />
In the last three games, we have taken just the<br />
one point, having lost at Barnsley and Millwall<br />
and drawing at home to Middlesbrough. I felt in<br />
all three games we didn’t perform at the levels<br />
we have previously shown we’re capable of and<br />
therefore paid the price with our points return.<br />
Looking at the three games, Millwall have a good<br />
home record and defensively don’t give too<br />
much away, so I always felt the game there would<br />
be tough and so it proved. It is fair to say they<br />
were the better team on the night and we were<br />
nowhere near our best right across the pitch.<br />
We conceded two poor second-half goals from<br />
our point of view and did not create anything<br />
of any note as an attacking force, making it a<br />
disappointing evening for us all.<br />
Once again, Oakwell proved to be an unhappy<br />
place for us in terms of both the performance<br />
and the result. Barnsley had been on a long run<br />
without winning a game – a run which you just<br />
know is going to end at some time and you just<br />
hope it is not when you play them. Losing 1-0<br />
was a huge disappointment and showed once<br />
again that you should never look at the league<br />
table or your opponents’ current form going<br />
into games and just focus on getting your own<br />
performance right, individually and collectively,<br />
to get the points you need.<br />
Middlesbrough was a hard-fought draw against<br />
a very good team who are in impressive form.<br />
On the night I felt they played well, with the<br />
confidence and energy that being on a good run<br />
can give you. We led twice on the night with a<br />
superb finish from Ilias Chair and a Chris Willock<br />
tap-in following a huge mistake from former<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> goalkeeper Joe Lumley. Middlesbrough<br />
have quality throughout their team, pegged us<br />
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back and they will have felt a bit disappointed<br />
not to take all three points on the balance of the<br />
game. As I have said before, it is important to<br />
take points from games when you’re not at your<br />
best and that point could prove very important<br />
when the season comes to an end.<br />
So we have had a poor couple of weeks, but it is<br />
important to recognise we are still in a very good<br />
position. I have said before that there will be<br />
difficult periods in the season to navigate, which<br />
every team has gone or will go through. This is<br />
evident if you look at all the top nine teams in<br />
the division.<br />
Fulham had a run of five games without a win<br />
earlier in the season, as did Bournemouth<br />
who were six without a win until they beat us<br />
over Christmas. Blackburn haven’t won in their<br />
last four games after a terrific run of form.<br />
Huddersfield had a spell in November and<br />
December where they won only once in seven<br />
games. Middlesbrough, who are now in very<br />
good form, had a poor start to the season, as did<br />
Nottingham Forest who took just one point from<br />
their opening seven games and now sit in seventh<br />
position in the league. Sheffield United had a poor<br />
start to the season and had a spell when they won<br />
only two in nine games. Then there is West Brom,<br />
who have won only one in the last nine.<br />
I am highlighting this because every team will<br />
have a poor spell during the season – it’s just<br />
crucial how long it lasts and how quickly you can<br />
get out of it. I have said many times that there<br />
will be bumps in the road on your journey. These<br />
bumps in the road can slow you down but they<br />
must not throw you off course. At times when<br />
you hit a bad spell, everyone involved needs<br />
to stay strong and focused, dig deep and pull<br />
through together. We are in a very good position<br />
that everyone has worked hard for and there is<br />
still so much football to be played until the end<br />
of the season and so much to look forward to.<br />
Today we face the next hurdle to overcome, but<br />
it gives us an opportunity to get back to winning<br />
ways. It will not be easy and we will have to earn<br />
everything we get against <strong>Hull</strong> today – just like<br />
every game in the Championship.<br />
Thanks once again for the tremendous support<br />
you are giving to the team both at home and<br />
away matches. Your support today will be huge<br />
and can play a part in helping the team deliver a<br />
performance and result we all want. Once again,<br />
get behind the team today and be loud and<br />
proud of who we are – We are QPR.<br />
Enjoy the game.<br />
Come on you R’s!<br />
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THIS SEASON MARKS 40 YEARS SINCE<br />
QPR REACHED THE 1981/82 FA CUP FINAL.<br />
IN EACH MATCHDAY PROGRAMME, WE SPEAK<br />
TO A MEMBER OF THE SQUAD WHO PLAYED A<br />
ROLE IN THAT UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY TO THE<br />
TWIN TOWERS. NEXT UP, IT’S IMPOSING<br />
LEFT-BACK IAN GILLARD…<br />
INTERVIEW: TONY INCENZO<br />
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IAN, our run to the FA Cup final was<br />
40 years ago now but it only seems<br />
like yesterday, doesn’t it?<br />
Sort of! Obviously you don’t realise<br />
how the time goes by so quickly, but 40<br />
years is a long time.<br />
In the third round, we were drawn at<br />
home to Middlesbrough, who were in<br />
Division One, so we started as<br />
underdogs. After a 1-1 draw, it was a<br />
midweek trip up to Boro’s old<br />
Ayresome <strong>Park</strong> stadium and the R’s<br />
won 3-2, with Warren Neill grabbing<br />
the winning goal in extra time. What<br />
do you remember of those games?<br />
We struggled at home to Middlesbrough,<br />
but luckily enough we got the draw.<br />
Everybody thought that was it as it was a<br />
tough replay, however we went up to<br />
Ayresome <strong>Park</strong> and performed really<br />
well. To win 3-2 was great and it started<br />
our FA Cup run which saw game after<br />
game coming thick and fast.<br />
In the fourth round we were drawn<br />
away to Blackpool and nearly lost<br />
that match, but it finished 0-0. Then<br />
the replay took place at Loftus Road<br />
with Clive Allen scoring four times as<br />
we ran out 5-1 winners…<br />
All I can remember is going up to<br />
Blackpool and it was a very difficult<br />
game, so we were pleased to get the<br />
replay at home and we played really well<br />
that night. To score five goals in an FA<br />
Cup match is some achievement. Clive<br />
was starting to come into excellent<br />
form, he was a prolific goalscorer and<br />
we relied on him a lot to hit the net. In<br />
saying that, it was a team effort as well.<br />
In the fifth round, we beat Grimsby<br />
Town 3-1 at Loftus Road. They were<br />
several places below us in the<br />
Division Two table and it was a<br />
comprehensive victory – did you feel<br />
the momentum and interest in QPR’s<br />
FA Cup run was building all the time?<br />
We played Grimsby and we thought:<br />
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the next round’. That’s what we did and<br />
it was another good result – and yes,<br />
the excitement was growing. I can<br />
remember coming in from training on a<br />
Monday back in those days and<br />
someone might shout out: “Oh, we’ve<br />
drawn such and such in the next round<br />
of the Cup.” But you just had to get on<br />
with it, no matter who you were playing.<br />
We had the plastic Omniturf pitch at<br />
Loftus Road during the FA Cup run<br />
and critics used to say that it gave us<br />
a big advantage. Was that<br />
necessarily the case?<br />
I mean, if you’re a footballer you play on<br />
anything, don’t you? OK, the QPR<br />
players trained on the plastic during the<br />
week. But the away teams would come<br />
down and train on our pitch on the Friday<br />
afternoon before a game to get used to<br />
it. People may have said we had an<br />
advantage but we still had to play football<br />
on the Omniturf. It took us a little while,<br />
but we knew how to play on it.<br />
On to Crystal Palace at home in the<br />
quarter-finals, it was a huge needle<br />
game as a number of QPR men like<br />
Terry Venables, Mike Flanagan and<br />
Clive Allen had previously been at<br />
Palace…<br />
We knew it was going to be a very hard<br />
game as Crystal Palace had some<br />
good quality players, so for us to beat<br />
them 1-0 was fantastic. Obviously we<br />
didn’t want to face a replay going back<br />
to their place. But we nicked it late on<br />
with a Clive Allen goal. Everybody<br />
thought it was going to end up as a<br />
draw – even the players I suppose.<br />
Luckily enough, Clive shot home – he<br />
was a goalscorer and you can’t leave<br />
goalscorers to have a chance in the<br />
box. That’s what Palace did and BANG!<br />
Straight in!<br />
Loftus Road was packed that day and<br />
the atmosphere was electric…<br />
Oh, it was phenomenal. It has always<br />
been a lovely stadium for atmosphere<br />
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– I can go back to 1975/76 when<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> finished second in the league<br />
behind Liverpool. Our last couple of<br />
home games that year attracted<br />
30,000 crowds and the noise was<br />
incredible. To be inside the ground as<br />
an opposition player must have been a<br />
bit frightening.<br />
In the semi-final against top flight<br />
West Bromwich Albion at Highbury,<br />
all the build-up before the game was<br />
about Albion’s in-form striker Cyrille<br />
Regis. The pundits said he was<br />
unstoppable…<br />
Everybody was talking about Cyrille,<br />
but our centre-back Bob Hazell did a<br />
magnificent marking job on him. Like in<br />
our quarter-final, the balance of play<br />
was touch and go. Fortunately for us,<br />
Clive Allen scored the only goal<br />
towards the end to give us a 1-0<br />
victory and – bingo! – we were in the FA<br />
Cup final. That just wasn’t expected by<br />
the football public. I can’t recall too<br />
much about the winning goal but I think<br />
Clive blocked a clearance and it<br />
bounced back past their keeper. As<br />
long as the ball went into the net, that<br />
was the main thing.<br />
The celebrations at the final whistle<br />
were immense…<br />
We had huge support on the North<br />
Bank terrace – the QPR supporters<br />
were outstanding that day. To be<br />
honest, our fans were always very<br />
good. I speak as I find and they really<br />
helped us get through the semi-final at<br />
Highbury.<br />
On to the final, against Tottenham<br />
Hotspur at Wembley – it was<br />
publicised in advance that this was<br />
going to be your last game in a<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> shirt after nearly 500<br />
first-team appearances. How did<br />
that situation come about?<br />
We played an away fixture up north a<br />
few weeks before the final. Our<br />
manager Terry Venables was sitting at<br />
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Fortunately for us, Clive<br />
Allen scored the only goal<br />
towards the end to give us a<br />
1-0 victory and bingo! We<br />
were in the FA Cup final.<br />
the front of the team bus as we were<br />
coming home and he said he wanted a<br />
word with me. Terry just said: “Look, we<br />
are going to give you a free transfer at<br />
the end of the season.” So I had to<br />
accept that – it was part and parcel of<br />
football. Even so, it was a big upheaval<br />
for me, having been at QPR for so many<br />
years and then moving on. I started at<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> as a schoolboy and signed<br />
apprentice forms in 1967 before<br />
becoming a pro one year later. I was with<br />
the club for a long, long time and saw<br />
many players come and go. It was a<br />
huge part of my life and I still have great<br />
affection for <strong>Queens</strong> <strong>Park</strong> <strong>Rangers</strong>.<br />
Back in those days, the FA Cup final<br />
was the biggest match on the<br />
football spectrum, wasn’t it?<br />
Of course it was. Things are a bit<br />
different nowadays but, back in that<br />
era, the television coverage started at<br />
9am. We got up to have our breakfast<br />
and there were cameras and TV<br />
people everywhere in the hotel. We<br />
had a lot of coverage and that was<br />
good for QPR. We knew what to expect<br />
and all our players addressed<br />
themselves really well.<br />
We forced a 1-1 draw against<br />
Tottenham and then narrowly lost the<br />
replay 1-0 at Wembley. But no-one<br />
gave us a chance beforehand…<br />
Spurs were an excellent team back<br />
then – they had some superb players<br />
so we knew it was going to be a very<br />
difficult match. There was a big<br />
build-up, we stayed in a hotel all week<br />
and we had training facilities. Terry<br />
Venables told us exactly what we were<br />
going to do out on the Wembley pitch.<br />
In the first game, to be honest we<br />
probably would have lost if it wasn’t for<br />
Peter Hucker playing so well in goal for<br />
us – he put in a top performance to<br />
force a replay. I was thinking that the<br />
final was going to be my last game for<br />
QPR but that replay gave me another<br />
bite of the cherry. I was appearing at<br />
Wembley twice and I was very proud. It<br />
was an honour to play in the FA Cup<br />
final for your club side and it was very<br />
emotional for me as I knew I was<br />
leaving <strong>Rangers</strong>.<br />
The replay took place at Wembley on<br />
the following Thursday evening and<br />
we did everything but score in that<br />
1-0 defeat…<br />
Yes, we really went to town on Spurs,<br />
which was quite surprising. We kept<br />
playing and playing and playing but we<br />
couldn’t put the ball in the net. It was a<br />
sad thing when the final whistle went<br />
but that was the way it had to be.<br />
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1981/82<br />
QPR 1<br />
CRYSTAL PALACE 0<br />
Date: Saturday 6th March 1982<br />
Competition: FA Cup quarter-final<br />
Attendance: 24,653<br />
The Programme: Twenty pages, price 40p<br />
A LAST-GASP strike by Clive Allen sent<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> through to the FA Cup semi-finals<br />
for the first time in their history.<br />
This match attracted a raucous crowd of<br />
24,653, plus the cameras of ITV’s Big Match<br />
show with the legendary Brian Moore as<br />
commentator. And the tension was<br />
heightened by the fact that R’s boss Terry<br />
Venables had previously plied his trade at<br />
Selhurst <strong>Park</strong>, along with Hoops stars Mike<br />
Flanagan and Clive Allen.<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> carved out the better of the scoring<br />
opportunities in a highly-charged encounter.<br />
On the hour mark, Allen hit a thunderbolt from<br />
eight yards out but Paul Barron made an<br />
instinctive save in the Palace goal. Then<br />
midway through the second half, Barron had to<br />
scamper across his line to paw away an<br />
opportunist 40-yard volley from Simon<br />
Stainrod which zipped goalwards off the<br />
rock-hard surface.<br />
Palace, under their manager Steve Kember,<br />
were content to play for a draw and rarely<br />
looked like scoring. Their best effort was a Jerry<br />
Murphy free-kick that curled inches wide.<br />
It seemed that the tie was heading for a replay,<br />
but Allen made the decisive breakthrough for<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> in the 87th minute at the Loft End.<br />
QPR won a corner on the right-hand side and a<br />
club steward called Mark retrieved the ball. He<br />
placed it in the quadrant and shouted at R’s<br />
midfield maestro Tony Currie to get a move<br />
on with taking the set-play as time was<br />
running out!<br />
Currie didn’t even re-spot the ball. He just<br />
followed the spontaneous instructions and<br />
chipped it into the penalty area.<br />
John Gregory won the aerial battle and<br />
headed down into the goalmouth. Allen had<br />
his back to goal and hit a right footer on the<br />
half-turn. In what seemed like slow motion at<br />
the time, his shot squirmed through a crowd of<br />
players into the bottom right-hand corner.<br />
There then followed one of the most<br />
incredible goal celebrations of all time as<br />
Allen sprinted 100 yards down the pitch<br />
before dancing with delight right in front of<br />
the Crystal Palace fans who had previously<br />
been ferociously taunting him with cries of<br />
“Palace reject”.<br />
Another melodramatic twist was to follow.<br />
With seconds to go in the 90 minutes, referee<br />
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John Hunting awarded Crystal Palace a free-kick.<br />
However, hundreds of <strong>Rangers</strong> fans thought that<br />
this was the end of the game and they ran on to<br />
the pitch to celebrate.<br />
The playing area had to be cleared of supporters,<br />
who then formed a human touchline right on the<br />
edge of three sides of the pitch as the remainder<br />
of the match was played out. One over-keen QPR<br />
fan subsequently attempted to tackle Crystal<br />
Palace winger Neil Smillie as he dribbled down the<br />
flank.<br />
Palace threw all their players forward, but to no<br />
avail and the (genuine) final whistle prompted<br />
tumultuous celebrations.<br />
RANGERS: Hucker, Neill, Gillard, Waddock, Hazell,<br />
Roeder, Currie, Allen, Flanagan, Stainrod, Gregory.<br />
Sub not used: Micklewhite<br />
EDITORIAL SNIPPET: ‘Either Crystal<br />
Palace or ourselves are about to go<br />
through to the semi-finals of the FA<br />
Cup and that is just a step from the<br />
high-point of the season – the<br />
Wembley Final.’<br />
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Other Uses Of<br />
LOFTUS ROAD<br />
CRICKET, HOCKEY, RUGBY, BOXING, CONCERTS AND MORE<br />
- LOFTUS ROAD HAS SEEN IT ALL DOWN THE YEARS. WE<br />
EXAMINE THE OCCASIONS WHEN OUR FAMOUS GROUND<br />
PLAYED HOST TO SOME VERY DIFFERENT EVENTS…<br />
ENGLAND<br />
UNDER-20<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
AN ENGLAND Under-20<br />
international against Italy<br />
was staged at Loftus Road<br />
on Tuesday 31st March 2009.<br />
Before a crowd of 6,297,<br />
England won 2-0. Ciaran<br />
Clark headed the opener on<br />
20 minutes from a corner by<br />
Marc Albrighton.<br />
Then 10 minutes later, good<br />
work by Kieran Gibbs led to<br />
Daniel Sturridge applying a<br />
crisp right-footed finish.<br />
England coach Noel Blake said<br />
afterwards: “We played well<br />
when we were in possession<br />
and out of possession. The<br />
game was won early on.<br />
“Italy started brightly and<br />
pressed us, that was what we<br />
expected.<br />
“My goalkeeper David Button<br />
made a fantastic save and we<br />
were able to take control of the<br />
match after that.”<br />
A match report by Gary<br />
<strong>Park</strong>inson of FourFourTwo<br />
read: “England’s Under-20<br />
side continued their<br />
preparations for the FIFA<br />
U20 World Championships<br />
in Egypt this autumn with<br />
a fine 2-0 win over their<br />
Italian counterparts at QPR’s<br />
Loftus Road.<br />
“Noel Blake’s side were<br />
without Football League<br />
Young Player of the Year<br />
Fabian Delph of Leeds United<br />
due to injury, but didn’t<br />
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struggle to create chances in<br />
his absence.<br />
“The Italians started strongly,<br />
with Sampdoria’s Marco<br />
Marilungo pouncing to smash<br />
a misguided James Tomkins<br />
header towards goal, only to<br />
see his effort expertly tipped<br />
over by David Button, currently<br />
on loan at Luton Town from<br />
Spurs.<br />
“However England were soon<br />
in front. Chelsea’s Scott<br />
Sinclair, currently on loan at<br />
Birmingham <strong>City</strong>, produced a<br />
marvellous piece of skill by the<br />
corner flag, beating his man<br />
with a drag back before earning<br />
a corner, which was expertly<br />
floated into the danger zone by<br />
Aston Villa’s Marc Albrighton<br />
and headed past the stranded<br />
Carlo Pinsoglio by Albrighton’s<br />
Villa team-mate Ciaran Clark.<br />
“Sinclair continued to look<br />
lively down the left, wowing the<br />
6,000-plus crowd with a series<br />
of step-overs and darting runs,<br />
while the strike partnership<br />
of Manchester <strong>City</strong>’s Daniel<br />
Sturridge and Freddie Sears of<br />
West Ham were finding space<br />
to exploit when the ball was<br />
presented to them.<br />
“England were two ahead<br />
on the half-hour when West<br />
Ham’s James Tomkins carried<br />
the ball into the Italian half<br />
before laying the ball to<br />
Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs, whose<br />
blocked shot eventually landed<br />
at the feet of Sturridge to<br />
expertly guide the ball over the<br />
shoulder of the approaching<br />
keeper.<br />
“Italy came out of the traps the<br />
quicker again after the break,<br />
with Matteo Gentili heading<br />
into the ground and over the<br />
bar, while Claudio Della Penna<br />
of Pistoiese chested the ball<br />
down on the edge of the box<br />
before volleying towards goal<br />
and bringing a decent save out<br />
of Manchester United keeper<br />
Ben Amos, who had replaced<br />
Button at the break.<br />
“A series of substitutions<br />
took their toll on the flow of<br />
the match in the final half an<br />
hour and as a result decent<br />
openings were few and far<br />
between.”<br />
England: D Button (B Amos),<br />
J Vidal, R Bertrand (B Mee), J<br />
Walker (A Clayton), J Tomkins<br />
(C Smalling), C Clark, M<br />
Albrighton (J Colback), K Gibbs,<br />
D Sturridge (T Obadeyi), F<br />
Sears, S Sinclair (J Stanislas)<br />
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Columnist<br />
talkSPORT REPORTER AND RANGERS FAN<br />
TONY INCENZO RECALLS SOME WEIRD AND<br />
WONDERFUL STORIES...<br />
TOYOTA<br />
IN the recent Swansea <strong>City</strong> programme, I told<br />
you how a train trip to see QPR play away to<br />
Everton in the 1990s caused me considerable<br />
embarrassment.<br />
To recap, my ex-girlfriend was with me and she<br />
didn’t believe that the Scouse accent actually<br />
existed until we arrived at Liverpool Lime Street.<br />
Then she started badgering our cab driver to say<br />
some stereotypical Scouse phrases en route to<br />
Goodison <strong>Park</strong>.<br />
Anyway, another weird incident occurred when I<br />
took this particular lady – who I will call ‘Tina’ – to<br />
a <strong>Rangers</strong> match at Stoke <strong>City</strong>.<br />
I drove this time and took the M1 up from<br />
London. But, with major traffic delays inevitable<br />
on the M6 back in those days, I decided to head<br />
cross-country to Stoke on the A50. Tina had<br />
a road atlas open and started noticing all the<br />
places we were passing.<br />
“Burton upon Trent! That’s a funny name,”<br />
said Tina. “Uttoxeter! That doesn’t sound very<br />
pleasant.”<br />
But as we were driving near the famous car<br />
factory, she got confused. There was a big road<br />
sign which read:<br />
TOYOTA – 1 MILE<br />
And Tina said: “Ooh Toyota! That sounds like a<br />
lovely little village.”<br />
Then she started looking for it on the map! I<br />
couldn’t believe my ears but I decided to play<br />
along with her.<br />
So I said: “Yes, I’ve heard of that village. A lot of<br />
nice Japanese people live there.”<br />
But Tina didn’t realise I was being flippant. She<br />
continued: “Tony, do you know that there is also<br />
a car called a Toyota?”<br />
“Really Tina?”<br />
“Oh yes. I have seen them on the roads.”<br />
We were in fact driving in an MR2 at the time.<br />
Follow Tony Incenzo on Twitter at<br />
@TonyIncenzo<br />
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JUNIOR<br />
HOOPS<br />
FUN, GAMES, TRIVIA & MORE!<br />
Hello everyone!<br />
Hey guys, it’s your<br />
favourite feline friend<br />
here! Over the next<br />
couple of pages you’ll<br />
get the chance to<br />
test your footballing<br />
knowledge! Challenge<br />
your family and friends<br />
to see who comes out<br />
on top!<br />
Jude<br />
JUDE’S JOKE<br />
Joke: What did the goalkeeper say to the ball?<br />
A: Catch you later!<br />
GROUND HOPPER<br />
Which Champ stadium is this?<br />
Follow me on Twitter<br />
@QPRJudeTheCat<br />
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Big birthday wishes to<br />
all Junior Hoops<br />
celebrating in February…<br />
George Wheeldon – 1st<br />
Dominic Larter – 1st<br />
Archie Allen – 2nd<br />
Sienna Atkins – 2nd<br />
Stanley Hewitt – 2nd<br />
Henry Linehan – 2nd<br />
Stanley Green – 2nd<br />
Cameron Kirk – 2nd<br />
Bobby Lowin – 2nd<br />
Lucas Asombang – 3rd<br />
Toby Mason – 3rd<br />
Reuben Merrett – 3rd<br />
Sebastian Scarffe – 3rd<br />
Edward Smith – 3rd<br />
Tyler Dolphin – 4th<br />
Eoin Gallagher – 4th<br />
Isaac Lazarus – 4th<br />
Lukas Ross – 4th<br />
Brodie Kent – 5th<br />
Harrison Manville-Anthony – 5th<br />
Finn Steward – 5th<br />
Andrei Denis Udeanu – 5th<br />
Dylan Wood – 5th<br />
Harry Gifford – 5th<br />
Colin Ryan Susat – 5th<br />
Jude Campbell – 6th<br />
Jake Charge – 6th<br />
Jay Coombs – 6th<br />
Avi Margolis – 6th<br />
Connor Mulligan – 6th<br />
Isaac Olszak – 6th<br />
Sonny Poulter – 6th<br />
Archie Sprigens – 6th<br />
Bobby Sweetman – 6th<br />
Kayson Burton – 6th<br />
Sacha Carroll – 6th<br />
Jack Abbott – 7th<br />
Liam Farrelly – 7th<br />
Joshua Hart – 7th<br />
Marissa Lee – 7th<br />
George Markham – 7th<br />
Tomas Melia – 7th<br />
Lola Shurey – 7th<br />
Lewis Edmonds – 7th<br />
Toby Belcher – 8th<br />
Katie Hales – 8th<br />
Izabella Lawrence – 8th<br />
Sydney Potter – 8th<br />
Remy Gadd – 9th<br />
Gabriel McManus – 9th<br />
Johnie O’Connell – 9th<br />
Mia Roache – 9th<br />
Samantha Roberts – 9th<br />
Oliver Rodwell – 9th<br />
James Burn – 9th<br />
Osbert Price – 9th<br />
Stanley Winter – 9th<br />
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Charlotte Allwright – 18th<br />
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Elzia Miller – 19th<br />
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Kathy Simpson – 21st<br />
Nicholas Avetoom – 22nd<br />
Harry Clark – 22nd<br />
Joseph Loughrey – 22nd<br />
Rio Pinard – 22nd<br />
Luke Whelan – 22nd<br />
Jonathon Daniel – 23rd<br />
Arthur Gooch – 23rd<br />
Aidan Kenny – 23rd<br />
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Sugar Ray Wright – 23rd<br />
Jack Andrews – 23rd<br />
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Reuben Williams – 23rd<br />
Samuel Benosiglio – 24th<br />
Michael Murphy – 24th<br />
Harry Price – 24th<br />
Aydin Tunc – 24th<br />
Billy Lundie – 25th<br />
William Miller – 25th<br />
Harry Myerson – 25th<br />
Charlie Norman – 25th<br />
Alice Hodges – 25th<br />
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Frankie Orsmond – 28th<br />
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KNOW YOUR<br />
HISTORY<br />
Which former QPR ace is this?<br />
YOUNG<br />
GUN<br />
Name this<br />
current Premier<br />
League star in his<br />
early days<br />
JUDE’S<br />
LOOKALIKE<br />
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Actor Jesse Eisenberg<br />
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Answers: Groundhopper: Deepdale (Preston North End), Know Your<br />
History: Clint Hill, Young Gun: Ben Foster<br />
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QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC QUE<br />
QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC<br />
FC QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS ERS FC
ENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC<br />
QUEENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS PARK RANGER<br />
DEFENDER<br />
MOSES<br />
ODUBAJO<br />
D.O.B: 28.07.1993<br />
NATIONALITY: ENGLISH<br />
EENS PARK RANGERS FC QUEENS PARK RANGERS
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|| MEMORY LANE||<br />
AS A SPORTS JOURNALIST WITH THE EALING GAZETTE,<br />
MIKE DONOVAN WAS A MAINSTAY OF THE LOFTUS ROAD<br />
PRESS BOX IN THE 1970S AND 1980S. IN EACH MATCHDAY<br />
PROGRAMME, HE LOOKS BACK ON THOSE UNFORGETTABLE<br />
DAYS OF COVERING QUEENS PARK RANGERS…<br />
GOALS. That’s what people<br />
react to most in football. They<br />
either shove your innermost<br />
feelings down a bottomless<br />
pit when the ball hits the<br />
net of your favourite team<br />
or send you up beyond the<br />
heavens when it bulges the<br />
opposition’s.<br />
So you can guess the<br />
emotional roller-coaster ride<br />
fans, players and, indeed,<br />
managers of <strong>Queens</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> and Newcastle<br />
United went on in an<br />
extraordinary 5-5 draw on at<br />
Loftus Road on Saturday 22nd<br />
September 1984, especially if<br />
you bear in mind the visitors<br />
led 4-0 at half-time.<br />
Glenn Roeder, the captain who<br />
had led <strong>Rangers</strong> to promotion<br />
to the top flight, had swapped<br />
the blue and white hoops for<br />
the Toon’s black and white<br />
stripes and recalled the<br />
encounter with a shake of the<br />
head and a wry smile.<br />
After all, it was one of THE<br />
great comebacks, one<br />
which left Newcastle players<br />
‘cowering in the showers’ as<br />
their manager Jack Charlton<br />
came storming down the<br />
corridor, ready to unload a few<br />
verbal volleys.<br />
Chris Waddle hit a hat-trick<br />
for the Toon and also laid on<br />
a goal for Neil McDonald as<br />
the teams headed for their<br />
interval cuppa.<br />
Roeder, who passed away<br />
last year, had scored when<br />
<strong>Rangers</strong> defeated Newcastle<br />
3-0 in their first ever victory<br />
on the artificial Omniturf,<br />
which had been laid down<br />
at Loftus Road in 1981.<br />
The visitors also lost their<br />
next game on the plastic<br />
surface without scoring,<br />
but it seemed they had<br />
finally got the hang of it this<br />
time, judging by the first 45<br />
minutes.<br />
But <strong>Rangers</strong> roared back<br />
with goals by Gary Bannister,<br />
Simon Stainrod and John<br />
Gregory before Waddle set<br />
up Kenny Wharton to make<br />
it 5-3.<br />
However, Steve Wicks reduced<br />
the home arrears within a<br />
minute and Gary Micklewhite<br />
secured <strong>Rangers</strong> a point in<br />
injury time.<br />
It was no surprise that<br />
Danny Baker, the comedian,<br />
presenter and writer,<br />
introduced the game in his<br />
Freaky Football video series<br />
in tongue-in-cheek fashion,<br />
saying: “Now bear in mind in<br />
those days <strong>Rangers</strong>’ plastic<br />
pitch gave off clouds of<br />
noxious, mind-expanding<br />
fumes, which contributed to<br />
what you are about to see.”<br />
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Roeder said: “Chris Waddle<br />
said to me at half-time, ‘You<br />
must be loving this’. I said, ‘Yes<br />
I’m enjoying this’, because,<br />
although I loved QPR and had<br />
a great time there, I wanted to<br />
win with a new shirt and a new<br />
badge.<br />
“At 4-0 all the Geordies –<br />
Newcastle were always well<br />
supported – in the crowd<br />
were happy. But I said to Chris,<br />
‘QPR can be lucky b****rds<br />
and only have to score and<br />
they’ll be racing’. That’s what<br />
happened, of course, but we<br />
should have had enough to<br />
win.<br />
“When we kicked off at 5-5 I<br />
said to the referee, ‘How long<br />
to go now?’ He went, ‘We’ll<br />
kick off and I’ll blow up’. I said,<br />
‘Thank f*** for that’, thinking<br />
‘we’re going to get beaten<br />
6-5 here, even though Chris<br />
Waddle had put on a stunning,<br />
virtuoso performance’.<br />
“I’ve never known any team<br />
to shoot down the tunnel<br />
and into the dressing room<br />
after the game so fast,<br />
quickly get their kit off and<br />
all hide behind each other.<br />
Charlton was coming down<br />
the f****** corridor with his<br />
‘pearl shotguns’. If he’d have<br />
had them he’d have used<br />
them on us. You never saw<br />
such a bunch of cowards, also<br />
hiding behind each other in<br />
the shower with the manager<br />
going absolutely apeshit.<br />
Apparently, the QPR chairman<br />
Jim Gregory, God bless him,<br />
was happy with 5-5 because<br />
he made loads of money from<br />
the running off of thousands<br />
of videos and selling them in<br />
the club shop.”<br />
QPR defender Warren Neill<br />
said to me: “It was bizarre,<br />
fantastic – one of the greatest<br />
comebacks of all time. The<br />
11,000 sounded like 100,000<br />
as we came back.”<br />
R’s boss Alan Mullery said: “We<br />
needed a miracle and we got<br />
it. The sort of game which is<br />
exciting for the fans but gives<br />
managers heart attacks.”<br />
Charlton, meanwhile, said: “It<br />
was a total embarrassment.”<br />
PS: <strong>Rangers</strong> defeated today’s<br />
opponents <strong>Hull</strong> <strong>City</strong> 4-1<br />
during their one-season<br />
return to the now razed White<br />
<strong>City</strong> Stadium in October 1962.<br />
Brian Bedford (3) and Mark<br />
Lazarus were on target for<br />
the hosts. It was the biggest<br />
home win and attendance (18,<br />
281) of that campaign for the<br />
Super Hoops.<br />
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2019-22<br />
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QPR SUPPORT LEVEL PLAYING FIELD’S<br />
‘WEEKS OF ACTION’ CAMPAIGN<br />
Disability charity Level Playing<br />
Field are celebrating their 18th<br />
‘Weeks of Action’ campaign<br />
from Saturday 26th February to<br />
Sunday 13th March.<br />
This aims to showcase the<br />
good work being done by clubs<br />
and organisations to improve<br />
accessibility and inclusion across<br />
all sports.<br />
The theme this year celebrates<br />
the return of fans after stadiums<br />
reopened following the<br />
suspension of live sport.<br />
To support the campaign, QPR are<br />
helping our disabled supporters to<br />
learn about Level Playing Field and<br />
understand what they do, their<br />
aims to improve accessibility and<br />
inclusion, and how they can assist<br />
disabled fans.<br />
Level Playing Field is a sports<br />
charity that acts as a campaigning<br />
and advisory organisation for<br />
disabled sports fans.<br />
Membership programme<br />
As a user led organisation, Level<br />
Playing Field’s members are<br />
always at the heart of what they<br />
do. Their shared passion for<br />
sport and equality drives them<br />
to influence long-term change<br />
and improve the spectator<br />
experience for all disabled fans.<br />
The Level Playing Field ‘fan’<br />
membership is free to join, and<br />
includes the following benefits:<br />
• Weekly ‘match day’ newsletter<br />
with general LPF updates.<br />
• Quarterly ‘fan’ specific<br />
exclusive newsletter.<br />
• Invites to take part in annual<br />
events such as Weeks of Action<br />
and regional/national forums.<br />
• Official membership certificate.<br />
• It’s free to become a member.<br />
Other benefits include:<br />
• Access to independent, expert<br />
advice and guidance on access<br />
and inclusion issues.<br />
• Opportunity to feedback on<br />
Access and Inclusion through<br />
LPF’s annual survey.<br />
• Opportunity to network<br />
with other disabled fans, fan<br />
groups and disability/sports<br />
organisations.<br />
To become a Level Playing<br />
Field member, contact ben@<br />
levelplayingfield.org.uk.<br />
Active Level Playing Field<br />
initiatives<br />
Level Playing Field run a range<br />
of initiatives for disabled sports<br />
fans, working to improve the<br />
matchday experience.<br />
The Level Playing Field podcast<br />
– A monthly podcast series with<br />
guests from across the sporting<br />
community.<br />
Have Your Say – We ask disabled<br />
fans for their feedback, whether<br />
positive or negative, from their<br />
experience at live sports events<br />
Talking Sport – During the<br />
pandemic we launched the Talking<br />
Sport initiative, where fans could<br />
chat to a member of the team in<br />
a bid to battle loneliness. After<br />
great success we continue to<br />
welcome fans who get in touch!<br />
To find out more about<br />
the above, contact liam@<br />
levelplayingfield.org.uk<br />
Level Playing Field’s work<br />
Level Playing Field work behind<br />
the scenes with clubs to help<br />
improve accessibility at sports<br />
venues and ensure disabled<br />
supporters can experience the<br />
best possible matchday. Common<br />
areas of improvement are sensory<br />
rooms, accessible toilets, audio<br />
commentary, and accessible club<br />
shops and food concession stands<br />
that include drop-down counters.<br />
Areas of improvement can be<br />
highlighted by clubs through Level<br />
Playing Field services such as:<br />
• Access Audits by NRAC<br />
(National Register of Access<br />
Consultants)<br />
• Club staff training<br />
• Expert advice and guidance<br />
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QPR FC<br />
WOMEN<br />
QPR FC WOMEN 1<br />
CAMBRIDGE CITY 1<br />
Sue Kumaning’s injury-time strike ensured QPR<br />
FC Women shared the points at the Powerday<br />
Stadium and stretched their unbeaten run to<br />
five games.<br />
Substitute Kumaning fired her 20-yard effort<br />
through a crowd of <strong>City</strong> players and in off the<br />
post in the third minute of added time to cancel<br />
out Grace Stanley’s opener for the visitors.<br />
Cambridge applied early pressure and it<br />
needed Katie McLean’s terrific tip-over save<br />
from Stanley to keep the scores level.<br />
Skipper Vicky Grieve then cleared off the line,<br />
but the troublesome Stanley eventually broke<br />
the deadlock midway through the first half –<br />
and <strong>Rangers</strong> were briefly reduced to 10 when<br />
Demi Edwards was ordered to the sinbin with<br />
an orange card.<br />
Steve Quashie’s side stepped up the attack in<br />
the second half and Ellie Searle’s effort was<br />
tipped onto the post at close range.<br />
Kumaning rifled a chance over the bar, while<br />
Brogan Moore also went close, clipping the<br />
woodwork from 25 yards as the ball sailed to<br />
safety.<br />
But <strong>Rangers</strong>’ persistence eventually paid off<br />
when Kumaning grabbed her late equaliser to<br />
secure a point.<br />
QPR: McLean, Petit, Searle, Blodgett, Grieve,<br />
Jordinson (Carolan 79), Akerman (Kumaning<br />
51), Hennessey (Nygaard-Parsons 70), Edwards<br />
(Curr 77), Moore, Hall.<br />
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AILISH CAROLAN<br />
ALICE CURR<br />
BROGAN MOORE<br />
DEMI EDWARDS<br />
ELLEN WARDLAW<br />
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JO BLODGETT<br />
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PUTTING THE SPARK<br />
INTO MATCHDAY<br />
PROGRAMMES...<br />
PROUD PROGRAMME<br />
PARTNERS OF<br />
QUEENS PARK<br />
RANGERS<br />
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M Mark WARBURTON<br />
SPONSORED BY:<br />
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# 1 Seny DIENG<br />
SPONSORED BY:<br />
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Apps: 26 Gls: 0<br />
YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 2 Osman KAKAY<br />
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YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 3 Lee WALLACE<br />
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YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 4 Rob DICKIE<br />
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Apps: 37 Gls: 4<br />
YC: 11 RC: 0<br />
# 5 Jordy DE WIJS<br />
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# #<br />
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YC: 4 RC: 0<br />
# 7 Stefan JOHANSEN<br />
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Apps: 27+2 Gls: 1<br />
YC: 8 RC: 0<br />
# 8 Luke AMOS<br />
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Apps: 6+13 Gls: 2<br />
YC: 2 RC: 0<br />
# 9 Lyndon DYKES<br />
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YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 10 Ilias CHAIR<br />
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YC: 3 RC: 0<br />
# 11 Charlie AUSTIN<br />
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YC: 2 RC: 0<br />
# 12 Dominic BALL<br />
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YC: 3 RC: 0<br />
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# 14 George THOMAS<br />
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YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
# 15 Sam FIELD<br />
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YC: 5 RC: 0<br />
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Marco 16 RAMKILDE Sam McCALLUM 27<br />
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YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 17 Andre DOZZELL<br />
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Apps: 14+8 Gls: 0<br />
YC: 6 RC: 1<br />
# 19 Andre GRAY<br />
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Apps: 10+8 Gls: 5<br />
YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 20 Jimmy DUNNE<br />
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YC: 4 RC: 0<br />
# 21 Chris WILLOCK<br />
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YC: 1 RC: 0<br />
# 22 Moses ODUBAJO<br />
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Apps: 17+6 Gls: 0<br />
YC: 4 RC: 1<br />
# 24 Charlie OWENS<br />
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YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
# 25 David MARSHALL<br />
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Apps: 7 Gls: 0<br />
YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
# 27 Jeff HENDRICK<br />
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YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
# 28 Dion SANDERSON<br />
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YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
# 33 Dillon BARNES<br />
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YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
# 34 Stephen DUKE-McKENNA<br />
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# 37 Albert ADOMAH<br />
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YC: 0 RC: 0<br />
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# 32 Joe WALSH<br />
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DATE KO OPPOSITION SCORE POS. STARTING XI<br />
AUGUST<br />
Sat 7 15:00 Millwall D 1-1 15 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE 1 DE WIJS BARBET WALLACE<br />
Wed 11 19:45 Leyton Orient CC R1 D 1-1* N/A ARCHER KAKAY DICKIE 1 DUNNE BARBET WALLACE<br />
Sat 14 15:00 <strong>Hull</strong> <strong>City</strong> W 3-0 2 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE 1 DE WIJS BARBET WALLACE<br />
Wed 18 19:45 Middlesbrough W 3-2† 3 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET WALLACE<br />
Sat 21 12:30 Barnsley D 2-2 3 DIENG THOMAS DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET KAKAY<br />
Tue 24 19:45 Oxford United CC R2 W 2-0† N/A ARCHER ODUBAJO KAKAY DICKIE 1 DUNNE McCALLUM<br />
Sat 28 15:00 Coventry <strong>City</strong> W 2-0 3 DIENG BALL ODUBAJO DICKIE DE WIJS McCALLUM<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
Sat 11 15:00 Reading D 3-3 4 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET McCALLUM<br />
Tue 14 19:45 AFC Bournemouth L 1-2 6 DIENG KAKAY DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET McCALLUM 1<br />
Sat 18 15:00 Bristol <strong>City</strong> L 1-2 8 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET McCALLUM 1<br />
Tue 21 19:45 Everton CC R3 D 2-2** N/A DIENG ADOMAH DICKIE DUNNE BARBET McCALLUM<br />
Fri 24 20:00 West Bromwich Albion L 1-2 8 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DE WIJS DUNNE BARBET<br />
Tue 28 19:45 Birmingham <strong>City</strong> W 2-0 8 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DUNNE BARBET BALL<br />
OCTOBER<br />
Sat 2 15:00 Preston North End W 3-2 6 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DUNNE 1 BARBET BALL<br />
Sat 16 12:30 Fulham L 1-4 8 DIENG ODUBAJO DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET McCALLUM<br />
Tue 19 19:45 Blackburn Rovers W 1-0 5 DIENG ADOMAH DICKIE DUNNE BARBET McCALLUM<br />
Sat 23 15:00 Peterborough United L 1-2 7 DIENG ADOMAH DICKIE DUNNE BARBET McCALLUM<br />
Tue 26 19:45 Sunderland CC R4 D 0-0*** N/A DIENG KAKAY DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET ODUBAJO<br />
Fri 29 19:45 Nottingham Forest D 1-1 5 DIENG DICKIE DE WIJS BARBET ADOMAH JOHANSEN<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
Wed 3 19:45 Cardiff <strong>City</strong> W 1-0 5 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH DOZZELL<br />
Sat 6 17:30 Blackpool D 1-1 6 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH AMOS<br />
Fri 19 19:45 Luton Town W 2-0 6 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH DOZZELL<br />
Wed 24 19:45 Huddersfield Town W 1-0 4 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH DOZZELL<br />
Mon 29 19:45 Derby County W 2-1 3 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH JOHANSEN<br />
DECEMBER<br />
Sun 5 14:30 Stoke <strong>City</strong> L 0-2 5 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET KAKAY JOHANSEN<br />
Mon 27 17:30 AFC Bournemouth L 0-1 7 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET KAKAY FIELD<br />
Thur 30 19:45 Bristol <strong>City</strong> W 2-1 7 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET 1 ADOMAH FIELD<br />
JANUARY<br />
Sun 2 14:00 Birmingham <strong>City</strong> W 2-1 5 DIENG DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH 1 FIELD<br />
Sat 8 15:00 Rotherham FAC R3 W 1-1 **** N/A ARCHER DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH BALL<br />
Sat 15 15:00 West Bromwich Albion W 1-0 4 MARSHALL DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH JOHANSEN<br />
Sat 22 15:00 Coventry <strong>City</strong> W 2-1 4 MARSHALL DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH 1 DOZZELL<br />
Tue 25 19:45 Swansea <strong>City</strong> D 0-0 4 MARSHALL BARBET DUNNE DICKIE WALLACE FIELD<br />
Sat 29 15:00 Reading W 4-0 4 MARSHALL DICKIE DUNNE 1 BARBET ADOMAH FIELD<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
Sat 5 15:00 Peterborough United FAC R4 L 0-2 N/A MARSHALL SANDERSON DICKIE DUNNE ODUBAJO AMOS<br />
Wed 9 19:45 Middlesbrough D 2-2 4 MARSHALL DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH JOHANSEN<br />
Sat 12 15:00 Barnsley L 0-1 4 MARSHALL DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ODUBAJO HENDRICK<br />
Tue 15 19:45 Millwall L 0-2 4 MARSHALL DICKIE DUNNE BARBET ADOMAH JOHANSEN<br />
Sat 19 15:00 <strong>Hull</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
Wed 23 19:45 Blackpool<br />
Sat 26 12:30 Blackburn Rovers<br />
MARCH<br />
Sat 5 15:00 Cardiff <strong>City</strong><br />
Sun 13 12:00 Luton Town<br />
Wed 16 19:45 Nottingham Forest<br />
Sun 20 12:30 Peterborough United<br />
APRIL<br />
Sat 2 15:00 Fulham<br />
Tue 5 19:45 Sheffield United<br />
Sat 9 15:00 Preston North End<br />
Fri 15 15:00 Huddersfield Town<br />
Mon 18 15:00 Derby County<br />
Sat 23 15:00 Stoke <strong>City</strong><br />
Sat 30 15:00 Sheffield United<br />
MAY<br />
Sat 7 12:30 Swansea <strong>City</strong><br />
All fixtures subject to change. *Won 5-3 on penalties **Won 8-7 on penalties ***Lost 1-3 on penalties **** Won 8-7 on penalties<br />
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KEY: GOALSCORER 1 FIRST SUB SECOND SUB THIRD SUB FOURTH SUB FIFTH SUB † OWN GOAL YELLOW CARD RED CARD<br />
SUBSTITUTES<br />
REFEREEE<br />
JOHANSEN BALL WILLOCK AUSTIN DYKES ARCHER, KAKAY, THOMAS, DOZZELL, DUNNE, BETTACHE, ADOMAH LANGFORD<br />
DOZZELL BETTCAHE ADOMAH THOMAS DYKES WALSH, BALL, KELMAN, WILLOCK, ODUBAJO , MASTERSON, DUKE-McKENNA HICKS<br />
JOHANSEN BALL CHAIR WILLOCK 1 DYKES 1 ARCHER, KAKAY, THOMAS, DOZZELL, KELMAN, DUNNE, ADOMAH DONOHUE<br />
JOHANSEN BALL CHAIR DYKES 1 WILLOCK 1 ARCHER, KAKAY, AUSTIN, THOMAS, DOZZELL, DUNNE, ADOMAH MARTIN<br />
JOHANSEN DOZZELL WILLOCK CHAIR 1 AUSTIN 1 ARCHER, BALL, KELMAN, DUNNE, DUKE-McKENNA, ADOMAH WARD<br />
THOMAS DOZZELL WILLOCK CHAIR KELMAN WALSH, DUKE-McKENNA, ALFA, GUBBINS NIELD<br />
JOHANSEN BARBET 1 WILLOCK CHAIR AUSTIN ARCHER, KAKAY, DYKES 1, THOMAS, DOZZELL, DUNNE, ADOMAH WHITESTONE<br />
BALL 1 JOHANSEN 1 CHAIR AUSTIN WILLOCK ARCHER, KAKAY, THOMAS, DOZZELL, GRAY 1, DUNNE, ADOMAH ELTRINGHAM<br />
BALL JOHANSEN CHAIR DYKES WILLOCK ARCHER, AMOS, THOMAS, DOZZELL, GRAY, DUNNE, ADOMAH STROUD<br />
JOHANSEN CHAIR WILLOCK GRAY DYKES WALSH, AUSTIN, BALL , THOMAS, DOZZELL, DUNNE, ADOMAH DOUGHTY<br />
DOZZELL BALL CHAIR WILLOCK AUSTIN 2 WALSH, KAKAY, AMOS, DYKES, THOMAS, GRAY, DUKE-McKENNA FRIEND<br />
BALL JOHANSEN CHAIR WILLOCK GRAY 1 WALSH, KAKAY , DYKES, AUSTIN, THOMAS, DOZZELL, ADOMAH LININGTON<br />
CHAIR 2 DOZZELL WILLOCK AUSTIN DYKES WALSH, KAKAY, DE WIJS, AMOS, THOMAS, GRAY, ADOMAH SALISBURY<br />
JOHANSEN WILLOCK CHAIR 1 DYKES 1 GRAY ARCHER, KAKAY, DE WIJS, AMOS , AUSTIN, DOZZELL, ADOMAH SIMPSON<br />
BALL JOHANSEN CHAIR WILLOCK AUSTIN ARCHER, AMOS, DYKES 1, GRAY, DUNNE , DUKE-McKENNA, ADOMAH LANGFORD<br />
BALL DOZZELL WILLOCK CHAIR 1 DYKES ARCHER, KAKAY, DE WIJS, AMOS , AUSTIN, GRAY, DUKE-McKENNA WEBB<br />
BALL JOHANSEN CHAIR 1 DYKES AUSTIN ARCHER, KAKAY, DE WIJS, AMOS, DOZZELL, GRAY, WILLOCK GILLETT<br />
AMOS CHAIR WILLOCK DYKES GRAY ARCHER, JOHANSEN, AUSTIN, BALL, DOZZELL, DUNNE, DUKE-McKENNA, ADOMAH, DREWE STROUD<br />
DOZZELL MCCALLUM CHAIR WILLOCK DYKES 1 ARCHER, DUNNE, ODUBAJO, AMOS, AUSTIN, BALL, GRAY DAVIES<br />
JOHANSEN ODUBAJO CHAIR DYKES GRAY 1 ARCHER, AUSTIN, BALL, AMOS, KAKAY, THOMAS, DUKE-MCKENNA WOOLMER<br />
DOZZELL ODUBAJO CHAIR WILLOCK DYKES ARCHER, AUSTIN, BALL , KAKAY, THOMAS, FIELD, DUKE-MCKENNA SMITH<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE WILLOCK 1 AUSTIN 1 CHAIR ARCHER, FIELD, KAKAY, AMOS, BALL, THOMAS, DUKE-MCKENNA DONOHUE<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE CHAIR AUSTIN WILLOCK ARCHER, AMOS 1, FIELD, BALL, KAKAY, THOMAS, DUKE-MCKENNA SCOTT<br />
DOZZELL WALLACE CHAIR AUSTIN WILLOCK 1 ARCHER, ODUBAJO, GRAY 1 , FIELD, AMOS, BALL, THOMAS SIMPSON<br />
DOZZELL FIELD CHAIR WILLOCK AUSTIN ARCHER, AMOS, GRAY, THOMAS, BALL, DUKE-MCKENNA HARRINGTON<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE CHAIR WILLOCK DYKES ARCHER, DOZZELL , ADOMAH, GRAY, AMOS, AUSTIN, THOMAS, STROUD<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE AMOS AUSTIN 1 WILLOCK ARCHER, DYKES , THOMAS, BALL, KAKAY DAVIES<br />
WILLOCK 1 AMOS WALLACE GRAY DYKES ARCHER, JOHANSEN, AUSTIN, KAKAY, BALL, THOMAS DONOHUE<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE THOMAS AUSTIN GRAY DUKE-MCKENNA, ODUBAJO #, DYKES 1, AMOS, DOZZELL, DREWE, FIELD, WALSH, ARMSTRONG SALISBURY<br />
FIELD WALLACE WILLOCK DYKES GRAY WALSH, AUSTIN 1, BALL, AMOS, THOMAS, DOZZELL, ODUBAJO HOOPER<br />
FIELD WALLACE WILLOCK DYKES GRAY 1 WALSH, AMOS, THOMAS, AUSTIN, DE WIJS, BALL, ODUBAJO WOOLMER<br />
ODUBAJO AMOS JOHANSEN WILLOCK AUSTIN WALSH, ADOMAH, DYKES, THOMAS, DE WIJS, BALL, DOZZELL DAVIES<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE AMOS 1 WILLOCK DYKES 2 WALSH, THOMAS, SANDERSON, AUSTIN, BALL, DOZZELL, ODUBAJO SIMPSON<br />
JOHANSEN WALLACE CHAIR AUSTIN DYKES WALSH, HENDRICK, ADOMAH, DOZZELL , THOMAS, KAKAY, BARBET, BALL WEBB<br />
FIELD WALLACE CHAIR 1 WILLOCK 1 DYKES MAHONEY, HENDRICK, GRAY, ODUBAJO, AMOS, AUSTIN, SANDERSON WHITESTONE<br />
FIELD WALLACE CHAIR GRAY DYKES DIENG, JOHANSEN, AUSTIN, ADOMAH, AMOS, THOMAS, SANDERSON SALISBURY<br />
FIELD WALLACE CHAIR WILLOCK DYKES DIENG, ODUBAJO, AMOS, AUSTIN, GRAY, HENDRICK, SANDERSON LININGTON<br />
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CHAMP STAT PACK<br />
LEAGUE TABLE<br />
2o21 /22<br />
# CLUB P W D L F A +/- PTS<br />
1 FULHAM 30 19 7 4 78 26 52 64<br />
2 AFC BOURNEMOUTH 30 17 7 6 49 26 23 58<br />
3 BLACKBURN ROVERS 32 15 9 8 45 33 12 54<br />
4 QUEENS PARK RANGERS 31 15 7 9 46 36 10 52<br />
5 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 32 13 11 8 40 34 6 50<br />
6 MIDDLESBROUGH 30 14 7 9 38 39 9 49<br />
7 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 31 13 8 10 43 33 10 47<br />
8 SHEFFIELD UNITED 30 13 8 9 39 33 6 47<br />
9 WEST BROMWICH ALBION 31 12 10 9 34 26 8 46<br />
10 LUTON TOWN 30 12 9 9 41 36 5 45<br />
11 PRESTON NORTH END 32 11 12 9 35 35 0 45<br />
12 COVENTRY CITY 30 12 8 10 39 36 3 44<br />
13 STOKE CITY 30 12 7 11 38 32 6 43<br />
14 MILLWALL 31 11 10 10 33 33 0 43<br />
15 BLACKPOOL 31 11 8 12 34 37 -3 41<br />
16 SWANSEA CITY 30 10 7 15 32 39 -7 38<br />
17 BRISTOL CITY 32 10 7 15 42 58 -16 37<br />
18 BIRMINGHAM CITY 32 9 9 14 37 49 -12 36<br />
19 CARDIFF CITY 31 10 5 16 38 50 -12 35<br />
20 HULL CITY 32 9 6 17 26 36 -10 35<br />
21 READING 30 8 4 18 36 60 -24 22<br />
22 PETERBOROUGH UNITED 29 5 5 19 23 60 -37 22<br />
23 DERBY COUNTY 31 9 12 10 32 35 -3 18<br />
24 BARNSLEY 30 3 8 19 19 45 -26 17<br />
LAST UPDATED: 15.02.2022<br />
TONIGHT'S<br />
Fixtures<br />
KICK-OFF 3PM UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE<br />
PP<br />
VS<br />
(12:30)<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
VS<br />
HOOPS<br />
TOP FIVE<br />
Goalscorers<br />
ALEKSANDAR MITROVIC<br />
FULHAM 31<br />
BEN BRERETON DIAZ<br />
BLACKBURN ROVERS 20<br />
DOMINIC SOLANKE<br />
AFC BOURNEMOUTH 19<br />
ANDREAS WEIMANN<br />
BRISTOL CITY 15<br />
LEWIS GRABBAN<br />
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 12<br />
TOP FIVE<br />
Assists<br />
JOHN SWIFT<br />
READING 11<br />
HARRY WILSON<br />
FULHAM 10<br />
CHRIS WILLOCK<br />
QUEENS PARK RANGERS 10<br />
RYAN GILES<br />
CARDIFF CITY 9<br />
CALLUM ROBINSON<br />
WEST BROMWICH ALBION 8<br />
TOP FIVE<br />
Clean Sheets<br />
LEE NICHOLLS<br />
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 13<br />
SAM JOHNSTONE<br />
WEST BROMWICH ALBION 12<br />
MARK TRAVERS<br />
AFC BOURNEMOUTH 12<br />
THOMAS KAMINSKI<br />
BLACKBURN ROVERS 11<br />
JOE LUMLEY<br />
MIDDLESBROUGH 10<br />
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Columnist<br />
THE JOURNALIST AND BROADCASTER PENS HIS<br />
LATEST COLUMN…<br />
I<br />
’ve been home for about an hour since<br />
the 2-0 defeat at Millwall, and as<br />
predicted, there has been negativity on social<br />
media after the result.<br />
We were poor on the night, and Mark<br />
Warburton’s post-match comments reflected<br />
that. If this result, on the back of a bad defeat at<br />
Barnsley, represents a blip – then I’d rather have<br />
it in mid-February than at the end of April.<br />
I remember Neil Warnock telling me during our<br />
2010/11 promotion season that a 2-0 midweek<br />
defeat at Millwall had the boardroom panicking<br />
despite the team occupying a healthy lead at the<br />
top of the Championship.<br />
Back then, we recovered immediately with a win<br />
over Crystal Palace – we must do that today<br />
against <strong>Hull</strong>.<br />
There are 15 games left and, when any fan<br />
evaluates the table and remaining fixtures, you<br />
assume the teams around you will win all their<br />
remaining games.<br />
That, of course, won’t happen. For now, I’d urge us<br />
all to stick together and just see what happens.<br />
I invited my former Sky colleague Dean Spencer<br />
to The Den, where we bumped into Marc<br />
Bircham. He was brought in for a Q&A in one of<br />
the hospitality lounges and he was good value as<br />
always. I’ve told him in no uncertain terms that<br />
he needs to stay away from QPR games for a<br />
while, as he’s proving a very unlucky presence.<br />
I also chatted briefly to our former chairman<br />
Nick Blackburn. Like Marc, he has some excellent<br />
stories from his life in football.<br />
His time at QPR largely pre-dated my period<br />
covering the club, but we said we’d keep in touch.<br />
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