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I dreaded this day, I can see the daft sod now nutmegging some poor sod on a muddy pitch, I stood In the loft and could smell the mud from the pitch and I can smell It again now, he was us he was working class and he belonged to us. We'd be struggling on the pitch and then 25--30 seconds of magic and he'd done It again only gone and scored.
I'm looking at his signed picture now hanging on the wall behind me.
Look out God, Stan Is coming up there now.
Thanks Stan, thanks for the memories....................
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Started supporting QPR in '77 and never got to see him playing but watched all the reels over the years and what a talent, player, maverick. They don't make footballers like him anymore which is such a shame. A life well lived. RIP Stan.
Stan was the best player in the world in the late 70s so much so I proudly wore my QPR kit to our silver Jubilee street party fancy dress competition and when asked who have u come as my reply was a simple…Stan Bowles. RIP Rangers legend.
Best player I have ever watched play, a maverick and a bit of a rogue but without doubt a true QPR legend. Totally loved the man and thank you Stan for all those wonderful memories. RIP.
Can I just tell a little story. At the player of the year party in 2003, at some point after all the dinner and speeches, I went to the toilet for a slash. As I was washing my hands, the great man walked in. It was just us two there, so I thought to myself that I can’t let this opportunity pass. So as Stan was having a slash, I said to him that he was my first hero at QPR. He was really chatty back, and we started talking. He washed his hands, and we carried on talking.
Anyway, we stayed talking for about 20 minutes in the toilet while others were coming in and out having a slash. Others talked to him, but he genuinely wanted to finish our conversation. We left the toilet together, chatted for another few minutes, then went our separate ways.
When I got back to our group, my missus asked me where I’d been all this time. I said I’d been chatting to Stan Bowles in the bog, and I couldn’t get rid of him :-)).
Like many others, I had no. 10 on my back when I first played for my school team because of Stan. If I'm being honest, not only has my schoolboy hero passed today but a little bit of me has gone to.
As a kid I used to pretend I was Kevin Keegan but as my dad supported QPR, he said I'd be better off being Stan Bowles and that was the start of this disfunctional relationship.
Every now and then I'm asked by people of a certain age who I support and when I say QPR they say "Ah yes, Stan Bowles!".
Me too so never saw him play live but Stan was my introduction to football via the Big Match on ITV. He’s the main reason that I am and ever will be a QPR fan.
Stan Bowles is the embodiment of QPR, what he was, we shall always be. The maverick 10, rebel soul.
Ah Stanley my friend on the football field and in the pubs of Ealing and Brentford. I’m one of the loads of QPR that chatted to Stan in and out of the The Plough, Northfields and the Beehive, Brentford and the Youngs Coach & Horse down the road. To Stan I was one of the faces that he recognised and he always spoke to as me as a friend, me and a few hundred others 😀. I’m cracking up
Sat in the SAR stand today with my 15 year old, directly opposite the stand formally known as the Ellerslie road but now proudly The Stanley Bowles stand , neither of us having seen Stan play but in that moment appreciating what he means to the club. We had a little chat about Stan. He's gone but will never be forgotten. RIP Stan Bowles
Like many on here he is the image of QPR that hooked me as a youngster - even from opposite side of the world. Brilliant player & unique character . Very sad news for morning here but also smiling at memories of him…
Really sad news and I guess we'd all been fearing this day for some time.
There is a pantheon at Queens Park Rangers and Stan Bowles stands at the very pinnacle of it. The greatest QPR player of all time.
You can probably tell from my LFW name that I just missed out on Stan's (and QPR's) golden years. But in the period of 1977-79 he was still unquestionably the hero of my youth. The Main Man and legend to me and all around me. I recall him scoring a winning goal against Liverpool in 1977 (along with Leighton James iirc). He starred & dazzled in the mudbath of a 6-1 hammering of West Ham in the Cup. I loved his all-too-brief partnership with Tony Currie too in 1979.
So many memories. RIP Stan and Best Wishes to all the Bowles family.
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