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57yrs ago today. These men went to Wembley and became legends Ron Springett Tony Hazell Jim Langley Mike Keen Ron Hunt Frank Sibley Mark Lazarus Keith Sanderson Les Allen (King) Rodney Marsh Roger Morgan.
Led out by the brilliant Alec Stock.
A third division team 2 nil down at half time to a top division side with international players of experience. What an unforgetable day
Randomly I was walking my dog through the high street on 25th May 2014, hungover but feeling fantastic after Wembley the day before. I stopped to look at the advertising cards on the post office window and saw someone local selling a 1967 programme. I rung her up and walked round there and she wanted £15… it was immaculate and in a plastic sleeve.
Turned out her husband was an ex Chelsea keeper and it was given to him by a Qpr player from the game…. I don’t know who and he had died a while ago…
What a day that was it encapsulated everything that makes going to games exciting, losing at half time to a team two divisions higher in a Cup Final and the League Cup actually meant something in those days.
The feeling at half time that we could never come back, the absolutely brilliant solo goal from our Rodneeee running from the half way line, what a finish and the whole momentum of the game changed, there was only going to be one winner and Alec Stocks team were magnificent.
That season was the platform for the building of the Rs for future seasons, a team who you expected to win every league game and played such exhilarating attacking football, it was a joy for it to be my first season supporting the Hoops at the age of 12 and what has become my only addiction in life......
I lost mine on the way home, probably covered in the tears of joy I was still weeping hours later. It was the most emotional day of my young life back then. Villa park the following season was very similar... Fack we were good back then.
Went with my uncle who went to the celebratory dinner that night.
He gave me the menu card with all the player's signatures. My most treasured possession until my sister accidentally knocked a cup of tea all over it and ruined it.
Was there with my Dad and younger brother and looking back on it now it seems almost like a fairy tale with the extraordinary come back against a first division side, the sea of blue and white and the chant of Rodnee echoing around Wembley after that amazing second goal. We’d moved from South East to North West London six years before and hadn’t really found a team to support. At the beginning of October my last cricket fixture of the season was rained off and my Dad said to us something like “fancy coming to QPR this afternoon. It’s third division but we won’t have to push to get in and they’re playing well and scoring lots of goals.” They beat Grimsby 5-1 that day and scored four in the next three home games with Morgan, Lazarus Marsh and Allen tearing teams apart and that was it! Why would you want to watch anyone else?
I went to the semi final at Birmingham, I had just found my seat when Bridges scored for Brum but nobody was concerned we knew we would score, we run out winners 4-1 and we knew than that history was being made, a final at Wembley, although there was the second leg to play at the bush we knew we wouldn't be beaten at home. Goals everywhere in that team. It was a mere formality to dispatch Birmingham 3-1 for a 7-2 aggregate and the march to Wembley was on. I am sorry for all you youngsters who never got the chance to see them play they were special.
I have still got the progamme and my dad in his infinite wisdom kept the ticket,so i have that as well Entrance 55 West standing enclosure Price 5 shillings
Can remember standing in the Loft for the home leg against Birmingham in the second half when Marsh broke away clear running towards us to slot in the final goal right in front of us. When it hit the net everyone must have finished up about ten rows down from where they started off!
Spent the next day cutting out all the stories and photos from every newspaper and scrapbooking them for the future.
No idea where that went?!
Have memories of West Brom claiming their keeper was fouled by Hunt before Lazarus picked up the spillage.
I can just remember the stadium erupting and the players running back to the half way line! I think that was the start of my anxiety as to whether we can hold on..which i still have with any game we are winning by one goal!
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