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Reply | Millwall keepers sending off
at 20:52 3 Mar 2025
Great memories of that tournament. And amazingly, England put 3 past France in Bilbao in the opening match. Bryan Robson scored in literally first few seconds. I was on a school exchange trip visit during the first half of the tournament in Germany, sharing a room with my German pen pal with all his pics of Bayern Munich, Karl Heinz Ruminegge and Paul Breitner on his bedroom walls. He wasn't a happy bunny when Algeria beat Germany and their game against Austria was so obviously a fix. His dad was Czech and wasn't too happy when England beat them. The Brazil v Italy quarter final in Barcelona was also an incredible match. |
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Reply | Millwall keepers sending off
at 10:14 3 Mar 2025
Remember it well - what a cracking game it was. Felt so gutted for the French. That was a sparkling side that went onto win Euro 84.
Tournaments in Qatar and forthcoming ones in USA and Saudi a depressing reminder that international tournaments were so much better in those days. |
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Reply | Blades' cutting edge too sharp for Rangers' toil and chug - Report
at 10:09 3 Mar 2025
Great report - spot on. There was always that feeling towards the end that we might get lucky and squeeze a late equaliser. 2-2 would have been a phenomenal result and we weren't that far away from getting it.
Was a lovely day out in the early Spring sunshine, everyone seemed in a happy mood on Saturday. It's great not to have to worry too much about the table. I'm confident we'll be playing in the Championship again next season and I'm happy with that. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 10:53 1 Mar 2025
Starmer has come out after what happened yesterday and and has backed Zelensky. You might not like Starmer but he's doing what any decent British PM would do whether Tory or Labour, and that's doing what is best for this country. Unfortunately we are dependent on USA both economically and militarily. Macron is playing the same game too. Germany can afford to sit it out a bit as they are in between Chancellors but good to see that Merz looks like a realist here and has recognised that the transatlantic alliance is ending.
Big Euro Conference opens in next few days. All the European leaders, including Starmer will be backing Ukraine and attacking Putin. Putin is not as strong as it is often made out. Their economy is stuttering and probably couldn't cope with another year of this. Hundreds of billions of pounds of their assets are frozen in Europe. We could seize them and use them to help rearm Zelensky and ourselves. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 08:12 1 Mar 2025
I think Starmer is playing a blinder. We have to keep the orange buffoon onside for as long as possible. Our nuclear defences and Air Force is almost totally dependent on American supplies and support. We have to take what we can off them in the short term whilst arming ourselves to the teeth as quickly as possible.
The French and Germans know this too and with the Poles, Scandinavians and Dutch on board we have a strong backbone that should be able to resist anything Putin throws at us. Interesting to see how that traitorous little weasel Farage comes out of this. He's trump's number one little glove puppet and by extension, Putin's
too. A right little Quisling is Nigel.
In WW2 Moselyites like him were locked up. |
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Reply | QPR 1976 Scandy TV doc
at 20:21 19 Feb 2025
A real gem this. Interesting views from Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill. Both full of praise for us and our 'continental' brand of football. Frank McLintock and Gerry both very articulate. Incredible that Frank was working up to 4 nights a week in his pub whilst playing First Division football too! Mind you, also hard to believe that this is all now nearly half a century ago! |
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Reply | Min-Hyeok Yang
at 18:22 6 Feb 2025
There's an awful lot of evening games in the Championship and it takes its toll on wallet and energy. I was working all day Tuesday and had a 12 hour, full-on day lined up for Wednesday. Was at Millwall too on Saturday. Although I only live an hour away by public transport it was just too much of an ask on a cold night knowing I'd feel shattered at work all day the day after. Not all of us can work from
home.
The evening kick offs are even harder for people that live further away, hence the reason why our midweek games are more poorly attended. |
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Reply | A complete unknown
at 13:52 21 Jan 2025
Looking forward to seeing the film. I love Bob.
First saw him perform at Wembley Stadium in 1984. He opened with a rip roaring version of Highway 61 and he played a brilliant set. As others have pointed out in more recent decades his live performances have become more inward looking and pedestrian, but I've gone to see him out of loyalty. Last saw him at The Palladium in 2022
where beforehand queueing up to get in, I spoke to an original 'Bobcat' who attended the famous electric 'Judas' concert in 1965.
I didn't attend the recent Albert Hall shows but I think he's just sitting plonking on a piano now without a lot of acknowledgement of the audience. But fair play to him he's 83 after all. |
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Reply | best london derby qpr you've seen.....home and away.
at 10:39 4 Jan 2025
The Pizanti Cup Game in 88 was incredible. Was exhilarating. I was terrified getting out and finding myself surrounded by literally thousands of West Ham fans. The Cup was a big deal in those days and we'd just knocked them out. Remember stuffing my scarf deep into my coat pocket.
Sadly wasn't at the Chelsea 6-0 or the Arsenal Cup game.
My personal favourite was the 3-0 win over West Ham in September 1979. Bowles and Currie in the same team, as well as Roeder, Goddard and Allen. West Ham also a team packed full of household names and later that season went on to win the Cup. The last time that anyone from outside the top division did so. Still, we bossed them that day. 24,600 in the ground and everyone entertained from start to finish. Incredible that there's no footage of this game. [Post edited 4 Jan 10:43]
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Reply | Varane
at 18:51 2 Jan 2025
Agree. Thought he was excellent yesterday. Also the one he 'missed' /offside chance was a much harder finish than it looked. The ball was spinning quite madly when he hit it. Furthermore, he was instrumental in creating the move that led to the chance in the first place, with some deft footwork down in the corner. Got a great view of this from Hu Block. |
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Reply | home game vs Derby County
at 11:24 25 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas to you and the family. You'll have no problem at all getting tickets. They'll be on sale at least 2-3 weeks before the match and you'll be able to pretty much pick where you want to sit. Once the tickets go on sale, just log on to the website and you'll get a map of all the available seats. Hope it's a good game for you all. |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 23:24 21 Dec 2024
I'd love to know who your top 3 are Ted? |
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Reply | Was Prestons goal totally against the morals of the game
at 23:21 21 Dec 2024
Jeez I must be a very old guy steeped in the ethics of the Corinthian Casuals but I was half expecting PNE to let us walk in an equaliser from the re-start.
If I was a manager I would have instructed my team to do so.
Justice was done in the end.
Was one of the best games I've seen at Loftus Road in years. |
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Reply | End of an Era?
at 17:07 18 Dec 2024
Will check that out- a bit of Rangers Archaeology. Love Auf Wiedersehen Pet too. Remember being glued to the first series as a 15 year old c. 1983. Also noticed today that the Beeb have the Boys From the Blackstuff series from 1982 up on iplayer. |
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Reply | End of an Era?
at 14:53 18 Dec 2024
Indeed, truly the end of an era - been cutting through there from the tube station for decades - c. 1985? Or from whenever those places were built.
I did feel sorry for the residents. One game last season, some muppet was urinating in a corner down there and one of the local women came out and gave him a well deserved ear bashing and told him to go and p**s against his own front door. Quite rightly sent him packing - not nice on any level but particularly when there's kids who play out there. |
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Reply | QPR v Oxfoooooord match thread
at 14:53 11 Dec 2024
Same. Been 8 times this season. Haven't seen us win since Leeds game in April. On the other hand, sitting in exactly the same seat as I did for that famous victory. So, I reckon we'll edge a very tight contest. 2-1 to the R's. |
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Reply | Celarbrace drags QPR’s team, fans and striker back from the brink – Report
at 14:43 29 Nov 2024
Yes 3-0 defeat we were already down. Amazingly , think about 10,000 turned up. Only a couple of thousand remained for the 'lap of honour' and Holloway walked separately from the team. A bloke ran on the pitch to try to get at the players. As I was coming out of the Loft I saw him being ejected by stewards - he was pleading with them, ' I only wanted to let them know how I feel'.
The current team/squad is much better. Crouch was excellent that season but still just a kid and once Langers and Carlisle were ruled out through injury it was a spineless, awful team. Although I remember a rare and scrappy evening victory at Gillingham. One of Gerry's last games in charge I think? February 2001? |
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Reply | Celarbrace drags QPR’s team, fans and striker back from the brink – Report
at 13:44 29 Nov 2024
Yes, agree I was there - persuaded my wife to go too. A truly diabolical performance.
In those days I was fond of telling my wife and anyone who would listen that we were only parked in the second flight momentarily and the inevitable rise to Premiership glory and probable European football was just around the corner. Tony Scully I believed would be a crucial ingredient in this process.
This game was a real turning point in terms of expectations and 25 years later it hasn't shifted much.
As the half time whistle blew, a fellow R standing nearby and obviously as disgusted as we all were by our limp and pathetic performance, shouted out to our lot trooping off the pitch, 'That was f***ing rubbish Rangers!', to which his partner/wife immediately turned to him to admonish his bad language with a 'Nigel!' and a how dare you stare. Was the best part of the day.
And my car broke down on the way home. Bloody Montego. |
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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 12:52 22 Nov 2024
Great thread, agree modern 'elite' football is deadly dull.
Off to see Slough Town v Welling in NLS tomorrow. Proper Football. Plenty of heart, passion, pace and usually brilliant entertainment.
Rebels 7th in table (just inside play off zone) and currently 2nd top scorers in the division.
I can't face going to the R's tomorrow, I just can't. I'm sure I'm not the only one in need of some respite from the torture. However, will be regularly popping into the
downstairs bar checking the vidi-printer in the hope of a miracle... |
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