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Don't think anyone's mentioned Bend It Like Beckham, but if I recall correctly the entire QPR Ladies team of the time appear as extras, both as Keira Knightley's team mates and as the opposition in the cup final, in which they are wearing the hoops.
(It ought to be a matter of some embarrassment to the club that the QPR Ladies were - as I understand it, and I'd be more than happy to be corrected - effectively binned off, despite a pretty impressive history that QPR should be proud of - and evolved into Hounslow Women, when the current side was reinvented.)
Posted at about 5 p.m. on the match Fred (qv), quoting someone who came up with an insanely optimistic scoreline prediction 17 hours previously which has bizarrely turned out right.
I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese , I really think so Koki Saito plays on the wing for Rangers Everyone around supports the Queens Park Rangers Everyone
That's why I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese , I really think so, think so I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese , I really think so
In hindsight, I'm not sure it wasn't worse than 95-6 - going down from the Premier League had felt like the inevitable result not only of the Ferdinand sale but of years of previous sales - sooner or later one was going to be irreplaceable.
At last we had a new owner willing to put up the cash, the kids who'd been just too young to keep us up would get their chance, it'd be the 80s all over again.
If we'd gone straight back up, as so many clubs have, and which arguably we should have, the whole history of the club would have been different.
Had to laugh - just went to google something on my phone, and Google's algorithm thought I'd want to read a story about QPR and Kolli.
Not a bad guess, Al, what's that you have for me? Football League News, you say? Sounds promising, I'll venture a click on that.
Shame it's an article from two days ago saying we should ship Kolli out in the transfer window in order to gamble (their word) on a 19 year old kid from Spurs who has hardly scored any goals.
In other news: Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr Epstein.
If we're honest, he's not had a great season before today, but I (and I think a lot of others here) were impressed with his first few appearances last year and have been hoping he'd make good since. So I don't think it's all hindsight from today's result, more a case of optimism (maybe blind faith!) paying off.
Despite a few negative comments today about Celar, there are also people on here who kept faith with him before the previous two games. I hope he comes back strong too, desperate timing for his injury which is going to leave us stretched.
With Frey impressing at the start of the season, potentially we might have a really decent forward line-up from Frey, Kollli, Celar, Chair, Dembele and Lloyd if we only we could get them all fit together and showing their best form consistently.
Unfortunately there's no guarantee that will happen with any of them, let alone all of them.
Just for once I'd like the close season to involve supplementing a basically functioning side, rather than finding that all of last season's successes are injured, gone into terminal decline, or been sold/gone back to their parent club.
Please please please don't let the season end with us all thinking Celar, Varane, Dembele, Saito, Madsen and Nardi have all finally settled and then come August its all offed up again.
Honestly, my guess is they just wanted an Elton John song that people could sing along to.
Great tunesmith that he might be, there aren't too many upbeat songs in his repertoire (apart from "Saturday Night's Alright," which as I've mentioned wouldn't go down well in official circles).
When you think about it, loads of the classic football club songs are ballads, often with a tinge of melancholy - You'll Never Walk Alone, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, I Can't Help Falling In Love With You without any obvious connection to the club in question.
Friday arvos at work recently I've been listening to re-runs of Soul Music on Radio 4 Extra.
Don't know if anyone else here ever listens - its a great show, goes into the technicalities of the music, how it came to be written, and also there's some personal stories about what it means to people. You can pretty much bloody guarantee that there will be someone who's lost someone associated with the thing. (The episode on The Last Post is a classic.)
Anyway, this week it was La Boheme, and I know bugger all about opera but I swear I was struggling to keep tears out of my eyes, as the sun was going down, up a sodding ladder trying to prune an apple tree.
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