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On 19th Feb its 50 years since I started following Rangers. In my room upstairs I have a photo frame with programmes of the highlights of those 50 years 1) first game versus Hull 3-3 draw John Collins hat trick 2) 67 League cup final 3) Aston Villa away first promotion to the 1st division 4) Leeds home promotion to Premier League 5) Derby Championship Play off 5 }Nairn County away....Highlands pre season tour
50 years of hell and a few moments of heaven
So Ive decided to treat myself and come down for the Ipswich game, could be more hell.
Well done mate. It is amazing how people stick with their football club in spite of the crap they put us through. I have supported QPR for 40+ years and in that time they have won sweet FA (unless you count the second division or the Ibiza Cup, which I don't) and yet I still love my super hoops with all my heart and any passing mention of Stan, Les or Charlie still makes me smile.
Assuming all goes well I should reach the magical 50 in 2017, but at my age, I even think long and hard before gambling on buying fruit that hasn't quite ripened yet.
In my 40th year and complete glory hunter. Miss the halcyon days of winning the league and the cup at Wembley. Or maybe closer to reality, I miss a team that attacked with a bit of flair , had that special number 10 and upset the odds once in awhile !!
Always puzzles me when I see how others know the time and place they first attended a Rangers match, y'see I have very little recollection of when I started watching the R's. Difference I suppose might be between the watching and supporting properly, certainly think I was still open to following other sides even after I'd seen 'em a number of times (y'know, how it was, other kids dads take you and your mates to games ), remember myself and others going to a few matches, inc Wembley with a Mr Danetti who lived on our street, me being pally with his son. He wasn't QPR, just a soccer loving Italian bloke, then there was a Mr Hunt, who took me and his boy to White Hart Lane on a number of occasions in an unsuccessful attempt to have us follow Spurs, vaguely recall seeing Chelsea, Watford, Arsenal and god knows even Wembley FC. Did hang on to a lot of programmes though and have a few from the late 60's and of course the chant of RODNEY, RODNEY, running around my brain. Anyway, certainly on the School End for the building of the Ellerslie (71 /72) and was either let or just bunked in and sat for free in there the day it opened.
First game was seeing us lose at home to West Ham 3-0 in 1982.
In keeping with that promising opening, I've seen us lose the 82 cup final on TV, was at Wembley 1986 and the Cardiff play-off, and missed the Zamora game as was on holiday in the US.
48 years. (When I went to White City it was a strange experience standing in this empty, quiet, concrete crater, far removed from this team that were getting beaten by Bradford Park Avenue. I definitely didn't catch the bug until years later.)
58 years for me, started watching in 1958 when Jack Taylor was the manager. My Dad use to take me in the early 50's but I don't count that as all I used to do was run up and down the grassy banks that are now the South Africa Road stand.
My very first game at Loftus Road was in 1966 V Mansfield Town 0-0. The next game was about two weeks after against Peterborough Utd 0-0. I did eventually see some goals a few games later when Oxford Utd paid a visit. The 1967 League Cup winning side were all Heroes to me as well as future stars like Gerry Francis, Dave Thomas, Stan Bowles, Ray Wilkins and Don Masson to name just a few. Sadly though for me. Perhaps since the mid 90's, the old magic seems to have gone and now a day out for me at Loftus Road is not the same anymore. Even when we were in the old 3rd Div. back in the 60's, the whole day out had a wonderful feel about but I don't get that anymore. Maybe its my age ect, but I only go about 3 times a season now. I wish things were different but time will tell.
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