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Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet 13:48 - Sep 27 with 9227 views

Look, you might all know about this; but I drove past it again today and I think @QPR renaming their entire stadium in honour of a 15 Year old London kid who died in a knife attack is pretty righteous and doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.
— Dara Ó Briain (@daraobriain) September 26, 2020

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:11 - Sep 27 with 6879 views

Boston

Does he live locally then?

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Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:16 - Sep 27 with 6856 views

Paddyhoops

I think he lives in Fulham.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:18 - Sep 27 with 6841 views

Dorse

No doubt Sky reported it as: 'Irish Immigrant Shames QPR Lack Of Diversity In Stadium Naming Rights'

'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 15:38 - Sep 27 with 6677 views

PlanetHonneywood

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:18 - Sep 27 by Dorse
No doubt Sky reported it as: 'Irish Immigrant Shames QPR Lack Of Diversity In Stadium Naming Rights'

Don’t forget to add ‘IRA sympathiser and suspected nonce‘ at the start and ‘with six friends’ at the end.

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Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 22:07 - Sep 27 with 6206 views

ParkRoyalR

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:11 - Sep 27 by Boston
Does he live locally then?

Chiswick, gets into Connollys apparently, as do the Sky girls on occasion!

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:00 - Sep 27 with 6105 views

hamptonhillhoop

A lot of comments on this thread referenced the fact that 'righteous' Sky still refers to our ground as Loftus Road on soccer Saturday

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:04 - Sep 27 with 6096 views

daveB

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:00 - Sep 27 by hamptonhillhoop
A lot of comments on this thread referenced the fact that 'righteous' Sky still refers to our ground as Loftus Road on soccer Saturday

Thats not true to be honest, I've heard Jeff Stelling call it Kyan Prince Foundation stadium loads of times and the show had a big feature on it when the name changed last season

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:15 - Sep 27 with 6073 views

Northernr

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:04 - Sep 27 by daveB
Thats not true to be honest, I've heard Jeff Stelling call it Kyan Prince Foundation stadium loads of times and the show had a big feature on it when the name changed last season

Stelling has pointed that out himself. I think there's been justified criticism of Sky this week but lets not be dicks about it.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:19 - Sep 27 with 6039 views

NewBee

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:16 - Sep 27 by Paddyhoops
I think he lives in Fulham.

I know that until a couple of years ago (at least), he lived in Chiswick. Possibly still does?

Which is Bees territory.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:28 - Sep 27 with 6035 views

LythamR

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:19 - Sep 27 by NewBee
I know that until a couple of years ago (at least), he lived in Chiswick. Possibly still does? Which is Bees territory.

LOL nice try!

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 07:24 - Sep 28 with 5862 views

CamberleyR

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:04 - Sep 27 by daveB
Thats not true to be honest, I've heard Jeff Stelling call it Kyan Prince Foundation stadium loads of times and the show had a big feature on it when the name changed last season

He wasn't last weekend though when the goals were flying in at the Wimbledon game. Every time they went back to the reporter at the game it was "another goal at Loftus Road"...

Just saying...

[Post edited 28 Sep 2020 8:28]

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Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 11:03 - Sep 28 with 5567 views

ParkRoyalR

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:19 - Sep 27 by NewBee
I know that until a couple of years ago (at least), he lived in Chiswick. Possibly still does? Which is Bees territory.

Lived in and around that area for 40+ years, must know a similar number of lads my age and +/- 10 years and can only think of 2 who are Bees fans. A few Fulham, a fair few Chelsea + Arsenal but majority actually Rangers.

I really not sure there has ever been a district of London you could call Bees territory.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 11:10 - Sep 28 with 5542 views

Noelmc

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 11:03 - Sep 28 by ParkRoyalR
Lived in and around that area for 40+ years, must know a similar number of lads my age and +/- 10 years and can only think of 2 who are Bees fans. A few Fulham, a fair few Chelsea + Arsenal but majority actually Rangers. I really not sure there has ever been a district of London you could call Bees territory.

I know of one small area around a bus stop.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 11:11 - Sep 28 with 5539 views

slmrstid

Rather depressingly buried within the replies to that tweet is someone saying they don't like football but if they did QPR would be their team for refusing to kneel to a Marxist organisation

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 11:31 - Sep 28 with 5479 views

danehoop

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 11:11 - Sep 28 by slmrstid
Rather depressingly buried within the replies to that tweet is someone saying they don't like football but if they did QPR would be their team for refusing to kneel to a Marxist organisation

Must be a Chelsea fan.

Never knowingly understood

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 13:39 - Sep 28 with 5318 views

westberksr

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:11 - Sep 27 by Boston
Does he live locally then?

lives in Chiswick, down by the river

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 13:43 - Sep 28 with 5309 views

westberksr

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:19 - Sep 27 by NewBee
I know that until a couple of years ago (at least), he lived in Chiswick. Possibly still does? Which is Bees territory.

Hounslow surely?

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:20 - Sep 28 with 5219 views

NewBee

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 23:28 - Sep 27 by LythamR
LOL nice try!

Our new Stadium is only a couple of hundred yards from W4 - or "ChiswicK Borders" as Estate Agents would have it! lol

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:36 - Sep 28 with 5194 views

hamptonhillhoop

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 13:43 - Sep 28 by westberksr
Hounslow surely?

I used to live about a five minute walk from Griffin Park. My next door neighbour but one was also a Rangers season ticket holder. Small survey size, I'll grant you

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DWQPR

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 14:20 - Sep 28 by NewBee
Our new Stadium is only a couple of hundred yards from W4 - or "ChiswicK Borders" as Estate Agents would have it! lol

It’s not that far from casting a fishing line into the River Thames either but that doesn’t mean that the fish in there are North Kew Academicals fans either.

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BklynRanger

Maybe one of the Chiswick experts could answer a question that's been bamboozling me for some time:

There's a man who lives on Park Rd, on the left, who has 3 or 4 classic cars. Big library of leaver arch folders downstairs, home office upstairs. Last week he had a camera crew over to film. Anyway I think he may be famous in some way but have no idea who he is. Seems like a nice enough bloke. Sorry to be nosey, thanks in advance...

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 15:55 - Sep 28 with 5022 views

NewBee

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 15:00 - Sep 28 by DWQPR
It’s not that far from casting a fishing line into the River Thames either but that doesn’t mean that the fish in there are North Kew Academicals fans either.

You don't know how true you speak:

In 1889... ... Brentford was home to the Brentford Rowing Club and Boston Park Cricket Club. Attempts to form football and rugby clubs in the town fell by the wayside until a new recreation ground was opened on 17 October 1889. Seven days earlier, a meeting had taken place at the Oxford & Cambridge pub near Kew Bridge, during which it had been endeavoured between the rowing and cricket club members to decide how best to use the recreation ground...

On 16 October 1889, the rowing club members again met at the Oxford & Cambridge pub and it was voted that the new club would play association football and be named "Brentford Football Club".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brentford_F.C._(1889%E2%80%931954)

You could damn nearly cast a fishing line from the new stadium to the site of the (now demolished) Oxford & Cambridge Pub.

"Spiritual Home" i think they call it.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 18:01 - Sep 28 with 4863 views

eastside_r

Back on topic. I like Dara O’Briain, he comes across as a good bloke. I can recommend his book ‘Tickling the English’ which is an affectionate observational work. I believe he is married to an Englishwoman and has ‘English’ children.

He does a routine about when he first arrived in England in a bank in Hammersmith. He is definitely West London based but an Arsenal fan, I am not sure whether that allegiance pre-dates his moving to London.

I suspect he has a lot of Twitter followers and that he has enlightened a fair few who were not aware of the KPF history. Good on him.

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 18:17 - Sep 28 with 4830 views

BrianMcCarthy

Fair play Dara O’Briain - Kiyan Prince naming tweet on 18:01 - Sep 28 by eastside_r

I like him, too. He'd be high up on my longlist for dinner parties if I ever, well, did dinner parties.

He's funny, clever and seems decent.
Played minor (U-18) hurling for Wicklow, too. So a talented athlete as well.

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Noelmc

Seen him live on stage a couple of times. Sharp witted and very entertaining.

A lot of Irish people born in the 60s and 70s became Arsenal supporters due to the big Irish connection at the Club during that time. (Rice, O’Leary, Brady, Stapleton, Jennings).

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