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RIP Super Ray Wilkins - as much our player as anyone else's but for once we should be united with the enemy in our grief. My dad always said that he played his best football for us. I took him along to see us play his beloved Liverpool one day and Super Ray blasted one in and he couldn't believe it was him.
The word 'legend' is completely overused nowadays and consequently has lost it's value. But in the traditional, old-fashioned sense of the word Ray Wilkins was a true legend. I was raised on the 70's team and all the passion an excitement of that. By the time the nineties came along, life had certainly got in the way of my full-time commitment to QPR. Consequently,it was only years later that I really appreciated just how good that team that contained Ray, was. Rest in Peace
Dreadfully sad news, I thought somehow he'd get through this and he'd be back in a few Months talking on the radio about football in his own special way, he was passionate about the game and worked hard at it but most of he could play the game on the pitch. I last saw him in a packed Crown & Sceptre sat a table with a glass of red wine willing to talk to anyone about the game he loved, I can't remember what I asked him but he did call me 'young Man' in response, I can still see him now sat there,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
RIP Ray you'll be sorely missed.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Scored some absolute belters and was the heartbeat of that great team RIP Super Ray
I've thought this before but saw it again in this video. Similarities between Wilkins and Manning. Obviously Manning nowhere near the levels Wilkins achieved with us yet but definite similarities.
One of my favourite ever QPR players. RIP Super Ray!
Being born in 84, he, Sir Les and Macca were my heroes growing up. I used to play in midfield as a kid and used to try and play like Ray (failing obviously, but copied his mannerisms at least!) My few interactions with him proved him to be a pure gentleman.
I so badly wish I knew then what I know now so I could have appreciated that team and players like Ray more than I did at the time.
Thanks for inspiring my younger self, Ray. And for making this club so easy to fall hopelessly in love with. May you rest in peace.
Ray was just a model footballer. He played at the very highest level but never lost his love of the game. I feel privileged to have watched him in the Hoops and was lucky enough to go to the game at Palace, where him and Reidy were simply awesome. Plus his lovely clipped shots into the net, that always seemed so measured . Thanks for the memories Super Ray.
RIP Ray. What a player he was, I always felt we got to see him at his creative peak. And a genuinely good, well mannered bloke.
spoke to him twice - once on the pitch during a protest, where he was understandably pissed off with the game being disrupted (And me having the corner flag), he asked what was going on, i told him my position and he didn't feel the need to wrestle me to the ground or any of that shit.
Second time, out in sweden (And Brian Mc will remember this), end of a pre-season tour where there had been a lack of unity between fans and players, Don Howe asked if one of the players would go out and chat to us, and it was Ray who volunteered and happily came out for a word.
If memory serves me, it was Ray among the players who joined us on the terraces at the City Ground in 1996 after we lost 3-0 in our final game, and our position in the inaugural Premier League.
One of my first footballing heroes as a kid growing up with that early 90s team. I thought every year would be as good as those years. We haven't had a classier player or classier human being involved at QPR since.
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