| 1973/74 Season 08:06 - Nov 20 with 3774 views | daveB |
To take minds off the current shitshow has anyone got any memories of the 1973/74 season, the cup run, top London club, George Bests Last game, playing against Rodney Marsh etc
I'm doing a video on the season as got loads of footage from that season but don't want to leave anything out |  | | |  |
| 1973/74 Season on 21:04 - Nov 21 with 844 views | charmr |
I got to thank Paul Mariner personally for that memorable night. |  | | |
| 1973/74 Season on 21:59 - Nov 21 with 785 views | qpr_1968 |
| 1973/74 Season on 10:02 - Nov 21 by terryb |
I've just looked at the DannyPaddoxthread & I'm pleased to see that I've not made any contradictions! I do need to add the Leeds away game to my list though.
As it was stated in that thread, it was an early kick off due to the three day week & power cuts. There was also petrol rationing in place & so the only way I could get there was on the "football special". This was the only time I used national rail to watch Rangers until I qualified for Senior Rail Dicsount!
So it was the Met Line to Baker Street & then across to Kings Cross(?). Of course, the times of the train hadn't been changed to take into account a different kick off time & (from memory) you had to be on the first laid on buses to reach the ground to see the start.
I managed to enter the ground in the wrong entrance & ended up as (possibly) the only Rangers fan not behind the goal. The Leeds people around me were not the self entitled supporters of today & were very generous of their praise for Rangers. They even stated that we deserved a draw! I didn't make the mistake of pointing out to them that it was only a draw because of the s**t referee who disallowed our "winning" goal for offside while the linesman flagged for a goal.
We had to wait an hour for the buses back to the station & most Rangers used the time to walk there. As I was separated from them & had no idea of what direction to go, I waited for the buses. Arriving at the station I went in the main entrance (wrong!) & bought the Leeds Pink 'un. I then noticed many a person stairing & pointing at me. Time to find the entrance reserved for us quickly!
The journey back was fine until we were close to our destination & then came to a stop for a long time. Memory tells me it was close to an hour, but that is probably an exaggeration. Back to Chesham & straight to the pub. Nobody believed me that I'd been to Leeds, even when I showed them the programme, but they couldn't argue with the Leeds classified paper! |
that leeds away game was my first following qpr on my own.
me and a mate, both of us 14 year olds went up on the special, buses to the ground, green line may i add.
stood on that little cowshed terrace behind the goal....few leeds herberts next to us.
had a rotten old pork pie at half time.
remember snow on the pitch, and the streets outside were covered in it, probably would have been called off today...
nearly missed the buses after the game, but a not so friendly copper loudly telling us where the buses were, got a few hairy looks from the leeds finest, but we were only kids.
probably about 3 to 400 hundred of us on that special.
the norwich home game during the week, 2 0clock ko due to strikes i think, had to bunk off school and ponce the 8 bob kids fare to get in...40p todays market, of me school mates.....lost 2-1 . | |
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| 1973/74 Season on 22:13 - Nov 21 with 743 views | qpr_1968 |
the leicester cup game i was actually 100 per cent certain we was gonna win that, until that joe waters turned up and popped in 2.
dont think he done anything in his career after that....thanks joe....
all the chelsea games, home and away i enjoyed, bit hairy at times, especially the away games where i got clumped and had a knife pulled on me....all part and partial of the 70's.
knew three of the girls that got injured when the kids pen crushed them at home to chelsea when we beat them 1-0 in the fa cup replay.
the long walk along seven sisters road to tottenham on boxing day, stood in the shelf, a good 0-0 draw that afternoon.
beating tottenham at home 3-1 in the league cup....first time i'd never seen tottenham taking the loft. amassed in the paddock,
beating sheff wed 8-2 in the league cup with our new score board going round like the clappers, then going out to plymouth at home 3-0.
those just off me head...plenty more.
never missed home game that season and only 6 away....not bad for a 14/15 year old on our jacks. | |
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| 1973/74 Season on 22:15 - Nov 21 with 738 views | daveB |
Joe Walters returned again when we played Grimsby in the FA Cup in 1982, thankfully we won that time | | | |
| 1973/74 Season on 00:39 - Nov 22 with 632 views | DannyPaddox |
| 1973/74 Season on 22:15 - Nov 21 by daveB |
Joe Walters returned again when we played Grimsby in the FA Cup in 1982, thankfully we won that time |
Some say old Joe still visits Loftus Road on occasion and if you listen carefully you can hear his laughter in the wind during the year’s solitary FA cup game. [Post edited 22 Nov 0:40]
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| 1973/74 Season on 00:58 - Nov 22 with 625 views | Boston |
| 1973/74 Season on 22:13 - Nov 21 by qpr_1968 |
the leicester cup game i was actually 100 per cent certain we was gonna win that, until that joe waters turned up and popped in 2.
dont think he done anything in his career after that....thanks joe....
all the chelsea games, home and away i enjoyed, bit hairy at times, especially the away games where i got clumped and had a knife pulled on me....all part and partial of the 70's.
knew three of the girls that got injured when the kids pen crushed them at home to chelsea when we beat them 1-0 in the fa cup replay.
the long walk along seven sisters road to tottenham on boxing day, stood in the shelf, a good 0-0 draw that afternoon.
beating tottenham at home 3-1 in the league cup....first time i'd never seen tottenham taking the loft. amassed in the paddock,
beating sheff wed 8-2 in the league cup with our new score board going round like the clappers, then going out to plymouth at home 3-0.
those just off me head...plenty more.
never missed home game that season and only 6 away....not bad for a 14/15 year old on our jacks. |
My Lord '68, we must have crossed paths a hundred times before our 16th birthdays. | |
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| 1973/74 Season on 09:42 - Nov 22 with 530 views | terryb |
| 1973/74 Season on 19:02 - Nov 21 by Boston |
That Leicester defeat, which still rankles many...we played in our red with white trim second kit. I do not know why, as City also played in their away shirt, a mainly white affair. It's so long ago I either can't remember, or maybe never knew the reason - over to you terryb. [Post edited 21 Nov 19:03]
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That was the rules of the competition at that time Boston.
If there was a colour clash both teams had to change. I don't know what they did if that was also a clash! I've no idea when they changed this.*
* Sorry Walnut, I've just seen your reply. [Post edited 22 Nov 9:45]
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| 1973/74 Season on 13:33 - Nov 22 with 450 views | CamberleyR |
| 1973/74 Season on 09:42 - Nov 22 by terryb |
That was the rules of the competition at that time Boston.
If there was a colour clash both teams had to change. I don't know what they did if that was also a clash! I've no idea when they changed this.*
* Sorry Walnut, I've just seen your reply. [Post edited 22 Nov 9:45]
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Presumably that was the reason both us and Spurs wore change kits in the '82 final? |  |
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| 1973/74 Season on 16:49 - Nov 22 with 394 views | qpr_1968 |
| 1973/74 Season on 00:58 - Nov 22 by Boston |
My Lord '68, we must have crossed paths a hundred times before our 16th birthdays. |
i'd say so.....
the same old faces at away games in the escorts and the regular faces where we made our independant travel to our favourite grounds outside london, like ipswich, norwich, derby, coventry and leicester.
the big away games at the likes of tottenham, chelsea, arsenal and west ham you just looked for the main faces and aimed for them, stand with them and sometimes keep your mouth shut....it was hard to stay quiet in the north bank west ham, when we scored in an fa cup game mid 70's, 4 of us, but were left alone, we lost that game 2-1....ahem.
big gary and VS, who both still go were handy have with you in them lawless days. | |
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| 1973/74 Season on 17:27 - Nov 22 with 377 views | terryb |
| 1973/74 Season on 13:33 - Nov 22 by CamberleyR |
Presumably that was the reason both us and Spurs wore change kits in the '82 final? |
It certainly was Camberley. | | | |
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