Connections, cup upsets, and Campbell-Ryce torment - History Tuesday, 10th Aug 2021 20:34 by Clive Whittingham QPR are looking to avoid being dumped out of the League Cup first round for a third time in recent memory by Leyton Orient on Wednesday - a club with whom we've got more connections than most. Recent MeetingsQPR 1 Leyton Orient 2, Tuesday August 14, 2007, League Cup First Round Even the good QPR teams tend to crash out of the League Cup early to lower league opponents, and John Gregory’s 2007/08 side was not a good team. A disastrous summer of dodgy transfer dealings done on the cheap had left the team woefully short in key areas, and although optimism generated by the previous year’s huge uptick at the end of the season had carried on through a last-gasp opening day 2-2 at Bristol City, things went downhill fast thereafter. Jason Demetriou and Adam Boyd from the penalty spot made the most of defensive calamities either side of the hour before star man Martin Rowlands pulled a goal back to no avail. QPR: Camp 6, Bignot 5 (Curtis 81 5), Cullip 5, Mancienne 7, Bolder 6, Rowlands 8, Moore 5 (St Aimie 64 6), Bailey 5, Rehman 4 (Stewart 81 5), Ward 5, Nygaard 5 Subs: Cole, Timoska Goals: Rowlands 68 Bookings: Ward 45, Cullip 63 Leyton Orient: Nelson, Thelwell, Mkandawire, Melligan (Daniels 76), Chambers, Gray, Corden, Terry, Boyd (Echanomi 76), Palmer, Demetriou. Subs Not Used: Morris, Sylvester, Shields Goals: Demetriou 55, Boyd pen 64
Leyton Orient 3 QPR 2, Tuesday September 14, 2002, League Cup first round The QPR team that took to the field for their last competitive fixture at Brisbane Road was certainly a good deal more talented than the 2007 vintage. Ian Holloway’s class of 2002/03 would finish up in a Second Division play-off final in Cardiff, and were in the midst of a five-game winning sequence in the league, when they travelled across London for the first round of the League Cup. This, though, would turn out to be another one of those nights where Jamal Campbell-Ryce ripped into the team his family supports — a pest to QPR in cup competitions for his entire career. He scored one and made one for Lee Thorpe as the O’s took a 2-0 half time lead and although a double sub introduction of Kevin Gallen and Doudou at half time threatened to bring Ian Holloway’s side back into the game with goals first for Andy Thomson from the penalty spot and then Gallen, Gary Taylor Fletcher had scored for the hosts in between and Orient triumphed 3-2. Orient: G Morris, M Joseph, D Smith, D McGhee (J Martin, 11), A Harris, C Hutchings, B Jones, M Brazier, J Campbell-Ryce, L Thorpe, G Taylor-Fletcher (D Barnard, 81) Subs not used: K Nugent, S Watts, S Barrett Goals: Campbell Ryce 33, Thorpe 44, Taylor Fletcher 76 QPR: F Digby, T Forbes, S Palmer, C Carlisle (Doudou, 46), D Shittu, M Rose, R Langley, R Pacquette (K Gallen, 46), T Williams, K Connolly (D Oli, 82), A Thomson Subs not used: W Daly, D Murphy Goals: Thomson pen 71, Gallen 89
Past ResultsHead To Head >>> Orient wins 14 >>> Draws 15 >>> QPR wins 21 2007/08 QPR 1 Leyton Orient 2* (Rowlands) * - League Cup ConnectionsMark Lazarus >>> QPR 1960/61, 1962-64, 1966/67 >>> Orient 1958-1960, 1969-1972 Born in Stepney in 1938, Lazarus was in the same Saturday side as Jimmy Greaves as a boy before he started playing non-league football with Barking where he was picked up by Leyton Orient, then managed by Alec Stock, in 1957. Lazarus, part of a large Jewish family, chose football over boxing despite some success in amateur bouts. One of his brothers, Lew, fought for the British title at welterweight and middleweight. Stock left Brisbane Road for a brief stint in charge of Roma (imagine that) but when he returned to England with QPR he immediately signed Lazarus for the first time in September 1960. A year later he was off to Wolves for a club record fee of £27,500 in September 1961 only to return to Loftus Road in February 1962 after just nine games following a row with Molineux boss Stan Cullis. In a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraph, Lazarus said: “I never, in my whole career, asked for a transfer and would have preferred to have stayed in London. Cullis was a sergeant major type who was never happy, even when we won. Nothing was good enough for him and we had a personality clash. Alec felt he had a responsibility to look after QPR financially too so I was seen as a saleable object." He left for Brentford in April 1964 for £8,000 plus George McLeod but was back for a third, and most successful, stint in November 1965. He left for a third and final time, League Cup winner’s medal in pocket, to join Crystal Palace for £10,000 in November 1967 and just to really crown himself as the king of the comeback he finished up back at Orient again in 1969. Lazarus was a fast, aggressive winger who scored 84 goals for the club in 235 appearances. The most important of those was the third Rangers goal at Wembley, crowning a comeback for the Third Division R’s from 2-0 down to defeat First Division West Brom 3-2. QPR were the first team from the third tier ever to compete for a major trophy at Wembley and any thought they may be overawed by going 2-0 down at half time were dispelled by goals from Roger Morgan, Rodney Marsh and finally Lazarus. He said: "It was only a tap-in, it was not as though I beat three men and smashed the ball into the back of the net from the edge of the area. The lead-up to the final was tremendous, though. We had a great season. That final was the first game my mum and dad saw me play in. My dad had never been to a game in his life and he never went to any more after the final. My mum loved it though, and after that, she always came to see me play." It was just rewards for the wide man, having scored three times in the earlier rounds of the competition that year including a 5-0 First Round win against Colchester where Marsh got the other four, the memorable Fourth Round home upset against top flight Leicester Citty when he got one in a 4-2 win with Les Allen and Roger Morgan bagging the other two, and finally one in a 4-1 home win against Birmingham in the first leg of the semi-final at Loftus Road. He also set up both goals in the 2-1 Fifth Round win against Carlisle. Oddly, he’s probably equally well remembered for running down the wing at Loftus Road in just his y-fronts, shorts in hand, when the ball arrived at his feet at an inopportune moment during a kit change. In retirement he worked in road haulage, and as a ‘minder’ for snooker players including Steve Davis. By winning promotion from Division Three to Division Two with Orient in his final year as a professional it meant he’d finished his senior career with promotions in his last four seasons — two with QPR in 1967 and 1968, one from Second to the First with Palace in 1969 and then Orient in 1970 before he went back into the non-league game with Folkestone and later Wingate and Finchley. Pictures — Action Images Action Images Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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