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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Prez on January 05, 2025, 12:07:38 pm
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I’m sure many of our older fans have great memories of that day. I actually wasn’t at the game, too young to go on my own and my dad was working. Ended up being glued to Grandstand.
Rovers 1 QPR 0
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I was there and in the Sunday papers it showed pictures of goal scorer David Harle but it was actually Colin Douglas, I think the players were taking the pi$$ out of the national press
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That as a very good QPR side, David Harle scoring from the edge of the box at the Town End
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OMG 40 years ago, yes I was at the game and it was definitely David Harle who scored the goal.
It was a great game and we had some good players that season. They were a great set of guys and those were the days when players would meet the fans for a drink post match, and then maybe go up into town!
We had a good night after that game!
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Thanks I feel really old now - wow 40 years ago what a game
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I was there. What a day! Just old enough to celebrate in town after.
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Took my late Dad along. Good memory. I got a bit carried away at the end and danced a jig on our dug out at the end, which made the National Press.
(Obviously they got it wrong, as it suited their story angle to say it was the Away Dug Out).
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Now I feel old my first game ever been going ever since..
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Took a mate from work
I predicted score and scorer , not like me
He lived close to BV at that time and even rang me up to say QPR Coach had arrived
He must have been 25 ish at the time and was and is a Tractor Boys fan
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the goal was at the airport end - in front of the main stand - free kick taken on the left !- my memory is telling me the free kick hit the wall and he scored from the rebound.
A few years earlier we beat Preston in some cup say League Cup 1-0 and we got a last minute corner and Alick Jeffrey backhealed it for a throw in to Preston - that was also on the left at the airport end -- somethng that is also hard to forget
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the goal was at the airport end - in front of the main stand - free kick taken on the left !- my memory is telling me the free kick hit the wall and he scored from the rebound.
A few years earlier we beat Preston in some cup say League Cup 1-0 and we got a last minute corner and Alick Jeffrey backhealed it for a throw in to Preston - that was also on the left at the airport end -- somethng that is also hard to forget
It was at the Town end as shown at 1 hour 18 mins in the video, a Snods free kick poorly cleared and Harle pounced
https://youtu.be/riiZtbwTRJc?feature=shared
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Town end goal, 81st min
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What a day that was, I remember Michael Robinson getting pelters when it became obvious he wasn’t going to score
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Was right behind the goal in the town end, was in the moment it left Harle's boot! Great day.
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Felt to me we gave them a bit of battering and it seemed we’d never score….then we did, me and my Dad going crazy on pop side
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I was there too central pop side. QPR were I decent top division side then, so it was great..
Didn’t Wrexham beat Arsenal same day so got more headlines? Or was that York?
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I was there too central pop side. QPR were I decent top division side then, so it was great..
Didn’t Wrexham beat Arsenal same day so got more headlines? Or was that York?
York beat Arsenal 1-0 with a last min pen from Keith Houchen.
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I was there too central pop side. QPR were I decent top division side then, so it was great..
Didn’t Wrexham beat Arsenal same day so got more headlines? Or was that York?
York beat Arsenal 1-0 with a last min pen from Keith Houchen.
Thought so, thanks.!
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Sat in the main stand next to, I assume a guy and his blind son, and he gave a running commentary all the game. It was very humbling! I didn't think they were regulars as he made a comment along the lines of " They (Rovers) must have raised their game for the occasion"
I was a bit miffed that he dismissed us that way.
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I was there too. Coincidentally about a year later I moved to West London & was very happy to constantly remind my many QPR supporting workmates about that game.
I always thought Harle was pretty good for Rovers.
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We played so well that day and thoroughly deserved the victory. I reckon I was one of the first on the pitch at the full time whistle. I always stood next to the wall on the pop side in those days as a 14 year old, and just hurdled the wall as I sensed the final whistle ( it was in the days when you had no idea how much extra time you were playing and from about 88 min onwards the ground was a cacophony of whistles)
Just ran aimlessly towards the.main stand. My last pitch invasion.
Was great reading all the Sunday Papers the following day
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I am old. I was there.
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QPR also had England defender Terry Fenwick playing for them on that day.
As the match entered its final ten minutes a replay was looking on the cards which would have hugely favoured the west Londoners as Loftus Road had in those days an artificial pitch, the first football league side to acquire one. Then came the goal and what seemed at the time as the longest nine minutes ever.
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I’ve been looking for a programme for a different match and I’ve come across the QPR programme.
I can remember John Byrne for QPR
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I was a skint striking miner and had just been arrested on the picket line a couple of days previously and I was invited by a friend to go to the game, I’m assuming that my pal also bought me the programme
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I was running a pub in London at the time, full of Arsenal fans. I was the only happy bunny that night!
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Popular “stand” side towards the town end goal which I think was the end the goal went in. I remember it as a fairly even contest - our football seemed more attractive in those days even when we were lower half 4th Division. Parking the Bus and playing out for the back had not been invented!
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I remember this really well I had just turned 13 and it was the absolute highlight of my teens. Rangers keeper that day was Peter Hooker and I went subsequently to Aldershot circa 1990 and Hooker was in goal again and we won 1-0 from memory and Dave Harle scored the penalty.
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Biggest FA Cup win in our history?
QPR finished 5th in Div 1 the season before and were in the UEFA Cup that season.
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Biggest FA Cup win in our history?
QPR finished 5th in Div 1 the season before and were in the UEFA Cup that season.
It wasn’t a squad game then either, and only 1 sub
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Biggest FA Cup win in our history?
QPR finished 5th in Div 1 the season before and were in the UEFA Cup that season.
A close call between that and the 2-2 at Anfield and I’d make the same observation about the difference in class/ability then too - before the PL was able to import World-class talent. (I’ll echo BST’s comments about team selection too. In those days the big clubs put out their first choice players right from the start in their FA cup campaigns irrespective of the quality of the opposition.)
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Biggest FA Cup win in our history?
QPR finished 5th in Div 1 the season before and were in the UEFA Cup that season.
A close call between that and the 2-2 at Anfield and I’d make the same observation about the difference in class/ability then too - before the PL was able to import World-class talent. (I’ll echo BST’s comments about team selection too. In those days the big clubs put out their first choice players right from the start in their FA cup campaigns irrespective of the quality of the opposition.)
A 2-2 win? I know what you mean. One of the mascots the other week predicted we would win 1-1! We sort of did as we were 1-0 down and snatched a point.