Ready Allen King - Ex-QPR Birthdays Today

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Sharing an August 14th Birthday...

Martin Allen, turns 41...Andy King turns 50...and Karl Ready turns 34.



Karl Ready - QPR's Welsh International Center Half made 200+ appearance for QPR over a decade, making his debutin 1992 before being released after QPR's relegation to the 2nd (read Third) Division in 2001.


Martin Allen, now manager of MK Dons and cousin of Clive Allen and Bradley Allen, made his debut as midfielder in 1985. Famously fell out with then manager, Trevor Francis, when he chose to be with his wife for the birth of his child over playing for QPR. Was sold to West Ham....


Andy King - Goalscoring midfielder, signed by Tommy Docherty in September 1980, with some of the Clive Allen/Paul Goddard money of a then-record 450,000 pounds...The following season, scored in the first three games before QPR's manager, Terry Venables, sold him in September 1981 for about the same fee to West Bromwich Albion (who QPR beat that season in the FA Cup Semi Final semi final)