"On This Day:" Alan Mullery's Partisan Belgrade Disaster & Mark Hateley Birthday

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Twenty-Three Years Ago: QPR Knocked out of Europe by Partizan Belgrade!-
November 7, 1984: UEFA CUP: Partizan Belgrade 4 QPR 0
Perhaps the nadir of Alan Mullery six-month managership of a QPR team which (with the exception of Garry Bannister replacing Clive Allen)Mllery inherited from Terry Venables.
A couple of weeks previously, QPR had beaten Partizan Belgrade 6-2 in the UEFA Cup (played at Highbury becuase of a ban on Loftus Road because of its "plastic pitch."). In the return game in Belgrade, QPR were through as long as they avoided a 0-4 or 1-5 defeat. Unfortunately, QPR didn't manage this, and QPR were amazing knocked out of Europe. And that was the last time QPR played in the EUFA Cup!)
QPR's team that night:
Hucker
Chivers Wicks Fenwick Dawes
Gregory Waddock Fillery Fereday
Stainrod Bannister
Sub: Mickelwhite

Ex-QPR Mark Hateley Turns 46:
Born November 7, 1961. Hateley had a great football career. Unfortunately his time at QPR was not a happy one. Signed by Ray Wilkins in October 1995 - as a belated replacement for Les Ferdinand - for a then club record, 1.5 million pounds. Unfortunately Hateley was injured when he signed and it was a few weeks before he made his debut. He scored only a few goals for QPR that season and after QPR' relegation, scored once before being loaned and then sold to Leeds.
[NB: Mark Hateley is the son of Tony Hateley, the ex-Notts County, Chelsea, Liverpool, Birmingham forward. When Tony Hately made his Birmingham debut in 1969/1970,it was against QPR, and the forward destroyed QPR and Bert Murray scored a hatrick in Birmingham's 3-0 victory) See Hateley Playing Record See Also Wikipedia/Hateley