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Monday, December 24, 2007

A Decade Before Bowles: QPR's Brian Bedford Turns 74

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BRIAN BEDFORD TURNS 74

Stan Bowles rightly receives much attention as the QPR hero born on Christmas Eve. But there is another great QPR hero also born on that day: Brian Bedford. Bedford Turns 74 today: Born December 24, 1933.
In 250+ league games for QPR, between 1959 and 1965 (all in the old Third Division) with Alec Stock as manager, Bedford scored 160+ goals. Joined QPR from Bournemouth in 1959. Went to Scunthorpe in September 1965 (Six months before Rodney Marsh arrived at Loftus Road)
1959-60 25 goals
1960-61 33 goals
1961-62 34 goals
1962-63 23 goals
1963-64 23 goals
1964-65 23 goals
1965-66 1 goal

See Also
See Dave's QPR Site - Brian Bedford

QPR Net Interview with Brian Bedford - QPR Net/Bedford

See Wikipedia - Bedford

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