Barry Bridges
Forty Years Ago today - August 24, 1968, QPR's new record signing, 27-year-old Barry Bridges, signed from Birmingham City for 50,000 pounds, made his debut against Joe Mercer/Malcolm Allison's First Division Champions, Manchester City. Another in a series of surreal moments for QPR that season: QPR playing the First Division Champions at Loftus Road. The QPR Team against Manchester City: Kelly Hazell Watson Sibley Harris Morgan Keen Sanderson Morgan Allen Bridges
Bridges scored on his QPR debut and ended the season as joint top goalscorer (with 8 goals from 28 games - including in QPR's last game of that relegation year: QPR's 1-2 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.)
The following season, the former Chelsea and England forward, Bridges scored 21 goals in 38 league games + 3 cup goals. A forward line of Bridges, Rodney Marsh and Frank Clarke was devestating that year.
Bridges played his last game for QPR against in September 1970 Bristol City (Scoring) before joining Millwall in September 1970/
For more about Bridges: See
- Barry Bridges/Profiled
- Barry Bridges in 2008 - "Popular newsagent calls time on his shop"
- Birmingham Bridges Profile
- Bridges at Millwall
- Barry Bridges and Terry Venables
- Scoring Record at Chelsea, Birmingham, QPR, Millwall and Brighton
- England Photos 1 -- England Photos 2 --
England Photos 3