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Some Recent Christmas Greetings to QPR Fans
QPR Official Site - 2012
Seasons greetings from everyone at Queens Park Rangers...
Dear Supporter,
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a fun-filled New Year.
Your
support over the last 12 months has been exceptional and each and every
one of you has played a part in our Premier League campaigns of 2011/12
and 2012/13.
No one associated with this club will ever forget
that final day of the season back in May. Ultimately, our bid to beat
the drop was inspired by you – the fans – who helped make Loftus Road a
fortress in the final five home fixtures of the season.
The roar
that shook Loftus Road at the final whistle against Stoke City will
remain with us all forever and we will always be grateful for your
fantastic support.
As a group of directors, we are determined to
build on what we’ve started here and with your continued support, we
firmly believe we can achieve our goals.
There is no need to ask what you all want for Christmas and will hope for in the New Year – because we want the same.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
The Board of Directors
VIDEO from Beard, Fernandes, Players...-
QPR Official Site - SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM THE BOARD
Sun 25 Dec 2011
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QPR Chairman and Vice-Chairman, Tony Fernandes & Amit Bhatia, send
their best wishes to the R's faithful in their festive Christmas video.
-Merry Christmas from everyone at QPR.
QPR Official Site - 2010 HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
The
Board, coaching staff, players and everyone at Queens Park Rangers
Football Club wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New
Year, with many thanks for your continued and outstanding support.
Come on you R's!
QPR 2009 - QPR Official Site - HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
The
Board, coaching staff, players and everyone at Queens Park Rangers
Football Club wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New
Year, with many thanks for your continued and outstanding support.
Come on you R's!
QPR Official Site - December 25, 2008 - HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Dear Supporter,
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a fun-filled New Year.
Your
support over the last 12 months has been incredible and we - the Board,
management staff and players alike - are all eternally grateful.
2009
has the potential to be a very special year for the Club and with your
on-going support, we can achieve our goals and objectives.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
QPR Board of Directors
December 25, 2007 - QPR Official Site - HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
-Dear Supporter,
- We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a fun-filled New Year.
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Your support over the last 12 months has been exceptional and each and
every one of you has played a part in both the 2006/07 and 2007/08 Coca
Cola Championship campaigns.
- Your fanatical support in these
difficult times is much appreciated, and rest assured, we will be doing
everything within our powers to strengthen the squad in the January
transfer window, as we attempt to pull ourselves clear of the relegation
zone in the Championship.
- The new investors are determined to
bring the glory days back to W12 and with your continued support; we
firmly believe we can achieve our goals.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
QPR Board of Directors
Christmas Greetings 2006 - QPR Official Site - December 25, 2006 - QPR RESPONSE TO DAILY EXPRESS
- QPR Official Site: Official Club statement by Antonio Caliendo and Gianni Paladini.
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We owe it to QPR fans to respond to the allegations made in the Daily
Express on Saturday in an article entitled "Are Rangers Going bust?"
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The article was misleading in many respects and we can assure our many
supporters that there is no possibility of QPR going bust whilst we
remain on board.
- We have seen too many attacks on QPR in the press
that simply don't reflect the reality of today's situation. It seems
there is always someone who wants to discredit our club.
- Our goal
remains the same as always: to take QPR to the highest position in
English football. Despite injuries and recent results, we believe John
Gregory will be able to take QPR back to the position it was in when he
played for the Club.
We accept that talk is cheap. Actions speak
louder than words. We will only ever prove our critics wrong by taking
the Club forward, and we are 100 per-cent committed to continuing with
that.
- Finally, we would also like to take this opportunity to wish
all of the staff and fans of QPR a very happy Christmas and a successful
New Year.
Antonio Caliendo - Chairman of QPR Holdings
Gianni Paladini - Chairman of QPR FC QPR Official Site QPR
QPR Official Site - Christmas 2005 - HAPPY CHRISTMAS
QPR/Snow Photo
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Everyone at QPR would like to wish our fans a very happy Christmas and
we would like to thank you for your support in 2005. QPR
QPR Official Site - Christmas 2004 - MERRY CHRISTMAS From Bill Power
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On behalf of everybody at the club I would like to take this
opportunity to thank you, the finest fans in the land, for your amazing
continued support.
- We are only half way through the season so we
still have a long way to go but with you all there alongside Ollie and
the team, I am certain the best of this season is yet to come.
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There is no need to ask what you all want for Christmas and hope for in
the new year and I am just as sure that Ollie and the lads will do their
best to give you all what you wish for.
- Thank you again and Merry Christmas from Kevin, Antonio, Carlos and Gianni.
And my very best wishes to you all. Bill
QPR Official Site - 2004 MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Rangers manager Ian Holloway offers his own very special Christmas message to all QPR fans.
It's been quite a year for the club and at this time of reflection, Ollie speaks to Rangers fans everywhere.
To listen to or watch Ollie's message, simply click on one of the icons below.
In
the meantime though, and on behalf of everyone at Loftus Road,
qpr.co.uk would also like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a
happy and prosperous New Year.
QPR Christmas 2002 - MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY
Merry
Christmas to you all from everyone at QPR! We hope you have a wonderful
day and we look forward to seeing you at Loftus Road tomorrow for the
Boxing Day clash with Wycombe. Kick off is at Midday.
In the meantime, you can download a QPR Christmas greeting by right-clicking on the icon below and then 'save target as'.
Christmas 1999 - GERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS
WITH the Rangers team training over the Christmas period, Gerry Francis has a special seasonal greeting for all our supporters.
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Gerry says:" The team have worked very, very hard this year. There's
been a great improvement and we are in a reasonable position in the
league.
"I hope the fans have a tremendous Christmas because they
deserve it for the support they've given me. Also I hope we get a bit of
luck in there with all these injury problems that we're having. It's
been a bit frustrating, having started the season so well and now
knowing that I've got some very good players that are not available for
selection.
- "So well done the supporters, well done the players. Hopefully we can have a good Christmas and a Happy New Year."
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Team news for Sunday - Steiner(groin) and Baraclough(virus) will hope
to shake off the problems that kept them out of the win at Torquay. Loan
signing Darran Ward comes back into contention after being ineligible
for the FA Cup. Rangers still have nine first team players out injured.
Christmas 1998 QPR Official Site - CHRIS' CHRISTMAS CHEER
RANGERS chairman Chris Wright has a special seasonal message to the supporters.
He
says: "I would like to wish all of our wonderful fans a great
Christmas. Enjoy your Christmas Day and get to the ground early on
Boxing Day - it's a 12 noon kick-off as everyone knows. So let's get
some atmosphere going for the Norwich game."
"I'm sure we'll get a
bumper crowd. And the best Christmas present will hopefully be three
points on Boxing Day. That's certainly the Christmas present that I want
most! Hopefully the lads on the pitch will be able to deliver it for
me."
Christmas 1998 -MERRY GERRY FRANCIS
RANGERS boss Gerry Francis extends Christmas greetings via the internet to supporters around the globe.
Gerry says: "Id like to wish Rangers fans all over the world a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."
"I
thank you for your great support, especially since I�ve been back.
You�ve got behind the team and the players have responded."
"We
need to keep that going and certainly it�s going to be very important
that we get as many points as we can over the Christmas period. With the
crowd behind us, it helps the players and it helps me."
"So, have a lovely Christmas, we�ll see you all the Norwich game on Boxing Day and let�s hope we get the three points."
Team news for Rangers' clash with Norwich at Loftus Road on Boxing Day:
Lee Harper is ruled out with flu, but overall Rangers expect to be unchanged.
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Christmas Day, 1950: QPR at home to Preston North End. QPR Lost 4-1!
QPR's Last Christmas Day game...1957 Away to Gillingham (Drew 1-1)
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with Paul Hart picking up a victory
Posted last year:
Here's
to an exciting game - and VICTORY today. Given Bristol City's recent
record and manager's sickness, this is a really a "MUST WIN' For QPR...
No pressure, Mr. Hart.
Past QPR Boxing Day Results
A year ago, Alberti - yet another of HIS great signings, made his QPR debut.
[Links to some of the match reports on the blog link
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SOME PAST BOXING DAY QPR RESULTS & TEAMS
1966 QPR 3 Brighton 0
1967 Plymouth 0 QPR 1 (Keen Pen)
1968 QPR 0 WBA 4 (Part of our Division One 1968/69 Humiliation Season!)
1969 Millwall 2 QPR 0
1972 QPR 3 Orient 1 (Leach, Givens, Thomas)
1973 Spurs 0 QPR 0
1974 QPR 4 Leicester 2 (Beck, Thomas, Givens, Westwood)
1975 QPR 2 Norwich
1977 QPR 0 Derby 0
1978 QPR 2 Spurs 2 (Bowles, Shanks)
1980 QPR 3 West Ham 0 (Silkman, Curie, Stainrod)
1981 QPR 0 Chelsea 2
1984 QPR 2 Chelsea 2 (Bannister. MCdonald)
1987 QPR 1 Chelsea 1 (Kerslake)
1988 Aston Villa 2 QPR 1 (T. Francis)
1989 QPR 1 Coventry 1 (Falco)
1990 QPR 1 Liverpool 1 (Falco)
1991 QPR 0 Liverpool 0
1994 Crystal Palce 0 QPR 0
1995 Arsenal QPR 0
1996 QPR 3 Norwich 2 (Peacock, Dichio, Mcdermott)
1997 Portsmouth 3 QPR 1 (Sheron)
1998 QPR 2 Norwich 0 (Murray Peacock)
1999 Norwich 2 QPR 1
2000 QPR 2 Norwich 3
2001 QPR 0 Brighton 0
2002 QPR 2 Wycombe 1 (Rose, Gallen)
2003 Notts County 3 QPR 3
2004 Plymouth 2 QPR 1
2005 Brighton 1 QPR 0
2006 Birmingham 2 QPR 1
2007 Plymouth 2 QPR 1 (Ainsworth)
2008 Charlton 2 QPR 2
2009 QPR 2 Bristol City 1
2010 QPR 4 Swansea 0 (Mackie, Helguson, Taarabt (2)
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Boxing Day 2010: QPR 4 Swansea 0
01 Kenny
03 Hill red card
13 Gorkss
15 Walker
16 Connolly
04 Derry
07 Taarabt (Rowlands 83)
11 Faurlin
09 Helguson (Hulse 86)
12 Mackie
21 Smith (Orr 21)
Substitutes 24 Cerny, 02 Orr, 14 Rowlands, 25 Ephraim, 08 Clarke, 19 Agyemang, 20 Hulse
Match Reports:
qprreport.blogspot.com/2010/12/qpr-report-monday-qpr-crush-swansea.html
Boxing Day 2008 - Charlton 2 QPR 2QPR:
Cerny; Ramage, Connolly, Hall, Gorkss; Alberti (Ephraim 60),
Leigertwood, Cook (Ledesma 67), Rowlands; Di Carmine (Helguson 82),
Blackstock. Subs (not used): Mahon, Agyemang. - Match Reports and
Comments
Boxing Day 2007 - Plymouth 2-1 QPR 1
QPR:
Camp, Barker, Bolder, Buzsaky (Blackstock, 78), Ainsworth, Rowlands
(Nygaard, 67), Walton, Malcolm, Vine, Rehman, Leigertwood.Subs: Cole,
Moore, Kanyuka.
Goals: Ainsworth (19) Bookings: Buzsaky (30),
Rowlands (45), Ainsworth (51), Walton (52), Bolder (70), Nygaard (76),
Leigertwood (90) - Match Reports and Comments
Boxing Day 2006 Birmingham 2 QPR 1QPR
Royce, Bignot, Mancienne, Rehman, Stewart,Milanese (Rowlands 75),
Bircham (Bailey 59), Smith, Cook,Furlong, Blackstock (Ray Jones 81).
Subs Not Used: Cole, Ward. Match Reports and Comments
Boxing Day 2004 - Plymouth 2 QPR 1
QPR
Day, Bignot, shiteetu, Santos, Padula (Edghill 70), Miller (Best 45),
Rowlands, Gallen, Cook (Ainsworth 73), Bircham, Furlong. Subs Not Used:
Bean, McLeod. Sporting Life
Boxing Day 2002, QPR 2 Wycombe 1
QPR's
squad: Chris Day, Clarke Carlisle, Terrell Forbes, Matthew Rose,
Richard Langley, Steve Palmer, Brett Angell, Marc Bircham, Lee Cook,
Nicky Culkin, Paul Furlong, Kevin Gallen, Daniel shiteetu, Andy Thomson
Boxing Day, 1999 Norwich 2 QPR 1QPR:
Miklosko, Breacker, Baraclough, Ward, Darlington, Plummer, Wardley,
Langley, Murray (Gallen 89), Steiner, Kiwomya. Subs Not Used: Bankole,
Kulcsar, McGovern, Bruce Sent Off: Langley (89). Booked: Langley. Goals:
Wardley 40. Sporting Life
Boxing Day, 1997 Portmouth 3 QPR 1-
Victory for bottom of the table Portsmouth! QPR: Roberts, Yates,
Brazier, Quashie, Ready, Maddix, Spencer (Gallen 74), Peacock, Murray,
Sheron, Sinclair. Subs Not Used: Barker, Perry. Goals: Sheron 31.
Sporting Life
Boxing Day 1968 - QPR 0 WBA 4
Ron Springett - Harris Keetch Hazell Watson - Keen Hunt R. Morgan - Bridges Clarke Marsh - Allen (sub)
Boxing Day 1967: Plymouth 0 QPR 1
On Boxing Day, 1967, QPR won at Plymouth 1-0 through a Mike Keen penalty.
(Four days later, QPR completed their double, by defeating Plymouth 4-1 at Loftus Road. Rodney Marsh, 2 and Mike Keen 2.)
QPR's team at Plymouth: Springett, Clement Hazell Keetch Harris, Morgan, Keen, Sanderson, Morgan, McGovern, Marsh.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
QPR's Past Boxing Day Games: Two Against Plymouth
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Below: Results of QPR's Boxing Day Games Over The Past Forty Years, including two against Plymouth, both times, away!
In
1967, QPR won 1-0 at Plymouth, Mike Keen, Penalty, with Mick McGovern
making his QPR debut. (Four days later, QPR completed their double, by
defeating Plymouth 4-1 at Loftus Road. Rodney Marsh, 2 and Mike Keen 2.)
QPR's 1967 team at Plymouth: Springett, Clement Hazell Keetch Harris,
Morgan, Keen, Sanderson, Morgan, McGovern, Marsh.
Three years ago,
Boxing Day 2004: Plymouth defeated QPR 2-1 in Plymouth. QPR's team: QPR
Day, Bignot, shiteetu, Santos, Padula (Edghill 70), Miller (Best 45),
Rowlands, Gallen, Cook (Ainsworth 73), Bircham, Furlong. Subs Not Used:
Bean, McLeod.
BOXING DAY 1967: Plymouth 0 QPR
On Boxing
Day, 1967, QPR won at Plymouth 1-0 through a Mike Keen penalty. (Four
days later, QPR completed their double, by defeating Plymouth 4-1 at
Loftus Road. Rodney Marsh, 2 and Mike Keen 2.) QPR's team at Plymouth:
Springett, Clement Hazell Keetch Harris, Morgan, Keen, Sanderson,
Morgan, McGovern, Marsh.
BOXING DAY 2004 - Sporting Life PLYMOUTH 2 QPR 1
A
49th-minute Micky Evans header gave Plymouth Argyle a 2-1 win and
condemned Queen's Park Rangers to their fourth consecutive Coca-Cola
Championship defeat.
Evans' third goal of the season sealed the win
after Paul Wotton had given the Pilgrims the lead before Paul Furlong
pulled a goal back for Rangers, who almost claimed a late point.
The
home side took the lead in the 13th minute when recent signing Bjarni
Gudjonsson, making his first start for Bobby Williamson's side, played
the ball to Wotton from the right and the defender smacked a powerful
long-range shot that found the top corner of keeper Chris Day's net.
But
Plymouth's joy was cut short four minutes later when they were reduced
to 10 men as defender Graham Coughlan was sent off for violent conduct
after a poor challenge on Paul Furlong.
However, Ian Holloway's side could not make the extra man count and the game became littered with fouls.
QPR's
Marc Bircham was next in the book after the half-hour mark for a foul
on David Friio before Georges Santos had his name taken for clattering
Evans.
Santos received his marching orders six minutes before
half-time after receiving a second yellow for a tackle on Friio as
Plymouth deservedly went in at the break 1-0 up.
Holloway replaced
Adam Miller with on-loan Southampton striker Leon Best for the second
half in an effort to give Rangers more attacking impetus.
But,
unfortunately for the visitors, it was Plymouth who doubled their lead
as Evans nodded in Paul Connolly's cross from the left on 49 minutes for
the striker's third goal of the season.
Rangers got back into the
game four minutes later through Furlong when Kevin Gallen's free-kick
found the veteran striker, who drilled a low shot past Romain Larrieu.
Plymouth spurned a glorious chance to give themselves some breathing space on the hour mark.
Peter
Gilbert's inviting cross was met by Marino Keith but the striker, who
had been recalled to the Pilgrims' starting line-up, volleyed wide from
close in.
QPR were competing better in the second period and Gallen
brought a rare save out of Larrieu with a long-range effort before the
French keeper kept out a Furlong header.
Holloway threw on Richard
Edghill and Gareth Ainsworth in an attempt to salvage a point and
Larrieu had to be alert to keep out a Bircham strike as QPR pressed for
an equaliser.
Larrieu again came to Plymouth's rescue deep into
injury time, parrying Martin Rowlands' shot from inside the area as the
Pilgrims held on to claim a first league win in three games.
Teams
Plymouth
Larrieu, Connolly, Doumbe, Coughlan, Gilbert, Capaldi, Friio, Wotton,
Gudjonsson, Keith, Evans (Crawford 72). Subs Not Used: Hodges, Lasley,
Adams, Norris. Sent Off: Coughlan (17). Booked: Wotton, Friio. Goals:
Wotton 13, Evans 49.
QPR Day, Bignot, shiteetu, Santos, Padula
(Edghill 70), Miller (Best 45), Rowlands, Gallen, Cook (Ainsworth 73),
Bircham, Furlong. Subs Not Used: Bean, McLeod. Sporting Life
One Year Ago, Boxing Day 2006 Birmingham 2 QPR 1
[Only two players from last season's 11 (at most) will be playing today=
SPORTING LIFE: BIRMINGHAM 2 QPR 1
Birmingham
celebrated their 100th anniversary at St Andrews in style as goals from
Matthew Upson and Cameron Jerome secured a fifth straight Coca-Cola
Championship win and extended their lead at the top of the table to
eight points.
QPR winger Lee Cook briefly threatened to spoil the
party by cancelling out Upson's 22nd-minute header to silence a
near-full house but the Blues had the last laugh as second-half
substitute Jerome fired the winner three minutes after replacing DJ
Campbell.
Second-placed Preston lost at West Brom and Derby, third,
went down at home against Wolves as Birmingham, held to a goalless draw
by Middlesbrough in their first match at St Andrews on Boxing Day back
in 1906, made it just one defeat in their last 13 league matches.
Birmingham,
unchanged from the side that started at Southend on Saturday, went
close to taking a second-minute lead when Nicklas Bendtner headed Gary
McSheffrey's cross over the crossbar.
QPR responded through Dexter Blackstock, who shot wide from Cook's cross.
Home
goalkeeper Maik Taylor held Jimmy Smith's 25-yard shot, while Bendtner
saw his effort from the edge of the penalty area blocked by Rangers
goalkeeper Simon Royce.
McSheffrey, a £4million summer signing from
Coventry, was involved in most of Birmingham's better work and from his
free-kick on the left the Blues took a 22nd-minute lead.
Damion
Stewart was penalised for his challenge on Campbell and Upson rose
highest to head McSheffrey's pin-point cross beyond Royce.
McSheffrey's
diving header from Mathew Sadler's cross flashed wide before the
visitors put a dampener on their hosts' celebrations in the 31st minute.
Furlong set up Cook on the left side of the area and the winger sent his shot arrowing into the top corner.
Royce
turned away Campbell's goalbound 20-yarder at full stretch and held
Bendtner's header as City looked to regain their advantage before the
break.
Bendtner went close again with a header from another
McSheffrey corner shortly after the restart, while Blackstock also
headed over and fired wide from 25 yards.
City manager Steve Bruce
sent on Jerome for Campbell just before the hour and the striker
despatched McSheffrey's pass into the bottom corner from 12 yards three
minutes later.
Radhi Jaidi and Upson both went close to extending
Birmingham's lead with headers from a free-kick and corner while
McSheffrey had two 30-yard strikes that whistled over the crossbar.
QPR used all three of their substitutes - Rowlands, Jones and Stefan Bailey - midway through the second half
but
apart from long-range shots from Rehman and Cook, the latter's blocked
by Stephen Clemence, the visitors failed to create clear-cut chances.
Teams
Birmingham
Maik Taylor, Kelly, Jaidi, Upson (Larsson 89),Sadler, Johnson, Nafti,
Clemence, McSheffrey, Bendtner,Campbell (Jerome 59), Jerome (Muamba 90).
Subs Not Used: Doyle, Danns.
Booked: Bendtner.
Goals: Upson 22, Jerome 62.
QPR
Royce, Bignot, Mancienne, Rehman, Stewart,Milanese (Rowlands 75),
Bircham (Bailey 59), Smith, Cook,Furlong, Blackstock (Ray Jones 81).
Subs Not Used: Cole, Ward.
Booked: Milanese. Sporting Life
FIVE YEARS AGO, BOXING DAY 2002, QPR 2 Wycombe 1
QPR's
squad: Chris Day, Clarke Carlisle, Terrell Forbes, Matthew Rose,
Richard Langley, Steve Palmer, Brett Angell, Marc Bircham, Lee Cook,
Nicky Culkin, Paul Furlong, Kevin Gallen, Daniel shiteetu, Andy Thomson
Boxing Day, 1999 Norwich 2 QPR 1
Norwich: A. Marshall, Sutch, Fleming, Jackson, Fuglestad, Anselin, de Blasiis, Russell, Llewellyn, Roberts, Diop.
Subs Not Used: Green, Mackay, Coote, L. Marshall, Kenton.
Sent Off: Llewellyn (90).
Booked: Llewellyn, Fuglestad, Russell.
Goals: Breacker 25 og, Llewellyn 87.
QPR: Miklosko, Breacker, Baraclough, Ward, Darlington, Plummer, Wardley, Langley, Murray (Gallen 89), Steiner, Kiwomya.
Subs Not Used: Bankole, Kulcsar, McGovern, Bruce
Sent Off: Langley (89).
Booked: Langley.
Goals: Wardley 40.
Sporting Life
And A decade ago, Portmouth 3 QPR 1
Victory for bottom of the table Portsmouth!
Portsmouth:
Knight, Pethick, Thomson, McLoughlin, Waterman, Awford, Hall (Igoe 89),
Foster, Aloisi (Durnin 84), Svensson, Turner.
Subs Not Used: Perrett.
Goals: Pethick 35, McLoughlin 62 pen, Hall 80.
QPR:
Roberts, Yates, Brazier, Quashie, Ready, Maddix, Spencer (Gallen 74),
Peacock, Murray, Sheron, Sinclair. Subs Not Used: Barker, Perry.
Goals: Sheron 31. Sporting Life
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
QPR's Past Boxing Day Games: Two Against Plymouth
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Below: Results of QPR's Boxing Day Games Over The Past Forty Years, including two against Plymouth, both times, away!
In
1967, QPR won 1-0 at Plymouth, Mike Keen, Penalty, with Mick McGovern
making his QPR debut. (Four days later, QPR completed their double, by
defeating Plymouth 4-1 at Loftus Road. Rodney Marsh, 2 and Mike Keen 2.)
QPR's 1967 team at Plymouth: Springett, Clement Hazell Keetch Harris,
Morgan, Keen, Sanderson, Morgan, McGovern, Marsh.
Three years ago,
Boxing Day 2004: Plymouth defeated QPR 2-1 in Plymouth. QPR's team: QPR
Day, Bignot, shiteetu, Santos, Padula (Edghill 70), Miller (Best 45),
Rowlands, Gallen, Cook (Ainsworth 73), Bircham, Furlong. Subs Not Used:
Bean, McLeod.
BOXING DAY 1967: Plymouth 0 QPR
On Boxing
Day, 1967, QPR won at Plymouth 1-0 through a Mike Keen penalty. (Four
days later, QPR completed their double, by defeating Plymouth 4-1 at
Loftus Road. Rodney Marsh, 2 and Mike Keen 2.) QPR's team at Plymouth:
Springett, Clement Hazell Keetch Harris, Morgan, Keen, Sanderson,
Morgan, McGovern, Marsh.
BOXING DAY 2004 - Sporting Life PLYMOUTH 2 QPR 1
A
49th-minute Micky Evans header gave Plymouth Argyle a 2-1 win and
condemned Queen's Park Rangers to their fourth consecutive Coca-Cola
Championship defeat.
Evans' third goal of the season sealed the win
after Paul Wotton had given the Pilgrims the lead before Paul Furlong
pulled a goal back for Rangers, who almost claimed a late point.
The
home side took the lead in the 13th minute when recent signing Bjarni
Gudjonsson, making his first start for Bobby Williamson's side, played
the ball to Wotton from the right and the defender smacked a powerful
long-range shot that found the top corner of keeper Chris Day's net.
But
Plymouth's joy was cut short four minutes later when they were reduced
to 10 men as defender Graham Coughlan was sent off for violent conduct
after a poor challenge on Paul Furlong.
However, Ian Holloway's side could not make the extra man count and the game became littered with fouls.
QPR's
Marc Bircham was next in the book after the half-hour mark for a foul
on David Friio before Georges Santos had his name taken for clattering
Evans.
Santos received his marching orders six minutes before
half-time after receiving a second yellow for a tackle on Friio as
Plymouth deservedly went in at the break 1-0 up.
Holloway replaced
Adam Miller with on-loan Southampton striker Leon Best for the second
half in an effort to give Rangers more attacking impetus.
But,
unfortunately for the visitors, it was Plymouth who doubled their lead
as Evans nodded in Paul Connolly's cross from the left on 49 minutes for
the striker's third goal of the season.
Rangers got back into the
game four minutes later through Furlong when Kevin Gallen's free-kick
found the veteran striker, who drilled a low shot past Romain Larrieu.
Plymouth spurned a glorious chance to give themselves some breathing space on the hour mark.
Peter
Gilbert's inviting cross was met by Marino Keith but the striker, who
had been recalled to the Pilgrims' starting line-up, volleyed wide from
close in.
QPR were competing better in the second period and Gallen
brought a rare save out of Larrieu with a long-range effort before the
French keeper kept out a Furlong header.
Holloway threw on Richard
Edghill and Gareth Ainsworth in an attempt to salvage a point and
Larrieu had to be alert to keep out a Bircham strike as QPR pressed for
an equaliser.
Larrieu again came to Plymouth's rescue deep into
injury time, parrying Martin Rowlands' shot from inside the area as the
Pilgrims held on to claim a first league win in three games.
Teams
Plymouth
Larrieu, Connolly, Doumbe, Coughlan, Gilbert, Capaldi, Friio, Wotton,
Gudjonsson, Keith, Evans (Crawford 72). Subs Not Used: Hodges, Lasley,
Adams, Norris. Sent Off: Coughlan (17). Booked: Wotton, Friio. Goals:
Wotton 13, Evans 49.
QPR Day, Bignot, shiteetu, Santos, Padula
(Edghill 70), Miller (Best 45), Rowlands, Gallen, Cook (Ainsworth 73),
Bircham, Furlong. Subs Not Used: Bean, McLeod. Sporting Life
One Year Ago, Boxing Day 2006 Birmingham 2 QPR 1
[Only two players from last season's 11 (at most) will be playing today=
SPORTING LIFE: BIRMINGHAM 2 QPR 1
Birmingham
celebrated their 100th anniversary at St Andrews in style as goals from
Matthew Upson and Cameron Jerome secured a fifth straight Coca-Cola
Championship win and extended their lead at the top of the table to
eight points.
QPR winger Lee Cook briefly threatened to spoil the
party by cancelling out Upson's 22nd-minute header to silence a
near-full house but the Blues had the last laugh as second-half
substitute Jerome fired the winner three minutes after replacing DJ
Campbell.
Second-placed Preston lost at West Brom and Derby, third,
went down at home against Wolves as Birmingham, held to a goalless draw
by Middlesbrough in their first match at St Andrews on Boxing Day back
in 1906, made it just one defeat in their last 13 league matches.
Birmingham,
unchanged from the side that started at Southend on Saturday, went
close to taking a second-minute lead when Nicklas Bendtner headed Gary
McSheffrey's cross over the crossbar.
QPR responded through Dexter Blackstock, who shot wide from Cook's cross.
Home
goalkeeper Maik Taylor held Jimmy Smith's 25-yard shot, while Bendtner
saw his effort from the edge of the penalty area blocked by Rangers
goalkeeper Simon Royce.
McSheffrey, a £4million summer signing from
Coventry, was involved in most of Birmingham's better work and from his
free-kick on the left the Blues took a 22nd-minute lead.
Damion
Stewart was penalised for his challenge on Campbell and Upson rose
highest to head McSheffrey's pin-point cross beyond Royce.
McSheffrey's
diving header from Mathew Sadler's cross flashed wide before the
visitors put a dampener on their hosts' celebrations in the 31st minute.
Furlong set up Cook on the left side of the area and the winger sent his shot arrowing into the top corner.
Royce
turned away Campbell's goalbound 20-yarder at full stretch and held
Bendtner's header as City looked to regain their advantage before the
break.
Bendtner went close again with a header from another
McSheffrey corner shortly after the restart, while Blackstock also
headed over and fired wide from 25 yards.
City manager Steve Bruce
sent on Jerome for Campbell just before the hour and the striker
despatched McSheffrey's pass into the bottom corner from 12 yards three
minutes later.
Radhi Jaidi and Upson both went close to extending
Birmingham's lead with headers from a free-kick and corner while
McSheffrey had two 30-yard strikes that whistled over the crossbar.
QPR used all three of their substitutes - Rowlands, Jones and Stefan Bailey - midway through the second half
but
apart from long-range shots from Rehman and Cook, the latter's blocked
by Stephen Clemence, the visitors failed to create clear-cut chances.
Teams
Birmingham
Maik Taylor, Kelly, Jaidi, Upson (Larsson 89),Sadler, Johnson, Nafti,
Clemence, McSheffrey, Bendtner,Campbell (Jerome 59), Jerome (Muamba 90).
Subs Not Used: Doyle, Danns.
Booked: Bendtner.
Goals: Upson 22, Jerome 62.
QPR
Royce, Bignot, Mancienne, Rehman, Stewart,Milanese (Rowlands 75),
Bircham (Bailey 59), Smith, Cook,Furlong, Blackstock (Ray Jones 81).
Subs Not Used: Cole, Ward.
Booked: Milanese. Sporting Life
FIVE YEARS AGO, BOXING DAY 2002, QPR 2 Wycombe 1
QPR's
squad: Chris Day, Clarke Carlisle, Terrell Forbes, Matthew Rose,
Richard Langley, Steve Palmer, Brett Angell, Marc Bircham, Lee Cook,
Nicky Culkin, Paul Furlong, Kevin Gallen, Daniel shiteetu, Andy Thomson
Boxing Day, 1999 Norwich 2 QPR 1
Norwich: A. Marshall, Sutch, Fleming, Jackson, Fuglestad, Anselin, de Blasiis, Russell, Llewellyn, Roberts, Diop.
Subs Not Used: Green, Mackay, Coote, L. Marshall, Kenton.
Sent Off: Llewellyn (90).
Booked: Llewellyn, Fuglestad, Russell.
Goals: Breacker 25 og, Llewellyn 87.
QPR: Miklosko, Breacker, Baraclough, Ward, Darlington, Plummer, Wardley, Langley, Murray (Gallen 89), Steiner, Kiwomya.
Subs Not Used: Bankole, Kulcsar, McGovern, Bruce
Sent Off: Langley (89).
Booked: Langley.
Goals: Wardley 40.
Sporting Life
And A decade ago, Portmouth 3 QPR 1
Victory for bottom of the table Portsmouth!
Portsmouth:
Knight, Pethick, Thomson, McLoughlin, Waterman, Awford, Hall (Igoe 89),
Foster, Aloisi (Durnin 84), Svensson, Turner.
Subs Not Used: Perrett.
Goals: Pethick 35, McLoughlin 62 pen, Hall 80.
QPR:
Roberts, Yates, Brazier, Quashie, Ready, Maddix, Spencer (Gallen 74),
Peacock, Murray, Sheron, Sinclair. Subs Not Used: Barker, Perry.
Goals: Sheron 31. Sporting Life
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