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Monday, January 02, 2006

Remembering another New Year's Day Game vs Burnley

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QPR vs Burnley

Remembering another New Years Day game versus Burnley at Loftus Road: January 1, 1972. 14,600 saw the two promotion chasing teams (neither of which made it that year - both of which made it the following season: Burnley as Champions; QPR as runners up; with Dave Thomas switching sides!) And a couple months after this game, Marsh had moved on.
QPR eventually won the game 3-1 with 2 from Mick Leach; 1 from Rodney Marsh . But really it was a question of the score not truly reflecting the game as Phil Parkes saving QPR with a bunch of brilliant saves. The game was also notable because when it was shown later on Match of The Day, on the TV it was almost impossible to watch/extremely fuzzy - such was the quality of our floodlights at the time.
The QPR Team on that Day:
Parkes
Clement Hunt Mancini Hazell
Francis Saul Venables
Leach Marsh O'Rourke