Post by QPR Report on Mar 29, 2010 7:21:59 GMT
At Loftus Road against Liverpool 
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY: GERRY FRANCIS MADE HIS QPR DEBUT
March 29, 1969: QPR's Penultimate Home Game at Home to Liverpool. Just under 17,000 there (when capacity was 35,000):
Like so many games in that 1968/69 season, QPR played well. Rodney Marsh played well. And QPR lost by a single goal: QPR 1 Liverpool 2. Barry Bridges scored scored for QPR. Tommy Smith 28' pen and Roger Hunt 78 for Liverpool.
QPR:
Spratley
Watson Hunt Keetch Harris
Wilks Leach Hazell
Bridges Clarke Marsh
Sub: Gerry Francis
And the Liverpool team:
1 Tommy Lawrence
2 Chris Lawler
3 Gerry Byrne
4 Tommy Smith
5 Ian Ross
6 Emlyn Hughes
7 Ian Callaghan
8 Roger Hunt
9 Alun Evans
10 Ian St John
11 Peter Thompson
Sub Bobby Graham on for Ian St John
QPR Stats from that 1968/1969 Season
www.statto.com/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/1968-1969
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY: GERRY FRANCIS MADE HIS QPR DEBUT
March 29, 1969: QPR's Penultimate Home Game at Home to Liverpool. Just under 17,000 there (when capacity was 35,000):
Like so many games in that 1968/69 season, QPR played well. Rodney Marsh played well. And QPR lost by a single goal: QPR 1 Liverpool 2. Barry Bridges scored scored for QPR. Tommy Smith 28' pen and Roger Hunt 78 for Liverpool.
QPR:
Spratley
Watson Hunt Keetch Harris
Wilks Leach Hazell
Bridges Clarke Marsh
Sub: Gerry Francis
And the Liverpool team:
1 Tommy Lawrence
2 Chris Lawler
3 Gerry Byrne
4 Tommy Smith
5 Ian Ross
6 Emlyn Hughes
7 Ian Callaghan
8 Roger Hunt
9 Alun Evans
10 Ian St John
11 Peter Thompson
Sub Bobby Graham on for Ian St John
QPR Stats from that 1968/1969 Season
www.statto.com/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/1968-1969
