Post by harlowranger on Aug 14, 2011 20:33:42 GMT
QPR visit Everton FC
After 16 years we finally lock horns with Everton Football Club again .
Previously having 42 League encounters from 1951-1996 !
Previous three meetings.
(In the Premiership)
8.4.1996 QPR 3 EVERTON 1
22.11.1995 EVERTON 2 QPR 0
18.3.1995 QPR 2 EVERTON 3
Other Previous Premiership meetings
17.9.1994 EVERTON 2 QPR 2
16.4.1994 QPR 2 EVERTON 1
20.11.1993 EVERTON 0 QPR 3
12.4.1993 EVERTON 3 QPR 5
28.12.1992 QPR 4 EVERTON 2
In 8 Premiership meetings we have managed to pick up 16 from 24 possible points.
Taking 7 points from 12 at Goodison Park.
Total League Meetings
42 League Meetings.
QPR wins 14 , including 4 at Goodison.
Everton wins 18, including 5 at Loftus Road.
Draws – 10
Total Goals
QPR – 61
Everton – 69
Last Meeting
When we last met which was in the Premiership on 8.4.1996 , Everton were currently 7th
on 54 points , whilst QPR were 18th on 30 points.
Everton finished the season 6th on 61 points while we were relegated to Division 1 finishing 19th on 33 points.
Match Report
April 8, 1996
Queens Park Rangers (2) 3 Everton (0) 1
Gallen 15, Hateley 42, Sinclair 61; Ebbrell 78.
QPR: Sommer, Bardsley, Brevett, McDonald, Yates, Wilkins, Holloway, Impey, Hateley, Gallen, Sinclair. Subs Not Used: Ready, Dichio, Brazier. Booked: McDonald, Holloway.
Everton: Southall, Hinchcliffe, Unsworth (Short 63), Watson, Ebbrell, Hottiger, Horne (Grant 73), Parkinson, Kanchelskis, Ferguson, Limpar (Branch 45). Booked: Hinchcliffe,Horne,Ferguson.
Att: 18,349 Ref: P Durkin (Portland).
Trevor Sinclair inspired Queens Park Rangers to a convincing victory that keeps alive the prospect of FA Carling Premiership football at Loftus Road next season.
Sinclair's skills snuffed the life out of Everton's European bid and boosted Rangers' morale for the relegation crunch at Coventry on Saturday.
He outshone Andrei Kanchelskis who received scant service from his colleagues in a poor Everton performance.
The Merseysiders, with top scorer Graham Stuart, Paul Rideout and Daniel Amokachi all out injured, offered precious little threat until 17-year-old Michael Branch replaced Anders Limpar at half-time to support the isolated Duncan Ferguson.
But by then Sinclair had secured the points for Rangers. He skipped past half-hearted challenges from Limpar and Barry Horne to set up Kevin Gallen for his seventh goal of the season after 15 minutes.
Kanchelskis might have had a penalty when he was tripped by Rufus Brevett nine minutes later but this was Rangers' day to show they are not ready for the last rites just yet.
Three minutes before the break, Mark Hateley climbed above Dave Watson to head in the second from Ian Holloway's right-wing cross. Hateley had been recalled by player-boss Ray Wilkins after a nine-match absence and responded with his first home goal for the club.
Everton had their best spell on the restart when Ferguson cracked a shot against the Rangers crossbar and was then denied by Jurgen Sommer. Then when Ferguson released Kanchelskis the Russian international pulled the ball back across goal where the in-rushing Branch just failed to get a touch.
Just at it began to look as though Everton might salvage something from the game, Sinclair took over.
He charged down David Unsworth's attempted 61st-minute clearance and drove in an angled shot beaten out by the diving Neville Southall. Sinclair was quickest to the rebound and tapped the ball past a still-grounded Southall.
Unsworth's part in the goal obviously did not impress manager Joe Royle who was celebrating his 47th birthday. He immediately sent on Craig Short for the England defender - and at least Everton managed a consolation goal 12 minutes from the end.
Ferguson had the beating of Alan McDonald in the air most of the afternoon but few of his headers fell to colleagues. At last he got it right as he nodded down for John Ebbrell to volley crisply past Sommer.
Wilkins sees glimmer of hope after crucial win
With three points separating the bottom five in the Premiership, the relegation issues are far from clear; however, if survival was awarded to the form teams, Queens Park Rangers would retain their status.
Unfortunate at Newcastle on Saturday, they responded admirably to record their second successive home win and move up to 18th.
That Everton lost for only the second time in eight games was ultimately down to a catalogue of wasted chances towards the end. However, with Trevor Sinclair in inspirational form, Rangers will consider they have a chance of sneaking out of the fray.
Rangers now travel to Coventry on Saturday in a game with massive significance in the relegation stakes. Another victory could take them out of the bottom three for the first time since Boxing Day.
Unfortunately for Rangers, they have only three games left in which to complete what would be a major rescue act, and only one of those is at Loftus Road. Even so, Ray Wilkins, who produced another dominant performance in midfield, remains confident.
Wilkins, the Rangers player-manager, said: "It was an excellent result and we played some good football. They have worked their socks off in the last few days and got their just rewards.
Holloway's long, looping cross found Hateley, who beat Dave Watson to send a header over Neville Southall.
"Considering the pressure they are under, they are still trying to do the right things. Saturday's game is now one we cannot lose. After the season we have had it would be absolutely marvellous if we stayed up."
Rangers opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Sinclair set off on a 50-yard sprint, flicking the ball over Anders Limpar and rounding Barry Horne before presenting Kevin Gallen with the chance to record his seventh goal of the season.
Everton, their outside hopes of a place in Europe boosted by a good late run, were outpaced in midfield where Ian Holloway was particularly impressive, and they conceded a second goal after 41 minutes.
Mark Hateley, whose appearances in the first team have been limited since his arrival from Glasgow Rangers, was recalled for his first game for two months and, after a sluggish start, headed his second goal.
Holloway's long, looping cross found Hateley, who beat Dave Watson to send a header over Neville Southall.
The two-goal cushion was crucial; Everton, who replaced Anders Limpar with Michael Branch at half-time, began to find their way back into the game and were unlucky not to respond two minutes later when Duncan Ferguson hit the angle of left post and crossbar.
When Branch just failed to make contact with a superb Andrei Kanchelskis cross, it seemed inevitable that Rangers would win and that view was enforced when Sinclair beat David Unsworth, his shot was parried by Southall but touched home by Andrew Impey.
Still Everton pressed forward and when John Ebbrell scored from 15 yards, with 11 minutes remaining, Rangers feared the worst.
Ferguson had further chances, marginally wide with an overhead kick, but Rangers held on for their fifth home win of the season.
Classic Encounter/s
1)12.4.1993 EVERTON 3 QPR 5
Sinton’s was the first in a unique run of three hat tricks in three games by QPR players against Everton. A season later Bradley Allen crafted a wonderful treble for himself in a team performance that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a highlights compilation of some of the Dutch total football sides of yesteryear.
In the intervening period the Toffees fell victim to Les Ferdinand who, fresh from a hat trick against Forest on Easter Saturday, bagged another three two days later at Goodison Park. Andy Impey opened the scoring from long range but Tony Cottee headed in an equaliser from a corner to restore parity.
From then on it was the Ferdinand show – his first effort was a powerful, determined strike after he reached a loose ball in the area, the second a relative tap in after Southall dropped a cross at his feet, and the third a beautifully crafted goal after nice build up by Sinton and Allen that even drew applause from Everton fans behind the goal.
They weren’t so fulsome with their praise when David Bardsley drilled in a free kick to make it 5-1 and although Stuart Barlow once again and Precki added some respect to the scoreline Rangers were magnificent and thoroughly deserved a 5-3 victory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XYgNTF5Bk&feature=related
2.) 28.12.1992 QPR 4 EVERTON 2
QPR 4 Everton 2
One fixture that is being mentioned repeatedly in the “what are you looking forward to most” threads on our message board at the moment is the away trip to Everton – a proper old club with a proper stadium full of character.
There’s little wonder QPR fans are drawn to games with the Toffees because our record against them in the Premiership is remarkable (we even beat them 3-0 at home just before we were relegated) and there are two matches with Everton in this countdown.
On Boxing Day 1992 Howard Kendall brought his Everton side to W12 to take on Gerry’s men. The game had been progressing nicely, with nothing out of the ordinary.
Ferdinand and Barker were both denied by tremendous saves from veteran goalkeeper Neville Southall and Rangers seemed to be having marginally the better of things until midway through the first half. Then, the whole game changed.
A ball over the top of the always rather one paced Dave Watson had the Everton captain in trouble – running back towards his own goal chasing a bouncing ball with Les Ferdinand providing a menacing running mate.
Southall recognised the danger and sprung from his line but he came too far too soon and a situation quickly developed where the goalkeeper was outside his area, Watson was accelerating towards him, Ferdinand had pound signs in his eyes and disaster was inevitable.
Watson headed the ball to Southall who instinctively caught it three yards outside his area. New rules brought in that summer made it a mandatory red card, referee Gerald Ashby obliged and Everton were forced to introduce young Australian Jason Kearton for his debut from the bench – he would go on to play for many years, including several times against Rangers, with Crewe.
Kearton started well, saving the resulting free kick from Bardsley, and later denying Simon Barker with a fine save from a flying header.
However the rebound from that second chance fell loose to Andy Sinton who scored from close range and then in the second half Kearton showed his naivety by coming right out into the same sort of territory Southall had perished in, allowing Penrice to round him and find the empty net from an acute angle.
Things went from bad to worse for Everton when Paul Rideout was sent off and Sinton made it 3-0 with a low finish from Bardsley’s cross. So far, so one sided.
But Kendall threw on young Stuart Barlow, who like Kearton would go on to enjoy great times a division lower with Tranmere, and he beat the offside trap to score once, then unbelievably lobbed in a heavily deflected second after Vinny Samways had powerfully robbed Sinton of possession in his own half.
The ultimate comeback was on for the nine men, and it needed Sinton’s only ever senior hat trick, finished with a powerful first time volley from the edge of the box, to calm the nerves and seal the points.
3)11.10.1975 QPR 5 EVERTON 0.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5XL18UZ6bc
QPR 5 Everton 0
Stan 'the man' Bowles scored for QPR
Saturday, 11th October 1975, was the day that set a precedent –and a president.
Down in London W12, Queens Park Rangers doubled the number of goals they had scored in their previous five home league fixtures, while in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the USA, future American commander-in-chief Bill Clinton was marrying Hilary Rodham.
Nevertheless, today was all about the outstanding leadership of QPR and England captain, Gerry Francis, and an exciting Hoops team that stamped their authority on the English first division, which they headed before kick-off, with five wins and five draws from their first eleven matches.
Rangers had reached the Division 1 summit under the tutelage of Dave Sexton, who had been appointed twelve months earlier following the sack at Chelsea. Whilst at Stamford Bridge, Sexton led the blues to FA Cup success against Leeds in 1970, and beat the mighty Real Madrid to land the European Cup Winners Cup the following season.
Once ensconced at Loftus Road, Sexton implemented coaching methods that were way ahead of their time, including specialist fitness training and diets which helped a team largely built by his predecessor Gordon Jago to realise their true potential in the 1975-76 season.
Due to their UEFA Cup participation, after finishing fourth the previous season, Billy Bingham’s Everton had played one game less, recording five wins and three draws, but had a reputation for dour defensive football away from home.
Scenting blood, the home side tore into their opponents from the off and scored within sixty seconds. Stan Bowles’ chipped pass cleared the sleepy heads of Everton’s defence and allowed Don Givens to exchange passes with Mick Leach before stroking the ball past keeper Dai Davies.
Following this rude awakening, Everton uncharacteristically poured forward, but their striker Bob Latchford fluffed a simple chance and had another brilliantly saved by Phil Parkes, before Rangers went 2-0 up on the half-hour after midfielder Don Masson smashed in a 20-yard shot.
In the second half, Everton’s respite lasted a full nineteen minutes; and they even threatened to score, before Francis exhilarated a packed house of 23,500 with a superbly taken goal.
Alert to a deep pass conjured by the magical Bowles, Francis sprinted forward, gathered, then beat Buckley’s despairing lunge before teasing the ball into an expectant net
Five minutes later, Rangers’ winger Dave Thomas, characterised by his permanently rolled-down socks made it 4-0 with a well struck shot, after bamboozling full-back Kenyon for the umpteenth time.
The final act belonged to Francis, who brilliantly anticipated another astute delivery and glided through the Everton defence, before inter-passing with Don Masson and scoring with aplomb.
Poor Everton, their players must have felt like captives amongst the sheer stands that strangled the Loftus Road pitch on every side, belting out a vociferous roar at the final whistle. Almost like, ‘Within These Walls’, a British drama about the fictional women’s prison, HMP Stonepark, which aired on ITV, at 8.00 pm that evening and starred Googie Withers, who may have sounded like an American country and western singer, but was actually an accomplished actress.
Talking of real musicians, lovable Cockney warbler David Essex sang this weekend’s number one single, ‘Hold Me Close’, which was prophetic if you were a Liverpool fan, because despite winning a staggering thirteen of their last fifteen fixtures, defeat at Norwich on 17th April meant the Hoops finished second, one point behind the Merseyside champions at the seasons close.
Plus 1987/88 Video Clip, QPR Win 1-0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7WT-P0yKaI&feature=player_embedded#at=12
QPR Lose 4-0 when Latchford destroys us in 1976!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdR0f52RXVk
Players that have played for both Clubs.
Here's some Players that have played for both Clubs , here's the first 5 Clubs they played
for , who are they ?
(loan Clubs have not been included.)
1)Burnley>QPR>Everton>Wolves>Vancouver ?
2)Wolves>Swindon>QPR>Everton>WBA ?
3)Luton>Everton>QPR>WBA>Everton ?
4)Bolton>Everton>QPR>Man C>Southampton ?Peter Reid
5)Rangers>Chelsea>QPR>Everton>Motherwell ?john Spencer
6)Everton>QPR>Swansea>Colchester>Brighton ?
7)Aldershot>Norwich>NottsC>Everton>QPR ?
8)Luton>Everton>QPR>Norwich>Wigan?
Latest League Form
QPR dDDWLL
EVERTON LLLLLW
Latest Odds
Everton 8/15
Draw 5/2
QPR 5-1
Would love to hear any comments on any of these games ?
Live Feed
www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=124364&part=sports
After 16 years we finally lock horns with Everton Football Club again .
Previously having 42 League encounters from 1951-1996 !
Previous three meetings.
(In the Premiership)
8.4.1996 QPR 3 EVERTON 1
22.11.1995 EVERTON 2 QPR 0
18.3.1995 QPR 2 EVERTON 3
Other Previous Premiership meetings
17.9.1994 EVERTON 2 QPR 2
16.4.1994 QPR 2 EVERTON 1
20.11.1993 EVERTON 0 QPR 3
12.4.1993 EVERTON 3 QPR 5
28.12.1992 QPR 4 EVERTON 2
In 8 Premiership meetings we have managed to pick up 16 from 24 possible points.
Taking 7 points from 12 at Goodison Park.
Total League Meetings
42 League Meetings.
QPR wins 14 , including 4 at Goodison.
Everton wins 18, including 5 at Loftus Road.
Draws – 10
Total Goals
QPR – 61
Everton – 69
Last Meeting
When we last met which was in the Premiership on 8.4.1996 , Everton were currently 7th
on 54 points , whilst QPR were 18th on 30 points.
Everton finished the season 6th on 61 points while we were relegated to Division 1 finishing 19th on 33 points.
Match Report
April 8, 1996
Queens Park Rangers (2) 3 Everton (0) 1
Gallen 15, Hateley 42, Sinclair 61; Ebbrell 78.
QPR: Sommer, Bardsley, Brevett, McDonald, Yates, Wilkins, Holloway, Impey, Hateley, Gallen, Sinclair. Subs Not Used: Ready, Dichio, Brazier. Booked: McDonald, Holloway.
Everton: Southall, Hinchcliffe, Unsworth (Short 63), Watson, Ebbrell, Hottiger, Horne (Grant 73), Parkinson, Kanchelskis, Ferguson, Limpar (Branch 45). Booked: Hinchcliffe,Horne,Ferguson.
Att: 18,349 Ref: P Durkin (Portland).
Trevor Sinclair inspired Queens Park Rangers to a convincing victory that keeps alive the prospect of FA Carling Premiership football at Loftus Road next season.
Sinclair's skills snuffed the life out of Everton's European bid and boosted Rangers' morale for the relegation crunch at Coventry on Saturday.
He outshone Andrei Kanchelskis who received scant service from his colleagues in a poor Everton performance.
The Merseysiders, with top scorer Graham Stuart, Paul Rideout and Daniel Amokachi all out injured, offered precious little threat until 17-year-old Michael Branch replaced Anders Limpar at half-time to support the isolated Duncan Ferguson.
But by then Sinclair had secured the points for Rangers. He skipped past half-hearted challenges from Limpar and Barry Horne to set up Kevin Gallen for his seventh goal of the season after 15 minutes.
Kanchelskis might have had a penalty when he was tripped by Rufus Brevett nine minutes later but this was Rangers' day to show they are not ready for the last rites just yet.
Three minutes before the break, Mark Hateley climbed above Dave Watson to head in the second from Ian Holloway's right-wing cross. Hateley had been recalled by player-boss Ray Wilkins after a nine-match absence and responded with his first home goal for the club.
Everton had their best spell on the restart when Ferguson cracked a shot against the Rangers crossbar and was then denied by Jurgen Sommer. Then when Ferguson released Kanchelskis the Russian international pulled the ball back across goal where the in-rushing Branch just failed to get a touch.
Just at it began to look as though Everton might salvage something from the game, Sinclair took over.
He charged down David Unsworth's attempted 61st-minute clearance and drove in an angled shot beaten out by the diving Neville Southall. Sinclair was quickest to the rebound and tapped the ball past a still-grounded Southall.
Unsworth's part in the goal obviously did not impress manager Joe Royle who was celebrating his 47th birthday. He immediately sent on Craig Short for the England defender - and at least Everton managed a consolation goal 12 minutes from the end.
Ferguson had the beating of Alan McDonald in the air most of the afternoon but few of his headers fell to colleagues. At last he got it right as he nodded down for John Ebbrell to volley crisply past Sommer.
Wilkins sees glimmer of hope after crucial win
With three points separating the bottom five in the Premiership, the relegation issues are far from clear; however, if survival was awarded to the form teams, Queens Park Rangers would retain their status.
Unfortunate at Newcastle on Saturday, they responded admirably to record their second successive home win and move up to 18th.
That Everton lost for only the second time in eight games was ultimately down to a catalogue of wasted chances towards the end. However, with Trevor Sinclair in inspirational form, Rangers will consider they have a chance of sneaking out of the fray.
Rangers now travel to Coventry on Saturday in a game with massive significance in the relegation stakes. Another victory could take them out of the bottom three for the first time since Boxing Day.
Unfortunately for Rangers, they have only three games left in which to complete what would be a major rescue act, and only one of those is at Loftus Road. Even so, Ray Wilkins, who produced another dominant performance in midfield, remains confident.
Wilkins, the Rangers player-manager, said: "It was an excellent result and we played some good football. They have worked their socks off in the last few days and got their just rewards.
Holloway's long, looping cross found Hateley, who beat Dave Watson to send a header over Neville Southall.
"Considering the pressure they are under, they are still trying to do the right things. Saturday's game is now one we cannot lose. After the season we have had it would be absolutely marvellous if we stayed up."
Rangers opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Sinclair set off on a 50-yard sprint, flicking the ball over Anders Limpar and rounding Barry Horne before presenting Kevin Gallen with the chance to record his seventh goal of the season.
Everton, their outside hopes of a place in Europe boosted by a good late run, were outpaced in midfield where Ian Holloway was particularly impressive, and they conceded a second goal after 41 minutes.
Mark Hateley, whose appearances in the first team have been limited since his arrival from Glasgow Rangers, was recalled for his first game for two months and, after a sluggish start, headed his second goal.
Holloway's long, looping cross found Hateley, who beat Dave Watson to send a header over Neville Southall.
The two-goal cushion was crucial; Everton, who replaced Anders Limpar with Michael Branch at half-time, began to find their way back into the game and were unlucky not to respond two minutes later when Duncan Ferguson hit the angle of left post and crossbar.
When Branch just failed to make contact with a superb Andrei Kanchelskis cross, it seemed inevitable that Rangers would win and that view was enforced when Sinclair beat David Unsworth, his shot was parried by Southall but touched home by Andrew Impey.
Still Everton pressed forward and when John Ebbrell scored from 15 yards, with 11 minutes remaining, Rangers feared the worst.
Ferguson had further chances, marginally wide with an overhead kick, but Rangers held on for their fifth home win of the season.
Classic Encounter/s
1)12.4.1993 EVERTON 3 QPR 5
Sinton’s was the first in a unique run of three hat tricks in three games by QPR players against Everton. A season later Bradley Allen crafted a wonderful treble for himself in a team performance that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a highlights compilation of some of the Dutch total football sides of yesteryear.
In the intervening period the Toffees fell victim to Les Ferdinand who, fresh from a hat trick against Forest on Easter Saturday, bagged another three two days later at Goodison Park. Andy Impey opened the scoring from long range but Tony Cottee headed in an equaliser from a corner to restore parity.
From then on it was the Ferdinand show – his first effort was a powerful, determined strike after he reached a loose ball in the area, the second a relative tap in after Southall dropped a cross at his feet, and the third a beautifully crafted goal after nice build up by Sinton and Allen that even drew applause from Everton fans behind the goal.
They weren’t so fulsome with their praise when David Bardsley drilled in a free kick to make it 5-1 and although Stuart Barlow once again and Precki added some respect to the scoreline Rangers were magnificent and thoroughly deserved a 5-3 victory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XYgNTF5Bk&feature=related
2.) 28.12.1992 QPR 4 EVERTON 2
QPR 4 Everton 2
One fixture that is being mentioned repeatedly in the “what are you looking forward to most” threads on our message board at the moment is the away trip to Everton – a proper old club with a proper stadium full of character.
There’s little wonder QPR fans are drawn to games with the Toffees because our record against them in the Premiership is remarkable (we even beat them 3-0 at home just before we were relegated) and there are two matches with Everton in this countdown.
On Boxing Day 1992 Howard Kendall brought his Everton side to W12 to take on Gerry’s men. The game had been progressing nicely, with nothing out of the ordinary.
Ferdinand and Barker were both denied by tremendous saves from veteran goalkeeper Neville Southall and Rangers seemed to be having marginally the better of things until midway through the first half. Then, the whole game changed.
A ball over the top of the always rather one paced Dave Watson had the Everton captain in trouble – running back towards his own goal chasing a bouncing ball with Les Ferdinand providing a menacing running mate.
Southall recognised the danger and sprung from his line but he came too far too soon and a situation quickly developed where the goalkeeper was outside his area, Watson was accelerating towards him, Ferdinand had pound signs in his eyes and disaster was inevitable.
Watson headed the ball to Southall who instinctively caught it three yards outside his area. New rules brought in that summer made it a mandatory red card, referee Gerald Ashby obliged and Everton were forced to introduce young Australian Jason Kearton for his debut from the bench – he would go on to play for many years, including several times against Rangers, with Crewe.
Kearton started well, saving the resulting free kick from Bardsley, and later denying Simon Barker with a fine save from a flying header.
However the rebound from that second chance fell loose to Andy Sinton who scored from close range and then in the second half Kearton showed his naivety by coming right out into the same sort of territory Southall had perished in, allowing Penrice to round him and find the empty net from an acute angle.
Things went from bad to worse for Everton when Paul Rideout was sent off and Sinton made it 3-0 with a low finish from Bardsley’s cross. So far, so one sided.
But Kendall threw on young Stuart Barlow, who like Kearton would go on to enjoy great times a division lower with Tranmere, and he beat the offside trap to score once, then unbelievably lobbed in a heavily deflected second after Vinny Samways had powerfully robbed Sinton of possession in his own half.
The ultimate comeback was on for the nine men, and it needed Sinton’s only ever senior hat trick, finished with a powerful first time volley from the edge of the box, to calm the nerves and seal the points.
3)11.10.1975 QPR 5 EVERTON 0.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5XL18UZ6bc
QPR 5 Everton 0
Stan 'the man' Bowles scored for QPR
Saturday, 11th October 1975, was the day that set a precedent –and a president.
Down in London W12, Queens Park Rangers doubled the number of goals they had scored in their previous five home league fixtures, while in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the USA, future American commander-in-chief Bill Clinton was marrying Hilary Rodham.
Nevertheless, today was all about the outstanding leadership of QPR and England captain, Gerry Francis, and an exciting Hoops team that stamped their authority on the English first division, which they headed before kick-off, with five wins and five draws from their first eleven matches.
Rangers had reached the Division 1 summit under the tutelage of Dave Sexton, who had been appointed twelve months earlier following the sack at Chelsea. Whilst at Stamford Bridge, Sexton led the blues to FA Cup success against Leeds in 1970, and beat the mighty Real Madrid to land the European Cup Winners Cup the following season.
Once ensconced at Loftus Road, Sexton implemented coaching methods that were way ahead of their time, including specialist fitness training and diets which helped a team largely built by his predecessor Gordon Jago to realise their true potential in the 1975-76 season.
Due to their UEFA Cup participation, after finishing fourth the previous season, Billy Bingham’s Everton had played one game less, recording five wins and three draws, but had a reputation for dour defensive football away from home.
Scenting blood, the home side tore into their opponents from the off and scored within sixty seconds. Stan Bowles’ chipped pass cleared the sleepy heads of Everton’s defence and allowed Don Givens to exchange passes with Mick Leach before stroking the ball past keeper Dai Davies.
Following this rude awakening, Everton uncharacteristically poured forward, but their striker Bob Latchford fluffed a simple chance and had another brilliantly saved by Phil Parkes, before Rangers went 2-0 up on the half-hour after midfielder Don Masson smashed in a 20-yard shot.
In the second half, Everton’s respite lasted a full nineteen minutes; and they even threatened to score, before Francis exhilarated a packed house of 23,500 with a superbly taken goal.
Alert to a deep pass conjured by the magical Bowles, Francis sprinted forward, gathered, then beat Buckley’s despairing lunge before teasing the ball into an expectant net
Five minutes later, Rangers’ winger Dave Thomas, characterised by his permanently rolled-down socks made it 4-0 with a well struck shot, after bamboozling full-back Kenyon for the umpteenth time.
The final act belonged to Francis, who brilliantly anticipated another astute delivery and glided through the Everton defence, before inter-passing with Don Masson and scoring with aplomb.
Poor Everton, their players must have felt like captives amongst the sheer stands that strangled the Loftus Road pitch on every side, belting out a vociferous roar at the final whistle. Almost like, ‘Within These Walls’, a British drama about the fictional women’s prison, HMP Stonepark, which aired on ITV, at 8.00 pm that evening and starred Googie Withers, who may have sounded like an American country and western singer, but was actually an accomplished actress.
Talking of real musicians, lovable Cockney warbler David Essex sang this weekend’s number one single, ‘Hold Me Close’, which was prophetic if you were a Liverpool fan, because despite winning a staggering thirteen of their last fifteen fixtures, defeat at Norwich on 17th April meant the Hoops finished second, one point behind the Merseyside champions at the seasons close.
Plus 1987/88 Video Clip, QPR Win 1-0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7WT-P0yKaI&feature=player_embedded#at=12
QPR Lose 4-0 when Latchford destroys us in 1976!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdR0f52RXVk
Players that have played for both Clubs.
Here's some Players that have played for both Clubs , here's the first 5 Clubs they played
for , who are they ?
(loan Clubs have not been included.)
1)Burnley>QPR>Everton>Wolves>Vancouver ?
2)Wolves>Swindon>QPR>Everton>WBA ?
3)Luton>Everton>QPR>WBA>Everton ?
4)Bolton>Everton>QPR>Man C>Southampton ?Peter Reid
5)Rangers>Chelsea>QPR>Everton>Motherwell ?john Spencer
6)Everton>QPR>Swansea>Colchester>Brighton ?
7)Aldershot>Norwich>NottsC>Everton>QPR ?
8)Luton>Everton>QPR>Norwich>Wigan?
Latest League Form
QPR dDDWLL
EVERTON LLLLLW
Latest Odds
Everton 8/15
Draw 5/2
QPR 5-1
Would love to hear any comments on any of these games ?
Live Feed
www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=124364&part=sports
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