Post by harlowranger on Sept 1, 2011 14:15:00 GMT
Bump - And here we go again
QPR Welcome Newcastle United
Well its only 15 months since we last played Newcastle in the Championship and lost
1-0 , but its 15 years since we last meet at the top level .
(QPR V Newcastle – Championship 2nd May 2010 Score 0-1)
Previously having 38 League encounters from 1968 - 2010 !
Previous three meetings.
(In the Premiership)
6.4.1996 NEWCASTLE 2 QPR 1
14.10.1995 QPR 2 NEWCASTLE 3
4.2..1995 QPR 3 NEWCASTLE 0
Other Previous Premiership meetings
5.11..1994 NEWCASTLE 2 QPR 1
16.1.1994 QPR 1 NEWCASTLE 2
16.10.1993 NEWCASTLE 1 QPR 2
In 6 Premiership meetings we have managed to pick up 6 from a possible 18 points.
Securing 3 points at home and 3 points at St James Park.
Total League Meetings
38 League Meetings.
QPR wins 16 , including 7 wins at St James Park.
Everton wins 16, including 7 wins at Loftus Road.
Draws – 6 – 3 draws at each ground.
So we are exactly level with 9 homes wins against each other and 7 away wins each and the rest draws !
Total Goals
QPR – 64
Everton – 53
Last Meeting In the Premiership
When we last met , which was in the Premiership on the 6.4.1996 , Newcastle were currently 2nd
on 67 points , whilst QPR were 19th on 27 points.
Newcastle finished the season 2nd on 78 points while we were relegated to Division 1 finishing 19th on 33 points.
A Previous Premiership
Match Report 16/10/93
- Newcastle 1 QPR 2, 1993
The dramatic conclusion to this match led our Greatest Moments countdown earlier this week, but the match in its entirity was an absolute cracker as well.
The background was that Newcastle had just been promoted as First Division champions with Kevin Keegan performing his first 'Geordie Messiah' routine and promising to lead them to a Premiership title.
Andy Cole was the star turn in the Magpies' attack and St James' Park, still with a vast terrace at one end that included a pen for away fans in the corner, was rammed after years of 14,000 gates and less.
QPR meanwhile had finished fifth the year before and were flying high again after a poor start to the campaign. Les Ferdinand was the star attraction but he had missed two QPR games in the lead up to this game and been withdrawn from the England squad for a crucial World Cup qualifier on the Wednesday night with a back injury.
He wasn't expected to even travel with his team mates for this one and indeed when the QPR fan arrived at the game his name wasn't on the coupon for first goalscorer - a puzzled bookie offered odds of 9/1 when asked for a price launching a stampede of QPR fans in his direction when the news came through that Les would start.
This was probably his finest display in a QPR shirt, and only served as further encouragement to Keegan who would spent £6m on him 18 months later. He scored the first within ten minutes, pinging a low drive off the base of Mike Hooper's post and into the net off the post at the other side after rolling along the goal line.
Newcastle equalised in the second half through Malcolm Allen but a gravity defying leap from Ferdinand a minute later set Bradley Allen up for a hooked finish from close range to put Rangers back in front.
Despite a late barrage from Newcastle anything other than Ferdinand ending up on the winning team would have been a travesty - and when linesman Roger Fernandez awarded a highly debatable Newcastle penalty in injury time against Alan McDonald it seemed as though we'd get just that.
Step forward big Jan Stejskal with that save, and the final whistle followed a second later.
Ferdinand said: "I'd been having treatment on the injury for two weeks. On the Saturday when we play away from home we train a bit on Saturday morning. Gerry said: 'How does it feel' and I said it felt stiff. He asked me to play for 45 minutes and said if I did that he would be happy. I played for 90 minutes and it went well."
Classic Encounter/s
September 22nd 1984
Two great ones here !!!!!!!!!!!!
Â
QPR 5 Newcastle 5: On This Day, The Incredible QPR Comeback - Reports and Video
Almost a quarter of a century ago!
Goals Video
qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=2399
September 22, 1984...QPR 5 Newcastle 5
On September 22, 1984, a crowd of 14,234 turned up at Loftus Road to see Alan Mullery/Frank Sibley's QPR take on Jack Charlton's Newcastle. QPR had begin by winning two and drawing two (including at Liverpool)...Then the previous week had lost to Clive Allen's Spurs 5-0...And then came the Newcastle game and QPR's incredible comeback from 0-4 at half-time. A hattrick for Newcastle's Chris Waddle.
Among QPR scorers, subsequent manager, John Gregory! (And on the Newcastle team, ex-QPR and later Newcastle manager, Glen Roeder)
The scoring sequence: 0-1...0-2...0-3...0-4...1-4...2-4...3-4...3-5...4-5...5-5
QPR's Team:
Hucker Neil Wicks Fenwick Dawes
Micklewhite Fillery Gregory Fereday
Stainrod Bannister - Ian Stewart sub for Fillery -
QPR Scorers: Bannister, Stainrod, Gregory, Wicks, Micklewhite
Newcastle's team: Kevin Carr Malcolm Brown,Wesley Saunders,Glen Roeder, Anderson, Haddock, Neil Macdonald, David Mcreery, Kenny Wharton,Peter Beardsley Chrissy Waddle. -
NOBOK SPORTS - Top Five comebacks
5. QPR 5 Newcastle United 5, First Division, 1984
With a 4-0 half-time lead and Chris Waddle in inspirational form, you could have forgiven Newcastle for thinking they had QPR beaten at Loftus Road in 1984.
But this titanic Division One match took a huge twist when Rangers responded to manager Alan Mullery's furious half-time team-talk with a stirring comeback.
Gary Bannister, John Gregory and an own goal dragged the home side back into it only for Kenny Wharton to restore Newcastle's two-goal lead with six minutes left.
But Rangers were still not done as Steve Wicks and Gary Micklewhite grabbed a share of the points with two last-gasp strikes.
[Aside: From a Peter Doherty Interview in Time Out
"...What’s the best sporting event you’ve ever been to?
When I was five or six I went to a QPR game and the score was QPR 5, Newcastle 5. [Chants] ‘Say we are QPR, say we are QPR!’
"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mickzoe/matches/qpr55.html
QPR Report.
A Newcastle Site, Toonarama, Match Report of that Day
Absolutely Diabolical - a 10 goal extravaganza Tighten Up Mister
On the 22nd of September 1984 United travelled to Loftus Road to take on QPR in their 7th game of the season on their return to Division 1. After winning the first 3 games United had lost three on the trot, conceding 10 goals in the process.
Manager Charlton decided that changes were necessary. He adopted for a more defensive line-up but the match ended up as one of the highest scoring games in the club's history.
Newcastle lined up with Kevin Carr in goal, Malcolm Brown and Wesley Saunders at full-back and three centre-backs; Roeder, Anderson and Haddock In midfield he played Neil Macdonald, David Mcreery, Kenny Wharton and Peter Beardsley who dropped in behind the sole attacker Chrissy Waddle.
The QPR side was: Hucker in goal, full backs Neill and Dawes, centre-backs Fenwick and Wicks, midfield of Wayne Fereday (a player who would later "play" for the Toon), Micklewhite, Fillery and John Gregory and an attack of Bannister and Stainrod.
The tactics were very simple and classic Charlton; crowd the midfield and defence to cut down the space for the opposition and boot diagonal balls out to the wings in the general direction of Waddle. Even if Waddle didn't get it the ball was deep into QPR territory.
Three minutes gone and the first real chance of the match. Waddle attacks down the left, reaches the byeline and crosses deep to the far post where the ball is headed in by Macdonald at point blank range (0-1)
QPR try and hit back immediately and Newcastle are forced to defend desperately. Carr pulls off a magnificent save, QPR have a decent penalty appeal turned down and Roeder clears another shot off the line. But on seventeen minutes Waddle gets away on the right side of the area, cooly rounds Hucker and slots it in from an acute angle (0-2)
Five minutes later and United win a free-kick on the edge of the centre-circle . Roeder floats it in and a poor headed clearance drops perfectly for Wharton who volleys goalwards. His shot deflects off a defender and hits the post. Waddle gleefully slots in the rebound with Hucker grounded.(0-3)
Almost immediately QPR pull a "goal" back, but to the Hoops fans displeasure, the referee disallows the goal having already whistled for a free-kick to the home side. The free kick is easily fielded by Carr.
With 4 minutes of the first half remaining Waddle picks up a loose ball just outside the area and curls in a superb shot into the top left-hand corner to register a 24 minute hat-trick( 0-4)
So, four goals up at half time and surely the match is over. The Toon Army are (for the one and only time I imagine) singing the praises of the artificial turf. Charlton's tactics seem to be coming up trumps. However United's football has been scrappy and QPR did have chances while Newcastle had scored from all four of theirs....
QPR bring on left-winger Ian Stewart (another player who would later have a deeply unimpressive spell at Gallowgate) for Fillery.
The second half begins and almost immediately Carr has to make a superb save to deny QPR from a free kick. At the other end Waddle makes space for a shot but his effort is blocked. He tries to win a penalty with a ludicrous dive. The referee is not fooled, but there is no booking as players got away with that sort of thing then.
Four minutes into the second half and the ball is punted upfield by the QPR keeper, it is flicked on and suddenly Gary Bannister is in on goal. Carr (not for the first time in his career) rushes from his line and manages to parry the shot. Unfortunately it goes straight back to the QPR player who heads into the empty net (1-4)
Play is now switching from end to end, Carr is forced into another brilliant save and a shot from Wharton is saved at the other end. A free-kick from QPR goes narrowly past the post. What then followed had to be seen to be believed. All through the game United's defensive strategy had appeared to be to get a foot in and kick the ball as hard as possible, in whatever direction you happened to be facing.
Well in this case Haddock was on the edge of the area facing the corner post. He blasts the ball towards the corner but only succeeds in hitting Wharton full in the face. He hits it at such pace that the ball ricochets off Wharton's head right across the goal and passed a startled Kevin Carr into the far corner of the net (2-4)
Almost immediately QPR try and score an even better own-goal. The ball is passed back so hard and high from the half-way line in the QPR goal is forced to back-pedal furiously to get a hand to it and tip it over the crossbar just before it crossed the line.
QPR are now full of confidence and are attacking at will. Just past the hour mark and Roeder makes a hash of a clearance - completely missing his kick- and the ball is in the Toon net again; but once again the referee disallows Stainrod's effort. However after 74 minutes Carr again rushes out of his goal and is left in no-mans land as the ball is steered home by John Gregory for QPR's third (3-4)
During the next ten minutes the game becomes even more scrappy and is littered with fouls. Another QPR header flies narrowly wide of the post before Waddle heads just over and then has another shot deflected for a corner.
Then with six minutes to go, Beardsley picks up the ball ten yards within his own half and hits a great cross-field pass to Waddle out on the right-wing. Waddle lollops into the area and crosses for Kenny Wharton to slot the ball home from three yards out. This brings the stunned Toon Army back to life.
However, just as they were starting a chorus of "You're not singing any more" the words stuck in their throats as a free kick was headed in by Steve Wicks at the far post (4-5)
Then with 90 minutes on the clock more slack defending allowed Gary Micklewhite to burst into the area and cooly lift the ball over Carr who had already gone to ground (5-5)
After the game Charlton was livid. "Saturdays game was a total embarrassment, absolutely diabolical. I have never seen anything like it in my 32 years in the game. I went mad at the players because there were times when they were going to give me a heart attack. They just stopped playing"
Big Jack obviously thought the problems went deeper than just the one game. "There are so many things wrong at Newcastle it is incredible. People are asking me where I intend to start with the problems, but I just don't know. It will take years to put right. Some of the players couldn't even breathe in the second half. I don't know where they got their education from before, but, believe me they'll get it from me in the months to come."
QPR manager Alan Mullery added "These kind of games are great for the fans but they give managers heart attacks. We needed a miracle in the second half and we got it"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEogJgb7sSE
Classic Encounter Two - Football League First Division
Newcastle 0 QPR 3 22nd April 1978
Queens Park Rangers and Newcastle United were struggling at the foot of the First Division as they clashed at St James' Park.
Rangers were visibly struggling in the top flight following the departure of Dave Sexton to Manchester United, with former player Frank Sibley not able to live his predecessors' lofty billing.
Key players including Don Masson and Dave Thomas departed the club with Sibley opting to bring in Leighton James, Paul McGee and Ernie Howe to bolster a weakened side.
Only one win from their first 12 games against Leicester City (3-0) condemned them to a season of struggling in the top flight along with the Foxes.
Entering into the fixture and QPR had only picked up eight victories all season as their plight along with Newcastle appeared bleak at the wrong end of the First Division.
However there were signs of recovery, with back to back home wins against Arsenal (2-1) and Coventry City (2-1) heightening their chances of survival.
There was a similar feeling of desperation on Tyneside with Newcastle United slipping perilously out the division without so much as a whimper.
Bill McGarry had taken over from Richard Dinnis in November in a bid to revive the fortunes of the Toon Army. However, 16 games without a win saw Newcastle plummet into the relegation mire.
Sibley made one change from the side that were defeated at Nottingham Forest with Paul Goddard relinquishing the number 11 shirt for a place on the bench, with Don Givens starting wide for the R's.
Leighton James partnered Stan Bowles in attack with Givens and Paul McGee attacking from wide areas. John Hollins skippered the side from the centre of defence as the R's embarked on an important game.
It was McGee that put the Toon Army to the sword on an unexpected afternoon of joy on Tyneside, with the R's running the show at St James' Park.
The R's number seven laid on the ball for Don Givens to score the opener after 36 minutes. Just before half time he worked hard himself to scramble the ball over the line and double the away advantage.
John Hollins capped off a glorious day for Rangers five minutes in the second half, as they hauled themselves clear of the First Division drop zone.
Despite the R's scoring only one goal in their remaining three games, including a final day defeat at Stamford Bridge.
QPR finished a point and a place above West Ham United in 20th place - Newcastle United on the same points as bottom-placed Leicester City as they dropped into the Second Division.
Final Score: Newcastle United 0-3 Queens Park Rangers
Attendance: 13,000
Newcastle United: Mahoney, Nattrass, Burton, Blackley, Nulty, Burns, Kennedy, Walker (McGhee 59), Barrowclough, Mitchell, Lanarch.
Queens Park Rangers: Parkes, Clement, Hollins, Howe, Gillard, Shanks, Bowles, Williams, McGee (Goddard 80), James, Givens.
OLD Footage - Snippet
1973-74 December 1973 QPR 3 Newcastle 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWA0dlL3Et0
Players that have played for both Clubs.
As normal 5 Clubs that each player has played for!!
1)Palace>Spurs>QPR>Newcastle>Swansea Wayne Routledge
2)Newport>Hereford>QPR>Newcastle>BlackburnDarren Peacock
3)QPR>Newcastle>Spurs>WestHan>Leicester?
4)Orient>QPR>Newastle>Watford>Orient?
5)Oxford>QPR>Newcastle>Cardiff loan>Oxford? K Brock
6)QPR>Newcastle>Bournemouth>WBA>Cardiff?
7)Palace>Arsenal>Newcastle>QPR>Coventry?Kenny Sampson
8)Newcastle>QPR>Palace loan? Peter Ramage
9)QPR>Gillingham>Bournemouth>Newcastle>Chelsea?Gavin Peacock
10)Maidstone>Wimbledon>Newcastle>Derby>QPR?Warren Barton
11)Blackpool>Villa>Palace>QPR>Wolves>SheffU>Southampton>
Newcastle?
12)QPR>WestHam>Newcastle>Derby>Millwall?
13)Man Utd>QPR>TulsaRoughnecks>Newcastle>Hearts?
14)Which Ex QPR Player joined a different Newcastle in Australia?
15)Which Ex QPR Manager was coach of Newcastle recently?
Latest Odds
QPR Win 13/8
Draw 23/10
Newcastle Win 19/10
Prediction QPR 3 Newcastle 2 = 33/1
QPR Welcome Newcastle United
Well its only 15 months since we last played Newcastle in the Championship and lost
1-0 , but its 15 years since we last meet at the top level .
(QPR V Newcastle – Championship 2nd May 2010 Score 0-1)
Previously having 38 League encounters from 1968 - 2010 !
Previous three meetings.
(In the Premiership)
6.4.1996 NEWCASTLE 2 QPR 1
14.10.1995 QPR 2 NEWCASTLE 3
4.2..1995 QPR 3 NEWCASTLE 0
Other Previous Premiership meetings
5.11..1994 NEWCASTLE 2 QPR 1
16.1.1994 QPR 1 NEWCASTLE 2
16.10.1993 NEWCASTLE 1 QPR 2
In 6 Premiership meetings we have managed to pick up 6 from a possible 18 points.
Securing 3 points at home and 3 points at St James Park.
Total League Meetings
38 League Meetings.
QPR wins 16 , including 7 wins at St James Park.
Everton wins 16, including 7 wins at Loftus Road.
Draws – 6 – 3 draws at each ground.
So we are exactly level with 9 homes wins against each other and 7 away wins each and the rest draws !
Total Goals
QPR – 64
Everton – 53
Last Meeting In the Premiership
When we last met , which was in the Premiership on the 6.4.1996 , Newcastle were currently 2nd
on 67 points , whilst QPR were 19th on 27 points.
Newcastle finished the season 2nd on 78 points while we were relegated to Division 1 finishing 19th on 33 points.
A Previous Premiership
Match Report 16/10/93
- Newcastle 1 QPR 2, 1993
The dramatic conclusion to this match led our Greatest Moments countdown earlier this week, but the match in its entirity was an absolute cracker as well.
The background was that Newcastle had just been promoted as First Division champions with Kevin Keegan performing his first 'Geordie Messiah' routine and promising to lead them to a Premiership title.
Andy Cole was the star turn in the Magpies' attack and St James' Park, still with a vast terrace at one end that included a pen for away fans in the corner, was rammed after years of 14,000 gates and less.
QPR meanwhile had finished fifth the year before and were flying high again after a poor start to the campaign. Les Ferdinand was the star attraction but he had missed two QPR games in the lead up to this game and been withdrawn from the England squad for a crucial World Cup qualifier on the Wednesday night with a back injury.
He wasn't expected to even travel with his team mates for this one and indeed when the QPR fan arrived at the game his name wasn't on the coupon for first goalscorer - a puzzled bookie offered odds of 9/1 when asked for a price launching a stampede of QPR fans in his direction when the news came through that Les would start.
This was probably his finest display in a QPR shirt, and only served as further encouragement to Keegan who would spent £6m on him 18 months later. He scored the first within ten minutes, pinging a low drive off the base of Mike Hooper's post and into the net off the post at the other side after rolling along the goal line.
Newcastle equalised in the second half through Malcolm Allen but a gravity defying leap from Ferdinand a minute later set Bradley Allen up for a hooked finish from close range to put Rangers back in front.
Despite a late barrage from Newcastle anything other than Ferdinand ending up on the winning team would have been a travesty - and when linesman Roger Fernandez awarded a highly debatable Newcastle penalty in injury time against Alan McDonald it seemed as though we'd get just that.
Step forward big Jan Stejskal with that save, and the final whistle followed a second later.
Ferdinand said: "I'd been having treatment on the injury for two weeks. On the Saturday when we play away from home we train a bit on Saturday morning. Gerry said: 'How does it feel' and I said it felt stiff. He asked me to play for 45 minutes and said if I did that he would be happy. I played for 90 minutes and it went well."
Classic Encounter/s
September 22nd 1984
Two great ones here !!!!!!!!!!!!
Â
QPR 5 Newcastle 5: On This Day, The Incredible QPR Comeback - Reports and Video
Almost a quarter of a century ago!
Goals Video
qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=2399
September 22, 1984...QPR 5 Newcastle 5
On September 22, 1984, a crowd of 14,234 turned up at Loftus Road to see Alan Mullery/Frank Sibley's QPR take on Jack Charlton's Newcastle. QPR had begin by winning two and drawing two (including at Liverpool)...Then the previous week had lost to Clive Allen's Spurs 5-0...And then came the Newcastle game and QPR's incredible comeback from 0-4 at half-time. A hattrick for Newcastle's Chris Waddle.
Among QPR scorers, subsequent manager, John Gregory! (And on the Newcastle team, ex-QPR and later Newcastle manager, Glen Roeder)
The scoring sequence: 0-1...0-2...0-3...0-4...1-4...2-4...3-4...3-5...4-5...5-5
QPR's Team:
Hucker Neil Wicks Fenwick Dawes
Micklewhite Fillery Gregory Fereday
Stainrod Bannister - Ian Stewart sub for Fillery -
QPR Scorers: Bannister, Stainrod, Gregory, Wicks, Micklewhite
Newcastle's team: Kevin Carr Malcolm Brown,Wesley Saunders,Glen Roeder, Anderson, Haddock, Neil Macdonald, David Mcreery, Kenny Wharton,Peter Beardsley Chrissy Waddle. -
NOBOK SPORTS - Top Five comebacks
5. QPR 5 Newcastle United 5, First Division, 1984
With a 4-0 half-time lead and Chris Waddle in inspirational form, you could have forgiven Newcastle for thinking they had QPR beaten at Loftus Road in 1984.
But this titanic Division One match took a huge twist when Rangers responded to manager Alan Mullery's furious half-time team-talk with a stirring comeback.
Gary Bannister, John Gregory and an own goal dragged the home side back into it only for Kenny Wharton to restore Newcastle's two-goal lead with six minutes left.
But Rangers were still not done as Steve Wicks and Gary Micklewhite grabbed a share of the points with two last-gasp strikes.
[Aside: From a Peter Doherty Interview in Time Out
"...What’s the best sporting event you’ve ever been to?
When I was five or six I went to a QPR game and the score was QPR 5, Newcastle 5. [Chants] ‘Say we are QPR, say we are QPR!’
"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mickzoe/matches/qpr55.html
QPR Report.
A Newcastle Site, Toonarama, Match Report of that Day
Absolutely Diabolical - a 10 goal extravaganza Tighten Up Mister
On the 22nd of September 1984 United travelled to Loftus Road to take on QPR in their 7th game of the season on their return to Division 1. After winning the first 3 games United had lost three on the trot, conceding 10 goals in the process.
Manager Charlton decided that changes were necessary. He adopted for a more defensive line-up but the match ended up as one of the highest scoring games in the club's history.
Newcastle lined up with Kevin Carr in goal, Malcolm Brown and Wesley Saunders at full-back and three centre-backs; Roeder, Anderson and Haddock In midfield he played Neil Macdonald, David Mcreery, Kenny Wharton and Peter Beardsley who dropped in behind the sole attacker Chrissy Waddle.
The QPR side was: Hucker in goal, full backs Neill and Dawes, centre-backs Fenwick and Wicks, midfield of Wayne Fereday (a player who would later "play" for the Toon), Micklewhite, Fillery and John Gregory and an attack of Bannister and Stainrod.
The tactics were very simple and classic Charlton; crowd the midfield and defence to cut down the space for the opposition and boot diagonal balls out to the wings in the general direction of Waddle. Even if Waddle didn't get it the ball was deep into QPR territory.
Three minutes gone and the first real chance of the match. Waddle attacks down the left, reaches the byeline and crosses deep to the far post where the ball is headed in by Macdonald at point blank range (0-1)
QPR try and hit back immediately and Newcastle are forced to defend desperately. Carr pulls off a magnificent save, QPR have a decent penalty appeal turned down and Roeder clears another shot off the line. But on seventeen minutes Waddle gets away on the right side of the area, cooly rounds Hucker and slots it in from an acute angle (0-2)
Five minutes later and United win a free-kick on the edge of the centre-circle . Roeder floats it in and a poor headed clearance drops perfectly for Wharton who volleys goalwards. His shot deflects off a defender and hits the post. Waddle gleefully slots in the rebound with Hucker grounded.(0-3)
Almost immediately QPR pull a "goal" back, but to the Hoops fans displeasure, the referee disallows the goal having already whistled for a free-kick to the home side. The free kick is easily fielded by Carr.
With 4 minutes of the first half remaining Waddle picks up a loose ball just outside the area and curls in a superb shot into the top left-hand corner to register a 24 minute hat-trick( 0-4)
So, four goals up at half time and surely the match is over. The Toon Army are (for the one and only time I imagine) singing the praises of the artificial turf. Charlton's tactics seem to be coming up trumps. However United's football has been scrappy and QPR did have chances while Newcastle had scored from all four of theirs....
QPR bring on left-winger Ian Stewart (another player who would later have a deeply unimpressive spell at Gallowgate) for Fillery.
The second half begins and almost immediately Carr has to make a superb save to deny QPR from a free kick. At the other end Waddle makes space for a shot but his effort is blocked. He tries to win a penalty with a ludicrous dive. The referee is not fooled, but there is no booking as players got away with that sort of thing then.
Four minutes into the second half and the ball is punted upfield by the QPR keeper, it is flicked on and suddenly Gary Bannister is in on goal. Carr (not for the first time in his career) rushes from his line and manages to parry the shot. Unfortunately it goes straight back to the QPR player who heads into the empty net (1-4)
Play is now switching from end to end, Carr is forced into another brilliant save and a shot from Wharton is saved at the other end. A free-kick from QPR goes narrowly past the post. What then followed had to be seen to be believed. All through the game United's defensive strategy had appeared to be to get a foot in and kick the ball as hard as possible, in whatever direction you happened to be facing.
Well in this case Haddock was on the edge of the area facing the corner post. He blasts the ball towards the corner but only succeeds in hitting Wharton full in the face. He hits it at such pace that the ball ricochets off Wharton's head right across the goal and passed a startled Kevin Carr into the far corner of the net (2-4)
Almost immediately QPR try and score an even better own-goal. The ball is passed back so hard and high from the half-way line in the QPR goal is forced to back-pedal furiously to get a hand to it and tip it over the crossbar just before it crossed the line.
QPR are now full of confidence and are attacking at will. Just past the hour mark and Roeder makes a hash of a clearance - completely missing his kick- and the ball is in the Toon net again; but once again the referee disallows Stainrod's effort. However after 74 minutes Carr again rushes out of his goal and is left in no-mans land as the ball is steered home by John Gregory for QPR's third (3-4)
During the next ten minutes the game becomes even more scrappy and is littered with fouls. Another QPR header flies narrowly wide of the post before Waddle heads just over and then has another shot deflected for a corner.
Then with six minutes to go, Beardsley picks up the ball ten yards within his own half and hits a great cross-field pass to Waddle out on the right-wing. Waddle lollops into the area and crosses for Kenny Wharton to slot the ball home from three yards out. This brings the stunned Toon Army back to life.
However, just as they were starting a chorus of "You're not singing any more" the words stuck in their throats as a free kick was headed in by Steve Wicks at the far post (4-5)
Then with 90 minutes on the clock more slack defending allowed Gary Micklewhite to burst into the area and cooly lift the ball over Carr who had already gone to ground (5-5)
After the game Charlton was livid. "Saturdays game was a total embarrassment, absolutely diabolical. I have never seen anything like it in my 32 years in the game. I went mad at the players because there were times when they were going to give me a heart attack. They just stopped playing"
Big Jack obviously thought the problems went deeper than just the one game. "There are so many things wrong at Newcastle it is incredible. People are asking me where I intend to start with the problems, but I just don't know. It will take years to put right. Some of the players couldn't even breathe in the second half. I don't know where they got their education from before, but, believe me they'll get it from me in the months to come."
QPR manager Alan Mullery added "These kind of games are great for the fans but they give managers heart attacks. We needed a miracle in the second half and we got it"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEogJgb7sSE
Classic Encounter Two - Football League First Division
Newcastle 0 QPR 3 22nd April 1978
Queens Park Rangers and Newcastle United were struggling at the foot of the First Division as they clashed at St James' Park.
Rangers were visibly struggling in the top flight following the departure of Dave Sexton to Manchester United, with former player Frank Sibley not able to live his predecessors' lofty billing.
Key players including Don Masson and Dave Thomas departed the club with Sibley opting to bring in Leighton James, Paul McGee and Ernie Howe to bolster a weakened side.
Only one win from their first 12 games against Leicester City (3-0) condemned them to a season of struggling in the top flight along with the Foxes.
Entering into the fixture and QPR had only picked up eight victories all season as their plight along with Newcastle appeared bleak at the wrong end of the First Division.
However there were signs of recovery, with back to back home wins against Arsenal (2-1) and Coventry City (2-1) heightening their chances of survival.
There was a similar feeling of desperation on Tyneside with Newcastle United slipping perilously out the division without so much as a whimper.
Bill McGarry had taken over from Richard Dinnis in November in a bid to revive the fortunes of the Toon Army. However, 16 games without a win saw Newcastle plummet into the relegation mire.
Sibley made one change from the side that were defeated at Nottingham Forest with Paul Goddard relinquishing the number 11 shirt for a place on the bench, with Don Givens starting wide for the R's.
Leighton James partnered Stan Bowles in attack with Givens and Paul McGee attacking from wide areas. John Hollins skippered the side from the centre of defence as the R's embarked on an important game.
It was McGee that put the Toon Army to the sword on an unexpected afternoon of joy on Tyneside, with the R's running the show at St James' Park.
The R's number seven laid on the ball for Don Givens to score the opener after 36 minutes. Just before half time he worked hard himself to scramble the ball over the line and double the away advantage.
John Hollins capped off a glorious day for Rangers five minutes in the second half, as they hauled themselves clear of the First Division drop zone.
Despite the R's scoring only one goal in their remaining three games, including a final day defeat at Stamford Bridge.
QPR finished a point and a place above West Ham United in 20th place - Newcastle United on the same points as bottom-placed Leicester City as they dropped into the Second Division.
Final Score: Newcastle United 0-3 Queens Park Rangers
Attendance: 13,000
Newcastle United: Mahoney, Nattrass, Burton, Blackley, Nulty, Burns, Kennedy, Walker (McGhee 59), Barrowclough, Mitchell, Lanarch.
Queens Park Rangers: Parkes, Clement, Hollins, Howe, Gillard, Shanks, Bowles, Williams, McGee (Goddard 80), James, Givens.
OLD Footage - Snippet
1973-74 December 1973 QPR 3 Newcastle 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWA0dlL3Et0
Players that have played for both Clubs.
As normal 5 Clubs that each player has played for!!
1)Palace>Spurs>QPR>Newcastle>Swansea Wayne Routledge
2)Newport>Hereford>QPR>Newcastle>BlackburnDarren Peacock
3)QPR>Newcastle>Spurs>WestHan>Leicester?
4)Orient>QPR>Newastle>Watford>Orient?
5)Oxford>QPR>Newcastle>Cardiff loan>Oxford? K Brock
6)QPR>Newcastle>Bournemouth>WBA>Cardiff?
7)Palace>Arsenal>Newcastle>QPR>Coventry?Kenny Sampson
8)Newcastle>QPR>Palace loan? Peter Ramage
9)QPR>Gillingham>Bournemouth>Newcastle>Chelsea?Gavin Peacock
10)Maidstone>Wimbledon>Newcastle>Derby>QPR?Warren Barton
11)Blackpool>Villa>Palace>QPR>Wolves>SheffU>Southampton>
Newcastle?
12)QPR>WestHam>Newcastle>Derby>Millwall?
13)Man Utd>QPR>TulsaRoughnecks>Newcastle>Hearts?
14)Which Ex QPR Player joined a different Newcastle in Australia?
15)Which Ex QPR Manager was coach of Newcastle recently?
Latest Odds
QPR Win 13/8
Draw 23/10
Newcastle Win 19/10
Prediction QPR 3 Newcastle 2 = 33/1
(I'll do one and leave the rest for others):
