Post by QPR Report on Aug 23, 2009 7:52:52 GMT
Jimmy Greaves coming clean about an event elder QPR fans will well remember! February 15, 1969: QPR 1 Spurs 1 
And the day that Roger Morgan made his Spurs debut having left QPR for Spurs - breaking up the twins 
This also turned out to be the last time Les Allen played for QPR
Kelly - Clement Hazell Hunt Watson - Allen Sibley Morgan (Ian)
Bridges Clarke Marsh - Frank Clarke scored for QPR. Greaves "equalized" for Spurs.
Sunday People 23 August 2009 Yes, all's fair in glove and war
Greavsie Every week - football's greatest sage inside football's greatest pullout Greavsie; Dave Kidd
Time for a confession - I'm a cheat. Just like Bobby Charlton was a cheat, Gordon Banks was a cheat and Billy Wright was a cheat.
When I hit a golf drive 200 yards down the fairway and it's got an unfavourable lie, I'll move it a few inches.
Because I used to be a footballer and cheating is in my blood!
So I had to laugh when I heard Neil Warnock claiming Bristol City should have offered Crystal Palace a replay after Freddie Sears' goal was farcically ruled out last week because the ref didn't realise it had hit the back of the net and come out again.
A few people have tried to claim that back in some golden Corinthian age, that's what Bristol City would have done.
They've got to be joking.
I can remember the old sports minister Dennis Follows, piously declaring football had changed for the worse since the days of the great Billy Wright (right), who was never booked in his career.
Now Billy was, indeed, great but unless you came out to play armed with a machete, it was virtually impossible to be booked in the 1950s or 60s.
You could get away with all sorts back then. There was an incident when Spurs were awarded a penalty and I stepped forward to take it against Banksy in the Leicester goal.
He decided to change his gloves and went to his bag - a bit of sportsmanship as we both well knew - and while his head was buried in the back of the net, I rolled the ball into the opposite corner.
I certainly didn't expect the referee to award a goal but he did, so we all ran back to the centre circle - with Banks in hot pursuit, trying to throttle me.
It made up for the time when I beat Banks with a shot and the referee whistled for half-time before the ball crossed the line.
While I'm in a confessional mood, I can remember punching the ball to control it at Loftus Road and wellying the ball past the QPR keeper.
So, when Diego Maradona scored his Hand of God goal, I couldn't feel too indignant.
The only difference was one happened in a World Cup quarter-final in the Azteca Stadium with the eyes of the world upon it, and the other on a foggy day at Loftus Road, when you couldn't see further than 50 yards.
Any striker, in particular, will tell you that they were robbed of hundreds of goals because, of course, we don't like to remember the ones we got away with.
I favour using technology when it comes to whether a ball has crossed the goalline - though we might not have won the World Cup if that had been in place in 1966.
But to extend TV replays any further would lose much of the essence of football.
Refs do seem to be a little more up their own backsides these days, though.
It would be difficult to imagine a modern-day repeat of when Spurs went to Bristol City for a Cup tie, and Dave Mackay virtually cut an opponent in half.
The ref told Dave he would have to send him off but after both sets of players said 'Oh, come on ref, man's game' he changed his mind.
In the days before red or yellow cards, hardly anybody in the crowd would even have known what had happened in the first place.
These days at Bristol City, everyone in the ground seems to know what is happening except the referee!
Greavsie was talking to chief sports writer DAVE KIDD
www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_method=full%26objectID=21617314%26siteID=93463-name_page.html
And the day that Roger Morgan made his Spurs debut having left QPR for Spurs - breaking up the twins 
This also turned out to be the last time Les Allen played for QPRKelly - Clement Hazell Hunt Watson - Allen Sibley Morgan (Ian)
Bridges Clarke Marsh - Frank Clarke scored for QPR. Greaves "equalized" for Spurs.
Sunday People 23 August 2009 Yes, all's fair in glove and war
Greavsie Every week - football's greatest sage inside football's greatest pullout Greavsie; Dave Kidd
Time for a confession - I'm a cheat. Just like Bobby Charlton was a cheat, Gordon Banks was a cheat and Billy Wright was a cheat.
When I hit a golf drive 200 yards down the fairway and it's got an unfavourable lie, I'll move it a few inches.
Because I used to be a footballer and cheating is in my blood!
So I had to laugh when I heard Neil Warnock claiming Bristol City should have offered Crystal Palace a replay after Freddie Sears' goal was farcically ruled out last week because the ref didn't realise it had hit the back of the net and come out again.
A few people have tried to claim that back in some golden Corinthian age, that's what Bristol City would have done.
They've got to be joking.
I can remember the old sports minister Dennis Follows, piously declaring football had changed for the worse since the days of the great Billy Wright (right), who was never booked in his career.
Now Billy was, indeed, great but unless you came out to play armed with a machete, it was virtually impossible to be booked in the 1950s or 60s.
You could get away with all sorts back then. There was an incident when Spurs were awarded a penalty and I stepped forward to take it against Banksy in the Leicester goal.
He decided to change his gloves and went to his bag - a bit of sportsmanship as we both well knew - and while his head was buried in the back of the net, I rolled the ball into the opposite corner.
I certainly didn't expect the referee to award a goal but he did, so we all ran back to the centre circle - with Banks in hot pursuit, trying to throttle me.
It made up for the time when I beat Banks with a shot and the referee whistled for half-time before the ball crossed the line.
While I'm in a confessional mood, I can remember punching the ball to control it at Loftus Road and wellying the ball past the QPR keeper.
So, when Diego Maradona scored his Hand of God goal, I couldn't feel too indignant.
The only difference was one happened in a World Cup quarter-final in the Azteca Stadium with the eyes of the world upon it, and the other on a foggy day at Loftus Road, when you couldn't see further than 50 yards.
Any striker, in particular, will tell you that they were robbed of hundreds of goals because, of course, we don't like to remember the ones we got away with.
I favour using technology when it comes to whether a ball has crossed the goalline - though we might not have won the World Cup if that had been in place in 1966.
But to extend TV replays any further would lose much of the essence of football.
Refs do seem to be a little more up their own backsides these days, though.
It would be difficult to imagine a modern-day repeat of when Spurs went to Bristol City for a Cup tie, and Dave Mackay virtually cut an opponent in half.
The ref told Dave he would have to send him off but after both sets of players said 'Oh, come on ref, man's game' he changed his mind.
In the days before red or yellow cards, hardly anybody in the crowd would even have known what had happened in the first place.
These days at Bristol City, everyone in the ground seems to know what is happening except the referee!
Greavsie was talking to chief sports writer DAVE KIDD
www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_method=full%26objectID=21617314%26siteID=93463-name_page.html
