- 1. What Griffin Park lacks in glamour it makes up for with simple joy
- (Features)
- ... g in the 1970s where the most popular club in the area were Queens Park Rangers. I went to Loftus Road a couple of times but could never warm to them. My favourite team back then were Leeds United aft ...
- Created on 23 July 2018
- 2. Suffering fools: the feeling of defeat lingers for so long in football
- (Features)
- ... lot of things do as you get older – talking to strangers, avoiding friends – but this, no. It still ruins at least one day of the weekend when your team lose. A bad result coming through o ...
- Created on 16 July 2018
- 3. Rangers shun steady progress in favour of Steve Gerrard’s star quality
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- Embed from Getty Images The former Liverpool player’s move to Glasgow has been hailed as a risk for all – but Rangers can hardly get worse than they’ve been this season 11 May ...
- Created on 11 May 2018
- 4. When Neil Warnock led Notts County to a shock season in the top division
- (Features)
- ... Day defeat at Selhurst Park proved to be Rideout’s last game. With mutterings behind the scenes about the way the deal was done, he was shipped to Rangers for twice his original fee. Warnock spent ...
- Created on 16 April 2018
- 5. How Everton and Tottenham's pioneering tour gave Walter Tull his chance
- (Features)
- ... and Uruguay. Everton are not alone in this – Argentina’s top flight has an Arsenal, Uruguay’s a Liverpool and Chile’s a Rangers, though only Arsenal (or “el Arse”) took ...
- Created on 26 March 2018
- 6. The world-class sports stars who struggled to carve out a football career
- (Features)
- ... in both boxing and football in the future. Several footballers later tried their hand at gridiron, usually as field goal kickers. The most high-profile example in England was former Queens Park Ranger ...
- Created on 22 March 2018
- 7. It’s Not All About The Old Firm: Defying the odds in Scottish football
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- ... Rangers last landed one in 2011. But with Celtic’s fourth consecutive major trophy win in November, the theme of Scott Burns’ book is in danger of becoming a historical curio. These eight ...
- Created on 21 February 2018
- 8. From knotweed to music fans – how even top clubs' pitches used to suffer
- (Features)
- ... ; Smith said. Artificial pitches were seen as a solution to the flaws of grass in the early 1980s, but presented their own problems. Queens Park Rangers were promoted to the First Division in 1983 wi ...
- Created on 12 February 2018
- 9. How the Texaco Cup briefly gripped parts of Scotland and the West Midlands
- (Features)
- ... numbers. The idea was that four Scottish clubs would join at the next round to play the group winners in the quarter-finals. Great in theory, but all four Scottish clubs lost – including Rangers ...
- Created on 29 January 2018
- 10. Rangers a big, wobbling mess and falling behind as managerial saga continues
- (News)
- ... 4 January ~ By drawing at Celtic then jetting out to Florida for friendlies against top Brazilian clubs, Rangers headed into the Premiership’s winter shutdown looking like a major, stable club. ...
- Created on 04 January 2018
- 11. The best and worst moments of 2017 ~ part one
- (Features)
- ... als since Queens Park Rangers in 1914, a year when boys wore detachable collars, a three-bedroomed house cost under £1,000 and Everton were a strong first-tier team. The fact that my team, Arsenal, ...
- Created on 22 December 2017
- 12. Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?
- (Features)
- ... on the pitch, obviously). When Sunderland signed Jim Baxter from Rangers they also bought his cousin George Kinnell to stop the Slim One getting homesick. Baxter apparently got sick on many occasions ...
- Created on 21 December 2017
- 13. Fans across UK donating tonnes of food and clothes to help local communities
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- Embed from Getty Images From Celtic, Rangers and St Mirren to Newcastle and the two Merseyside clubs, supporters’ groups have been coming together to assist people in their time of need 7 ...
- Created on 07 December 2017
- 14. Sean Geddes on FA Cup fame: “I watched myself in my local on Match of the Day”
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- ... work and the semi-professional game. He moved between Sutton Coldfield Town and Stafford Rangers last season, but the travelling was taking its toll. Out of action with a knee injury, he’s waiting ...
- Created on 30 November 2017
- 15. Bobby Brown: A life in football, from goals to the dugout by Jack Davidson
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- ... atop a Devonshire haystack. He marries the Wren. This sort of Ealing Studios idyll contributed to Rangers’ liquidation; the desperation to recreate everything embodied by the club’s most ...
- Created on 29 November 2017
- 16. "And Smith must score" – the worst misses are the ones that truly mattered
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- ... Smith’s big moment in 1983. He’d had a few before, he kept telling us, playing in six cup finals with Rangers and so on, but we weren’t really listening. Not after what he did from eight ...
- Created on 20 November 2017
- 17. Russian Winters by Andrei Kanchelskis
- (Players)
- ... soon cashed in on Kanchelskis, selling him to Fiorentina – where he broke his ankle and flopped. Signing for Rangers, he fell out with Dick Advocaat, whom he accuses here of being money-obsessed ...
- Created on 09 November 2017
- 18. We Are Sunday League by Ewan Flynn
- (General)
- ... and in whose captivating testimony you see what it is that motivates someone to get out of bed in winter to get sworn at by a bunch of angry strangers. The Edmonton League chairman makes a blink-and-you-miss-it ...
- Created on 18 October 2017
- 19. Oldham fans uneasy at prospective buyer after John Sheridan sacking
- (News)
- ... the season started badly on the pitch with seven consecutive defeats and 16 goals conceded. Although the team were scoring goals, the defence, so secure last season, looked like strangers. Off the ...
- Created on 28 September 2017
- 20. Rangers’ “other” Glasgow derby as key to Pedro Caixinha’s future as Celtic clash
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- Embed from Getty Images After an inconsistent start that has included some historic losses, Rangers’ League Cup quarter-final against Partick could ease pressure on the manager 19 September ...
- Created on 19 September 2017
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