Supporters
organisations of Queens Park Rangers
QPR Loyal Supportes Association
(
web site, see article>>>)
QPR Supportes Club
(coming soon)
QPR 1st - Supporters Trust
(web
site)
Ladbrook Grove Mob
(no information)
Fila Mob
(no information)
QPR Main Squad
(no information)
QPR C-Mob
(forum)
QPR Youth Mob
(web
site, forum)
QPR Russian Loyals
(see
article>>>
)
QPR Ukrainian Loyals
(see
article>>>)
QPR Byelorussian Loyals
(no information)
QPR Serbian Loyals
(web
site)
QPR
LSA
By materials of Steve Russell’s letter &
Joe Hylton's newsletter “West Twelve”.
The Queens Park Rangers Loyal Supporters Association was
formed in March 1987, playing a major part in the collapse of proposed merger
between QPR & Fulham. This mad idea was appeared at the FA cup match
at Ellend Road. Unfortunately Supporters Club was taken no actions against
the proposed nightmare of Fulham Park Rangers. It was very strange decision
of Supporters Club & R’s fans decided to fight for QPR themselves. Loyal
supporters assembled upstairs in the Springbok & things had to move
quickly, which they certainly did. Someone produced hundreds of leaflets
at the crisis meeting & about 10 R’s from a lorry back jumping
on & off on route to hand them out, from the ground through the Bush
& eventually arriving at Craven Cottage to show solidarity with the
Fulham fans. It was agreed at the meeting that a pitch demonstration was
vital at the Manchester City home match. The signal was the arrival of the
2 teams out of the tunnel, clambering onto the pitch from the 3 sides of
the ground. Despite requests that fans leave the pitch loyal supporters
stayed seated on the turf for over20 minutes & were denounced over the
speakers as hooligans. The following Monday a protest meeting was arranged
at Hammersmith Town Hall involving fans of QPR, Fulham, Wimbledon &
Crystal Palace (last 2 had the same problem). After the meeting the group
of Rangers supporters decided to become a reorganized organization &
so the QPR Independent Supporters Club was formed, changing in 1998 to the
Loyal Supporters Association. The crazy merger plans was breakdown &
all plans like this wait the same fate Then, Now, Always. The first LSA
headquarters was at McQueen’s (now the Springbok) moving on to the General
Smuts, on again to the White City Community Center and recently back to
the Smuts. The LSA has done a lot of work for the community & charities.
QPR LSA don’t stop to fight for the interests of the R’s
fans, Then, Now & Always.
Thanks to all first LSA members who could defend our club!
QPR LSA Russia
Alexander 'The R'skie' & Andrei,
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
e-mail: ruskie@front.ru
QPR Russian Loyals were created in 05.12.2000 by Alex & Andrei
Russian QPR LSA members. In that day were made our special “members” scarves
“Russian Loyals”. Alex seriously support QPR since 1995 but first R’s game
was watched in 1993. Andrew became R in 1997. In 1998 we have visited London
when with the help of Joe Hylton & Kathy Martin enter to QPR Loyal Supporters
Association. We
are very proud of being members of this organization. In Russia we follow
QPR via internet & sometimes made “away” trips to Moscow (700 km from
S-Petersburg) for watching QPR by SkyTV but now it's possible to watch in our
native city. Our favorite place to watch QPR matches is Shamrock
pub in Saint Petersburg. We need more QPR on SkyTV!!! Alex
have visited London for 3 QPR games: Tranmere Rovers (away, March 30, QPR
won 3-2), Notts County (home, April 1, QPR won 3-2), Swindon Town (away,
April 6, QPR won 1-0). We also create this Russian QPR Site for increasing
number of R’s in Russia & xUSSR.
C’mon you R’s!
QPR LSA Ukraine
HELLO EVERYBODY!
I’m a forty five year-old QPR fan from the Ukraine (could
be the only one in the country). I’ve been a regular QPR supporter since
the autumn of 1974. Why did I choose QPR? The whole thing started in the
summer of 1966, it was my first world cup (I was ten then). Previously the
Soviet television did know cover world cups, so the starting game England
versus Uruguay was the first international game that I saw. I remember how
England beat FRG at the finals and I eagerly supported England just because
Germany eliminated the USSR in the quarter-final. But after that I became
the lover of the English football. (I can still recall what a blow it was
for me Germany took their revenge four years later in Mexico) So it was
only natural that sooner or later I would become a fan of an English team
(I think I was destined to). I nearly became Manchester United fan after
they won a European cup in 1968. But I had to wait until October 30th, 1974.
On that cool evening, that turned out to be fateful for me I happened to
watch the game in which Republic of Ireland beat the USSR 3:0, it was a
1976 European championship qualifier and a lad named Don Givens managed
to score a hat-trick (by the way he still is the only player, who could
make a hat-trick in an official game against the USSR). I was absolutely
flabbergasted, all three goals were fantastic (all of them were headers,
unless I’m very much mistaken). The match was not over yet but I was looking
through the papers, trying to find out for which team that smart striker
was playing. Don happened to play for Queens Park Rangers, the team until
then unknown for me, though I reckoned myself a big expert of the
British football (I still do , by the way) then. A few days later I happened
to read a review of the English Division 1 championship in a Soviet football
paper (there was but one then) and I was impressed by the lines, that among
the London teams QPR (manager: Sexton) were the best one that season. I
was a student of the Institute of Foreign Languages then (my love of the
English football helped me to choose a profession and I’ve never regretted
the choice I made). During the time of the Iron curtain the only British
newspaper, available in the USSR was the Morning Star, the official paper
of the British Communists, of course it was a communist paper, but
its coverage of football was really not bad and for some reason it often
published pictures of QPR players. So I started to follow how QPR were doing
(though I did not know what was the colour of QPR hoops at that moment).
A little bit later I found another useful source of information: BBC world
service, listening to the radio helped me to improve my English and soon
became a habit. Eventually, my interest in QPR became a passion. Of course,
it was not easy to be an English team follower in the USSR. Information
was scarce and often came late. After college I worked for a while as an
interpreter at a chemical plant at my hometown and there were some English
engineers who were carrying out some technical supervision there, and there
was a nice old man who was a fan of Darlington FC, who explained that QPR
hoops were blue. I was happy, for I had always hoped for that particular
colour. The strange thing is that all teams that I support or ever
supported had blue & white colours. I don’t think it’s a mere coincidence
there has to be something in it, something that can’t be easily explained.
The hardest times came when I had to join the army for 18 months at the
end of 1978. I came to know that QPR had relegated only after I got demobbed
in May, 1980. Things did change after “Perestroyka” was launched in the
former USSR. There appeared a paper that covered regularly the British Premier
League. And glimpses of the English football commenced to be shown on our
TV. I was lucky to see all FOUR goals QPR managed to score at The Old Trafford
ten years ago. The first QPR game I saw on our TV was the cup tie against
Manchester City, in which we were beaten at Loftus Road 1-2. It was not
a full coverage and I already knew the result, but still I was very happy.
A few years later there appeared a thing called Internet (that turned the
whole world into a global Village) and now I can follow QPR almost
like you do. I became a more then a frequent visitor of QPR sites
and it looks now as if I graduated a university, specializing in QPR history,
indeed I’m Bachelor in QPR-logy, if not a master. As time went I got more
concentrated on the English Football, especially after the demise of the
USSR. I honestly tried to watch the games of the Independent Ukraine Superior
league but abandoned doing it after the case when for the first time in
My life fell a sleep watching the game on TV (it was that interesting!).
So QPR is my one and only consolation. When we relegated in 1996 at first
it looked as if the Earth came off my feet, but somehow it seemed that it
would not take us long to get back where we really belong. Alas things were
much worse. Six years have elapsed since then and at the moment we are at
Division2 and under administration and it looks as if there no chances of
getting back to the top. Sometimes I feel like I’m going to pass away without
seeing QPR back in the Premiership. You may ask if I have ever regretted
my having become a QPR addict, the answer is rather Yes, then No. Because
it helped me to master the language and become a specialist (by the way,
in the town where I live know I’m one of the best translators) and somehow
helped me in the professional career and made my life more colourful. Of
course, we have never been much of a glamorous side, and failed, so far
to win many trophies but I still consider QPR a team with a great
history and excellent fans all over the world (though I’ve never met one
personally). It may be interesting for you that in the Ukraine and, particularly
in my town there are quite a lot of people who enjoy English football (much
more than you may think), but unfortunately they are the fans of Manchester
United (I know even quite small kids who are crazy about MU), Liverpool,
Arsenal, Newcastle United, Chelsea or even West Bromwich Albion fans. Those
younger ones have never heard of Queens Park Rangers, but who are over 25
know QPR and all of them speak about QPR not without respect.
To end the story here are a few facts about myself:
My name is Anatoliy, I reside in Mariupol, that’s in the
South-East of the Ukraine.
At the moment I work as a teacher of the English language
at the local Technical University (I’m a part-timer now) and I work also
as a translator (mainly a technical one, though sometimes I happen to some
interpreting). My second hobby is music (the English and American, of course)
and generally I have what the French call “Anglomanie”. (I like everything
English).
E-mail: rudeqpr@mariupol.net