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Queens Park Rangers are promoted to the Premier League after win at Watford
It is 15 years since Queens Park Rangers last graced the top flight, and most fans will be glad to see the return of one of English football’s most quixotic clubs.
Queens Park Rangers are promoted to the Premier League after win at Watford
QPR manager Neil Warnock, Alejandro Faurlin (L) and Adel Taarabt (R) celebrate their promotion to the premiership Photo: ACTION IMAGES
John Ley
By John Ley 7:10PM BST 30 Apr 2011
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One thing is for sure, Queens Park Rangers supporters could never be accused of gloryhunting. One trophy since their foundation in 1882 – the 1967 League Cup – led to a joke centring on the thieves who broke into Loftus Road’s trophy room and were apprehended carrying a large blue and white striped carpet.
Talent-spotting
If Chelsea are the club of the Surrey stockbrokers and Crystal Palace the favoured retreat of comedians in search of material, QPR can at least claim to be the preferred haunt of eminent musicians.
Mick Jones, the guitarist with The Clash, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Nick Cave and, er, Phil Collins are all Hoops. Pete Doherty, meanwhile, used to edit a club fanzine.
Don't mention the...
Plastic pitch. Introduced by Rangers in 1981, the experiment provoked a storm of criticism, and seven years later artificial turf had been banned by the Football Association.
Do mention the...
Club’s reputation for enjoyably salacious stories. In recent years, there have been tales of guns brandished in the boardroom, controversial buy-outs by billionaire playboys and a former manager receiving 'playful’ death threats from his chairman.
It is 15 years since Queens Park Rangers last graced the top flight, and most fans will be glad to see the return of one of English football’s most quixotic clubs.
Queens Park Rangers are promoted to the Premier League after win at Watford
QPR manager Neil Warnock, Alejandro Faurlin (L) and Adel Taarabt (R) celebrate their promotion to the premiership Photo: ACTION IMAGES
John Ley
By John Ley 7:10PM BST 30 Apr 2011
Follow John Ley on Twitter
Comment
Know your history
One thing is for sure, Queens Park Rangers supporters could never be accused of gloryhunting. One trophy since their foundation in 1882 – the 1967 League Cup – led to a joke centring on the thieves who broke into Loftus Road’s trophy room and were apprehended carrying a large blue and white striped carpet.
Talent-spotting
If Chelsea are the club of the Surrey stockbrokers and Crystal Palace the favoured retreat of comedians in search of material, QPR can at least claim to be the preferred haunt of eminent musicians.
Mick Jones, the guitarist with The Clash, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Nick Cave and, er, Phil Collins are all Hoops. Pete Doherty, meanwhile, used to edit a club fanzine.
Don't mention the...
Plastic pitch. Introduced by Rangers in 1981, the experiment provoked a storm of criticism, and seven years later artificial turf had been banned by the Football Association.
Do mention the...
Club’s reputation for enjoyably salacious stories. In recent years, there have been tales of guns brandished in the boardroom, controversial buy-outs by billionaire playboys and a former manager receiving 'playful’ death threats from his chairman.