Memories..SIR LES

[qblockpete]

Think QPR are assembling legends for a celebration of the hoops, so lets do our own memoirs starting with SIR Les and will move into classic threads in due course.

[WeAreQPR12]

Sir Les was the complete striker and my hero. He could beat players that were 6'5 in the air and could leap like a salmon.
I'm 30 and remember the good old days well.
I am going down LR for 2;30 as I want to see Wayne Fereday another quality player.

[kron-1664]

Funny thing i cant think of a single sir les moment, i guess the best memory i have is always going into a home game thinking that the opposition will have to score 2 to win as les will score.

[WeAreQPR12]

Yeah he was like a goal head start and also Seaman in the side I felt we would beat anyone and we normally did

[NewarkR]

Oh, how he was booed when he first came from Hayes....

Time is a great healer, isn't it?

[erconwald]

away to newcastle, him and wilkins destroying the geordies, although hackett nearly ****ed it up for us.

[hammer]

he was the nuts in the air.i think hes goal v man utd at loftus rd stands out.was it 3-2 to them?

i have a good mate who played at southall with les and he told me way back then how good he was and how good he would become.

[Del]

Two hat-tricks in 3 days over Easter back in i think 94... I can't remember who the first was against at Loftus but know the second was away to Everton and we won 4-2. That was the time when for me he was the best around and forced his way in to the England team. It was incredibly satisfying to have a QPR player playing centre forward for England..... Legend!!

[Robsondinho]

Grew up watching him and made me want to be a centre forward. Strong, pace, & finishing with it....Stan & Rodney way before my time so Sir Les greatest player I have seen at QPR.

[Receed R]

Two hat-tricks in 3 days over Easter back in i think 94... I can't remember who the first was against at Loftus but know the second was away to Everton and we won 4-2. That was the time when for me he was the best around and forced his way in to the England team. It was incredibly satisfying to have a QPR player playing centre forward for England..... Legend!!

i was at that game:boss:

[crowlehoops]

It was Forest we beat (4-3) at home and then we beat Everton away 5-3

[W12_Ranger]

That goal against Sheff Utd at home was unforgettable after 2 mins

Leaping like a salmon agianst M'Boro in the dying minutes to nod home to make it 3-3

Lobbing the keeping against Oldham to then celebrate the goal with a fan who had run onto the pitch with a high five.

Comfortably beating the likes of Adams & Pallister to headers depsite being 5'11"

Too my recolation only ever scored 1 goal that was from a dead ball situation.

[Hertford Hoop]

For me Sir Les just had that presence about him, power, technique and enormous amounts of energy. Everytime he turned out in a Hoop shirt you just knew we had the guns to score and win. I think we miss him more than possibly any other player since Stanley.

[Bwarren20]

was very young maybe 5 or 6 just remember that red escort van he had when he played for Hayes my dad was physio there at the time and it was forever breaking down and everyone use to have to push it round the car park for him to jump start it! Remember the day he left for rangers I was so sad and cried, at his last game I was sitting in the treatment room and in walks les my dad said to him I was upset he was leaving so les came and sat next to me and said don't worry I'll get you and your dad to come watch me at Qpr and true to his word he did, he left me and my dad two tickets and two players bar passes in the box office, I was made up and kept the tickets and the note he left for us in a scrap book, we met him after the game in the players bar and he told us how the old escort van had gone and he'd brought himself porsche!

Just remember the look on my dads face when les told him he was going to sign for Qpr, my dad was so happy les was going to play for the team my dad supported all his life.

The rest is history really les became a legend and my dad moved up the football ladder too wealdstone, Watford and then finally he got the job as a physio at Qpr

[nuffieldranger]

for me Sir Les is not just about the football he is also a genuine and humble man he is always polite and a true gent.
I had the plesure of being in the players lounge on his sons 8th birthday big qpr cake great memories.