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4th March 196 08:22 - Mar 4 with 6033 viewswelwynranger

57yrs ago today.
These men went to Wembley and became legends
Ron Springett
Tony Hazell
Jim Langley
Mike Keen
Ron Hunt
Frank Sibley
Mark Lazarus
Keith Sanderson
Les Allen
(King) Rodney Marsh
Roger Morgan.

Led out by the brilliant Alec Stock.

A third division team 2 nil down at half time to a top division side with international players of experience.
What an unforgetable day

RODNEE .
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4th March 196 on 08:29 - Mar 4 with 4938 viewsBucksRanger

I've still got the programme,
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4th March 196 on 08:34 - Mar 4 with 4930 viewsEsox_Lucius

Those were heady days, the days you wondered why would anyone support another team over QPR. So many great memories from back then.

The grass is always greener.

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4th March 196 on 08:43 - Mar 4 with 4909 viewsPlanetHonneywood

4th March 196 on 08:29 - Mar 4 by BucksRanger

I've still got the programme,


I was given a programme many moons ago.

What is it worth these days?

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4th March 196 on 09:04 - Mar 4 with 4871 viewseghamranger

4th March 196 on 08:43 - Mar 4 by PlanetHonneywood

I was given a programme many moons ago.

What is it worth these days?


Randomly I was walking my dog through the high street on 25th May 2014, hungover but feeling fantastic after Wembley the day before. I stopped to look at the advertising cards on the post office window and saw someone local selling a 1967 programme. I rung her up and walked round there and she wanted £15… it was immaculate and in a plastic sleeve.

Turned out her husband was an ex Chelsea keeper and it was given to him by a Qpr player from the game…. I don’t know who and he had died a while ago…


It’s not for sale btw
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4th March 196 on 09:10 - Mar 4 with 4848 viewssexton

I've still got the celebration ash tray, even though I've never smoked.
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4th March 196 on 09:37 - Mar 4 with 4781 viewsW7Ranger

4th March 196 on 09:04 - Mar 4 by eghamranger

Randomly I was walking my dog through the high street on 25th May 2014, hungover but feeling fantastic after Wembley the day before. I stopped to look at the advertising cards on the post office window and saw someone local selling a 1967 programme. I rung her up and walked round there and she wanted £15… it was immaculate and in a plastic sleeve.

Turned out her husband was an ex Chelsea keeper and it was given to him by a Qpr player from the game…. I don’t know who and he had died a while ago…


It’s not for sale btw


That's mental!!

I need to know more about history of this programme! Handed to an ex Chelsea from one of our players on from the game???

So many questions...
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4th March 196 on 09:41 - Mar 4 with 4772 viewsAddinall

Ron had long gone to Sheffield Wednesday.Brother Peter was in goal.

And I was there!
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4th March 196 on 10:01 - Mar 4 with 4723 viewsBlue_Castello

What a day that was it encapsulated everything that makes going to games exciting, losing at half time to a team two divisions higher in a Cup Final and the League Cup actually meant something in those days.

The feeling at half time that we could never come back, the absolutely brilliant solo goal from our Rodneeee running from the half way line, what a finish and the whole momentum of the game changed, there was only going to be one winner and Alec Stocks team were magnificent.

That season was the platform for the building of the Rs for future seasons, a team who you expected to win every league game and played such exhilarating attacking football, it was a joy for it to be my first season supporting the Hoops at the age of 12 and what has become my only addiction in life......
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4th March 196 on 10:12 - Mar 4 with 4696 viewsdaveB

[Post edited 4 Mar 10:13]
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4th March 196 on 10:15 - Mar 4 with 4673 viewsTheChef

4th March 196 on 10:01 - Mar 4 by Blue_Castello

What a day that was it encapsulated everything that makes going to games exciting, losing at half time to a team two divisions higher in a Cup Final and the League Cup actually meant something in those days.

The feeling at half time that we could never come back, the absolutely brilliant solo goal from our Rodneeee running from the half way line, what a finish and the whole momentum of the game changed, there was only going to be one winner and Alec Stocks team were magnificent.

That season was the platform for the building of the Rs for future seasons, a team who you expected to win every league game and played such exhilarating attacking football, it was a joy for it to be my first season supporting the Hoops at the age of 12 and what has become my only addiction in life......


Watching it again the Rodney goal is pretty bloody good!

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4th March 196 on 10:30 - Mar 4 with 4647 viewsswisscottage

wasn't that 1828 years ago.
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4th March 196 on 10:33 - Mar 4 with 4638 viewshantssi

When my dad passed away 15 years ago we came across all the Sunday papers from the following day that he’d kept and the programme!
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4th March 196 on 10:42 - Mar 4 with 4609 viewscyprusmel

I was there with Uncle John, Auntie Rose and my Dad, what a day, what a day to be alive.
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4th March 196 on 10:53 - Mar 4 with 4585 viewsEsox_Lucius

4th March 196 on 08:43 - Mar 4 by PlanetHonneywood

I was given a programme many moons ago.

What is it worth these days?


I lost mine on the way home, probably covered in the tears of joy I was still weeping hours later. It was the most emotional day of my young life back then. Villa park the following season was very similar... Fack we were good back then.

The grass is always greener.

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4th March 196 on 11:11 - Mar 4 with 4521 viewsQPRSteve

Went with my uncle who went to the celebratory dinner that night.

He gave me the menu card with all the player's signatures. My most treasured possession until my sister accidentally knocked a cup of tea all over it and ruined it.
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4th March 196 on 11:23 - Mar 4 with 4491 viewsSonofpugwash

Was there with my two brothers Steve and Phil.Will those days ever happen again?

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4th March 196 on 13:26 - Mar 4 with 4355 viewsjohnhoop

Was there with my Dad and younger brother and looking back on it now it seems almost like a fairy tale with the extraordinary come back against a first division side, the sea of blue and white and the chant of Rodnee echoing around Wembley after that amazing second goal.
We’d moved from South East to North West London six years before and hadn’t really found a team to support. At the beginning of October my last cricket fixture of the season was rained off and my Dad said to us something like “fancy coming to QPR this afternoon. It’s third division but we won’t have to push to get in and they’re playing well and scoring lots of goals.”
They beat Grimsby 5-1 that day and scored four in the next three home games with Morgan, Lazarus Marsh and Allen tearing teams apart and that was it! Why would you want to watch anyone else?
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4th March 196 on 13:31 - Mar 4 with 4353 viewsAirtomoreira

4th March 196 on 08:34 - Mar 4 by Esox_Lucius

Those were heady days, the days you wondered why would anyone support another team over QPR. So many great memories from back then.


That day was the day I decided to stop supporting my hometown team (Liverpool).

A decision that I've never regretted (well, maybe once or twice!!!)
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4th March 196 on 13:36 - Mar 4 with 4340 viewsloftus77

4th March 196 on 10:30 - Mar 4 by swisscottage

wasn't that 1828 years ago.


Absolutely...Rodnee, the Morgan twins, Mike Keen, the whole team was famed throughout the Roman Empire at the time - from Hadrian's Wall to Byzantium.

Joking aside, great thread as always. Would have loved to have been there. A major trophy.
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4th March 196 on 14:48 - Mar 4 with 4225 viewscyprusmel

I went to the semi final at Birmingham, I had just found my seat when Bridges scored for Brum but nobody was concerned we knew we would score, we run out winners 4-1 and we knew than that history was being made, a final at Wembley, although there was the second leg to play at the bush we knew we wouldn't be beaten at home.
Goals everywhere in that team.
It was a mere formality to dispatch Birmingham 3-1 for a 7-2 aggregate and the march to Wembley was on.
I am sorry for all you youngsters who never got the chance to see them play they were special.
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4th March 196 on 14:58 - Mar 4 with 4203 viewswelwynranger

4th March 196 on 08:29 - Mar 4 by BucksRanger

I've still got the programme,


I have still got the progamme and my dad in his infinite wisdom kept the ticket,so i have that as well
Entrance 55
West standing enclosure
Price 5 shillings
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4th March 196 on 15:14 - Mar 4 with 4159 viewsjohnhoop

4th March 196 on 14:48 - Mar 4 by cyprusmel

I went to the semi final at Birmingham, I had just found my seat when Bridges scored for Brum but nobody was concerned we knew we would score, we run out winners 4-1 and we knew than that history was being made, a final at Wembley, although there was the second leg to play at the bush we knew we wouldn't be beaten at home.
Goals everywhere in that team.
It was a mere formality to dispatch Birmingham 3-1 for a 7-2 aggregate and the march to Wembley was on.
I am sorry for all you youngsters who never got the chance to see them play they were special.


Can remember standing in the Loft for the home leg against Birmingham in the second half when Marsh broke away clear running towards us to slot in the final goal right in front of us.
When it hit the net everyone must have finished up about ten rows down from where they started off!
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4th March 196 on 15:48 - Mar 4 with 4107 viewscyprusmel

4th March 196 on 15:14 - Mar 4 by johnhoop

Can remember standing in the Loft for the home leg against Birmingham in the second half when Marsh broke away clear running towards us to slot in the final goal right in front of us.
When it hit the net everyone must have finished up about ten rows down from where they started off!


Many people don't realise that we also knocked out 1st division Leicester city 4-2 with the late great Gordon Banks after being behind 2-1.
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4th March 196 on 19:24 - Mar 4 with 3951 viewsNoDiddley

4th March 196 on 10:42 - Mar 4 by cyprusmel

I was there with Uncle John, Auntie Rose and my Dad, what a day, what a day to be alive.


Great day mate with me old man, god rest his soul.
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4th March 1967 on 19:29 - Mar 4 with 3940 viewsJules4367

Spent the next day cutting out all the stories and photos from every newspaper and scrapbooking them for the future.

No idea where that went?!

Have memories of West Brom claiming their keeper was fouled by Hunt before Lazarus picked up the spillage.

I can just remember the stadium erupting and the players running back to the half way line! I think that was the start of my anxiety as to whether we can hold on..which i still have with any game we are winning by one goal!

A fabulous day!
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