Word has it....

[Wise old Bee]

I used to watch the odd QPR match in the Marsh era and even went to the 67League Cup Final. I also went to Chelsea and Fulham not to mention local non-league sides. I waited 37 years to see us play them in a competitive match and those six games were dreadful. I'd have felt a lot worse if I knew then that within a few seasons our big rivals would be Barnet, Dagenham, and Aldershot. My son, who first came to GP in 1989, hates Fulham like poison so I suppose it is a generational thing really.

 

[TW3Bee]

I actually went to a QPeeHa game before I went to GP, it would have been around 1971/2.

The one memory I have of that day was nothing to do with the game, but was coming out of White City station and seeing a massive stadium in front of me and thinking wow this is a great stadium, and then realising it was White City Stadium.

 

[62-63]

I used to watch the odd QPR match in the Marsh era and even went to the 67League Cup Final. I also went to Chelsea and Fulham not to mention local non-league sides. I waited 37 years to see us play them in a competitive match and those six games were dreadful. I'd have felt a lot worse if I knew then that within a few seasons our big rivals would be Barnet, Dagenham, and Aldershot. My son, who first came to GP in 1989, hates Fulham like poison so I suppose it is a generational thing really.

Blimey WOB, 67 was a very bad year to go and watch them!
I am certain I was at Chelsea v Fulham on the day of the 67 league cup final,is my memory playing tricks on me?
Why did we not watch the Bees ? ,were we away or maybe had no game?

 

[londondude]

I nearly became a QPR fan, as when i was 6 my dad wanted me to become 1 as he WAS a fan.

I watched Brentford vs Fulham at Fulham and as soon as i saw Brentford i said, thats the team i want to support. Glad to say my dad is now a Bee too.

 

[sleekerslee]

Blimey WOB, 67 was a very bad year to go and watch them!
I am certain I was at Chelsea v Fulham on the day of the 67 league cup final,is my memory playing tricks on me?
Why did we not watch the Bees ? ,were we away or maybe had no game?

We beat Stockport away on the friday night.ex qpr Brian Bedford and the Doc scored. My mate from school was a qpr fan and he went to wembley. I bet him a 10 shilling note they would lose At the time you felt the club might die and it was the start of them becoming "big club".

 

[DavidgRushden]

Afraid to say that as much as I hate QPR,my biggest hates are Brighton and Watford, as they conspired to cheat us out of the top spot in Divsion 3 South in the last match of 1957/8 season, resulting in Brighton being promoted. Even the referee reported the Watford players to the FA for lack of effort, but nothing was done about it and it was admitted many years later by players from both sides that the result was false. If we had gone up then, we might have been in a very different position today.

 

[Sandhurstbee]

Afraid to say that as much as I hate QPR,my biggest hates are Brighton and Watford, as they conspired to cheat us out of the top spot in Divsion 3 South in the last match of 1957/8 season, resulting in Brighton being promoted. Even the referee reported the Watford players to the FA for lack of effort, but nothing was done about it and it was admitted many years later by players from both sides that the result was false. If we had gone up then, we might have been in a very different position today.

I remember my dad telling me this story, Bees stitched up again same as when they wanted to reduce the premiershite it was us who dipped out 2nd but not promoted :sad: Still on a brighter note One of my earliest and fondest memories was standing on the Concrete supports of the Floodlight Pylons to watch the Mighty Bees stuff scum 6-1 on the opening day of the 1965/66 season . Scum recovered to Finish 3rd - we were relegated

 

[TOMOGP]

Afraid to say that as much as I hate QPR,my biggest hates are Brighton and Watford, as they conspired to cheat us out of the top spot in Divsion 3 South in the last match of 1957/8 season, resulting in Brighton being promoted. Even the referee reported the Watford players to the FA for lack of effort, but nothing was done about it and it was admitted many years later by players from both sides that the result was false. If we had gone up then, we might have been in a very different position today.

Adrian Thorne 5 goals it was bad at the time but seeing it brought up in various articles & books with the apparent acceptance that the game was a fix makes it as bad today

 

[Edmundo]

Afraid to say that as much as I hate QPR,my biggest hates are Brighton and Watford, as they conspired to cheat us out of the top spot in Divsion 3 South in the last match of 1957/8 season, resulting in Brighton being promoted. Even the referee reported the Watford players to the FA for lack of effort, but nothing was done about it and it was admitted many years later by players from both sides that the result was false. If we had gone up then, we might have been in a very different position today.

Well before my time - before I was born, even - but there is something about this story that seems to sum up Brentford. In 1995 we finished second and weren't promoted and the injustice seemed compounded by the fact that it was 37 years since a team finishing second at that level wasn't promoted and (you couldn't make it up) yes that team was also Brentford. We all must have done something very bad in previous lives to have this much bad karma.

 

[sleekerslee]

I blame Hitler. The club had spent money, were to improve the ground still further, making new road a 2 tier stand had some great players, had a chance of the league title and war was declaired. After the war potential still there, good gates but the Davis bros were asset strippers...the rest is history . Much smaller clubs over took us. The rest is history. Roll on lionel road, lets recapture our past. With our location we can be a big club

 

[homelessbee]

I blame Hitler.

Brilliant Someone should get that put onto a flag

 

[Wise old Bee]

I blame Hitler.)

I'm surprised GP never got flattened what with it being so close to the gasworks and docks. Then we might have had a new ground post-war and really kicked on to greater things. It's probably fairer to blame Herrman Goerring and the Luftwaffe.

 

[sleekerslee]

I'm surprised GP never got flattened what with it being so close to the gasworks and docks. Then we might have had a new ground post-war and really kicked on to greater things. It's probably fairer to blame Herrman Goerring and the Luftwaffe.

 

[verwoodbees]

Fulham . Watford and QPR i hate them all but and there is a but over recent seasons ok a few more than that Fulham are the Scum no 1 closely followed by the tesco carrier bags for the bush and then Watford. But i have too add onto my list Peterborogh as i detest the B******s.

 

[wanderer paul]

....that a legendary Brentford captain will be joining Queens Park Rangers this summer.

well it isn;t Mr El Tel..................... he's gone to the Wasps.

 

[Brentford Bob]

:bound: :bound: :bound: :bound:

Very pleased about this.

He was offered a position at Loftus road and at Wasps but chose rugby instead. Wise choice IMHO.

The Brentford legend remains a Brentford legend.

 

[DavidgRushden]

Has he gone to the Wasps for certain? I read that Wycombe had released him. As Brentford Bob says, he is still a Brentford legend.

 

[Jimbee]

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/...352637.0.evans_leaves_wanderers_for_wasps.php

 

[nocoat]

Crisis averted :blush

 

[Markybee]

You need to know your Brentford history. Why on earth are Fulham the real scum? They've never got the benefit of dodgy decisions like Birmingham which relegated us in 93 and cost us promotion in 95, apart from a minor spat in the Autoglass Trophy once they've never bothered us off the pitch unlike Luton or Southend and several other clubs and they've never had us by the throat like QPR did in 67. They wouldn't get in my top five of hated clubs.

Brumscum ate THE scum for me

 

[Iverheathbee]

I have to spoken to him a couple of times recentely and he said he defo wasn't gonna go to QPR so there was no crisis really anyway, he loves brentford too much.

 

[DidntYouUsedToBee]

Only one club ever threatened our very existence.......



so I'm not so keen on them

 

[SmiffyBee]

Brumscum ate THE scum for me

burp !

pardon :blush: