QPR - WEDNESDAY (FA CUP) omdt

[Lord Snooty]

 

I can't really think of QPR without thinking of Gerry Francis' mullet. Of course he's a bit of a legend down there. Not only because of his 300 odd appearances as a player, or even his 6 years in two stints as manager. But that Mullet. 

It overrides almost anything else when I think of QPR. You say "QPR" and I think "Blue and white hoops and Gerry Francis' mullet."

 

Some will be too young to remember Gerry the player. A central midfield player capped 12 times by England.

Way back then he'd got a bit of a standard late sixties early seventies barnet going on. 

 

 

He could probably get away with that today. But the seed was there. As the decade wore on Gerry's hair got bigger. The pork chops start getting grown.    He experiments with a central parting for a few years. But it's round the back that the action is really starting to take place. 

 

 

 

He retains the central parting and like many of the era he starts growing his hair out. The pork chops get bigger and bigger. The centre parting grows wilder, a more roguish look, but all the while; the back keeps on growing. 

 

 

By the time he's gone to Palace he's gone full 'long on the back and a bit off the front.' He's going for the long tousled look, but i It's the first time we genuinely see that he's heading towards a sharp left down proper Mullet avenue. 

 

 

 

Gerry retires from playing after a stint at Bristol Rovers and ends up becoming their manager. But there isn't blanket coverage of football down the divisions then and Gerry falls a wee bit from the consciousness. But we remember his mullet.

 

But then his break comes. His old club QPR want him back - as manager. 

And Gerry hasn't really changed much.He's just as he always was really. Yes, his chin is rounding, as they do. The hair? Well maybe a bit greyer but generally it's as we remember. But subtly, had got a bit shorter on the sides.... Yes, the sides had been trimmed. Gerry was now approaching a time in his life where he was prepared to go full mullet. To accept that's what he wants and that's what he'll have. There's a lot of bad hair about in the 1990's.  Gerrys bit off the sides, goes largely unnoticed. 

 

 

After three years at his spiritual home Gerry moves to manage Spurs and it's here where things really take a turn. Those little trims on the side and the top you can disguise, but now he goes full throttle. He doesn't have the dead ends took off. He goes in hardcore. Mini-flat-top with mullet. 

 

 

 

Gerry Sticks with this particular mulletege for some time. It becomes part and parcel of our consciousness.  As the years roll by it changes in colour and tone, he goes greyer, and then whiter. But in our minds eye it it somehow remains the same.

 

 

 

And then finally, after years of little tweaks,  Gerry eventually reveals the full gun.

The full glory. 

 

 

Magnificent. But somehow, not shocking. Because the mullet, and Gerry, as a pair, have always been there.  They are one of the steadfast rocks that holds together our culture. An anchor from football past right through to present.  Gerrys hair is one of the great constants in our lives. Marriage, kids, death, divorce, all the trials. People, things,  come and go.  But some things remain. Some things thread their way like twine through our life times.  Perpetual handholds in the present and yet also the past. Reassuring footings.  Gerry Francis's mullet is one of them. The FA Cup is another...

 

 

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QUEENS PARK RANGERS

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SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY

The FA Cup

Friday 24rd January

Kick off : 20:00pm
Loftus Road 

 

 

THE TEAM NEWS

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QPR

QPR's Jordan Hugill and Joe Lumley are in contention to return for the all-Championship FA Cup fourth-round tie with Sheffield Wednesday.

Striker Hugill and goalkeeper Lumley missed last week's win over Leeds with unspecified injuries but have since trained and are fit.
Mark Warburton is promising a strong team as QPR look to reach the fifth round for the second successive season.

"Against Swansea in the last round we made changes and the boys put in a fantastic performance," said QPR boss Warburton.

 

Lumley

Rangel     Leistner    Masterson    Wallace

Scowen    Amos

Osayi-Samuel    Eze    Clarke

Hugill

 

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SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY

Wednesday defender Liam Palmer and striker Fernando Forestieri look likely to miss out with ankle and knee injuries respectively.

 Massimo Luongo is available after his outrageous red card against Blackburn was rescinded.

Around 3,000 Wednesday fans will be at Loftus Road for the tie.

"It's not just a cup tie, it's a game we want to win and we need to win," said Owls boss Monk.

 

Dawson

Iorfa      Lees      Borner       Fox

Hutchinson

Murphy   Lee    Bannan     Harris

Nuhiu

 

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MATCH FACTS

• QPR and Sheffield Wednesday have played once previously in the FA Cup, with the Owls winning 3-0 in January 1967.

 

• Wednesday are on a run of four consecutive defeats against QPR, losing 2-1 earlier this season at Hillsborough in the Championship.

 

• QPR have won three of their last five matches in the FA Cup - more than their previous 26 games combined in the competition.

 

• Wednesday have kept six clean sheets in their last nine FA Cup matches, including winning 1-0 away at Brighton in the third round this season.

 

• QPR's Jordan Hugill scored two goals and had an assist in the 5-1 win over Swansea in the third round - Hugill also scored two goals against Wednesday in QPR's 2-1 league win earlier this season. FFS

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY

[S36 OWL]

Wednesday normally ruin my saturday afternoons ,im hoping they dont ruin my friday night .

[Emerson Thome]

13 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said:

 

 

 

 

 

Does Francis have any sons?

 

 

[Rogers]

 

They say he's part Werewolf

 

[Rogers]

We never do well at QPR and I don't really care if we win or lose. Obviously, I'd prefer a win, but let's be realistic, once you get the quarter finals you'll play the big boys and get mullered. 

 

Maybe a chance to play Winnall and Rhodes up top...then we can have a moan on how sh*t they are afterwards

 

 

[edmontonowl]

It's not just the mullet, though, it's those sideburns too.

 

Good player was Francis in an excellent QPR side in the 70's. I never had 'em in my Subbuteo collection, though. Too many Larndun sides already.

 

Anyway, enough reminisssse.......reminderssiss...............................errrr.... things from the past.

 

I'm expecting a solid 3-1 tonking. Well it's on the tellybox here, innit. Guaranteed disappointment for ex-pats

 

 

(Plus I just know the boys will get a reaction after last week's debacle but I'm keeping that to myself)

 

 

UTO FQPR

Edited January 24, 2020 by edmontonowl

[trumbullowl]

QPR were a really good team in the seventies and eighties. Bob Wilson would rush back to the BBC from Loftus Road and breathlessly recount their game. 

I only saw us there once, a solid win in the early eighties, when being a Wednesday fan had become really fun again. I hope our fantastic 3,000 get to enjoy

it as much as I did. We'll never be mastered.....UTO.

[Samurai Blue]

I won’t make a prediction just yet.

 

i need to mullet over.

[james o connor]

Glad to see we’ve recruited our much needed striker . Credit to the 3000 that’s travelling down . 3/1 qpr 

[Samurai Blue]

This OMDT made me all nostalgic for some Rage Against The Machine.

 

Standing in line
Believing the lies
Bowing down to the flag
You gotta mullet on ya head

 

 

 

[Mr. Tom]

3 hours ago, Lord Snooty said:

 

how many haircuts has he asked for here ffs

 

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

THE WEDNESDAY 

[bladeshater]

Come on the Wednesday

[WindygrOWLer]

Only a c*ck would have hair like that.

Or a cockatoo...

[thewookieisdown]

QPR's a club which has changed its identity a fair bit over the years. Alan Johnson, the ex Labour cabinet minister, wrote a superb autobiography about growing up in a working class community with QPR as his local team. He's a lifelong fan. That local base for support has now largely disappeared. In the 70s, beofre the big clubs were global brands, QPR were more successful than Chelsea in W London. They now seem to have a mixture of old geezers, and more rootless fans who have moved to the London area and want somewhere to watch football, maybe with the kids.

 

Most painful QPR memory was losing 1-0 in 1990 - I think our third last game of the season. This was the point where mild unease that from a seemingly safe position six matches out we were getting onto trouble mutated into real - and justified - panic. As I recall it, they scored quite early, and we created chance after chance: if xG had been around then, it would have been something like 1.1 - 2.8. Late on, Peter Shirtliff hit the underside of the bar with a long shot. The rest is history.

[Drewswfc]

3 minutes ago, thewookieisdown said:

QPR's a club which has changed its identity a fair bit over the years. Alan Johnson, the ex Labour cabinet minister, wrote a superb autobiography about growing up in a working class community with QPR as his local team. He's a lifelong fan. That local base for support has now largely disappeared. In the 70s, beofre the big clubs were global brands, QPR were more successful than Chelsea in W London. They now seem to have a mixture of old geezers, and more rootless fans who have moved to the London area and want somewhere to watch football, maybe with the kids.

 

Most painful QPR memory was losing 1-0 in 1990 - I think our third last game of the season. This was the point where mild unease that from a seemingly safe position six matches out we were getting onto trouble mutated into real - and justified - panic. As I recall it, they scored quite early, and we created chance after chance: if xG had been around then, it would have been something like 1.1 - 2.8. Late on, Peter Shirtliff hit the underside of the bar with a long shot. The rest is history.

Remember that game well.... Never really done much at loftus rd but remember jemson scoring really late on for us but can't remember whether it was for a win or a draw just remember going mental when it went in. 

0--1 toneet UTO

[Hitcat]

I predict a sausagefest.

[MrsHall]

Enjoyed that NYD game when our mullet man and his mates got done for going on the beer the night before. Got hassled by 2 mardy Rangers outside saying we deserved nothing  UTO.

[Pablo Bonvin]

Ah the magic of the FA Cup. Friday night. QPR away.

 

Was expecting to see some stats about how QPR hadnt won since Gilbert O'Sullivan was number one, to set us up for another Wednesday Way performance.

 

Anyway, talking of mullets, the best one in football belonged to Mr Waddle, and that of course brings back epic FA Cup memories so I'll have to put my faith in that and hope for the best tonight.

 

Up the Owls. 

 

[WalthamOwl]

Be nice to get a win today but the league and getting 3 points in our next game is more important for me. Obviously be great to have both! Hoping for a battling blood and guts performance tonight, the complete opposite of that shower of poo against Blackburn.