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Main Reason you started following QPR ??
at 23:47 18 Jan 2026

I'd love one of those if I ever see one. I could always wear my new Colombia world cup top I got from my partners daughter for Christmas who is visting at the moment. We're taking her to the Wrexham game on saturday for a treat before she flies back on Sunday

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Main Reason you started following QPR ??
at 19:55 18 Jan 2026

I'll have a hell of a dilemna for those two games if we do make it upto the premiership in the next couple of years lol. Think I'd just dress in blue and white and keep quiet for 90 minutes

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Main Reason you started following QPR ??
at 19:42 18 Jan 2026

Great question

Originally from Liverpool and was an Everton fan growing up, and still am (great result at Villa today). A few of the lads from school went to uni in London and one was in a shared house in Shepherd's Bush, which was very like south liverpool. We would often go and crash at his place for a weekend in the late '80s and went to a few games back then and Loftus Rd always felt special.

Since then I've lived in Newcastle, Cardiff and Stoke but never felt any affinity to the local teams (and loved singing "Stoke is a s#@t hole, I wanna go home" yesterday even though home is Birmingham now). My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there most weekends. She's Colombian and would never go to a game because her nephew was shot dead by some ultras over there a few years ago, but 2 years ago her daughter went to watch Cali Deportiva, the local team, (and a similar team to QPR in lots of ways) and told her she would love it - lots of noise and crowds, everything the Colombians seem to love. I explained that Chelsea wasn't even an option and there's only 1 team in West London and the stadium is only 20 minutes away on the 72 bus from Hammersmith Bridge and we started going regularly last season - both loving it.

Two other things too. She'd heard a lot about racism at English football stadiums and her first visit to loftus Road put her mind at rest. For me, seeing a couple of QPR flags at the St Patrick's Day bash at Trafalgar Square 2 years ago was amazing being second generation Irish - didn't realise there was such a big Irish hoops contingent.

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Cocaine
at 17:27 14 Jan 2026

Thanks

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Cocaine
at 15:34 13 Jan 2026

Cheers for the welcome. I do love the forum, especially the post-match punditry. Addicts in recovery are usually still very obsessive. My partner loves the games and then gets on with her life between games - which I struggle with. I'm on a couple of the QPR fan facebook groups but there is often a lot of negativity after a defeat and reverting back to "Time for Julien to go".

Feels like halfway through last season was a great time to become an obsessive Rangers fan - new manager now, young squad who might be lacking in experience but make up for it in passion and natural ability. I see getting into the premiership as maybe a 3 year project. Looking forward to going up to Stoke on saturday now - my kids live there and are both Stoke fans so if we don't win I'll be getting terrorised all night!

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Cocaine
at 13:01 13 Jan 2026

Interesting thread - and my first post here. As well as being a Rangers fan I'm also a member of Cocaine Anonymous and have been clean for 8 years now. I'm based in Birmingham mid-week and most of the lads in the meetings I go up here are football lads - mostly Birmingham City and West Brom (maybe Villa fans don't take drugs lol) - so I know its been part of the culture for a few decades.

My partner lives in Hammersmith and I'm down there with her at weekends. ironically, she's Colombian, and I've been over to cali a few times with her family and seen first hand how the trade has affected her country. Her nephew was shot dead at a game over there a few years ago by a coked-up fan so she would never go to watch football until I finally won her round early last season. Being from Liverpool originally (and part of me will always be an Everton fan) QPR were always like a second team for me and we started going to watch them last season - and she loves the Rangers vibe now.

The buzz in the R block when Rangers score down the Loft end is better than anything I've ever put up my nose!!!

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