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Only County Visit:<\/td>Saturday 23rd August 1997<\/td><\/tr>
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Competition:<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 1 – (Tier 2)<\/td><\/tr>
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Result:<\/td>Queens Park Rangers 2 – 1 Stockport County<\/td><\/tr>
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Attendance:<\/td>11,108<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Trip:<\/td>85<\/td><\/tr>
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Away Day:<\/td>362<\/td><\/tr>
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County Line-up<\/td>1 Ian Gray; 2 Sean Connelly; 3 Colin Woodthorpe; 4 Tom Bennett (13 Tony Dinning); 5 Mike Flynn; 6 Jim Gannon; 7 Kieron Durkan; 8 Chris Marsden; 9 Brett Angell (14 Vas Kalogeracos); 10 Alun Armstrong; 11 Lee Richardson (12 Kevin Cooper)<\/td><\/tr>
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Scorer:<\/td>Alun Armstrong<\/td><\/tr>
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Manager:<\/td>Gary Megson<\/td><\/tr>
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County Visits:<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Reflections on Loftus Road to be published in due course<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The South Africa Road, (Main), Stand at Loftus Road<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Loftus Road – a panorama. On the far side is the Ellerslie Road Stand; on the left The Loft, (for the noisier home fans; and on the right the School End where I sat on my only visit<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Behind the goal the School End, and in the corner on the lower tier, near the upright, was our location. Not the best of views .. by a distance<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Down the ground towards The Loft<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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And just a memento – a visit to Loftus Road on New Years Day 1974. A lockout, leading to an attempt to watch from the gangways on the flats behind the School End<\/strong> … until plod arrived!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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VISITS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day<\/strong><\/td>Date<\/strong><\/td>Competition<\/strong><\/td>Tier \/ Round<\/strong><\/td>Opponents<\/strong><\/td>Res<\/strong><\/td>F<\/strong><\/td>A<\/strong><\/td>Crowd<\/strong><\/td>Away Day<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Sat<\/td>23\/08\/97<\/td>Nationwide Football League – Division 1<\/td>Tier 2<\/td>Queens Park Rangers<\/td>L<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>11,108<\/td>362<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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ON MY JOURNEY WITH COUNTY AROUND 180 GROUNDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

..<\/p>\n\n\nPreviously – KENILWORTH ROAD<\/span><\/a>\n\nNext stop – BRITANNIA STADIUM<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only County Visit: Saturday 23rd August 1997 Competition: Nationwide Football League – Division 1 – (Tier 2) Result: Queens Park Rangers 2 – 1 Stockport County Attendance: 11,108 Away Trip: 85 Away Day: 362 County Line-up 1 Ian Gray; 2 Sean Connelly; 3 Colin Woodthorpe; 4 Tom Bennett (13 Tony Dinning); 5 Mike Flynn; 6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s"],"yoast_head":"\n57 Hatters Years : LOFTUS ROAD - QUEENS PARK RANGERS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stockport County - a look back at the single County game I saw at Loftus Road with some images of what the ground at that time\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/57hattersyears.co.uk\/index.php\/1990s\/loftus-road-queens-park-rangers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"57 Hatters Years : LOFTUS ROAD - 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