QPR (2) – Blackburn Rovers (1) – ‘The Ball Flew Past the Astonished Patterson’ 

Football League Division 2 

Team: Brown, Poppitt, Powell (G), Clayton, Heath, Gilberg, Waugh, Smith, Addinall, Cameron, Shepherd 

Attendance: 13,291 

On Monday, 3rd September 1951, the R’s kicked off at 6.30pm against Blackburn Rovers at Loftus Road. 

Charles Buchan filed his match report the following day for ‘The Chronicle’. 

‘Five minutes from the end, when lights from the adjoining flats brightened the gloom and Rangers’ supporters were giving the slow handclap...