Transcribed from video tape by Justin Pieris. Apologies in advance if anything has got lost in that process.Scene: Hammersmith Town Hall, Assembly Hall. 600-700 QPR fans attend the QPR 1st Supporters Trust Anniversary Public Meeting. It’s 8.30pm and Holloway is presented the first ever QPR 1st Management Excellence Award… [Rapturous
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Games for Life Appeal
QPR 1st further appeal for the Games for Life Programme The Games for Life Programme is a project run by an organisation called CHEP, for out of/after school youngsters in Zambia, Africa, during which important health issues, such as malaria and HIV, are addressed, as part of the football games
Football Against Racism in Europe
QPR 1st member, Tom Rizzo, is doing some research on racism in football for the QPR 1st supporters trust, of which we hope the outcome will be a compilation available for FARE’s action week next month. Below is an appeal to QPR fans from Tom. As part of QPR 1st’s
Letter to the Times newspaper
We were contacted by a member of the Dons Trust (Wimbledon FC) regarding an article in today’s times. See the letter we sent reproduced below. Needless to say, we are extremely disappointed with the quality of the article which led us to contact the newspaper with the following: Dear Sir
Calendar update
We are delighted to announce the overwhelming success of the QPR 1st and QPR calendar for 2002. The initial print run of 1000 calendars has almost run out. We are looking into producing some more, but that is not a certainty so if you haven’t got a calendar yet then
Chesterfield Police update
Yesterday, we made contact with the football office at Chesterfield police station. We spoke to one of their football liaison officers, PC Turner, who told us the following. Following some intelligence information, Chesterfield police were led to understand to expect some trouble, from sections of both Chesterfield and QPR fans.
Chesterfield Police Update
Fairly late yesterday, we spoke to one of the football liaison officer’s for QPR. He informed us that his colleagues and himself had made enquiries after the complaints received from some QPR fans regarding their treatment on arrival at Chesterfield rail station. Chesterfield Constabulary told him that they had received
Complaints regarding Chesterfield policing
Following complaints from supporters regarding their treatment by Chesterfield police upon their arrival at Chesterfield station, we have been in contact with the local football police intelligence unit and they are going to make some preliminary enquiries. We will be speaking with them again tomorrow. In the meantime if anyone
Cambridge incident
We have been asked to reproduce the following statement with regard to Saturday’s match. ” A complaint has been registered against a police officer for an incident that took place at the Cambridge v QPR match on Saturday 29th September 2001. This incident took place at the end of the
Games for Life – Appeal update
At the game against Reading, fans were invited to bring along any discarded football kits in order for Zambian children to wear during an after school project called Games for Life, which is a programme organised by CHEP, a Zambian organisation that encourages education on how to prevent HIV, Malaria