1920-21 season

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Queen’s Park Rangers 1 (Birch) Brentford 0

Football League Division 3

27th December 1920 – Loftus Road

The cover of the programme for this Boxing Day Division Three fixture – played at Loftus Road.
Included within the programme are the details for the big F.A.Cup first round tie with the Arsenal – to be played at Loftus Road on January 8th 1921
The R’s fixtures for the 1920-21 season – also details of the testimonial match for the club’s long serving secretary W.L.Wood. This match would be played the following April against Chelsea.
The team line ups for the game – Rangers won this game 1-0 with he winner coming from the great Jimmy Birch (scorer of 144 goals for the club in 363 games)

John Bowman – one of the most important figures in the club’s early days, as a player, secretary, manager and director. Our greatest ever goalscorer George Goddard would marry John’s daughter to keep going Bowman’s link with the club. John would also run this shop in Harlesden.
This recorded attendance of 26,000 was the club’s biggest Football League attendance to date – 25,000 was the official capacity of Loftus Road at the time – so this is more like the official figure.
The Boxing Day results from 1920 ( Boxing Day fell on the 27th this year)
Bert Middlemiss – the man who laid on the pass for Jimmy Birch for the winning goal in this match. Sadly he broke his leg later on in this match and sadly never played again, retiring the following year.

With thanks to Peter Ascher for the use of this historic Queen’s Park Rangers Match Programme.

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