As Bad As Things Got: Queens Park Rangers, 22nd May 1963
QPR had long flirted with White City Stadium, but when they moved there for the second time they were in for another rude awakening.
Queens Park Rangers may well be truly embedded as the football club of Shepherds Bush, but over the years its owners have had something of a tendency to tinker with the club’s home. Queens Park Rangers have always had itchy feet. They’ve played at more different home grounds than any other Football League club. And on top of this, Loftus Road was slowly but completely rebuilt between 1968 and 1980, making it for a while England’s most modern football stadium, all topped off with a contentious artificial pitch, which the club retained from 1981 to 1988.
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