CITY 2 QUEENS PARK RANGERS 1
League Division 1
1st December 1990
Attendance 25,080
scorers
City Quinn(19 & 56)
QPR Sinton(90)
Ref Robert Nixon
City Dibble, I Brightwell, Pointon, Reid, Hendry, Redmond, White, Heath, Quinn, Megson, Ward – subs Allen(unused), Harper(unused)
QPR Roberts, Bardsley, Sansom, Herrera, Caesar, Law, Wilkins, Barker, Lorfa, Wegarle, Sinton – subs Meaker(75), Wilson(unused)
FROM THE PRESS BOX
DAVID HOPPS WRITING IN THE GUARDIAN 3RD DECEMBER 1990
… When Bobby Sinton’s last minute goal provided an unexpected, if flimsy excuse for celebration, Rangers’ travelling band were up to the task. “You only beat us 2-1,” they scoffed, so putting Peter Reid’s. first victory as Manchester City manager into perspective.
Rangers are certainly falling. This was their seventh successive League defeat, and in each of five of them a porous defence has conceded three goals. No side coached by the old skinflint Don Howe has ever before been so generous.
Rangers tried to bolster a five-man defence with Caesar, on loan from Arsenal, but they would hardly have made a better stab at it if they had also fielded all the conspirators.
In an inconsequential match, City attracted what plaudits were an offer. Quinn, scorer of both their goals, supplemented his permanent aerial domination with some reliable touches at ground level. By comparison Wegerle, who has a tap-dancer’s feet was far more wasteful on the rare occasions Rangers mustered an attack of any note.
With more consistent service Quinn might have doubled a surprisingly meagre tally of four League goals. But White’s thundering runs down the right were often followed by an unsteady cross, and Ward, seriously right-footed, veers away from the left touchline like a man fearing a shock from an electric fence.
City’s first goal after 19 minutes was enough to leave Rangers doom-laden. Heath held up the ball on the edge of the area long enough for Brightwell to whip in a far-post cross. Quinn’s second came in a similar fashion after Megson’s decisive pass through an advancing defence allowed White to turn on the afterburners. Quinn’s hat-trick might have arrived five minutes from time, but the gangling Irishman opted for a clumsy side foot to White, who failed to connect, and was offside anyway. It was a suitably downbeat conclusion to a largely unsatisfying game…
