Tony Ingham has always been a popular man at QPR. His career at Rangers saw his perform as a player before becoming Lottery Manager, then commercial manager before becoming a member of the board. After his retirement he continued to help out at the club with voluntary administrative duties.

Tony almost missed out an a career in football. After serving for the Navy at the end of the War, he finished his electrical apprenticeship before even considering a career in football.

Tony said "I reckoned that having a qualification would give me something behind me if things didn't work out for me in football, but I was lucky in the game".

While completing his apprenticeship, he was playing for Harrogate Town but Leeds spotted him and he signed for them in 1947. Tony enjoyed four years at Leeds but never became an established player.

Tony was a defender and played in the middle or as a left back in his time at Leeds and QPR. Tony's lack of first team opportunities were mainly due to the fact that the great John Charles was holding the central defensive role and when he switched to left back he found himself competing with Jimmy Milburn, one of the famous Milburn family.

QPR came in for him and he decided to take a chance and move to London.Tony did play a a part in a low point for the club when they we relegated to Division three South in 1951-52.

Tony felt that the way Rangers were relegated was a little unfair.

Tony says "One more point would have kept us up and we should have got that in one our last games against Cardiff City. Alf Sherwood punched the ball off the line but the ref never saw it so we didn't even get a penalty let alone a goal. We were drawing at the time and that goal would have given us the extra point to stay up".

"A few seasons after that we struggled to stay make it into the top half of the third division south table. Ranger then began to slowly improve with manager Alec Stock and some good support from the Rangers fans.

"We used to have a superb home record in those days, we used to have 16-17,000 every game and we played some great stuff"."

Tony almost left Rangers in the early 1960's but was persuaded to stay at Rangers by Jim Gregory with the offer of staying on at the club after his retirement from playing.

Tony played his last game for Rangers in 1963 and still holds the record for most appearances for the club with 548 games for QPR. Tony continued with QPR helping out with the commercial side of the club as that aspect of the game became bigger by the season.

He became a Commercial Director of the club in 1981 a role he enjoyed at the club he calls his own.

Tony is a true Rangers legend and will always be remembered as a very loyal servant of Queens Park Rangers.