Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City

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Right: Maddix
spent 14 years
at Loftus Road
after joining
the club from
Tottenham in
1987
Actually, you featured as a sub on
two occasions before your first
league start that season, a 0-0 draw
away to Manchester United on 26th
September. As a defender, it must have
been very satisfying to keep a clean
sheet at Old Trafford?
Yes I do remember that now, it was like
the Alamo. They attacked and attacked
but we just defended with our lives. I
came up against Mark Hughes and it was
a testing first full game of the season
for me.
Looking back to 30 years ago, QPR
could compete with the very best
teams in the country…
Definitely. But we were quite fortunate
in that we had virtually two players in our
ranks for every position in the starting XI.
Back then, Queens Park Rangers were
blessed with a quality squad of players.
Your own speciality as a centre-half was
man-marking one-to-one, wasn’t it?
Yes, I have already mentioned Mark Hughes
and I had my battles with him over many
years. There were other top forwards that
I had to mark like Ian Rush, Gary Lineker
and big John Fashanu as well. I did my
homework on individual players before I
went into those games because some of
them were world-class strikers.
We also finished as top London club,
which was a meaningful milestone
back then…
Everyone wanted to boast about being
the top London team at the time. Back
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