At the stadium of British soccer club Queens Park Rangers, deceased fans can get season tickets — forever.
About a decade ago, British citizens were asked to please stop illegally spreading their loved one’s ashes. Cremated remains were polluting waterways and damaging the fields of some of the country’s most-beloved soccer clubs. Some teams responded by opening memorial gardens near their grounds to stop the illegal dumping. But one team took things even further.Reg Baker, Sr. was a born-and-bred West Londoner from a motley and unpretentious neighborhood called Shepherd’s Bush.
Derby’s about three hours north of London — almost halfway to Scotland. And that’s far when your transit is for sofas, not people.Reg Sr. always came prepared to cheer on QPR, blue sky or grey. Colin remembers another match. "My wife suggested to me that perhaps we might approach Rangers," Colin says."I raised this with Reg and our sisters, and they were all very happy for me to take it forward."Colin emailed the club, which connected him with volunteer Rangers chaplain Reverend Cameron Collington. As it turned out, Colin and Reg Jr. were in luck. Because at QPR’s Loftus Road Stadium, deceased fans can get season tickets — forever.Reverend Collington was happy to deliver the good news.
"That exuberance of life, and to allow that to spill over into death," Mayo says."I remember an occasion where a wife had flown in from Canada with her husband’s ashes. Her memory of her husband is watching QPR on the internet at 3 o'clock in the morning.""These two ladies were standing at loggerheads, and they’d both had intimate relationships with the man who died — they were both sleeping with him at the same time," Mayo remembers.
"There were some tears shed, I remember that," he says."But they talked about stories of him, and some laughs were exchanged. Some funny things were said, in amongst the sadness of having lost him."
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