Norwich City take aim at Adel Taarabt - some fans at QPR have taken that personally | OneFootball

Queens Park Rangers fans have reacted with anger to a tweet from Norwich City about a penalty kick that was missed more than a decade ago.

A post sent by the official Norwich City X account relating to a penalty miss from more than a decade ago has been taken somewhat personally by Queens Park Rangers fans.

Neither Norwich City nor Queens Park Rangers have had especially great starts to the 2025-26 season.

Norwich have won two and lost two of their opening four matches and sit in 11th place in the table, while QPR are 18th, with a win and a draw from theirs, and the negative goal difference incurred as a result of losing 7-1 at Coventry City leaving them in a somewhat lowly 18th place in the table.

With an international break this weekend, club social media accounts can tend to fall back on highlights from their clubs' pasts, and this has been the case this week for the Norwich City account on the social media platform X.

But this particular highlight was a lowlight for the Canaries' opponents that day, and QPR fans have taken umbrage at it being pulled out, some 12 and a half years after the event.

Norwich City take aim on X at Adel Taarabt over penalty miss from 2013

The official Norwich City account on the social media platform X has tweeted a video of a missed penalty kick in a match played their club and Queens Park Rangers in February 2013.

The tweet was greeted with a chorus of disapproval from Rangers fans.

One respondent described them as "absolute CHUMPS", while others said that Rangers must be living "rent free" in Norwich heads at the moment and another said, "Surely you need to focus on players leaving your club for your biggest rival", a reference to Marcelino Nunez's recent £10 million switch from Norwich to Ipswich Town.

QPR fans have pointed out that Norwich City didn't even win the match concerned

The incident referred to came during a match between QPR and Norwich which was played on the 2nd February 2013.

At the time, QPR were bottom of the Premier League table, while Norwich were 14th. The penalty was awarded in the second half for a foul by the Norwich goalkeeper Mark Bunn on QPR's Jamie Mackey, but Bunn redeemed himself by saving the penalty kick.

The match ended in a goalless draw, an irony which struck one Rangers supporter, who said in reply to Norwich's tweet, "How embarrassing for Norwich to be digging up a saved penalty from a match they didn’t even win!" It's certainly fair to say that Norwich could be embarrassed by not having won that game.

QPR ended the season rooted to the bottom of the table with just four wins from their 38 matches, while Norwich finished in 11th. There's certainly a case to be made for saying that the Canaries should have won this match.

But a lot of the QPR fan response was bemusement. One described it as "a bit of a weird post", while another went a couple of steps further by replying that, "Norwich fans, they smell of soil, manure and regret."

Overall, though, what this exchange speaks of most vividly is just how many people are left clicking their heels by international break weekends, especially when they come so early in the season.