Amid the backdrop of Neil Warnock returning to Selhurst Park for the first time since leaving Crystal Palace, QPR all but guaranteed their Championship survival with an impressive 2-0 win over Paul Hart’s side on Saturday…
Just when we were thinking it’s safe to sigh a collective breath of relief, QPR get walloped 4-0 at Leicester and every other result seems to go against us at the bottom of the Championship to leave us 3pts clear of the relegation zone….
Coventry deepened QPR’s relegation fears with a 1-0 victory at the Ricoh Arena this afternoon. The defeat, Rangers fifth on the trot, leaves the West Londoners in a perilous position in the Championship just 2pts above the relegation zone.
Inept, spineless, effortless and outright rubbish. QPR have been a complete and utter shambles on the pitch for 2 months and off it for some time longer…
When I started this blog there was so much optimism around the club. We were playing exciting expansive football and giving several teams a long overdue hiding. It was, as some might say, unbelievable. And perhaps too unbelievable, once our expectations and hopes had been cruelly raised, to ever realistically last the season.
Ah the magic of the 3rd draw of the FA Cup. I wanted either a home tie against a team in a league lower than us, or an away trip to a Premier League ground, but not a team in our division… away, which was exactly what we got.
Joe Cole had dreamed of this moment for eight long months. From time to time, during the arduous rehabilitation from his cruciate knee ligament injury, the Chelsea midfielder closed his eyes and heard the roar of the Stamford Bridge crowd and imagined the thrill of a return to first-team football. When the long overdue feelings came back, he could also celebrate his part in what proved to be the winning goal.
Cole’s close control and pass early in the second half caught out the Rangers back line and urged Salomon Kalou to gallop forward on goal. There was still plenty of work to be done but the Ivorian’s composure and finish matched the slick build-up. For Cole, who was pressed through the whole 90 minutes, and his team, this was an eighth consecutive victory of the season. Carlo Ancelotti, the coach, knows only the grinding satisfaction of result after result.
Rangers finally picked up their first win of the season with a workmanlike 1-0 victory at Scunthorpe on Saturday….