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United go to QPR today with the aim of extending our lead to 15 points at the top of the table ahead of City's game against Chelsea. QPR's recent form is pretty poor, with them winning just one of their last eight games.
Harry Redknapp insists that Queens Park Rangers will not engage in panic buying in January in a bid to lift themselves off the foot of the Premier League table.
QPR are six points from safety, and with a tough run of games coming up against Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs, West Ham and Man City, and Redknapp admits he needs new additions in the window.
Queens Park Rangers are looking to end a turbulent 2012 on a high by earning a much-needed Premier League victory against visitors Liverpool in Sunday's televised clash. Rangers are rooted to the bottom of the table after just one win in their opening 19 matches of the season. However, supporters are hoping another memorable home victory against the Reds can be the catalyst for survival once again.
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Javier Aguirre Takes on Espanyol's Mission Impossible - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The other Catalan club's new coach Javier Aguirre
Harry Redknapp isn't the only wily veteran to take on a dysfunctional bottom of the table side this week. Javier Aguirre is a master fire-fighter but he's taken on a massive job at Espanyol.
Harry Redknapp swapped his comfortable place on the Match of the Day sofa this week for the altogether more pressurized cauldron of uncertainty that is the Queens Park Rangers hot seat.
Nearly as many managers have come through the revolving doors at Loftus Road as players in recent years, quite an achievement when you consider that the R's have assembled virtually a new team in each of the last three seasons.
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Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes - Something to build on.
1. Whenever a side sacks their manager you have to worry about what impact it will have on their players ahead of the next game. Mark Hughes, who has had a dismal time at QPR, was sacked before the game and new manager Harry Redknapp was watching from the stands. "There's only one Harry Redknapp!" the away fans sung and their players seemed genuinely motivated to perform.
Harry Redknapp attends the annual BGC charity day (Photo by Stuart Wilson/Getty Images)
Harry Redknapp is back in the Premier League after Queens Park Rangers sacked Mark Hughes late on Friday evening.
Redknapp had been out of the job for roughly five months, following his departure from Tottenham, holding an advisory role Bournemouth in the nPower League One.
Sacked manager Mark Hughes (left) and Harry Redknapp (right) who's the favourite to succeed him.
Announced today, Mark Hughes lost his battle to keep his job as QPR manager. It comes as no surprise as QPR sit afoot of the Premier League without a win all season.
Winless Premier League-bottom dwellers QPR have sacked Mark Hughes. If this comes as a surprise to you then may Pies be the first to welcome you back from your stay on the International Space Station.
A club statement reads:
"Queens Park Rangers has today terminated the contract of manager Mark Hughes with immediate effect.
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Zamora Injury could Benefit Queens Park Rangers - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Queens Park Rangers have announced that striker Bobby Zamora will be out of action for the next three months as he requires hip surgery.
The news could ironically work in a positive way for QPR who currently sit rock bottom of the Premier League with manager Mark Hughes scratching his head over his best eleven.
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With what critics have been describing as the audio equivalent of a 30-yard bicycle Kung-Fu kick, we present your fortnightly of AFR Voice. This time around we'll be kicking things off with all things Zlatan – the goal, the aftermath, and the big question – just what is he giving his wife for Christmas?
Queens Park Rangers 1-3 Southampton Premier League 17th November 2012
After seeing his struggling QPR side produce a quite appalling performance at home to Southampton on Saturday, Hoops' boss Mark Hughes vowed to fight on.
Facing Rangers were a side still looking for a Premier League win this season, but Nigel Adkins' men were by far the better side on Saturday and thoroughly deserved the three points.
"The team played as planned," claimed QPR owner Tony Fernandes on Twitter following his club's latest defeat, a 1-0 reverse at Stoke last Saturday that left the Hoops with just four points from 11 games and Mark Hughes clinging to his job. But with the team bottom of the Premier League, QPR fans are entitled to wonder whether there was ever a plan to all of this in the first place.
"The team played as planned," claimed QPR owner Tony Fernandes on Twitter following his club's latest defeat, a 1-0 reverse at Stoke last Saturday that left the Hoops with just four points from 11 games and Mark Hughes clinging to his job. But with the team bottom of the Premier League, QPR fans are entitled to wonder whether there was ever a plan to all of this in the first place.
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Telegraph/Oliver Brown QPR's progressive manager Mark Hughes faces day of reckoning as his team face fellow strugglers Reading Mark Hughes wears a haunted look.
I can understand the fact that Mark Hughes is not happy after his QPR side lost to Arsenal at the Emirates yesterday, but the Welshman needs to engage his brain before opening his mouth. QPR are still without a Premier League win this season and are rooted to the bottom of the league, but Hughes blames yesterday's defeat on Thomas Vermaelen and the referee.
It is rare that Big Raddy struggles to raise enthusiasm for a post but this week has been just so disappointing. Two hard defeats, a dull AGM and another plucky MU victory, all horribly depressing. Apart from our neighbours scraping a draw with a team of chicken farmers and the losses of MC and the Chavs, it has been unremitting pain.
The best Sir Alex Ferguson Quotes - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
From the famous (or infamous, depending on where your loyalties lie) knocking Liverpool off their perch to comparing Arsene Wenger with a 15-year-old boy, Sir Alex Ferguson has never shied away from speaking his mind it's a different story that he banned some of the journalists from his press conferences though.
As special thanks for winning the one trophy he'd been chasing for years, Roman Abramovich woke up this morning and decided to sack Roberto Di Matteo after last night's 0-3 Champions League defeat against Juventus having signed him up to a fresh two-year deal in June having won the FA Cup and the Biggie as an interim.
'What's the best way to get to Kiev, mate should I take the A27 or go via London?"
In new that is sure to have pricked up the ears of QPR owner Tony Fernandes, the Ukrainian FA are apparently targeting 'Arry Redkapp as the man to replace Oleg Blokhin, who resigned in September.
What an exciting week for managers in West London. Roberto di Matteo, who has fully exposed the role of randomness in football, lost his job soon after guiding a rudderless team to the biggest prize in club football. Mull over that for a while. He's been dismissed because he isn't the person who can take the team to the next level, where they might.
What an exciting week for managers in West London. Roberto di Matteo, who has fully exposed the role of randomness in football, lost his job soon after guiding a rudderless team to the biggest prize in club football. Mull over that for a while. He's been dismissed because he isn't the person who can take the team to the next level, where they might.
If the sacking of Roberto Di Matteo by Chelsea was surprising yet unsurprising, there can be no doubt over the lack of shock regarding the decision of Queens Park Rangers to sever their ties with Mark Hughes after eleven months in the job this morning. The club lays adrift at the foot of the Premier League table without a win so far, and with a new television deal kicking in next summer that will substantially increase the wealth of those twenty clubs that are fortunate enough to be able to take advantage of it, this season above all others is the one that clubs cannot, both literally and figuratively, afford to be plummeting down through the trapdoor.
Today's your lucky day. You're the chairman of Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Southampton. You face the decision of whether to stick with your current manager, or replace him. What do you do? Firing someone is always a difficult...
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Today's your lucky day. You're the chairman of Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Southampton. You face the decision of whether to stick with your current manager, or replace him. What do you do?
Firing someone is always a difficult decision. There are so many variables involved. Is it really the manager that is failing, or is it the players who are unable to carry through with the manager's instructions on the pitch?
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