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Stewart returns from suspension. Leigertwood starts a four match suspension. Malcom, after his alleged drunk driving arrest and suspension by Derby still plays.
Today's teams:
Watford Official Site - THE TEAMS: WATFORD v QPR
BOSS Aidy Boothroyd has recalled Darius Henderson for the visit of QPR and the big striker will start in attack alongside Nathan Ellington with Marlon King moving down to the bench.
Lee Williamson returns to the heart of midfield in place of young John-Joe O'Toole while Aidy Mariappa is on the bench in place of goalkeeper Mart Poom. Dan Shittu is also on the bench against his old side.
Meanwhile for the visitors playmaker Akos Buzsaky is on the bench alongside fellow loanee Rowan Vine.
WATFORD: Lee; Doyley, DeMerit (c), Jackson, Stewart; Smith, Williamson, Francis, McAnuff; Henderson, Ellington. Subs: Mariappa, Shittu, King, O'Toole, Ainsworth.
QPR: Camp; Barker, Malcolm, Rehman, Stewart; Bolder (c), Rowlands, Ainsworth; Balanta, Blackstock, Nygaard. Subs: Cole (gk), Moore, Walton, Buzsaky, Vine.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Snippets: Norwich Quiet re Birmingham and Martin Taylor... Ex-QPR Georges Santos Finds a New Club
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UPDATE: 1:30 PM
Norwich Evening News 24 - Chief Neil refuses to rise to the bait
"Canaries' chief executive Neil Doncaster has refused to be drawn into a war of words with Birmingham City's Karren Brady over Norwich's failed bid to keep Martin Taylor.
The defender looked set for a longer stay at Carrow Road after completing a successful month's loan and agreed personal terms with City for a permanent deal.
But the two clubs failed to compromise on a price - not helped by QPR gazumping Norwich with a higher bid - and the deal broke down.
Since then, Blues' managing director Brady hasn't been slow to offer her views on the situation, but with the January transfer window set to open in four days time, Norwich may still harbour hopes of striking a deal for Taylor over the coming weeks.
Either way, Doncaster refused to comment on Brady's latest views or whether the Canaries may make another move for Taylor.
“We won't comment on transfer speculation regarding individual players because to do so only hampers our ability to get the best deals for Norwich City football club,” said Doncaster.
“Anything we have got to announce will be done so when we have something to reveal.”
Brady had previously accused Norwich manager Glenn Roeder of not making any bid for Taylor, which Roeder subsequently denied.
Her latest outburst came in her regular column in the Sun, where she likened Glenn Roeder to “Violet Elizabeth threatening to William she will 'scream and scream 'til I'm sick'”.
Brady said the Canaries simply had to match QPR's offer of £1m to bring Taylor to Carrow Road, but Roeder won't up his valuation because he believes there is no chance Taylor will move to London.
The 28-year-old still has two and-a-half years to run on the new contract he signed at St Andrews last spring, but he has yet to make an appearance since returning to Birmingham and has been told he doesn't feature in Blues' boss Alex McLeish's future plans. Evening 24
Santos signs for non-League Alfreton Town.
This is Nottingham - TOWN SIGN SANTOS
Football: Alfreton Town have signed experienced Marseille-born defender Georges Santos (pictured right)
Santos, 37, turned professional with Toulon before joining Tranmere Rovers in 1998. He has also seen action with West Brom, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town, Ipswich, QPR, Oxford United (loan) and Brighton. Report
Alfreton Official Site
JOSH LAW EXTENDS LOAN TO END OF SEASON, AND SANTOS SIGNS
Alfreton Town manager Nicky Law has been handed a double boost ahead of this Saturday’s Blue Square Conference North trip to Boston United (3pm).
The Reds boss has secured the services of his son Josh whose three-month loan period from Chesterfield has been extended to the end of the season and he has also signed experienced Marseille-born defender Georges Santos, 37 (pictured left).
He made his international debut for the Cape Verde Islands in September 2002.
At 6’3’’, Santos, will add more height to the Reds back line, but he is also versatile enough to play central midfield and up front.
He turned professional with Toulon before moving to England and joining Tranmere Rovers in July 1998 and has also seen action with West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town (where he was player of the season in 2002/03), Ipswich Town, QPR, Oxford United (month’s loan) and Brighton and Hove Albion.
He was released by Brighton in May this year, joining Chesterfield in August on a short term contract. Alfreton
UPDATE: 1:30 PM
Norwich Evening News 24 - Chief Neil refuses to rise to the bait
"Canaries' chief executive Neil Doncaster has refused to be drawn into a war of words with Birmingham City's Karren Brady over Norwich's failed bid to keep Martin Taylor.
The defender looked set for a longer stay at Carrow Road after completing a successful month's loan and agreed personal terms with City for a permanent deal.
But the two clubs failed to compromise on a price - not helped by QPR gazumping Norwich with a higher bid - and the deal broke down.
Since then, Blues' managing director Brady hasn't been slow to offer her views on the situation, but with the January transfer window set to open in four days time, Norwich may still harbour hopes of striking a deal for Taylor over the coming weeks.
Either way, Doncaster refused to comment on Brady's latest views or whether the Canaries may make another move for Taylor.
“We won't comment on transfer speculation regarding individual players because to do so only hampers our ability to get the best deals for Norwich City football club,” said Doncaster.
“Anything we have got to announce will be done so when we have something to reveal.”
Brady had previously accused Norwich manager Glenn Roeder of not making any bid for Taylor, which Roeder subsequently denied.
Her latest outburst came in her regular column in the Sun, where she likened Glenn Roeder to “Violet Elizabeth threatening to William she will 'scream and scream 'til I'm sick'”.
Brady said the Canaries simply had to match QPR's offer of £1m to bring Taylor to Carrow Road, but Roeder won't up his valuation because he believes there is no chance Taylor will move to London.
The 28-year-old still has two and-a-half years to run on the new contract he signed at St Andrews last spring, but he has yet to make an appearance since returning to Birmingham and has been told he doesn't feature in Blues' boss Alex McLeish's future plans. Evening 24
Santos signs for non-League Alfreton Town.
This is Nottingham - TOWN SIGN SANTOS
Football: Alfreton Town have signed experienced Marseille-born defender Georges Santos (pictured right)
Santos, 37, turned professional with Toulon before joining Tranmere Rovers in 1998. He has also seen action with West Brom, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town, Ipswich, QPR, Oxford United (loan) and Brighton. Report
Alfreton Official Site
JOSH LAW EXTENDS LOAN TO END OF SEASON, AND SANTOS SIGNS
Alfreton Town manager Nicky Law has been handed a double boost ahead of this Saturday’s Blue Square Conference North trip to Boston United (3pm).
The Reds boss has secured the services of his son Josh whose three-month loan period from Chesterfield has been extended to the end of the season and he has also signed experienced Marseille-born defender Georges Santos, 37 (pictured left).
He made his international debut for the Cape Verde Islands in September 2002.
At 6’3’’, Santos, will add more height to the Reds back line, but he is also versatile enough to play central midfield and up front.
He turned professional with Toulon before moving to England and joining Tranmere Rovers in July 1998 and has also seen action with West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town (where he was player of the season in 2002/03), Ipswich Town, QPR, Oxford United (month’s loan) and Brighton and Hove Albion.
He was released by Brighton in May this year, joining Chesterfield in August on a short term contract. Alfreton
Former QPR Star, Ivor Powell Awarded MBE
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Ivor Powell, who played for QPR between 1938 and 1948 (with a big gap in the middle!) has been awarded the MBE.
The Guardian
"Also honoured in the New Year's list is Ivor Powell, the world's oldest active football coach, who will receive an MBE for services to sport. Now 91, Powell is a former Wales international who numbered Aston Villa, QPR and Blackpool among his clubs. The nonagenarian has worked as a football coach at the University of Bath for over 30 years and still lends a hand with coaching duties for Team Bath, the British Gas Business Football League Premier Division side.
"This is a real honour and a privilege," said Powell. "It was a big surprise when I got the letter. I've been in football for more than 70 years and I've thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. I'm 91 and I've still got something left in me to give. I'll stay in the game as long as I'm enjoying it." The Guardian
See August 2007 Profile of Ivor Powell
Sunday Independent - Ivor Powell: He's 91 but Ivor still loves running the Bath
'The Professor' is football's oldest coach and will be in the dug-out when his university team kick off the new season. By Alan Hubbard
Ivor Powell has passed a fitness test and will be on the bench when his club, Team Bath, play a home friendly with a Cardiff City XI tomorrow night. He is still suffering a bit of a foot problem – nothing as glamorous as a Beckham-style metatarsal, just an old-fashioned bunion on his toe. Mind you, he is 91.
Dear old Ivor, you see, is a team coach, the oldest working model in the land – and something of an icon down at the University of Bath, where he is in his 35th year on the football coaching staff, and raring to go for thenew season.
The bunion is why he joined Thursday's training session in carpet slippers, joshing with the university lads, who call him "The Professor". Powell will be on the bus, and in the dug-out as usual, when Team Bath kick off in the British Gas Business Football League Premier Division at Banbury next Saturday. A far cry from the heady days when he won 14 caps as a terrier of a half-back for Wales, captained Aston Villa and coached under Don Revie at Leeds and with the Greek side PAOK.
But the little Welshman says he has never been happier, which is why he was relieved to get the all-clear when he went to hospital for a check-up last week. He came through with flying colours, and says: "I told them, 'I've done a hell of a lot in my life, and in football, but there's still a lot more I want to do.' I'll never give up my work. Never."
A Fergie-like fervour courses through his veins in tandem with his Celtic blood. The passion is evident as the eyes flash and the words tumble forth when herecalls not only memorable moments from the "good old days" but his commitment to the modern game.
He thumps a fist into his palm. "Aggression, determination, the will to win. These have always been my watchwords, and they still are. That's what I try toinstill into these youngsters. And they listen, they really do."
"The lads love him," says Team Bath's head coach, Andy Tilson, ex-Grimsby and QPR, who, at 42, is less than half the age of his venerable assistant. "He's one of the game's great characters, brimful of fire and enthusiasm. He's indispensable. Players like continuity, a familiar face, and they have so much respect for him. In Ivor you have the most experienced football brain in the land. The little snippets he passes on to them and to me and the other coaches are invaluable, because he's been there, done it, and got the international shirt, even if it was in a different era.
"The thing is, he's so open-minded, and even though the game has changed so muchhe's learned how to adapt andimpart the knowledge he has. He's so keen we have to hold him back a bit, because we don't want him overdoing things."
Clearly Powell is not just a talisman, or another old-timer with a few rheumy-eyed reminiscences of those good old days. Team Bath's manager, Ged Roddy, who is also the university's sports director, says: "The word 'legend' is overworked but Ivor is exactly that, an institution. I don't know what we'd do without him. When he walks in, he lights the place up."
He is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest working coach in football, and has also had an FAcoaching badge for 56 years. "There's no record of anyone having coached for a longer period atthis level," confirms the FA historian David Barber.
Powell was a member of the backroom team when Team Bath became the first university side in 122 years to reach the first round proper of the FA Cup five years ago, losing 4-2 at home to Mansfield. Last season they were BGB League runners-up, losing a play-off final for promotion to Blue Square South (a division down from the old Conference). Helping them to achieve promotion this season is Powell's goal.
"These boys play the game the way I like to see it played, hard but fair. When I'm in the dug-out I see little things, and they appreciate me telling them quietly. So does Andy. My way is not to shout or put my foot down, but to coax and encourage. I never curse. You can do it without effing and blinding. They understand what I am talking about, and when I demonstrate, whether it is passing or heading, they know I've done it – and I can still do it."
Spry and alert, he was still turning out for practice games when he was in his 80s. A diminutive midfielder built on the lines of Alan Ball, he was"aggressive but never dirty" in the days of half-backs andinside- forwards, when full-backs would have got a rollicking had they dared overlap. Strikers, sweepers and wingless wonders were still a twinkle in the eye of revolutionaries such as Ron Greenwood and Sir Alf Ramsey.
But Powell, when he became a coach, had to latch on to "total football". "I couldn't have players saying I knew nothing about the way the game is played today. Then we never knew anything about 4-2-2 or 4-4-3. Tactics were more adventurous, with more possession, more accurate passing, better use of the long ball.
"There wasn't all this man-to-man marking. You had spaces where you could receive the ball and run with it. We played for ourselves, but we also played for the team, and the spectators, too. What I really wish is that today's fans could see and enjoy the game as we used to play it. It would be an eye-opener."
A grammar schoolboy who was the seventh son of a seventh son in a family of 10, Powell started working life down the mines for 12 shillings and sixpence a week with his father and brothers, but after three years was spotted by a QPR scout when playing for South Wales League side Bargoed Thursday, aged 17. "I said to myself, 'I'm never going down that bloody mine again'. I never did."
He made his first-team debut for QPR in 1937, won a Division Three (South) championship medal with them, was transferred to Aston Villa for a then record fee for a half-back of £17,500 and played for, coached or managed Port Vale, Bradford City, Leeds, Carlisle, PAOK and Bath City before joining the University of Bath coaching set-up in 1972.
In his managerial heyday, Powell was responsible for some of football's legendary malaprop-isms. Asked the secret of his team's success at Carlisle, where he was a successor to Bill Shankly, he put it down to "the harmonium in the dressing room". He was also reputed to have once remarked that the dressing room was so hot "the compensation was running down the walls".
Powell is probably the only man around who played both with and against the late Sir Stanley Matthews, guesting for Blackpool during the war years, when he was an RAF physical training instructor. Matthews was best man at his wedding, and Ivor's eyes still fill with tears when he speaks both of his pal's death and that of his own wife of 63 years, Joan, who passed away four years ago. "But for football," he says, "I don't think I could have carried on."
As left-half for Aston Villa and Wales, Powell often had the dreaded task of marking the doyen of the dribble. "They say Stan couldn't have been theplayer he was in the modern game, but don't you believe it. What everyone forgets is his speed. We used to train with the great West Indian sprinterMcDonald Bailey, and Stan was as fast as him over 10 yards. No one was better at anticipating a tackle. He could see it coming and he'd be up and over them. I'd back him against any of today's defenders. He'd have skinned them alive."
Powell also marked other tricky forwards, including Don Revie, who made him trainer/ coach at Leeds, where he worked for four years with the likes of Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter and Jackie Charlton.
Among his proudest moments was being inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, along with other Wales sporting greats including Gareth Edwards, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ian Rush, JPR Williams and John Charles.
"When I see today's antics on the field, the jersey-pulling, the kicking and all that, I'm really proud I was never sent off, or even cautioned. Yes, I tackled hard, but I made sure I was never late. There's a hardness, a ruthlessness about the game now that didn't exist then, and of course it's all down to money.
"Our wage was £8, with a £2 win bonus and £1 for a draw. And £6 in the summer. When I was transferred I got £750. But the cheque I received was for £412 and 10 shillings. They took £337 and 10 shillings for income tax. We never had agents or account-ants to take care of that sort of thing. My transfer fee was £17,500. Some Premiership players get more than that in a week. If I was getting the money these buggers are getting now they would never get the ball off me."
No big money at Bath, though, whose team is comprisedlargely of youngsters released by League clubs or their academies. Here they are given a fresh start in football alongside a foundation degree course in sports performance at the country's most prolific and progressive sports university.
A year ago last July, they gave Powell a 90th birthday party, and many of the Professor's graduates came back to help him celebrate. Nick Bath was a biology student there from 1972 to 1976. He recalled: "Ivor was passionate about the game then and he still has that same fire in his eyes. He believed in keeping it simple, and being coached by someone of his calibre made us feel good. We were pretty hopeless by comparison, but he never gave up on us."
The Powell philosophy is equally simple: "You've got to have a winning heart. That's everything. And as long as I get pleasure out of doing what I am now, and help others to get pleasure out of it, then I know I am doing justice to myself and my career. I could never give this up. As long as they want me, I'll be here."
Life and times
BORN: 5 July 1916, Gilfach Bargeod, South Wales.
Playing career: Signed by QPR at 17. Transferred to Aston Villa in 1948 for then record fee for a half-back of £17,500. Capped 14 times for Wales in 1930s, '40s and '50s.
Coach/Manager: Port Vale, Bradford City, Leeds, Carlisle, PAOK (Athens), Bath City. Now assistant coach and presidentat Team Bath.
Family: Seventh son of seventh son. Wife Joan died in 2003.
Other achievements: 'Guinness Book of Records' as oldest working football coach. Elected to Welsh Hall of Fame in 2004.
And another thing: Middle name given by his father, who fought in the First World War.
Further reading about Ivor Powell's achievements at teambath.com/?p=288 Sunday Independent QPR Report
See Wikipedia Profile of Ivor Powell
Ivor Powell, who played for QPR between 1938 and 1948 (with a big gap in the middle!) has been awarded the MBE.
The Guardian
"Also honoured in the New Year's list is Ivor Powell, the world's oldest active football coach, who will receive an MBE for services to sport. Now 91, Powell is a former Wales international who numbered Aston Villa, QPR and Blackpool among his clubs. The nonagenarian has worked as a football coach at the University of Bath for over 30 years and still lends a hand with coaching duties for Team Bath, the British Gas Business Football League Premier Division side.
"This is a real honour and a privilege," said Powell. "It was a big surprise when I got the letter. I've been in football for more than 70 years and I've thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. I'm 91 and I've still got something left in me to give. I'll stay in the game as long as I'm enjoying it." The Guardian
See August 2007 Profile of Ivor Powell
Sunday Independent - Ivor Powell: He's 91 but Ivor still loves running the Bath
'The Professor' is football's oldest coach and will be in the dug-out when his university team kick off the new season. By Alan Hubbard
Ivor Powell has passed a fitness test and will be on the bench when his club, Team Bath, play a home friendly with a Cardiff City XI tomorrow night. He is still suffering a bit of a foot problem – nothing as glamorous as a Beckham-style metatarsal, just an old-fashioned bunion on his toe. Mind you, he is 91.
Dear old Ivor, you see, is a team coach, the oldest working model in the land – and something of an icon down at the University of Bath, where he is in his 35th year on the football coaching staff, and raring to go for thenew season.
The bunion is why he joined Thursday's training session in carpet slippers, joshing with the university lads, who call him "The Professor". Powell will be on the bus, and in the dug-out as usual, when Team Bath kick off in the British Gas Business Football League Premier Division at Banbury next Saturday. A far cry from the heady days when he won 14 caps as a terrier of a half-back for Wales, captained Aston Villa and coached under Don Revie at Leeds and with the Greek side PAOK.
But the little Welshman says he has never been happier, which is why he was relieved to get the all-clear when he went to hospital for a check-up last week. He came through with flying colours, and says: "I told them, 'I've done a hell of a lot in my life, and in football, but there's still a lot more I want to do.' I'll never give up my work. Never."
A Fergie-like fervour courses through his veins in tandem with his Celtic blood. The passion is evident as the eyes flash and the words tumble forth when herecalls not only memorable moments from the "good old days" but his commitment to the modern game.
He thumps a fist into his palm. "Aggression, determination, the will to win. These have always been my watchwords, and they still are. That's what I try toinstill into these youngsters. And they listen, they really do."
"The lads love him," says Team Bath's head coach, Andy Tilson, ex-Grimsby and QPR, who, at 42, is less than half the age of his venerable assistant. "He's one of the game's great characters, brimful of fire and enthusiasm. He's indispensable. Players like continuity, a familiar face, and they have so much respect for him. In Ivor you have the most experienced football brain in the land. The little snippets he passes on to them and to me and the other coaches are invaluable, because he's been there, done it, and got the international shirt, even if it was in a different era.
"The thing is, he's so open-minded, and even though the game has changed so muchhe's learned how to adapt andimpart the knowledge he has. He's so keen we have to hold him back a bit, because we don't want him overdoing things."
Clearly Powell is not just a talisman, or another old-timer with a few rheumy-eyed reminiscences of those good old days. Team Bath's manager, Ged Roddy, who is also the university's sports director, says: "The word 'legend' is overworked but Ivor is exactly that, an institution. I don't know what we'd do without him. When he walks in, he lights the place up."
He is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest working coach in football, and has also had an FAcoaching badge for 56 years. "There's no record of anyone having coached for a longer period atthis level," confirms the FA historian David Barber.
Powell was a member of the backroom team when Team Bath became the first university side in 122 years to reach the first round proper of the FA Cup five years ago, losing 4-2 at home to Mansfield. Last season they were BGB League runners-up, losing a play-off final for promotion to Blue Square South (a division down from the old Conference). Helping them to achieve promotion this season is Powell's goal.
"These boys play the game the way I like to see it played, hard but fair. When I'm in the dug-out I see little things, and they appreciate me telling them quietly. So does Andy. My way is not to shout or put my foot down, but to coax and encourage. I never curse. You can do it without effing and blinding. They understand what I am talking about, and when I demonstrate, whether it is passing or heading, they know I've done it – and I can still do it."
Spry and alert, he was still turning out for practice games when he was in his 80s. A diminutive midfielder built on the lines of Alan Ball, he was"aggressive but never dirty" in the days of half-backs andinside- forwards, when full-backs would have got a rollicking had they dared overlap. Strikers, sweepers and wingless wonders were still a twinkle in the eye of revolutionaries such as Ron Greenwood and Sir Alf Ramsey.
But Powell, when he became a coach, had to latch on to "total football". "I couldn't have players saying I knew nothing about the way the game is played today. Then we never knew anything about 4-2-2 or 4-4-3. Tactics were more adventurous, with more possession, more accurate passing, better use of the long ball.
"There wasn't all this man-to-man marking. You had spaces where you could receive the ball and run with it. We played for ourselves, but we also played for the team, and the spectators, too. What I really wish is that today's fans could see and enjoy the game as we used to play it. It would be an eye-opener."
A grammar schoolboy who was the seventh son of a seventh son in a family of 10, Powell started working life down the mines for 12 shillings and sixpence a week with his father and brothers, but after three years was spotted by a QPR scout when playing for South Wales League side Bargoed Thursday, aged 17. "I said to myself, 'I'm never going down that bloody mine again'. I never did."
He made his first-team debut for QPR in 1937, won a Division Three (South) championship medal with them, was transferred to Aston Villa for a then record fee for a half-back of £17,500 and played for, coached or managed Port Vale, Bradford City, Leeds, Carlisle, PAOK and Bath City before joining the University of Bath coaching set-up in 1972.
In his managerial heyday, Powell was responsible for some of football's legendary malaprop-isms. Asked the secret of his team's success at Carlisle, where he was a successor to Bill Shankly, he put it down to "the harmonium in the dressing room". He was also reputed to have once remarked that the dressing room was so hot "the compensation was running down the walls".
Powell is probably the only man around who played both with and against the late Sir Stanley Matthews, guesting for Blackpool during the war years, when he was an RAF physical training instructor. Matthews was best man at his wedding, and Ivor's eyes still fill with tears when he speaks both of his pal's death and that of his own wife of 63 years, Joan, who passed away four years ago. "But for football," he says, "I don't think I could have carried on."
As left-half for Aston Villa and Wales, Powell often had the dreaded task of marking the doyen of the dribble. "They say Stan couldn't have been theplayer he was in the modern game, but don't you believe it. What everyone forgets is his speed. We used to train with the great West Indian sprinterMcDonald Bailey, and Stan was as fast as him over 10 yards. No one was better at anticipating a tackle. He could see it coming and he'd be up and over them. I'd back him against any of today's defenders. He'd have skinned them alive."
Powell also marked other tricky forwards, including Don Revie, who made him trainer/ coach at Leeds, where he worked for four years with the likes of Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter and Jackie Charlton.
Among his proudest moments was being inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, along with other Wales sporting greats including Gareth Edwards, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ian Rush, JPR Williams and John Charles.
"When I see today's antics on the field, the jersey-pulling, the kicking and all that, I'm really proud I was never sent off, or even cautioned. Yes, I tackled hard, but I made sure I was never late. There's a hardness, a ruthlessness about the game now that didn't exist then, and of course it's all down to money.
"Our wage was £8, with a £2 win bonus and £1 for a draw. And £6 in the summer. When I was transferred I got £750. But the cheque I received was for £412 and 10 shillings. They took £337 and 10 shillings for income tax. We never had agents or account-ants to take care of that sort of thing. My transfer fee was £17,500. Some Premiership players get more than that in a week. If I was getting the money these buggers are getting now they would never get the ball off me."
No big money at Bath, though, whose team is comprisedlargely of youngsters released by League clubs or their academies. Here they are given a fresh start in football alongside a foundation degree course in sports performance at the country's most prolific and progressive sports university.
A year ago last July, they gave Powell a 90th birthday party, and many of the Professor's graduates came back to help him celebrate. Nick Bath was a biology student there from 1972 to 1976. He recalled: "Ivor was passionate about the game then and he still has that same fire in his eyes. He believed in keeping it simple, and being coached by someone of his calibre made us feel good. We were pretty hopeless by comparison, but he never gave up on us."
The Powell philosophy is equally simple: "You've got to have a winning heart. That's everything. And as long as I get pleasure out of doing what I am now, and help others to get pleasure out of it, then I know I am doing justice to myself and my career. I could never give this up. As long as they want me, I'll be here."
Life and times
BORN: 5 July 1916, Gilfach Bargeod, South Wales.
Playing career: Signed by QPR at 17. Transferred to Aston Villa in 1948 for then record fee for a half-back of £17,500. Capped 14 times for Wales in 1930s, '40s and '50s.
Coach/Manager: Port Vale, Bradford City, Leeds, Carlisle, PAOK (Athens), Bath City. Now assistant coach and presidentat Team Bath.
Family: Seventh son of seventh son. Wife Joan died in 2003.
Other achievements: 'Guinness Book of Records' as oldest working football coach. Elected to Welsh Hall of Fame in 2004.
And another thing: Middle name given by his father, who fought in the First World War.
Further reading about Ivor Powell's achievements at teambath.com/?p=288 Sunday Independent QPR Report
See Wikipedia Profile of Ivor Powell
QPR Reportedly Sign Arsenal's Matt Connolly...Other Supposed Forthcoming Signings: Fritz Hall, Martin Taylor, Rowan Vine
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The Sun
"QPR have signed defender Matt Connolly, 20, (below) from Arsenal for £1million.
They also plan to wrap up the signing of Wigan centre-back Fitz Hall, 27.
And a six-month loan for Manchester United defender Kieran Lee, 19, has been agreed.
The signings follow investment by the Mittal family, Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore. The Sun
The Mirror - Birmingham are set for a £3million cash
THE BIG COUNTDOWN TRANSFER WINDOW OPENS ON TUESDAY
Birmingham are set for a £3million cash boost after agreeing to sell both Martin Taylor and Rowan Vine to QPR. The Championship club have agreed to buy Brum defender Taylor, 28, for £1m. Ex-Luton striker Vine, 25, on loan at Loftus Road, is to join for £2m + Mirror
See also: Vital Football/Wigan saying Hall to QPR
ARSENAL PROFILE OF CONNOLLY
Matthew Connolly
Defender Matthew has joined Championship side Colchester United on loan for the 2007/08 season.
Connolly, 19, broke into the first team last season, making his debut in the Carling Cup victory at West Bromwich Albion last October, playing the full 90 minutes. This was followed by a substitute appearance in the 6-3 victory at Anfield in the Carling Cup Fifth Round.
Matthew has been a regular in the Reserves for the past two seasons, featuring many times as Captain and made 11 starts for Neil Banfield’s team last term.
Matthew had a very eventful 2006/07 campaign. After playing in Dennis Bergkamp’s Testimonial match at Emirates Stadium in July, Matthew also trained with the full England squad as they prepared for their friendly match against Holland in November. He later spent a successful loan spell with League One side AFC Bournemouth, making seven appearances.
My Year
March
Matthew made three appearances for the Reserves this month. The 19-year-old centre back captained the side as Neil Banfield’s youngsters earned a 0-0 draw at Chelsea before going down 3-0 in successive games at Aston Villa and Charlton.
January
Matthew started the month on a high as he came on for the final three minutes of Arsenal’s 6-3 Carling Cup Quarter-Final victory at Liverpool. The 19-year-old centre back made no further appearances however after picking up an injury in training.
December
Matthew scored his first senior goal in December as he completed his first full month on loan at League One outfit Bournemouth. He started the month with 90 minutes in a 1-1 FA Cup draw at Bristol Rovers. The 19-year-old centre back was on the scoresheet in the next game as the Cherries recorded an impressive 2-0 scalp of Nottingham Forest. The Arsenal Reserves captain went on to appear in defeats to Port Vale and Bristol Rovers and draws at Gillingham and Bristol City.
November
Matthew joined Bournemouth on loan at the end of November and will spend six weeks with the south coast club. The Reserve captain was an unused substitute in the Carling Cup win over Everton but missed the second strings 1-0 defeat to Fulham as he was finalising his move to the Cherries. He made his debut for the League One side two days after joining and helped them keep a clean sheet in a goalless draw with Bradford City.
October
Matthew made his Arsenal debut as a youthful Gunners side cruised into the Carling Cup Fourth Round with a 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns. The young Reserves captain also played a full 90 minutes for the second string in the 2-1 wins over West Ham United and Charlton. He then played 70 minutes in the 2-1 Reserve defeat to Chelsea and a full 90 minutes in the crushing 6-0 defeat at Reading.
September
Matthew was not involved in the first team in September but produced two solid displays for the Reserves in the drawn North London derby and the 2-0 win over Portsmouth.. Arsenal
See also
Wikipedia Profile of Matt Connolly, who's been out on loan at Colchester this season, and called up for the England U-21 squad.
- See also Teamtalk on Connolly's callup.- Arsenal blog profiling Connolly
The Sun
"QPR have signed defender Matt Connolly, 20, (below) from Arsenal for £1million.
They also plan to wrap up the signing of Wigan centre-back Fitz Hall, 27.
And a six-month loan for Manchester United defender Kieran Lee, 19, has been agreed.
The signings follow investment by the Mittal family, Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore. The Sun
The Mirror - Birmingham are set for a £3million cash
THE BIG COUNTDOWN TRANSFER WINDOW OPENS ON TUESDAY
Birmingham are set for a £3million cash boost after agreeing to sell both Martin Taylor and Rowan Vine to QPR. The Championship club have agreed to buy Brum defender Taylor, 28, for £1m. Ex-Luton striker Vine, 25, on loan at Loftus Road, is to join for £2m + Mirror
See also: Vital Football/Wigan saying Hall to QPR
ARSENAL PROFILE OF CONNOLLY
Matthew Connolly
Defender Matthew has joined Championship side Colchester United on loan for the 2007/08 season.
Connolly, 19, broke into the first team last season, making his debut in the Carling Cup victory at West Bromwich Albion last October, playing the full 90 minutes. This was followed by a substitute appearance in the 6-3 victory at Anfield in the Carling Cup Fifth Round.
Matthew has been a regular in the Reserves for the past two seasons, featuring many times as Captain and made 11 starts for Neil Banfield’s team last term.
Matthew had a very eventful 2006/07 campaign. After playing in Dennis Bergkamp’s Testimonial match at Emirates Stadium in July, Matthew also trained with the full England squad as they prepared for their friendly match against Holland in November. He later spent a successful loan spell with League One side AFC Bournemouth, making seven appearances.
My Year
March
Matthew made three appearances for the Reserves this month. The 19-year-old centre back captained the side as Neil Banfield’s youngsters earned a 0-0 draw at Chelsea before going down 3-0 in successive games at Aston Villa and Charlton.
January
Matthew started the month on a high as he came on for the final three minutes of Arsenal’s 6-3 Carling Cup Quarter-Final victory at Liverpool. The 19-year-old centre back made no further appearances however after picking up an injury in training.
December
Matthew scored his first senior goal in December as he completed his first full month on loan at League One outfit Bournemouth. He started the month with 90 minutes in a 1-1 FA Cup draw at Bristol Rovers. The 19-year-old centre back was on the scoresheet in the next game as the Cherries recorded an impressive 2-0 scalp of Nottingham Forest. The Arsenal Reserves captain went on to appear in defeats to Port Vale and Bristol Rovers and draws at Gillingham and Bristol City.
November
Matthew joined Bournemouth on loan at the end of November and will spend six weeks with the south coast club. The Reserve captain was an unused substitute in the Carling Cup win over Everton but missed the second strings 1-0 defeat to Fulham as he was finalising his move to the Cherries. He made his debut for the League One side two days after joining and helped them keep a clean sheet in a goalless draw with Bradford City.
October
Matthew made his Arsenal debut as a youthful Gunners side cruised into the Carling Cup Fourth Round with a 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns. The young Reserves captain also played a full 90 minutes for the second string in the 2-1 wins over West Ham United and Charlton. He then played 70 minutes in the 2-1 Reserve defeat to Chelsea and a full 90 minutes in the crushing 6-0 defeat at Reading.
September
Matthew was not involved in the first team in September but produced two solid displays for the Reserves in the drawn North London derby and the 2-0 win over Portsmouth.. Arsenal
See also
Wikipedia Profile of Matt Connolly, who's been out on loan at Colchester this season, and called up for the England U-21 squad.
- See also Teamtalk on Connolly's callup.- Arsenal blog profiling Connolly
Friday, December 28, 2007
QPR's Transfer Signings Begin
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Man United's Kieran Lee on loan till the end of the season.
QPR Official Site - UNITED STARLET SIGNS
Queens Park Rangers Football Club are delighted to announce the six month loan signing of highly-rated Manchester United youngster Kieran Lee.
The 19 year-old, who will officially join the R's on January 2nd 2008, is in line to make his QPR debut against Chelsea in the FA Cup third round at Stamford Bridge.
Lee, who made his full Premiership debut against Chelsea as a right-back in the penultimate fixture of the 2006/07 campaign, skippers United's second string and was named 2006/07 Denzel Haroun Reserve Player of the Season. QPR
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - IN PROFILE: KIERAN LEE
Nineteen year-old Manchester United starlet Kieran Lee first hit the headlines in October 2006, with a dramatic last-minute winner for United in their Carling Cup tie against Crewe Alexandra.
However, Lee's first experience of life with the United First Team came in a friendly match, as a second-half substitute in Roy Keane's testimonial match against Celtic in May 2006.
Lee, who also skippers United's second string and was named 2006/07 Denzel Haroun Reserve Player of the Season, made his full Premiership debut against Chelsea as a right-back in the penultimate fixture of the 2006/07 campaign.
Lee is capable of playing in midfield or at full-back. QPR
BBC- QPR swoop for Man Utd starlet Lee
QPR have agreed to sign Manchester United full-back Kieran Lee on loan for the rest of the season.
Lee will officially join Rangers on 2 January and will be eligible to make his debut for the club in their FA Cup third round match against Chelsea.
The 19-year-old made his first appearance for United's senior side near the end of last season.
Rangers are expected to add several more players to their squad when the transfer window opens in January. BBC
Man United's Kieran Lee on loan till the end of the season.
QPR Official Site - UNITED STARLET SIGNS
Queens Park Rangers Football Club are delighted to announce the six month loan signing of highly-rated Manchester United youngster Kieran Lee.
The 19 year-old, who will officially join the R's on January 2nd 2008, is in line to make his QPR debut against Chelsea in the FA Cup third round at Stamford Bridge.
Lee, who made his full Premiership debut against Chelsea as a right-back in the penultimate fixture of the 2006/07 campaign, skippers United's second string and was named 2006/07 Denzel Haroun Reserve Player of the Season. QPR
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - IN PROFILE: KIERAN LEE
Nineteen year-old Manchester United starlet Kieran Lee first hit the headlines in October 2006, with a dramatic last-minute winner for United in their Carling Cup tie against Crewe Alexandra.
However, Lee's first experience of life with the United First Team came in a friendly match, as a second-half substitute in Roy Keane's testimonial match against Celtic in May 2006.
Lee, who also skippers United's second string and was named 2006/07 Denzel Haroun Reserve Player of the Season, made his full Premiership debut against Chelsea as a right-back in the penultimate fixture of the 2006/07 campaign.
Lee is capable of playing in midfield or at full-back. QPR
BBC- QPR swoop for Man Utd starlet Lee
QPR have agreed to sign Manchester United full-back Kieran Lee on loan for the rest of the season.
Lee will officially join Rangers on 2 January and will be eligible to make his debut for the club in their FA Cup third round match against Chelsea.
The 19-year-old made his first appearance for United's senior side near the end of last season.
Rangers are expected to add several more players to their squad when the transfer window opens in January. BBC
Snippet: QPR Shooting Stats and Poor Disciplinary Record
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From the Football League's "League Leader"
Club-by-Club stats for shots taken on target; off target; and hit the woodwork. QPR would seem not to be shooting Enough
SHOOTING STATS
Categories On Target - Off Target - Hit W’work
ON OFF WOOD
Barnsley 126 124 4
Blackpool 152 145 9
Bristol City 136 121 2
Burnley 131 142 5
Cardiff 186 122 2
Charlton 164 148 10
Colchester 93 102 5
Coventry 156 127 2
Crystal Palace 136 112 0
Hull 146 131 5
Ipswich 180 136 11
Leicester 126 115 6
Norwich 117 129 6
Plymouth 133 118 2
Preston 113 141 5
QPR 103 99 9
Scunthorpe 131 127 7
Sheff Utd 125 117 4
Sheff Wed 105 129 6
Southampton 143 143 7
Stoke 122 110 5
Watford 109 139 4
West Brom 214 153 11
Wolverhampton 109 134 5
DISCIPLINARY RECORD QPR with 46 Yellow and 3 Red Cards is at the top (or bottom) in the Championship.[Haven't checked to see if this compilation includes QPR's Plymouth bookings]
TEAM DISCIPLINE
Y R
Barnsley 44 4
Blackpool 21 3
Bristol City 37 2
Burnley 40 4
Cardiff 26 1
Charlton 42 4
Colchester 35 4
Coventry 43 2
Crystal Palace 30 1
Hull 38 2
Ipswich 31 1
Leicester 31 3
Norwich 37 4
Plymouth 39 0
Preston 39 1
QPR 46 3
Scunthorpe 35 5
Sheff Utd 32 1
Sheff Wed 31 1
Southampton 22 1
Stoke 49 0
Watford 35 1
West Brom 24 1
Wolverhampton 25 0
Football League
From the Football League's "League Leader"
Club-by-Club stats for shots taken on target; off target; and hit the woodwork. QPR would seem not to be shooting Enough
SHOOTING STATS
Categories On Target - Off Target - Hit W’work
ON OFF WOOD
Barnsley 126 124 4
Blackpool 152 145 9
Bristol City 136 121 2
Burnley 131 142 5
Cardiff 186 122 2
Charlton 164 148 10
Colchester 93 102 5
Coventry 156 127 2
Crystal Palace 136 112 0
Hull 146 131 5
Ipswich 180 136 11
Leicester 126 115 6
Norwich 117 129 6
Plymouth 133 118 2
Preston 113 141 5
QPR 103 99 9
Scunthorpe 131 127 7
Sheff Utd 125 117 4
Sheff Wed 105 129 6
Southampton 143 143 7
Stoke 122 110 5
Watford 109 139 4
West Brom 214 153 11
Wolverhampton 109 134 5
DISCIPLINARY RECORD QPR with 46 Yellow and 3 Red Cards is at the top (or bottom) in the Championship.[Haven't checked to see if this compilation includes QPR's Plymouth bookings]
TEAM DISCIPLINE
Y R
Barnsley 44 4
Blackpool 21 3
Bristol City 37 2
Burnley 40 4
Cardiff 26 1
Charlton 42 4
Colchester 35 4
Coventry 43 2
Crystal Palace 30 1
Hull 38 2
Ipswich 31 1
Leicester 31 3
Norwich 37 4
Plymouth 39 0
Preston 39 1
QPR 46 3
Scunthorpe 35 5
Sheff Utd 32 1
Sheff Wed 31 1
Southampton 22 1
Stoke 49 0
Watford 35 1
West Brom 24 1
Wolverhampton 25 0
Football League
QPR's Loan Defender Suspended by Derby County
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[Derby County have announced that they are suspending Bob Malcolm. It's not immediately evident that Derby's action has any impact on QPR's ability to play Malcolm.]
UPDATED 10:00 PM
QPR OFFICIAL SITE BOB MALCOLM
For legal reasons, Queens Park Rangers FC will be making no comment on the matter of Bob Malcolm's arrest and subsequent charge by police in relation to a drink-drive incident which occurred yesterday.
However, Bob has issued the following statement regarding the incident:
"First and foremost, I want to apologise to all the supporters, and in particular the young fans. I recognise that footballers are role models and, as such, should set a positive example. On this occasion, I have failed to do that.
"I must say that I was very upset and frustrated with the poor performance of the referee in our match at Plymouth the evening before.
"I would also like to stress that at the time of the incident I was not driving my car. I had pulled over to the side of the road and was sleeping.
"Once again, I apologise for what has been a major error of judgement."
The Club will be making no further comment regarding this matter. QPR
Derby Official Site -MALCOLM CHARGED WITH DRINK DRIVING
Derby County Football Club have confirmed player Bob Malcolm, who is currently on loan at QPR until January 1, has been charged by police with a drink drive offence and bailed to appear before Chesterfield Magistrates Court on January 16.
The club will be suspending the player while an internal investigation is conducted into this matter.
The police charge relates to an alleged incident on the M1 motorway in Derbyshire on the morning of December 27.
For legal reasons, no further comment will be made on the matter by Derby County at this stage, pending the findings of the internal investigation and the outcome of the court hearing. Derby
Derby Evening Telegraph - RAMS STAR TO BE SUSPENDED OVER DRINK-DRIVING CHARGE
Derby County player Bob Malcolm is to be suspended by the club after being charged with drink-driving.
The 27-year-old midfielder was breathalysed by police between Junctions 28 and 29 of the M1 yesterday morning.
Malcolm is on loan at Queens Park Rangers but is due to return to the Rams on January 2.
He will appear before magistrates in Chesterfield in the new year.
A Derby County spokesman said: "Derby County Football Club have confirmed Bob Malcolm, who is currently on loan at QPR until January 1, has been charged by police with a drink-drive offence.
"The club will be suspending the player while an internal investigation is conducted into this matter." Derby Evening Telegraph
[Derby County have announced that they are suspending Bob Malcolm. It's not immediately evident that Derby's action has any impact on QPR's ability to play Malcolm.]
UPDATED 10:00 PM
QPR OFFICIAL SITE BOB MALCOLM
For legal reasons, Queens Park Rangers FC will be making no comment on the matter of Bob Malcolm's arrest and subsequent charge by police in relation to a drink-drive incident which occurred yesterday.
However, Bob has issued the following statement regarding the incident:
"First and foremost, I want to apologise to all the supporters, and in particular the young fans. I recognise that footballers are role models and, as such, should set a positive example. On this occasion, I have failed to do that.
"I must say that I was very upset and frustrated with the poor performance of the referee in our match at Plymouth the evening before.
"I would also like to stress that at the time of the incident I was not driving my car. I had pulled over to the side of the road and was sleeping.
"Once again, I apologise for what has been a major error of judgement."
The Club will be making no further comment regarding this matter. QPR
Derby Official Site -MALCOLM CHARGED WITH DRINK DRIVING
Derby County Football Club have confirmed player Bob Malcolm, who is currently on loan at QPR until January 1, has been charged by police with a drink drive offence and bailed to appear before Chesterfield Magistrates Court on January 16.
The club will be suspending the player while an internal investigation is conducted into this matter.
The police charge relates to an alleged incident on the M1 motorway in Derbyshire on the morning of December 27.
For legal reasons, no further comment will be made on the matter by Derby County at this stage, pending the findings of the internal investigation and the outcome of the court hearing. Derby
Derby Evening Telegraph - RAMS STAR TO BE SUSPENDED OVER DRINK-DRIVING CHARGE
Derby County player Bob Malcolm is to be suspended by the club after being charged with drink-driving.
The 27-year-old midfielder was breathalysed by police between Junctions 28 and 29 of the M1 yesterday morning.
Malcolm is on loan at Queens Park Rangers but is due to return to the Rams on January 2.
He will appear before magistrates in Chesterfield in the new year.
A Derby County spokesman said: "Derby County Football Club have confirmed Bob Malcolm, who is currently on loan at QPR until January 1, has been charged by police with a drink-drive offence.
"The club will be suspending the player while an internal investigation is conducted into this matter." Derby Evening Telegraph
Snippets: Marcus Bignot on Playing for - and Staying at - Millwall
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[For some QPR fans, it's somewhat of a mystery why Bignot has been sent out on loan - especially before the January transfers have started coming in.]
Marcus Bignot - Vital Football
Marcus Bignot admits he has no idea whether he will still be a Millwall player past January 5th, when his loan deal is due to expire.
The experienced defender has been a key part of the Kenny Jackett revolution, and has show the effort and desire that Lions fans expect from anyone wearing a Millwall shirt.
When asked whether he would consider extending his stay at The Den, the defender replied in a diplomatic fashion:
'I really don't know, that's one for Mystic Meg,' he told Lions World. 'I'm due to go back to QPR on January 5th, and that's all I know.'
'I love playing football and hopefully the Millwall fans have seen that. I enjoy playing for this club.'
'But I've got to be professional and I can't look any further, because things are out of my hands. Between now and then I will give everything for Millwall.'
.... Millwall Vital Football
[For some QPR fans, it's somewhat of a mystery why Bignot has been sent out on loan - especially before the January transfers have started coming in.]
Marcus Bignot - Vital Football
Marcus Bignot admits he has no idea whether he will still be a Millwall player past January 5th, when his loan deal is due to expire.
The experienced defender has been a key part of the Kenny Jackett revolution, and has show the effort and desire that Lions fans expect from anyone wearing a Millwall shirt.
When asked whether he would consider extending his stay at The Den, the defender replied in a diplomatic fashion:
'I really don't know, that's one for Mystic Meg,' he told Lions World. 'I'm due to go back to QPR on January 5th, and that's all I know.'
'I love playing football and hopefully the Millwall fans have seen that. I enjoy playing for this club.'
'But I've got to be professional and I can't look any further, because things are out of my hands. Between now and then I will give everything for Millwall.'
.... Millwall Vital Football
Birmingham: What Nowich Must Pay for Martin Taylor
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[Not sure which "Mad" this was originally published on, presumably Norwich Mad]
Richard Lamb - Barnsley Mad - Norwich City
Brady challenges Roeder over defender
The managing director of Birmingham City and part time 'Loose Woman' Karen Brady has named the price Norwich must pay for Martin Taylor.
The defender, who impressed during a recent loan spell at Carrow Road and has expressed his desire to return to Norfolk after being frozen out at St Andrews, has been the subject of a bid from newly-enriched Queens Park Rangers.
Luigi Di Canio's resources have meant the West London club have matched the £1million valuation of the big centre back, with Glenn Roeder so far only going to the £750,000 mark.
Ever the shrinking violet, Brady used her column in the Sun newspaper to negotiate in a typically dignified way.
"Norwich manager Glenn Roeder has been going on and on about how we are preventing his club from buying our centre-back Martin Taylor," wrote the wife of Luton striker Paul Peschisolido.
"He is sounding like Violet Elizabeth threatening William she will 'scream and scream 'til I'm sick. Glenn is certain Martin wants to join the Canaries in a £750,000 transfer, while we are certain we want to sell him to QPR for £1m. The difference, Glenn, is £250,000. We are not a charity. Make it up and he could be yours."
While it might stick in the throat a little bit to bow to such a tactic, Taylor is a crucial addition. Barnsley Mad
[Not sure which "Mad" this was originally published on, presumably Norwich Mad]
Richard Lamb - Barnsley Mad - Norwich City
Brady challenges Roeder over defender
The managing director of Birmingham City and part time 'Loose Woman' Karen Brady has named the price Norwich must pay for Martin Taylor.
The defender, who impressed during a recent loan spell at Carrow Road and has expressed his desire to return to Norfolk after being frozen out at St Andrews, has been the subject of a bid from newly-enriched Queens Park Rangers.
Luigi Di Canio's resources have meant the West London club have matched the £1million valuation of the big centre back, with Glenn Roeder so far only going to the £750,000 mark.
Ever the shrinking violet, Brady used her column in the Sun newspaper to negotiate in a typically dignified way.
"Norwich manager Glenn Roeder has been going on and on about how we are preventing his club from buying our centre-back Martin Taylor," wrote the wife of Luton striker Paul Peschisolido.
"He is sounding like Violet Elizabeth threatening William she will 'scream and scream 'til I'm sick. Glenn is certain Martin wants to join the Canaries in a £750,000 transfer, while we are certain we want to sell him to QPR for £1m. The difference, Glenn, is £250,000. We are not a charity. Make it up and he could be yours."
While it might stick in the throat a little bit to bow to such a tactic, Taylor is a crucial addition. Barnsley Mad
Watford: Lloyd Doyley Not For Sale...Good Luck to Gavin Majon
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Watford Observer/Kevin Affleck - Aidy: Doyley is not for sale
AIDY BOOTHROYD has issued a hands-off to QPR, tomorrow's visitors to Vicarage Road, after they were linked with a move for Lloyd Doyley.
The right-back, ever present this season, has been linked with a £500,000 switch to Loftus Road, but Boothroyd insists the player "is not going anywhere" and that the club owned by the fifth richest family in the world "haven't got enough money to buy him anyway".
Despite a recent dip in form, Boothroyd has been delighted with the strides Doyley has made this season and is likely to offer him a new contract.
"If there was a contract offer on the table and it was a good one then I'd sign it," said the 25-year-old Doyley. "I've been here since I was 11 and it's the only club I know. It's nice to be linked but I'm a Watford player and I've still got another year and a half to run on my contract."
One player likely to be making the short trip from Watford to west London is Gavin Mahon who should complete his move away from the club when the transfer window opens next week.
"That will all sort itself out," said the manager. "I've said he can leave, he's been a good servant and if he moves on then he goes with our best wishes." Watford Observer
Watford Observer/Kevin Affleck - Aidy: Doyley is not for sale
AIDY BOOTHROYD has issued a hands-off to QPR, tomorrow's visitors to Vicarage Road, after they were linked with a move for Lloyd Doyley.
The right-back, ever present this season, has been linked with a £500,000 switch to Loftus Road, but Boothroyd insists the player "is not going anywhere" and that the club owned by the fifth richest family in the world "haven't got enough money to buy him anyway".
Despite a recent dip in form, Boothroyd has been delighted with the strides Doyley has made this season and is likely to offer him a new contract.
"If there was a contract offer on the table and it was a good one then I'd sign it," said the 25-year-old Doyley. "I've been here since I was 11 and it's the only club I know. It's nice to be linked but I'm a Watford player and I've still got another year and a half to run on my contract."
One player likely to be making the short trip from Watford to west London is Gavin Mahon who should complete his move away from the club when the transfer window opens next week.
"That will all sort itself out," said the manager. "I've said he can leave, he's been a good servant and if he moves on then he goes with our best wishes." Watford Observer
On This Day: QPR's Crushing Victory Over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge!
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Ok it's an eon ago, but whatever!
December 28th 1974: Recently-appointed, Dave Sexton-managed QPR against a recently-having-dismissed-Dave Sexton Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. QPR had the recently-signed Don Masson in midfield and John Beck in his best QPR season. Chelsea I believe were managed by Ron Stuart with Eddie McCreadie as Coach.
Score: Chelsea 0 QPR 3 - Two from Don Givens; one from Gerry Francis.
QPR's team
Parkes
Clement Webb Mclintock Gillard
Francis Beck Masson
Givens Bowles Thomas
Chelsea's Team (one name missing!)
Phillips
Locke Hay Droy Harris
Wilkins Hollins Kember Cooke
Hutchinson Garland
Sub: Houseman
[UPDATED II: Chelsea Team now complete. Many thanks to the poster who provided me with the name: Charlie Cooke (a truly great player, who would have graced the QPR team!]
[UPDATED: Chelsea Team now provided, except for one name. Many Thanks to the poster who provided this
NB: I don't have the Chelsea team, but if anyone has it, and wants to post it, please do. Chelsea had already sold Osgood and Hudson. But they had Bonnetti, Hollins, Hutchinson, Ron Harris, etc, etc.
And Fifteen Years ago.. before a crowd of under 15,000 at Loftus Road. QPR 4 Everton 2 (Sinton 3, Penrice)
Steyskal
Bardsley Peacock McDonald Wilson
Barker Wilkins Holloway Sinton
Ferdinand Penrice
Ok it's an eon ago, but whatever!
December 28th 1974: Recently-appointed, Dave Sexton-managed QPR against a recently-having-dismissed-Dave Sexton Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. QPR had the recently-signed Don Masson in midfield and John Beck in his best QPR season. Chelsea I believe were managed by Ron Stuart with Eddie McCreadie as Coach.
Score: Chelsea 0 QPR 3 - Two from Don Givens; one from Gerry Francis.
QPR's team
Parkes
Clement Webb Mclintock Gillard
Francis Beck Masson
Givens Bowles Thomas
Chelsea's Team (one name missing!)
Phillips
Locke Hay Droy Harris
Wilkins Hollins Kember Cooke
Hutchinson Garland
Sub: Houseman
[UPDATED II: Chelsea Team now complete. Many thanks to the poster who provided me with the name: Charlie Cooke (a truly great player, who would have graced the QPR team!]
[UPDATED: Chelsea Team now provided, except for one name. Many Thanks to the poster who provided this
NB: I don't have the Chelsea team, but if anyone has it, and wants to post it, please do. Chelsea had already sold Osgood and Hudson. But they had Bonnetti, Hollins, Hutchinson, Ron Harris, etc, etc.
And Fifteen Years ago.. before a crowd of under 15,000 at Loftus Road. QPR 4 Everton 2 (Sinton 3, Penrice)
Steyskal
Bardsley Peacock McDonald Wilson
Barker Wilkins Holloway Sinton
Ferdinand Penrice
Next: QPR at Watford
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UPDATED 11:45 am
One-off-the-top, Watford face one-off-the-bottom QPR at Watford. Watford's home record is 5 wins 3 draws 4 defeats 16-16 Goals for and against. (QPR's away record is 2 wins 5 draws 5 defeats 14-21 goals for and against Table See also: Watford results this season and Watford Players Profiles
UPDATE: WATFORD OFFICIAL SITE - FOCUS ON: QPR
DRAMA never seems to be far away from Queens Park Rangers as their own rollercoaster of a season has just peaked somewhere near the top of the Big Dipper following another cash-rich investor putting money into the west Londoners.
Back in September when the Hornets visited W12, news had surfaced that Renault boss Flavio Briatore and F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone were taking over the R's.
Now the club recently announced a 20 per cent investment from Lakshmi Mittal, A CEO of the world's largest steel company and the fifth richest man in the world.
Things could well have been very different for QPR had they not struck gold - talk of administration was rife before the takeover but their new riches will be the perfect opportunity to clear debts and build the club up again.
However on the pitch, although there has been an improvement of late, Rangers still lie in the dreaded drop zone and have only just avoided the drop in the last two seasons.
The Superhoops are second bottom and will be licking their wounds after Plymouth came back from one down to beat the west Londoners in time added on.
Newspaper reports suggest big spending from the R's in January, but boss Luigi De Canio has warned against rumours of unlimited spending and he will have to spend wisely to add to what he already has.
De Canio took over the reins after John Gregory left the club following a disappointing start to the campaign - caretaker boss Mick Harford steadied the ship but did not join continue with the club following news of DeCanio's appointment.
The changes on the playing front have already started and a staggering amount of players have been through the doors of QPR in the last 18 months.
Ex-Hornet Danny Cullip, who tamed Marlon King and Darius Henderson in the 1-1 draw at Loftus Road, has been released along with Australian Nick Ward and John Curtis.
Loanees Scott Sinclair and Ben Sahar have returned to Chelsea but the club has been relying on their current crop of loan stars including Rowan Vine and Hungarian play maker Akos Buzsaky.
TEAM NEWS
The R's have been missing Chelsea loanee Michael Mancienne in recent weeks while midfielder Mikele Leigertwood sits out tomorrow's clash through suspension after being sent off at Home Park.
Damion Stewart looks set to return to the defence after missing the last game following a one-match ban. Simon Walton has been back involved recently after recovering from a broken leg which delayed him making his debut for the R's.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
This Saturday's visitors lead the way in the head-to-head stakes. However in recent years the Golden Boys have come out on top and have only lost once in seven meetings.
LAST TIME THE TEAMS MET
It was only back in September and loan star Adam Johnson opened the scoring in west London, but the R's struck back through Stefan Moore's only goal of the season.
ONE TO WATCH:
Buzsaky has made a flying start to life in the capital and looks set to make the move permanent in January. The midfielder has already bagged five goals for Rangers, including two in the recent win over Colchester at Loftus Road. Watford
Watford Official Site - AIDY ON DERBY DATE
WATFORD Manager Aidy Boothroyd is hoping that his Golden Boys can take some goal-scoring momentum into this Saturday's local derby encounter with Queens Park Rangers, after Jobi McAnuff's last-gasp strike against Cardiff turned the emotion of near defeat into that of a winning feeling at Watford on Boxing Day.
The winger's stunning goal only salvaged a point against the Bluebirds, but it was the manner in which his side twice clawed their way back into the game that Boothroyd hopes will prove to be catalyst moment in the festive period.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's crunch Christmas game the Yorkshire-born Hornets' boss said: "A local derby gives us no better opportunity because we have to be winning at home for sure.
"The way that we finished the game against Cardiff just shows how much it meant to us to get that final-minute equalising goal.
"It was important that we didn't lose against Cardiff, and we didn't. To come back twice shows that we've got a lot of things going for us.
"In the first half against Cardiff it was abundantly clear there was a lot of work to be done, it was a very, very poor performance, but we've got to make sure that we keep getting better and better.
Aidy Boothroyd
"Queens Park Rangers will be a really tough test for us, with their new manager coming into this local derby wanting a win.
The last time the two sides met at the Vic was early on in the Hornets' last promotion campaign, and it proved a positive night for Boothroyd and Watford as goals from Ashley Young, Matthew Spring and Anthony McNamee secured a 3-1 win.
"I remember the last time we played Rangers at home and it was a terrific night, we managed to get a win, and we've got to make sure that we approach the game with our normal spirit but keep adding the improved bits in, the quality that we've been working on.
"It's within the side, we're scoring from open play, we're scoring from set plays and we've got players popping up with goals from all over the pitch, which is very, very important to share the load.
"We've kept clean sheets at times; we've got seven now, and we've seen some great away wins and some good home wins. What we've got to do is put them together now and that's going to take a bit of time."
Boothroyd believes his team, although in a state of change, will improve in time, and pointed to one or two factors that might be influencing the current malaise at home.
"Unfortunately, like everybody else we have to deal with injuries," said the Hornets' supremo.
"Damien Francis is coming back from his bad knee injury and is only just coming back to form. Jobi McAnuff, who's been terrific in the last two games, scoring two goals, is also coming back to form now after his little niggles.
"We have a new captain now in Jay DeMerit and Richard Lee is just making the position his own in goal, so there's a lot of subtle changes that are going on and when things settle down - and I am sure they will - we'll start putting all those clean sheets and all those goals from all those players together to make sure we get on a winning run again."
Rangers come to town on the back of their own last second Boxing Day drama, theirs being defeat at the hands of Plymouth Argyle at Home Park, meaning they arrive at the Vic as the proverbial 'wounded animal'.
"QPR will want to put right their last minute defeat at Plymouth and they'll fancy their chances coming to us," added Boothroyd.
Aidy Bootrhoyd
"They'll come to Vicarage Road thinking that they can make the crowd nervous and get in to us. But, we've already proved that we can win games, either by going out in front, or by coming from behind.
"We know we're a test for anybody, what we've got to do is start putting some festive smiles on people's faces for Saturday the 29th!"
The Hornets don't have any fresh injury worries ahead of the clash with the R's and the gaffer has plenty of attacking options with Darius Henderson making a claim for a starting spot following his appearance from the bench on Saturday.
The Loftus Road club will also be looking forward to a reported January spending spree, following the arrival of new investors in west London.
"The newspaper reports suggest that QPR are chomping at the bit to spend some of their new found wealth, but I'm not sure whether that makes it a better time to play them or not.
"Maybe it's the cynic in me, but we've heard this all before and whether it's true or not doesn't really concern me, whatever the club involved. We'll have to see what they do, and if they do, then good luck to them."
Finally, Boothroyd turned his thoughts towards his own club's purse strings, and the possibilities of new faces in the upcoming transfer window.
"I've spent the last few days just mulling over some DVDs that I've watched, just going over them again, just looking at the players that we're going to go for. I do think it is important to strengthen.
"I think it's a long race the Championship season. We're just over half-way and we've got our noses in front with West Brom, but it's important with the tightness of the league that we add some more depth and we certainly look to strengthen and freshen things up." Watford
QPR's PERSPECTIVE - QPR OFFICIAL SITE THE FRIDAY PREVIEW: HORNETS
After the long journey to Home Park on Boxing Day, Rangers' final away fixture of 2007 is just down the road at local rivals Watford on Saturday.
Still seething after the late, late defeat against Plymouth Argyle on Wednesday, the R's will be doubly determined to return to winning ways against a Hornets side currently suffering a blip in front of their own supporters.
Despite currently occupying second place in the Coca Cola Championship, Adrian Boothroyd's men have failed to register a win in front of their home supporters since October 20th.
That run stretches six matches and includes home defeats to Plymouth Argyle and Bristol City, amongst others.
Yet, while Rangers were left licking their wounds on Wednesday evening, Boothroyd's men played their festive get out of jail card against Cardiff City.
Jobi McAnuff's last-gasp strike rescued a point for the Hornets in a frantic finale, which saw Cardiff lead on two separate occasions.
Yet despite the late point, Boothroyd is still struggling to put his finger on why his charges are continually underachieving at Vicarage Road.
"I don't know what the problem is playing at home," he said, "but sometimes you can want something too much and it becomes harder and harder.
"We didn't play with a lot of brain. You need to play with muscle or guile and we didn't really have either."
Mikele Leigertwood will miss the trip to Vicarage Road, as he starts a three match suspension, but Damion Stewart is expected to return from a one game ban.
With the exception of Michael Mancienne, who has now resumed light training on his way back from a hamstring problem, R's First Team Coach Luigi De Canio has a fully-fit squad at his disposal. QPR
UPDATED 11:45 am
One-off-the-top, Watford face one-off-the-bottom QPR at Watford. Watford's home record is 5 wins 3 draws 4 defeats 16-16 Goals for and against. (QPR's away record is 2 wins 5 draws 5 defeats 14-21 goals for and against Table See also: Watford results this season and Watford Players Profiles
UPDATE: WATFORD OFFICIAL SITE - FOCUS ON: QPR
DRAMA never seems to be far away from Queens Park Rangers as their own rollercoaster of a season has just peaked somewhere near the top of the Big Dipper following another cash-rich investor putting money into the west Londoners.
Back in September when the Hornets visited W12, news had surfaced that Renault boss Flavio Briatore and F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone were taking over the R's.
Now the club recently announced a 20 per cent investment from Lakshmi Mittal, A CEO of the world's largest steel company and the fifth richest man in the world.
Things could well have been very different for QPR had they not struck gold - talk of administration was rife before the takeover but their new riches will be the perfect opportunity to clear debts and build the club up again.
However on the pitch, although there has been an improvement of late, Rangers still lie in the dreaded drop zone and have only just avoided the drop in the last two seasons.
The Superhoops are second bottom and will be licking their wounds after Plymouth came back from one down to beat the west Londoners in time added on.
Newspaper reports suggest big spending from the R's in January, but boss Luigi De Canio has warned against rumours of unlimited spending and he will have to spend wisely to add to what he already has.
De Canio took over the reins after John Gregory left the club following a disappointing start to the campaign - caretaker boss Mick Harford steadied the ship but did not join continue with the club following news of DeCanio's appointment.
The changes on the playing front have already started and a staggering amount of players have been through the doors of QPR in the last 18 months.
Ex-Hornet Danny Cullip, who tamed Marlon King and Darius Henderson in the 1-1 draw at Loftus Road, has been released along with Australian Nick Ward and John Curtis.
Loanees Scott Sinclair and Ben Sahar have returned to Chelsea but the club has been relying on their current crop of loan stars including Rowan Vine and Hungarian play maker Akos Buzsaky.
TEAM NEWS
The R's have been missing Chelsea loanee Michael Mancienne in recent weeks while midfielder Mikele Leigertwood sits out tomorrow's clash through suspension after being sent off at Home Park.
Damion Stewart looks set to return to the defence after missing the last game following a one-match ban. Simon Walton has been back involved recently after recovering from a broken leg which delayed him making his debut for the R's.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
This Saturday's visitors lead the way in the head-to-head stakes. However in recent years the Golden Boys have come out on top and have only lost once in seven meetings.
LAST TIME THE TEAMS MET
It was only back in September and loan star Adam Johnson opened the scoring in west London, but the R's struck back through Stefan Moore's only goal of the season.
ONE TO WATCH:
Buzsaky has made a flying start to life in the capital and looks set to make the move permanent in January. The midfielder has already bagged five goals for Rangers, including two in the recent win over Colchester at Loftus Road. Watford
Watford Official Site - AIDY ON DERBY DATE
WATFORD Manager Aidy Boothroyd is hoping that his Golden Boys can take some goal-scoring momentum into this Saturday's local derby encounter with Queens Park Rangers, after Jobi McAnuff's last-gasp strike against Cardiff turned the emotion of near defeat into that of a winning feeling at Watford on Boxing Day.
The winger's stunning goal only salvaged a point against the Bluebirds, but it was the manner in which his side twice clawed their way back into the game that Boothroyd hopes will prove to be catalyst moment in the festive period.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's crunch Christmas game the Yorkshire-born Hornets' boss said: "A local derby gives us no better opportunity because we have to be winning at home for sure.
"The way that we finished the game against Cardiff just shows how much it meant to us to get that final-minute equalising goal.
"It was important that we didn't lose against Cardiff, and we didn't. To come back twice shows that we've got a lot of things going for us.
"In the first half against Cardiff it was abundantly clear there was a lot of work to be done, it was a very, very poor performance, but we've got to make sure that we keep getting better and better.
Aidy Boothroyd
"Queens Park Rangers will be a really tough test for us, with their new manager coming into this local derby wanting a win.
The last time the two sides met at the Vic was early on in the Hornets' last promotion campaign, and it proved a positive night for Boothroyd and Watford as goals from Ashley Young, Matthew Spring and Anthony McNamee secured a 3-1 win.
"I remember the last time we played Rangers at home and it was a terrific night, we managed to get a win, and we've got to make sure that we approach the game with our normal spirit but keep adding the improved bits in, the quality that we've been working on.
"It's within the side, we're scoring from open play, we're scoring from set plays and we've got players popping up with goals from all over the pitch, which is very, very important to share the load.
"We've kept clean sheets at times; we've got seven now, and we've seen some great away wins and some good home wins. What we've got to do is put them together now and that's going to take a bit of time."
Boothroyd believes his team, although in a state of change, will improve in time, and pointed to one or two factors that might be influencing the current malaise at home.
"Unfortunately, like everybody else we have to deal with injuries," said the Hornets' supremo.
"Damien Francis is coming back from his bad knee injury and is only just coming back to form. Jobi McAnuff, who's been terrific in the last two games, scoring two goals, is also coming back to form now after his little niggles.
"We have a new captain now in Jay DeMerit and Richard Lee is just making the position his own in goal, so there's a lot of subtle changes that are going on and when things settle down - and I am sure they will - we'll start putting all those clean sheets and all those goals from all those players together to make sure we get on a winning run again."
Rangers come to town on the back of their own last second Boxing Day drama, theirs being defeat at the hands of Plymouth Argyle at Home Park, meaning they arrive at the Vic as the proverbial 'wounded animal'.
"QPR will want to put right their last minute defeat at Plymouth and they'll fancy their chances coming to us," added Boothroyd.
Aidy Bootrhoyd
"They'll come to Vicarage Road thinking that they can make the crowd nervous and get in to us. But, we've already proved that we can win games, either by going out in front, or by coming from behind.
"We know we're a test for anybody, what we've got to do is start putting some festive smiles on people's faces for Saturday the 29th!"
The Hornets don't have any fresh injury worries ahead of the clash with the R's and the gaffer has plenty of attacking options with Darius Henderson making a claim for a starting spot following his appearance from the bench on Saturday.
The Loftus Road club will also be looking forward to a reported January spending spree, following the arrival of new investors in west London.
"The newspaper reports suggest that QPR are chomping at the bit to spend some of their new found wealth, but I'm not sure whether that makes it a better time to play them or not.
"Maybe it's the cynic in me, but we've heard this all before and whether it's true or not doesn't really concern me, whatever the club involved. We'll have to see what they do, and if they do, then good luck to them."
Finally, Boothroyd turned his thoughts towards his own club's purse strings, and the possibilities of new faces in the upcoming transfer window.
"I've spent the last few days just mulling over some DVDs that I've watched, just going over them again, just looking at the players that we're going to go for. I do think it is important to strengthen.
"I think it's a long race the Championship season. We're just over half-way and we've got our noses in front with West Brom, but it's important with the tightness of the league that we add some more depth and we certainly look to strengthen and freshen things up." Watford
QPR's PERSPECTIVE - QPR OFFICIAL SITE THE FRIDAY PREVIEW: HORNETS
After the long journey to Home Park on Boxing Day, Rangers' final away fixture of 2007 is just down the road at local rivals Watford on Saturday.
Still seething after the late, late defeat against Plymouth Argyle on Wednesday, the R's will be doubly determined to return to winning ways against a Hornets side currently suffering a blip in front of their own supporters.
Despite currently occupying second place in the Coca Cola Championship, Adrian Boothroyd's men have failed to register a win in front of their home supporters since October 20th.
That run stretches six matches and includes home defeats to Plymouth Argyle and Bristol City, amongst others.
Yet, while Rangers were left licking their wounds on Wednesday evening, Boothroyd's men played their festive get out of jail card against Cardiff City.
Jobi McAnuff's last-gasp strike rescued a point for the Hornets in a frantic finale, which saw Cardiff lead on two separate occasions.
Yet despite the late point, Boothroyd is still struggling to put his finger on why his charges are continually underachieving at Vicarage Road.
"I don't know what the problem is playing at home," he said, "but sometimes you can want something too much and it becomes harder and harder.
"We didn't play with a lot of brain. You need to play with muscle or guile and we didn't really have either."
Mikele Leigertwood will miss the trip to Vicarage Road, as he starts a three match suspension, but Damion Stewart is expected to return from a one game ban.
With the exception of Michael Mancienne, who has now resumed light training on his way back from a hamstring problem, R's First Team Coach Luigi De Canio has a fully-fit squad at his disposal. QPR
Ex-QPR (and Arsenal's) Frank McLintock Turns 68
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Frank McLintock, one of QPR's 1975/76 "Championship" heroes, celebrates his 68th Birthday today. Born December 28th 1939.
Released by Arsenal at age 33 (who preferred Jeff Blockley and later Terry Mancini!), the ex-Arsenal captain who led Arsenal to the 1971 "Double" and won the "Player of the Year," was signed by Gordon Jago after our promotion back to Division One. In four seasons in the First Division, McLintock played 120+ games, scoring 5 goals and formed an elderly, but brilliant, defensive central pairing alongside David Webb. He was a major reason why QPR stabilized in the First Division and why they (so very, very nearly) won the Championship. After retiring in the summer of 1977, McLintock became manager of Leicester and a coach at a couple of clubs, including briefly at QPR. And QPR, at least partly because they no longer had Mclintock, were relegated a couple of seasons later.
See - McLintock's Stats and Wikipedia - McLintock
See Also: Dave's QPR Site Profile of McLintock
Dave Webb Talking about McClintock QPR Official Site
"...It was probably the best team I ever played in. We were really ahead of the times with our passing football. Gordon Jago had a part to play in that. Then Dave Sexton took over, changed things slightly and gelled it all together.
"They were fun days and we had great flair players. Stan Bowles up front; Gerry Francis in the middle; and Dave Thomas wide. We constantly played the ball out from the back, which was very unusual in those days.
"My centre-back partner Frank McLintock was always better at that than me, so we tried to make sure he was the spare man. But the full-backs, Dave Clement and Ian Gillard, were also extremely comfortable on the ball so we could build our moves up from defence. .."
"In saying that, my main role was as a defender. Some people used to say that Frank McLintock and I were a bit too old. He was 37 and I was 30, so the pundits felt we were slow and we couldn't turn.
"But we used to out-cute opposing strikers. We used a lot of know-how between the two of us and I recall that Rangers only conceded 33 goals in the League in 1975/76.
"I used to have little laughs out on the pitch with Frank - a sort of a nod and a wink to each other, because we did things as a pair that were almost sixth sense and like a married couple!
"You might have left your partner in a position that people would think was vulnerable as a defender, but we both instinctively knew exactly how the other one wanted to play and what we wanted to do in matches. So we had total respect and trust in each other and it worked a treat." QPR
Don Givens on McLintock (QPRNet Interview)
"...We had someone in Frank McLintock who was a marvellous influence on the team, he’d come from Arsenal where things were done at a different level and he tried to introduce those things to QPR and help make it better for us. He didn’t always succeed on the club side of things but he did help the team. He was probably the most influential player I’ve ever lined up with." QPRNet
McLintock's autobiography, True Grit
"Synopsis - Frank McLintock was a leading players of his generation and is acclaimed as one of the Arsenal's greatest captains. After transferring from Leicester, in 1970 he led Arsenal to a famous victory in the Fairs Cup and followed this up with even greater glory a year later, winning an historic league and FA Cup double. He left Arsenal in 1973 after being controversially dropped, and enjoyed four successful years at QPR. He retired from playing in 1977, to make an ill-conceived and hasty move into management. Following this difficult period he entered the often shady world of agents, and faced perhaps his worst moment in the game, becoming involved in the infamous bungs scandal over Teddy Sherringham's transfer from Forest to Spurs. Frank continues to retain a high profile in the game, appearing weekly as a Sky pundit. His is a captivating football story spanning 45 years during which he achieved fabulous success and faced shattering lows, all told with enthusiasm, humour, honesty and intense passion."
See London Times Mini Profiles of QPR's 1975/1976 Players
McLintock Today - Available as a speaker
Video - Mclintock (and Rodney Marsh) speaking
Frank McLintock, one of QPR's 1975/76 "Championship" heroes, celebrates his 68th Birthday today. Born December 28th 1939.
Released by Arsenal at age 33 (who preferred Jeff Blockley and later Terry Mancini!), the ex-Arsenal captain who led Arsenal to the 1971 "Double" and won the "Player of the Year," was signed by Gordon Jago after our promotion back to Division One. In four seasons in the First Division, McLintock played 120+ games, scoring 5 goals and formed an elderly, but brilliant, defensive central pairing alongside David Webb. He was a major reason why QPR stabilized in the First Division and why they (so very, very nearly) won the Championship. After retiring in the summer of 1977, McLintock became manager of Leicester and a coach at a couple of clubs, including briefly at QPR. And QPR, at least partly because they no longer had Mclintock, were relegated a couple of seasons later.
See - McLintock's Stats and Wikipedia - McLintock
See Also: Dave's QPR Site Profile of McLintock
Dave Webb Talking about McClintock QPR Official Site
"...It was probably the best team I ever played in. We were really ahead of the times with our passing football. Gordon Jago had a part to play in that. Then Dave Sexton took over, changed things slightly and gelled it all together.
"They were fun days and we had great flair players. Stan Bowles up front; Gerry Francis in the middle; and Dave Thomas wide. We constantly played the ball out from the back, which was very unusual in those days.
"My centre-back partner Frank McLintock was always better at that than me, so we tried to make sure he was the spare man. But the full-backs, Dave Clement and Ian Gillard, were also extremely comfortable on the ball so we could build our moves up from defence. .."
"In saying that, my main role was as a defender. Some people used to say that Frank McLintock and I were a bit too old. He was 37 and I was 30, so the pundits felt we were slow and we couldn't turn.
"But we used to out-cute opposing strikers. We used a lot of know-how between the two of us and I recall that Rangers only conceded 33 goals in the League in 1975/76.
"I used to have little laughs out on the pitch with Frank - a sort of a nod and a wink to each other, because we did things as a pair that were almost sixth sense and like a married couple!
"You might have left your partner in a position that people would think was vulnerable as a defender, but we both instinctively knew exactly how the other one wanted to play and what we wanted to do in matches. So we had total respect and trust in each other and it worked a treat." QPR
Don Givens on McLintock (QPRNet Interview)
"...We had someone in Frank McLintock who was a marvellous influence on the team, he’d come from Arsenal where things were done at a different level and he tried to introduce those things to QPR and help make it better for us. He didn’t always succeed on the club side of things but he did help the team. He was probably the most influential player I’ve ever lined up with." QPRNet
McLintock's autobiography, True Grit
"Synopsis - Frank McLintock was a leading players of his generation and is acclaimed as one of the Arsenal's greatest captains. After transferring from Leicester, in 1970 he led Arsenal to a famous victory in the Fairs Cup and followed this up with even greater glory a year later, winning an historic league and FA Cup double. He left Arsenal in 1973 after being controversially dropped, and enjoyed four successful years at QPR. He retired from playing in 1977, to make an ill-conceived and hasty move into management. Following this difficult period he entered the often shady world of agents, and faced perhaps his worst moment in the game, becoming involved in the infamous bungs scandal over Teddy Sherringham's transfer from Forest to Spurs. Frank continues to retain a high profile in the game, appearing weekly as a Sky pundit. His is a captivating football story spanning 45 years during which he achieved fabulous success and faced shattering lows, all told with enthusiasm, humour, honesty and intense passion."
See London Times Mini Profiles of QPR's 1975/1976 Players
McLintock Today - Available as a speaker
Video - Mclintock (and Rodney Marsh) speaking
Thursday, December 27, 2007
QPR's Season's Stats: QPR Not a Second Half Team
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Some stats for the season:
QPR's record in the second half of games is worse than in the first half. In five games this season, QPR have conceded a goal in the last five minutes.
QPR have the worst goal difference; and the joint worst goals for record.
QPR's RECORD in First HALF of Game vs Second Half
P W D L F A
First Half Record 24 6 13 5 10 13
Second Half Record 24 4 10 10 13 22
QPR's Stats this season
See Also Actim Stats and Player Rankings
LEAGUE TABLE
Scunthorpe 24 -7 26
Norwich 24 -10 26
Sheff Wed 23 -5 25
Preston 24 -6 24
QPR 24 -12 24
Colchester 24 -6 22
League Table
Some stats for the season:
QPR's record in the second half of games is worse than in the first half. In five games this season, QPR have conceded a goal in the last five minutes.
QPR have the worst goal difference; and the joint worst goals for record.
QPR's RECORD in First HALF of Game vs Second Half
P W D L F A
First Half Record 24 6 13 5 10 13
Second Half Record 24 4 10 10 13 22
QPR's Stats this season
See Also Actim Stats and Player Rankings
LEAGUE TABLE
Scunthorpe 24 -7 26
Norwich 24 -10 26
Sheff Wed 23 -5 25
Preston 24 -6 24
QPR 24 -12 24
Colchester 24 -6 22
League Table
Ex-QPRs: Langley Turns 28...Victories for Waddock and Mcdonald...First Goal for Adam Miller
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Ex-QPR Midfielder, Richard Langley turns 28 - Born December 27, 1979. ...
Gerry Francis gave Langley his QPR debut inOctober 1998, and helped save the club from relegation. Became a Jamaica International. Went to Cardiff for a couple of years. Returned to QPR for a year. Joined Luton, where he's currently injured. Possibly the potential he once displayed didn't quite develop.Stats
Snippet: The QPR Team that Played on the Day that Langley was Born QPR vs Leicester: December 27, 1979: (QPR Lost 0-2) . Woods Gillard Hazell Wicks Shanks Currie Mcreery Roeder Allen Goddard Hill Sub: Waddock.
Of this team: two are managers: Roeder is manager of Norwich and Waddock is manager of Aldershot. yesterday, victory for Garry Waddock's table-topping Aldershot who won 1-0 away. Report
Also victorious yesterday: Alan McDonald's Glentoran who beat Linfield 1-0 Report See also Glentoran
Adam Miller scored his first goal for Gillingham, with a last minute equalizer at Southend. Report
Matt Rose came on as a late substitute for Yeovil (who also had ex-QPRs Bircham and Cochrane on the bench) as they lost 0-1 at home to Swindon.
Tommy Doherty continued his recovery, by coming on as sub for Wycombe who won 3-1 at Brentford -Report
Ex-QPR Midfielder, Richard Langley turns 28 - Born December 27, 1979. ...
Gerry Francis gave Langley his QPR debut inOctober 1998, and helped save the club from relegation. Became a Jamaica International. Went to Cardiff for a couple of years. Returned to QPR for a year. Joined Luton, where he's currently injured. Possibly the potential he once displayed didn't quite develop.Stats
Snippet: The QPR Team that Played on the Day that Langley was Born QPR vs Leicester: December 27, 1979: (QPR Lost 0-2) . Woods Gillard Hazell Wicks Shanks Currie Mcreery Roeder Allen Goddard Hill Sub: Waddock.
Of this team: two are managers: Roeder is manager of Norwich and Waddock is manager of Aldershot. yesterday, victory for Garry Waddock's table-topping Aldershot who won 1-0 away. Report
Also victorious yesterday: Alan McDonald's Glentoran who beat Linfield 1-0 Report See also Glentoran
Adam Miller scored his first goal for Gillingham, with a last minute equalizer at Southend. Report
Matt Rose came on as a late substitute for Yeovil (who also had ex-QPRs Bircham and Cochrane on the bench) as they lost 0-1 at home to Swindon.
Tommy Doherty continued his recovery, by coming on as sub for Wycombe who won 3-1 at Brentford -Report
QPR's Plymouth Loss - Further Reports and Comments
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Leigterwood banned for THREE games after his post-match sending off.
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - THREE MATCH BAN
Mikele Leigertwood will serve a three match suspension, as a result of his sending off against Plymouth Argyle on Boxing Day.
Leigertwood was given his marching orders for foul and abusive language after the final whistle at Home Park.
The midfielder will miss Saturday's trip to local rivals Watford, as well as the R's New Years Day fixture against Leicester City and the trip to Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup, third round. QPR
UPDATE: QPR's goal against Plymouth credited to Vine.
QPR Official Site: ROWAN'S GOAL
The Club can confirm that Rowan Vine has been credited with Rangers' goal against Plymouth Argyle on Boxing Day.
Today's national newspapers named Gareth Ainsworth as the R's goal-scorer against Plymouth Argyle, but Vine got the final touch to Martin Rowlands' cross for his fourth goal of the campaign at Home Park.
Speaking exclusively to www.qpr.co.uk this morning, skipper Adam Bolder said: "There's no way Gaz is going to take that off Viney.
"Rowan definitely got the final touch and therefore it's his goal.
"Unfortunately it was all to no avail, and that's desperately disappointing after the run we've been on." QPR
DAILY MAIL -The referee was totally to blame for our defeat at Plymouth, laments QPR boss De Canio
Luigi De Canio blamed referee Steve Bratt for Queens Park Rangers' last-gasp 2-1 defeat at Plymouth.
The QPR coach said: "His performance offended me and every sportsman. He was bad throughout the whole match.
When we lost at Stoke it was because of our own mistakes, but here the referee was mainly responsible for our defeat."
Sylvain Ebanks-Blake's double saw off Rangers after Gareth Ainsworth had struck early on. Mail
MIRROR/Ann Gripper - LUIGI IS LEFT FUMING AS BLAKE LIFTS PILGRIMS
A late, late winner from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake moved Plymouth into the play-off places, sent QPR back into the drop zone - and left Mikele Leigertwood seeing red after the final whistle.
Newly-rich Rangers will have money to spend when the January window opens and their aim has been to stay in touch until they can start shopping.
They came into the game on a four-match unbeaten run, and things seemed to be going according to plan when the Plymouth defence failed to clear Martin Rowlands' cutback and Gareth Ainsworth stabbed in to give the visitors a first-half lead.
Ebanks-Blake, recalled after two games on the bench, equalised from the penalty spot on 50 minutes after a shot from the dangerous Peter Halmosi hit Martin Rowlands' arm.
Two minutes later Ebanks-Blake was squaring up to Simon Walton, a confrontation which saw both players booked and fired up the ex-Manchester United man.
Ebanks-Blake was a constant irritant to the Rangers back line, holding the ball up well and battling for everything. That hard work paid off in the fourth minute of stoppage time.
With the clock ticking down, he latched onto Romain Larrieu's long clearance to earn a corner, and when Halmosi's inswinger was cleared onto the crossbar, Ebanks-Blake was there to fire the rebound high into the roof of the net.
There was barely time for the restart before referee Steve Bratt blew for full time - with Rangers boss Luigi De Canio rushing onto the pitch to haul his fuming players away from the official.
He was not quick enough to prevent Leigertwood earning a straight red, although he could well understand the midfielder's fury.
De Canio said: "I don't want to comment on anything to do with the ref because it could cost me my job.
"We will think about the January sales when the time comes. Everyone is playing for their future, every game."
Pilgrims boss Paul Sturrock said: "Sylvan got involved in a wee fracas which I think shook him up a bit. For the next 25 minutes he was the best player on the pitch.
"Perhaps I'll slap him about before a game and we'll get 90 minutes of it." Mirror
TELEGRAPH - QPR's riches cannot save them in Plymouth
Queens Park Rangers manager Luigi De Canio is determined to remain focused on upcoming matches despite having multi-billionaire investor Lakshmi Mittal's money to spend in January.
"We'll think about the January sales when January comes," he said. "Right now we have got difficult games coming up."
QPR were sunk by Plymouth's recalled top scorer, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, who equalised Gareth Ainsworth's opener with a penalty and then struck during a goalmouth scramble in stoppage time."
Telegraph
PLYMOUTH OFFICIAL SITE RETURN OF THE SYLV
RECALLED top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake fired manager Paul Sturrock the perfect response after missing the last two games at Watford and Crystal Palace.
Ebanks-Blake bagged a vital brace to give Argyle a dramatic Boxing Day win over QPR after trailing to former Pilgrim Ákos Buzsáky's new team at half-time.
Sturrock is looking forward to helping the former Manchester United develop into a complete striker. Ebanks-Blake showed a bumper Home Park crowd his obvious potential with a coolly-taken penalty to equalize before slamming home the winner deep into
Sturrock said: "I feel there is a lot more I can get out of him as far as being a footballer is concerned. His response [to being left out] has been the proper one and the professional one.
"What I will say about Sylvan is that people point the finer at him at times as being a bit lazy and scoring goals is just the key to him.
"I think there is more to that lad than people give him credit for. I think he could be an all-round striker and they are very naughty. His linkage in the second half was excellent and took us up the pitch. He is obviously a goal-getter as well."
The manager also revealed an enterprising new approach to galvanizing Ebanks-Blake into producing more performances of this nature.
The former Manchester United had a fairly heated spat with Simon Walton immediately after bringing the scores level and subsequently took the match by storm - a reaction that may prompt Luggy into using slightly aggressive man-management in the future.
Sturrock said: "Sylvan got involved in a wee fracas that shook him up for a bit and for the next 25 minutes he was the best player on the pitch. Maybe I should slap him about before a game and we will get 90 minutes of that."
Sylv Tiff
Sylvan will rightly get the headlines but for every effective striker there is generally a top winger supplying the chances, and Petér Halmosi played that role today.
The Hungarian international winger terrorized Rangers full-back Bob Malcolm in the second period and ended up winning the penalty for handball against Martin Rowlands and supplying the corner for the last-ditch winner.
Sturrock said: "I felt Petér had been standing and crossing rather than getting at their full back. It could not tell if the right back was quick or slow, but in the second half I rattled his [Petér's] cage a bit or as much as he can understand, and told him I wanted to find out how quick this full back was.
"He had a go for the whole of the second half and he put us in a position to be attacking the ball in the box.
"These kind of penalties are happening more frequently in football where before it would have been waved away as accidental. It seems to me that referees are now giving these and it went for us today.
"In the end I thought time was going to run out but we looked very dangerous from every set piece we took today and I am very pleased we scored from a set piece we have been working on."
With the positives out of the way, Luggy was far from happy with another slow start from the Pilgrims, which is becoming a worryingly frequent habit.
He said: "I am disappointed with our starts - West Brom, Norwich, even Scunthorpe, obviously last Saturday and now today.
"We just don't seem to start with the right tempo. We were the home side today and we expected to put them on the back foot but we allowed them to slow the game down and we played at the pace they wanted to play at.
"That is too many games where we have come out slowly. I don't know about having a cunning plan [to deal with it] but I do have a plan.
"In the second half we played at the pace we wanted, which looked as if they were uncomfortable with and we got our rewards because of it.
"They scored with their only chance of the first half. We had two or three half chances and their goalie made a great save.
"I felt, because we did not play with the right tempo in the first half, that a draw was a fair result, but I thought we edged the second half. We did change things a bit for the second half with a few words and how we were looking to get around their box.
"They had a great chance where Romain has made a great save and we had some half chances where the ball spun around the box.
"Just before the winner the ball flashed across and three boys missed it. We worked very hard in the second half and we were always on the front foot.
"I have had games where we have dominated and lost one nothing. Today, Lady Luck has shone on us or she did not turn her bottom on us - let's put it that away."
Thoughts now turn to the visit of Stoke City and former boss Tony Pulis to Home Park on Saturday, and Luggy has again pledged to make changes.
He said: "I will freshen things up again dramatically on Saturday to give us fresh legs. At this time of the season it is not a team, it is a squad.
"One thing I can assure you of is, if we come out slowly on Saturday we are going to get our bottoms spanked." Plymouth
PLYMOUTH HERALD - STURROCK BLAST FUELS ARGYLE WIN
Plymouth Argyle came from behind to beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Home Park yesterday - following a half-time lecture from manager Paul Sturrock.
They had trailed 1-0 at the interval after a goal from midfielder Gareth Ainsworth in the 20th minute of the Championship clash.
But striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, recalled to the starting line-up after two matches on the substitutes' bench, equalised from the penalty spot in the 49th minute.
And he then grabbed the winning goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time to seal three more points in Argyle's quest for the play-offs.
Sturrock, though, was far from impressed with the Pilgrims' performance, and especially the way they had started the Boxing Day contest.
Argyle have made a habit of conceding the first goal in games lately, including the 2-1 defeats away to Norwich City and Crystal Palace.
Sturrock said: "We just don't seem to start games properly, with the right tempo. We were the home side today and we would expect to put them on the back foot.
"But we allowed them to slow the game down in the first half and we played it at whatever pace they wanted to play it.
"In the second half, we came out and played at the pace we wanted to, and they had to play it, which they looked uncomfortable with. I think we got our rewards because of it."
Sturrock admitted some strong words had been spoken during the half-time break, before Argyle staged their comeback.
The Pilgrims' boss said: "There are games I have played in the past where we have dominated and lost 1-0. Today, Lady Luck shone on us.
"I got the reaction I was looking for in the second half after an excitable 10 minutes.
"But I don't think I should be having to do that on a regular occurrence, and we did change a couple of change things style-wise. We did play a wee bit differently in the second half."
One of the players who was on the receiving end of some criticism from Sturrock at the break was midfielder Peter Halmosi.
However, Halmosi responded by playing a part in both of Argyle's goals. First, it was his goalbound shot that was handled by QPR midfielder Martin Rowlands and led to Ebanks-Blake's successful spot kick.
And it was from the Hungarian international's corner that Ebanks-Blake scored the all-important winning goal - his 11th of the season.
Sturrock said: "I felt Peter had been standing and crossing in the first half, instead of getting at the full-back.
"But I rattled his cage a wee bit - as much as he can understand - and told him I wanted to find out how quick the full-back was.
"He had a go the whole of the second half and put us in a position to be attacking the ball in the box."
Sturrock had some sympathy with QPR over the handball decision against Rowlands, which led to Ebanks-Blake putting the Pilgrims on level terms.
He said: "These types of penalties are happening more and more in football.
"Before they would have been waved away as accidental, but it seems to me a lot of referees are now giving them. It went for us today."
Ebanks-Blake's second goal came after centre-back Krisztian Timar headed against the crossbar from a corner taken by Halmosi.
Sturrock said: "I thought time was going to run out, but we looked very dangerous from every corner we took today and I'm pleased we scored off a set piece we had been working hard on."
Ebanks-Blake was recalled to the Pilgrims' side following the pre-Christmas defeat by Palace.
Sturrock switched from a 4-3-3 formation to 4-4-2 for the game against QPR and Ebanks-Blake led the attack with Barry Hayles, with Jermaine Easter making way for him.
Ebanks-Blake was one of 10 players booked by referee Steve Bratt, receiving a yellow card in the 53rd minute after a clash with QPR's Simon Walton.
Sturrock said: "Sylvan got involved in a fracas which, I think, shook him up a wee bit and for the next 25 minutes he was probably the best player on the pitch.
"I will slap him about before games now and, hopefully, we will get 90 minutes of that!
"People point the finger at him at times and say he's a wee bit lazy and scoring goals is all he's about, but I think there is more in that laddie than he's given credit for.
"I think he could be an all-round striker, and ones who can play and score are very naughty.
"His linkage in the second half was excellent and took us up the football pitch and then, obviously, he's a goal poacher as well." Plymouth Herald
PLYMOUTH HERALD - PILGRIMS ON THE UP AFTER LATE STRIKE SINKS RANGERS
Argyle are up to sixth spot in the Championship after their last-gasp win against Queens Park Rangers at Home Park yesterday.
Striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake fired home from close range in the fourth minute of stoppage time at the end of the Boxing Day clash to send the Green Army into raptures.
QPR had taken the lead in the 20th minute of a scrappy encounter with a goal from midfielder Gareth Ainsworth.
But Ebanks-Blake equalised for Argyle in the 49th minute when he converted a penalty after a shot from midfielder Peter Halmosi was handled by Rangers' Martin Rowlands.
Referee Steve Bratt obviously had a new pen and notepad for Christmas as he booked 10 players - three from Argyle and seven from QPR.
It looked as though both sides would have to settle for a point until Ebanks-Blake popped up with his 11th goal of the season, after defender Krisztian Timar had headed a corner from Halmosi against the crossbar.
Argyle were playing their first Boxing Day fixture at Home Park since 2004, when they beat QPR 2-1.
Pilgrims' boss Paul Sturrock had promised after the 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday there would be changes for the clash against Rangers - and there were three of them.
Paul Connolly took over at right-back from England under-18 international Dan Gosling.
Lilian Nalis returned to the centre of midfield, with Lee Hodges moving to left-back, where he replaced Gary Sawyer. And top scorer Ebanks-Blake was recalled to lead the attack with Barry Hayles in a 4-4-2 formation.
That meant Jermaine Easter, who had been on target for Argyle against Palace, was only included among the substitutes.
Gosling and Sawyer were also on the bench, as well as on-loan Manchester United winger Lee Martin.
Martin was added to the squad having been out of action since the 3-0 home win against Scunthorpe United on December 1 because of a torn hamstring.
QPR were without defender Damion Stewart because of a one-match ban.
He was sent-off in the 2-1 home defeat of Colchester United on Saturday and Simon Walton took over from him in the centre of defence.
One-time Argyle loan signing Dexter Blackstock was dropped as manager Luigi De Canio went with a 4-4-1-1 formation.
Rowan Vine was the lone striker for Rangers with former Argyle fans' favourite Akos Buzsaky, who scored both goals against Colchester, playing in the advanced midfield role.
Blackstock was on the bench for QPR as they went in search of only their third away Championship win of the season.
Argyle had beaten QPR 2-0 at Loftus Road on September 18 and there was a bumper attendance of 16,502 at Home Park as they tried to complete the double.
QPR left-back Chris Barker needlessly conceded a corner in only the second minute with a misplaced header.
Hungarian international Halmosi crossed to the near post and Nalis stabbed the ball wide, with his appeals for another corner waved away by Bratt.
Pilgrims' midfielder David Norris then shot across the face of goal following after a surging run into the penalty area.
Otherwise, it was a tame opening to the Championship encounter, with both sides battling for midfield supremacy.
Ebanks-Blake tried an audacious overhead kick but it was well wide of the target.
QPR were playing some neat, passing football and they took the lead in the 20th minute after a mistake from Connolly.
Connolly failed to cut out a pass from Buzsaky to Rowlands and the left-sided midfielder made the most of the error.
Rowlands raced to the by-line and crossed low into the six-yard area. The ball was missed by a couple of players before Ainsworth arrived at the far post and slotted home.
Norris had a header easily saved by goalkeeper Lee Camp as Argyle tried to respond to the setback.
Bratt then lectured Argyle midfielder Nadjim Abdou and QPR striker Rowan Vine after a tussle between the two players threatened to turn ugly.
Buzsaky was the first player to be booked by the referee after a challenge on Connolly in the 31st minute.
And Argyle almost equalised from the resulting free-kick as Nalis got a connection on Halmosi's curling cross but his first-time shot was saved by the feet of Camp.
QPR had the next chance as centre-back Zesh Rehman fired the ball high over the bar after a corner from Buzsaky.
Argyle could not get into any rhythm, with too many of their passes misplaced, and they lacked any penetration in the attacking third of the pitch.
Ebanks-Blake was off target with a wayward 20-yard shot as the Pilgrims continued to struggle to create any clear-cut chances.
There was a near miss, though, in the 42nd minute when Halmosi's corner spun up off the boot of Barker and went inches over the bar.
There were four minutes of stoppage time added on by Bratt at the end of the first half. But the only noteworthy incident was a late tackle on Norris by Rowlands, which earned the Rangers' midfielder a yellow card.
Sturrock had wanted his players to set a high tempo from the start of the game and force QPR onto the defensive. But they did neither in the first half and the Pilgrims' boss must have been hugely disappointed with his side's disjointed display.
However, Sturrock resisted the temptation to use any of his substitutes at the start of the second period.
And Argyle were level in the 49th minute when Ebanks-Blake scored from the penalty spot for the fourth time this season.
The former Manchester United striker drilled the ball low into the bottom right corner of the net.
Tempers started to fray as Ainsworth was booked for a lunge on Argyle centre-back Marcel Seip in the 51st minute.
Then Ebanks-Blake and QPR centre-back Simon Walton were both yellow-carded after squaring up to each other.
There was definitely more urgency about the home side and Halmosi, in particular, was posing a threat on the left-side with his strong running.
Centre-back Marcel Seip headed wide from a Halmosi free-kick as Argyle went in search of a second goal.
QPR sent on towering Danish striker Marc Nygaard as a 68th minute substitute for Rowlands, with Vine moving to the left side of midfield.
Midfielder Adam Bolder was the fifth QPR player to be booked after a foul on Ebanks-Blake two minutes later.
Argyle were still struggling to open up the Rangers' defence and Sturrock made a double substitution in the 73rd minute to try to change that.
Easter replaced Hayles in attack and Martin came on for Abdou.
There were still too many careless passes from Argyle and, although QPR were not really threatening themselves, they were defending with some comfort.
Nygaard was booked by Bratt for shoving over Easter before Blackstock was sent on for Buzsaky in the 78th minute.
Seip made a superb sliding tackle on Blackstock to concede a corner in the 80th minute, and the set piece almost resulted in QPR restoring their lead.
Ainsworth crossed deep to the far post and Blackstock's header was parried away by goalkeeper Romain Larrieu.
QPR were now playing 4-3-3 after the introduction of Nygaard and Blackstock and, for the first time, were starting to apply some pressure on the Pilgrims.
Easter squandered a chance for Argyle, though, when he failed to make proper contact with a cross from Halmosi.
The ball broke to Ebanks-Blake inside the six-yard area but he was immediately flagged offside as the home side's frustrating afternoon continued.
Argyle sent up loud penalty appeals for handball against Barker in the 85th minute after a cross from Martin, but Bratt let play continue.
Nalis became the eighth player to be booked, and the second for Argyle, after a clash with Nygaard two minutes later as the game became increasingly scrappy.
Bratt then showed a yellow card to Easter for dissent after awarding a free-kick to QPR.
When Hodges could not direct his header on target from an inswinging corner taken by Halmosi in the 90th minute it seemed as though the game would end up 1-1.
But, in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Argyle snatched maximum points with another goal from Ebanks-Blake.
Halmosi's corner was headed against the bar by Timar and Ebanks-Blake pounced, giving QPR 'keeper Lee Camp no chance with a powerful shot.
It was all too much for QPR midfielder Mikele Leigertwood as, seconds later, he was booked for a foul.
Then, after Bratt had blown the final whistle, Leigertwood was shown a red card for foul and abusive language to compound a miserable end to the match for the west London club.
Argyle, though, could celebrate their 10th league win of the season, and their third in seven games since Sturrock's reappointment as manager. Plymouth Herald
Also: Earlier Reports & Comments: "At the Very, Very, Very End...QPR Lose to Plymouth - Reports and Managerial Comments"
Leigterwood banned for THREE games after his post-match sending off.
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - THREE MATCH BAN
Mikele Leigertwood will serve a three match suspension, as a result of his sending off against Plymouth Argyle on Boxing Day.
Leigertwood was given his marching orders for foul and abusive language after the final whistle at Home Park.
The midfielder will miss Saturday's trip to local rivals Watford, as well as the R's New Years Day fixture against Leicester City and the trip to Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup, third round. QPR
UPDATE: QPR's goal against Plymouth credited to Vine.
QPR Official Site: ROWAN'S GOAL
The Club can confirm that Rowan Vine has been credited with Rangers' goal against Plymouth Argyle on Boxing Day.
Today's national newspapers named Gareth Ainsworth as the R's goal-scorer against Plymouth Argyle, but Vine got the final touch to Martin Rowlands' cross for his fourth goal of the campaign at Home Park.
Speaking exclusively to www.qpr.co.uk this morning, skipper Adam Bolder said: "There's no way Gaz is going to take that off Viney.
"Rowan definitely got the final touch and therefore it's his goal.
"Unfortunately it was all to no avail, and that's desperately disappointing after the run we've been on." QPR
DAILY MAIL -The referee was totally to blame for our defeat at Plymouth, laments QPR boss De Canio
Luigi De Canio blamed referee Steve Bratt for Queens Park Rangers' last-gasp 2-1 defeat at Plymouth.
The QPR coach said: "His performance offended me and every sportsman. He was bad throughout the whole match.
When we lost at Stoke it was because of our own mistakes, but here the referee was mainly responsible for our defeat."
Sylvain Ebanks-Blake's double saw off Rangers after Gareth Ainsworth had struck early on. Mail
MIRROR/Ann Gripper - LUIGI IS LEFT FUMING AS BLAKE LIFTS PILGRIMS
A late, late winner from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake moved Plymouth into the play-off places, sent QPR back into the drop zone - and left Mikele Leigertwood seeing red after the final whistle.
Newly-rich Rangers will have money to spend when the January window opens and their aim has been to stay in touch until they can start shopping.
They came into the game on a four-match unbeaten run, and things seemed to be going according to plan when the Plymouth defence failed to clear Martin Rowlands' cutback and Gareth Ainsworth stabbed in to give the visitors a first-half lead.
Ebanks-Blake, recalled after two games on the bench, equalised from the penalty spot on 50 minutes after a shot from the dangerous Peter Halmosi hit Martin Rowlands' arm.
Two minutes later Ebanks-Blake was squaring up to Simon Walton, a confrontation which saw both players booked and fired up the ex-Manchester United man.
Ebanks-Blake was a constant irritant to the Rangers back line, holding the ball up well and battling for everything. That hard work paid off in the fourth minute of stoppage time.
With the clock ticking down, he latched onto Romain Larrieu's long clearance to earn a corner, and when Halmosi's inswinger was cleared onto the crossbar, Ebanks-Blake was there to fire the rebound high into the roof of the net.
There was barely time for the restart before referee Steve Bratt blew for full time - with Rangers boss Luigi De Canio rushing onto the pitch to haul his fuming players away from the official.
He was not quick enough to prevent Leigertwood earning a straight red, although he could well understand the midfielder's fury.
De Canio said: "I don't want to comment on anything to do with the ref because it could cost me my job.
"We will think about the January sales when the time comes. Everyone is playing for their future, every game."
Pilgrims boss Paul Sturrock said: "Sylvan got involved in a wee fracas which I think shook him up a bit. For the next 25 minutes he was the best player on the pitch.
"Perhaps I'll slap him about before a game and we'll get 90 minutes of it." Mirror
TELEGRAPH - QPR's riches cannot save them in Plymouth
Queens Park Rangers manager Luigi De Canio is determined to remain focused on upcoming matches despite having multi-billionaire investor Lakshmi Mittal's money to spend in January.
"We'll think about the January sales when January comes," he said. "Right now we have got difficult games coming up."
QPR were sunk by Plymouth's recalled top scorer, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, who equalised Gareth Ainsworth's opener with a penalty and then struck during a goalmouth scramble in stoppage time."
Telegraph
PLYMOUTH OFFICIAL SITE RETURN OF THE SYLV
RECALLED top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake fired manager Paul Sturrock the perfect response after missing the last two games at Watford and Crystal Palace.
Ebanks-Blake bagged a vital brace to give Argyle a dramatic Boxing Day win over QPR after trailing to former Pilgrim Ákos Buzsáky's new team at half-time.
Sturrock is looking forward to helping the former Manchester United develop into a complete striker. Ebanks-Blake showed a bumper Home Park crowd his obvious potential with a coolly-taken penalty to equalize before slamming home the winner deep into
Sturrock said: "I feel there is a lot more I can get out of him as far as being a footballer is concerned. His response [to being left out] has been the proper one and the professional one.
"What I will say about Sylvan is that people point the finer at him at times as being a bit lazy and scoring goals is just the key to him.
"I think there is more to that lad than people give him credit for. I think he could be an all-round striker and they are very naughty. His linkage in the second half was excellent and took us up the pitch. He is obviously a goal-getter as well."
The manager also revealed an enterprising new approach to galvanizing Ebanks-Blake into producing more performances of this nature.
The former Manchester United had a fairly heated spat with Simon Walton immediately after bringing the scores level and subsequently took the match by storm - a reaction that may prompt Luggy into using slightly aggressive man-management in the future.
Sturrock said: "Sylvan got involved in a wee fracas that shook him up for a bit and for the next 25 minutes he was the best player on the pitch. Maybe I should slap him about before a game and we will get 90 minutes of that."
Sylv Tiff
Sylvan will rightly get the headlines but for every effective striker there is generally a top winger supplying the chances, and Petér Halmosi played that role today.
The Hungarian international winger terrorized Rangers full-back Bob Malcolm in the second period and ended up winning the penalty for handball against Martin Rowlands and supplying the corner for the last-ditch winner.
Sturrock said: "I felt Petér had been standing and crossing rather than getting at their full back. It could not tell if the right back was quick or slow, but in the second half I rattled his [Petér's] cage a bit or as much as he can understand, and told him I wanted to find out how quick this full back was.
"He had a go for the whole of the second half and he put us in a position to be attacking the ball in the box.
"These kind of penalties are happening more frequently in football where before it would have been waved away as accidental. It seems to me that referees are now giving these and it went for us today.
"In the end I thought time was going to run out but we looked very dangerous from every set piece we took today and I am very pleased we scored from a set piece we have been working on."
With the positives out of the way, Luggy was far from happy with another slow start from the Pilgrims, which is becoming a worryingly frequent habit.
He said: "I am disappointed with our starts - West Brom, Norwich, even Scunthorpe, obviously last Saturday and now today.
"We just don't seem to start with the right tempo. We were the home side today and we expected to put them on the back foot but we allowed them to slow the game down and we played at the pace they wanted to play at.
"That is too many games where we have come out slowly. I don't know about having a cunning plan [to deal with it] but I do have a plan.
"In the second half we played at the pace we wanted, which looked as if they were uncomfortable with and we got our rewards because of it.
"They scored with their only chance of the first half. We had two or three half chances and their goalie made a great save.
"I felt, because we did not play with the right tempo in the first half, that a draw was a fair result, but I thought we edged the second half. We did change things a bit for the second half with a few words and how we were looking to get around their box.
"They had a great chance where Romain has made a great save and we had some half chances where the ball spun around the box.
"Just before the winner the ball flashed across and three boys missed it. We worked very hard in the second half and we were always on the front foot.
"I have had games where we have dominated and lost one nothing. Today, Lady Luck has shone on us or she did not turn her bottom on us - let's put it that away."
Thoughts now turn to the visit of Stoke City and former boss Tony Pulis to Home Park on Saturday, and Luggy has again pledged to make changes.
He said: "I will freshen things up again dramatically on Saturday to give us fresh legs. At this time of the season it is not a team, it is a squad.
"One thing I can assure you of is, if we come out slowly on Saturday we are going to get our bottoms spanked." Plymouth
PLYMOUTH HERALD - STURROCK BLAST FUELS ARGYLE WIN
Plymouth Argyle came from behind to beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Home Park yesterday - following a half-time lecture from manager Paul Sturrock.
They had trailed 1-0 at the interval after a goal from midfielder Gareth Ainsworth in the 20th minute of the Championship clash.
But striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, recalled to the starting line-up after two matches on the substitutes' bench, equalised from the penalty spot in the 49th minute.
And he then grabbed the winning goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time to seal three more points in Argyle's quest for the play-offs.
Sturrock, though, was far from impressed with the Pilgrims' performance, and especially the way they had started the Boxing Day contest.
Argyle have made a habit of conceding the first goal in games lately, including the 2-1 defeats away to Norwich City and Crystal Palace.
Sturrock said: "We just don't seem to start games properly, with the right tempo. We were the home side today and we would expect to put them on the back foot.
"But we allowed them to slow the game down in the first half and we played it at whatever pace they wanted to play it.
"In the second half, we came out and played at the pace we wanted to, and they had to play it, which they looked uncomfortable with. I think we got our rewards because of it."
Sturrock admitted some strong words had been spoken during the half-time break, before Argyle staged their comeback.
The Pilgrims' boss said: "There are games I have played in the past where we have dominated and lost 1-0. Today, Lady Luck shone on us.
"I got the reaction I was looking for in the second half after an excitable 10 minutes.
"But I don't think I should be having to do that on a regular occurrence, and we did change a couple of change things style-wise. We did play a wee bit differently in the second half."
One of the players who was on the receiving end of some criticism from Sturrock at the break was midfielder Peter Halmosi.
However, Halmosi responded by playing a part in both of Argyle's goals. First, it was his goalbound shot that was handled by QPR midfielder Martin Rowlands and led to Ebanks-Blake's successful spot kick.
And it was from the Hungarian international's corner that Ebanks-Blake scored the all-important winning goal - his 11th of the season.
Sturrock said: "I felt Peter had been standing and crossing in the first half, instead of getting at the full-back.
"But I rattled his cage a wee bit - as much as he can understand - and told him I wanted to find out how quick the full-back was.
"He had a go the whole of the second half and put us in a position to be attacking the ball in the box."
Sturrock had some sympathy with QPR over the handball decision against Rowlands, which led to Ebanks-Blake putting the Pilgrims on level terms.
He said: "These types of penalties are happening more and more in football.
"Before they would have been waved away as accidental, but it seems to me a lot of referees are now giving them. It went for us today."
Ebanks-Blake's second goal came after centre-back Krisztian Timar headed against the crossbar from a corner taken by Halmosi.
Sturrock said: "I thought time was going to run out, but we looked very dangerous from every corner we took today and I'm pleased we scored off a set piece we had been working hard on."
Ebanks-Blake was recalled to the Pilgrims' side following the pre-Christmas defeat by Palace.
Sturrock switched from a 4-3-3 formation to 4-4-2 for the game against QPR and Ebanks-Blake led the attack with Barry Hayles, with Jermaine Easter making way for him.
Ebanks-Blake was one of 10 players booked by referee Steve Bratt, receiving a yellow card in the 53rd minute after a clash with QPR's Simon Walton.
Sturrock said: "Sylvan got involved in a fracas which, I think, shook him up a wee bit and for the next 25 minutes he was probably the best player on the pitch.
"I will slap him about before games now and, hopefully, we will get 90 minutes of that!
"People point the finger at him at times and say he's a wee bit lazy and scoring goals is all he's about, but I think there is more in that laddie than he's given credit for.
"I think he could be an all-round striker, and ones who can play and score are very naughty.
"His linkage in the second half was excellent and took us up the football pitch and then, obviously, he's a goal poacher as well." Plymouth Herald
PLYMOUTH HERALD - PILGRIMS ON THE UP AFTER LATE STRIKE SINKS RANGERS
Argyle are up to sixth spot in the Championship after their last-gasp win against Queens Park Rangers at Home Park yesterday.
Striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake fired home from close range in the fourth minute of stoppage time at the end of the Boxing Day clash to send the Green Army into raptures.
QPR had taken the lead in the 20th minute of a scrappy encounter with a goal from midfielder Gareth Ainsworth.
But Ebanks-Blake equalised for Argyle in the 49th minute when he converted a penalty after a shot from midfielder Peter Halmosi was handled by Rangers' Martin Rowlands.
Referee Steve Bratt obviously had a new pen and notepad for Christmas as he booked 10 players - three from Argyle and seven from QPR.
It looked as though both sides would have to settle for a point until Ebanks-Blake popped up with his 11th goal of the season, after defender Krisztian Timar had headed a corner from Halmosi against the crossbar.
Argyle were playing their first Boxing Day fixture at Home Park since 2004, when they beat QPR 2-1.
Pilgrims' boss Paul Sturrock had promised after the 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday there would be changes for the clash against Rangers - and there were three of them.
Paul Connolly took over at right-back from England under-18 international Dan Gosling.
Lilian Nalis returned to the centre of midfield, with Lee Hodges moving to left-back, where he replaced Gary Sawyer. And top scorer Ebanks-Blake was recalled to lead the attack with Barry Hayles in a 4-4-2 formation.
That meant Jermaine Easter, who had been on target for Argyle against Palace, was only included among the substitutes.
Gosling and Sawyer were also on the bench, as well as on-loan Manchester United winger Lee Martin.
Martin was added to the squad having been out of action since the 3-0 home win against Scunthorpe United on December 1 because of a torn hamstring.
QPR were without defender Damion Stewart because of a one-match ban.
He was sent-off in the 2-1 home defeat of Colchester United on Saturday and Simon Walton took over from him in the centre of defence.
One-time Argyle loan signing Dexter Blackstock was dropped as manager Luigi De Canio went with a 4-4-1-1 formation.
Rowan Vine was the lone striker for Rangers with former Argyle fans' favourite Akos Buzsaky, who scored both goals against Colchester, playing in the advanced midfield role.
Blackstock was on the bench for QPR as they went in search of only their third away Championship win of the season.
Argyle had beaten QPR 2-0 at Loftus Road on September 18 and there was a bumper attendance of 16,502 at Home Park as they tried to complete the double.
QPR left-back Chris Barker needlessly conceded a corner in only the second minute with a misplaced header.
Hungarian international Halmosi crossed to the near post and Nalis stabbed the ball wide, with his appeals for another corner waved away by Bratt.
Pilgrims' midfielder David Norris then shot across the face of goal following after a surging run into the penalty area.
Otherwise, it was a tame opening to the Championship encounter, with both sides battling for midfield supremacy.
Ebanks-Blake tried an audacious overhead kick but it was well wide of the target.
QPR were playing some neat, passing football and they took the lead in the 20th minute after a mistake from Connolly.
Connolly failed to cut out a pass from Buzsaky to Rowlands and the left-sided midfielder made the most of the error.
Rowlands raced to the by-line and crossed low into the six-yard area. The ball was missed by a couple of players before Ainsworth arrived at the far post and slotted home.
Norris had a header easily saved by goalkeeper Lee Camp as Argyle tried to respond to the setback.
Bratt then lectured Argyle midfielder Nadjim Abdou and QPR striker Rowan Vine after a tussle between the two players threatened to turn ugly.
Buzsaky was the first player to be booked by the referee after a challenge on Connolly in the 31st minute.
And Argyle almost equalised from the resulting free-kick as Nalis got a connection on Halmosi's curling cross but his first-time shot was saved by the feet of Camp.
QPR had the next chance as centre-back Zesh Rehman fired the ball high over the bar after a corner from Buzsaky.
Argyle could not get into any rhythm, with too many of their passes misplaced, and they lacked any penetration in the attacking third of the pitch.
Ebanks-Blake was off target with a wayward 20-yard shot as the Pilgrims continued to struggle to create any clear-cut chances.
There was a near miss, though, in the 42nd minute when Halmosi's corner spun up off the boot of Barker and went inches over the bar.
There were four minutes of stoppage time added on by Bratt at the end of the first half. But the only noteworthy incident was a late tackle on Norris by Rowlands, which earned the Rangers' midfielder a yellow card.
Sturrock had wanted his players to set a high tempo from the start of the game and force QPR onto the defensive. But they did neither in the first half and the Pilgrims' boss must have been hugely disappointed with his side's disjointed display.
However, Sturrock resisted the temptation to use any of his substitutes at the start of the second period.
And Argyle were level in the 49th minute when Ebanks-Blake scored from the penalty spot for the fourth time this season.
The former Manchester United striker drilled the ball low into the bottom right corner of the net.
Tempers started to fray as Ainsworth was booked for a lunge on Argyle centre-back Marcel Seip in the 51st minute.
Then Ebanks-Blake and QPR centre-back Simon Walton were both yellow-carded after squaring up to each other.
There was definitely more urgency about the home side and Halmosi, in particular, was posing a threat on the left-side with his strong running.
Centre-back Marcel Seip headed wide from a Halmosi free-kick as Argyle went in search of a second goal.
QPR sent on towering Danish striker Marc Nygaard as a 68th minute substitute for Rowlands, with Vine moving to the left side of midfield.
Midfielder Adam Bolder was the fifth QPR player to be booked after a foul on Ebanks-Blake two minutes later.
Argyle were still struggling to open up the Rangers' defence and Sturrock made a double substitution in the 73rd minute to try to change that.
Easter replaced Hayles in attack and Martin came on for Abdou.
There were still too many careless passes from Argyle and, although QPR were not really threatening themselves, they were defending with some comfort.
Nygaard was booked by Bratt for shoving over Easter before Blackstock was sent on for Buzsaky in the 78th minute.
Seip made a superb sliding tackle on Blackstock to concede a corner in the 80th minute, and the set piece almost resulted in QPR restoring their lead.
Ainsworth crossed deep to the far post and Blackstock's header was parried away by goalkeeper Romain Larrieu.
QPR were now playing 4-3-3 after the introduction of Nygaard and Blackstock and, for the first time, were starting to apply some pressure on the Pilgrims.
Easter squandered a chance for Argyle, though, when he failed to make proper contact with a cross from Halmosi.
The ball broke to Ebanks-Blake inside the six-yard area but he was immediately flagged offside as the home side's frustrating afternoon continued.
Argyle sent up loud penalty appeals for handball against Barker in the 85th minute after a cross from Martin, but Bratt let play continue.
Nalis became the eighth player to be booked, and the second for Argyle, after a clash with Nygaard two minutes later as the game became increasingly scrappy.
Bratt then showed a yellow card to Easter for dissent after awarding a free-kick to QPR.
When Hodges could not direct his header on target from an inswinging corner taken by Halmosi in the 90th minute it seemed as though the game would end up 1-1.
But, in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Argyle snatched maximum points with another goal from Ebanks-Blake.
Halmosi's corner was headed against the bar by Timar and Ebanks-Blake pounced, giving QPR 'keeper Lee Camp no chance with a powerful shot.
It was all too much for QPR midfielder Mikele Leigertwood as, seconds later, he was booked for a foul.
Then, after Bratt had blown the final whistle, Leigertwood was shown a red card for foul and abusive language to compound a miserable end to the match for the west London club.
Argyle, though, could celebrate their 10th league win of the season, and their third in seven games since Sturrock's reappointment as manager. Plymouth Herald
Also: Earlier Reports & Comments: "At the Very, Very, Very End...QPR Lose to Plymouth - Reports and Managerial Comments"
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
At the Very, Very, Very End...QPR Lose to Plymouth - Reports and Managerial Comments
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QPR travelled to Plymouth...QPR took the lead through Ainsworth and that was the half-time score. Plymouth equalized near the start of the second half with a penalty...and then, at the end; the very end...Plymouth got that second goal. Plymouth 2 QPR 1. This is not exactly the first time this season that QPR have conceded that vital goal in the last few minutes of a game. QPR had seven bookings (Walton, Rowlands, Bolder, leighterwood, Buzsaky, Ainsworth, Nygaard, ...Then post-whistle, Leighterwood was sent off for a second yellow.
QPR OFFICIAL - POST-MATCH MANAGERIAL COMMENTS REF RAGE
Luigi De Canio was unable to hide his frustration after the final whistle at Plymouth.
A late goal gave the hosts all three points as the R's went down 2-1, and De Canio told www.qpr.co.uk: "We didn't take into consideration the standard of the referee when we prepared for this match.
"His performance offended me and every sportsman. He was bad throughout the whole match."
Trying to focus on the positives, De Canio was pleased with the effort and commitment of his players. He said: "From day one the lads have given me 100 per cent.
"They have been fantastic in that respect, but that only makes us even more disappointed about the whole thing.
"This is the most disappointed I have been as QPR's First Team Coach. When we lost at Stoke we lost because of our own mistakes, but today the referee was mainly responsible for our defeat.
"But we will lift ourselves for this weekend's match against Watford. We will go there to do the best we can and hopefully come away with a positive result." QPR
TWO MANAGERS COMMENTS - SPORTING LIFE
ARGYLE BOSS KEEN TO START BETTER
Plymouth manager Paul Sturrock is urging his high-flying Championship side to start matches at a better pace.
After seeing recalled top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake score two second-half goals to turn around a 1-0 half-time deficit and beat QPR, Sturrock admitted there are improvements to be made.
"One disappointing feature is obviously first-half starts," said the Scot.
"We did not start well again today and we did not start well against West Brom, Norwich, even Scunthorpe and, obviously, at Crystal Palace last Saturday.
"We just don't seem to start the game properly, at the right tempo, and we were the home side today and we would expect to put them on the back foot but we allowed them to slow the game down and we played at whatever pace they wanted to play at.
"In the second half we came out and played at a pace we wanted to play at, and not which they wanted and we got our rewards because of it."
Argyle fell behind to a 20th-minute goal steered home by Gareth Ainsworth, with Rowan Vine claiming the last touch after the home side failed to clear Martin Rowlands' cross from the left.
Rowlands' cross beat Argyle keeper Romain Larrieu at the near post and rolled across the face of goal before Ainsworth returned the ball with power from the right.
Argyle responded by taking the game to their visitors in the second half and Hungary winger Peter Halmosi won a 49th-minute penalty after his shot was handled by Rowlands in full view of referee Steve Bratt.
Ebanks-Blake powered home his 10th goal of the season from the spot and then took his tally to 11 with the Greens' last-gasp winner after they swept forward in stoppage time.
Halmosi's corner was headed on to the crossbar by compatriot Krisztian Timar and in the goalmouth scramble Ebanks-Blake was quickest to react as the ball dropped, smsshing the ball into the top of the net.
QPR boss Luigi De Canio was obviously disappointed at the close and pointed to a decision going against substitute Dexter Blackstock, and in favour of Timar as the game's significant turning point.
De Canio said: "When you lose a game right at the death it is always going to be disappointing.
"I thought we deserved at least a point. We controlled the game well in the first half and got a goal, it did not seem too difficult. We needed another goal and if we carried on doing what we were doing we might have got it.
"We will think about the January sales when January comes.
"We will look at it from the point of view of what the team needs. Right now we have got difficult games coming up for this squad of players to face and that's what we are focusing on." Sporting Life
UPDATED LEAGUE TABLE
Blackpool 24 27
Leicester 24 26
Scunthorpe 24 26
Norwich 24 26
Sheff Wed 23 25
Preston 24 24
QPR 24 24
Colchester 24 22
Updated League Table
SPORTING LIFE - Match Report
Sylvain Ebanks-Blake swept in the winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time as Plymouth held off the challenge of QPR.
The 21-year-old striker's left-footed strike from close range converted Peter Halmosi's corner and sent Rangers back into the Coca-Cola Championship relegation zone.
Plymouth dominated throughout but Gareth Ainsworth converted Martin Rowlands' clinical pass in from the left to give the visitors a half-time advantage at Home Park.
But the home side finally got the reward their first-half dominance deserved with a leveller three minutes into the second half when Ebanks-Blake converted from the penalty spot after referee Steve Bratt had penalised Rowlands for handball.
And the 21-year-old finally made Argyle's dominance tell with his 10th of the season to send Plymouth to seventh place in the table, while Rangers fell to 22nd.
Akos Buzsaky began the match against his parent club after his double lifted the west Londoners off the foot of the Coca-Cola Championship in last Saturday's 2-1 win over Colchester.
The 25-year-old Hungarian midfielder will join Rangers in a £500,000 deal next month; the transfer is anticipated to be the first of many after the investment of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
Mittal's input combined with the wealth of Formula One moguls Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore means manager Luigi De Canio is expected to be given substantial funds.
Plymouth boss Paul Sturrock made three changes with midfielder Nalis returning to the starting line-up, but on-loan Manchester United youngster Lee Martin was only fit enough for a place on the bench following a hamstring injury. Ebanks-Blake and defender Paul Connolly also started.
French midfielder Nalis had the first opportunity with the game less than two minutes old but could not find the target from six yards after latching onto Halmosi's corner.
Midfielder Norris, who has been linked with a big-money move away from Devon, shot wide and Ebanks-Blake's acrobatic effort was later off target before Rangers took the lead.
Norris shot straight at Lee Camp before Nalis forced the visiting goalkeeper to parry the ball away as Argyle tried to find an equaliser.
Zesh Rehman shot over for Rangers before Ebanks-Blake again shot wide.
Krisztian Timar headed wide before Camp saved comfortably from Ebanks-Blake to keep Rangers on course for a third away win of the season.
The hosts levelled with the first attack of the second half when Rowlands was adjudged to have handled in the box and Ebanks-Blake converted coolly from the penalty spot.
Barry Hayles headed wide from Halmosi's cross before substitute Dexter Blackstock headed straight at Argyle goalkeeper Romain Larrieu from Ainsworth's corner.
Mikele Leigertwood shot over from 20 yards before Ebanks-Blake's late winner left De Canio to ponder making wholesale reinforcements at Loftus Road when the transfer window opens in seven days.
QPR midfielder Leigertwood was sent off after the final whistle for showing dissent.
Sporting Life
QPR OFFICIAL SITE - MATCH REPORT
The Rangers revival faltered at Plymouth on Boxing Day as Luigi De Canio's men fought hard but conceded a late, late goal to lose 2-1 at Plymouth.
The R's took the lead at Home Park on 19 minutes when Gareth Ainsworth slotted home at the far post following good work by Akos Buzsaky and Martin Rowlands.
But right at the start of the second half Argyle drew level with a Sylvan Ebanks-Blake spot-kick after Simon Walton was adjudged to have handled in the box.
And the R's had to swallow a bitter pill of defeat when Ebanks-Blake netted in the fourth minute of injury time following a Peter Halmosi corner.
The visitors were left devastated at the final whistle after fighting so hard but, in the end, having nothing to show for their efforts.
De Canio made two changes to the side that started against Colchester on Saturday, with Rowlands and Walton coming in at the expense of Dexter Blackstock and Damion Stewart.
Stewart was forced to sit this one out owing to the red card he picked up against the U's, allowing Walton the opportunity to make his first competitive start since his summer switch from Charlton.
Meanwhile Rowlands overcame illness to feature, with Blackstock dropping to the bench.
Plymouth made three changes in the wake of their defeat at Crystal Palace, with Paul Connolly, Lilian Nalis and Ebanks-Blake replacing Dan Gosling, Gary Sawyer and Jermaine Easter respectively.
The R's came into this match on the back of a good run of form but it was the hosts who had the first chance after four minutes.
Connolly won the ball from Rowlands and found David Norris just inside the Rangers half. The Argyle winger was allowed to race 30 yards before firing a low shot inches wide of Lee Camp's right-hand post.
On ten minutes, Argyle again went close to unlocking the R's defence. Peter Halmosi's ball from the left was excellently dummied by Ebanks-Blake for the on-rushing Barry Hayles, but Camp was able to snuff out the chance.
But it was the visitors who took the lead in the 19th minute with their first real chance of the game.
Buzsaky - playing against his parent Club - found Rowlands down the left with a fantastic half-volley pass, and the R's wide man got to the by-line before pulling it back across the face of goal.
The chance looked to have gone when no-one was able to get a touch, but Ainsworth popped up at the far post to slide the ball home, to the delight of the travelling R's supporters.
Plymouth had the chance to restore parity on 26 minutes when Halmosi's deep cross from the left found David Norris but his looping header was easily gathered by Camp.
The hosts were having the majority of possession but Rangers - governed by the inspirational Walton - looked comfortable with whatever Paul Sturrock's men could throw at them.
Argyle had a great chance to draw level on the half-hour mark, however, when Halmosi's delightful free-kick from just outside the Rangers box was met by the sliding Nalis, but Camp was equal to it, saving from six yards with his feet.
For all their possession, the hosts couldn't find a way through in the opening half and the sides went in at the break with Rangers leading 1-0.
Three minutes after the interval, Argyle were given the perfect opportunity to draw level when Walton was adjudged to have handled in the area. Halmosi cut in from the left before firing goalwards. His effort hit the R's defender on the arm from close range and, after a long think, referee Steve Bratt pointed to the spot.
Ebanks-Blake made no mistake from 12 yards, firing low to Camp's right to score his tenth goal of the season.
The game went through a scrappy spell following the equaliser with three yellow cards being brandished by the referee in a matter of minutes as the match threatened to boil over.
With a little over 20 minutes remaining, De Canio replaced Rowlands with Marc Nygaard, putting Vine wide left. And shortly after, Buzsaky's return to his 'current' Club came to an end when he made way for Blackstock as the R's looked to hit Argyle on the break as the hosts searched for a winner.
And Blackstock, who previously enjoyed a loan spell at Home Park, was soon into the thick of the action as he won a corner for the visitors.
From Ainsworth's delivery, it was Blackstock who rose highest to power a header goalwards from eight yards, only for Romain Larrieu to deny him with a decent save.
At the other end Lee Hodges went close with a deft header from a Halmosi corner, and as the game seemed to be drawing to a close, the hosts had one final chance.
Halmosi's delivery caused panic in the R's six-yard box and, after initially hitting the bar, Ebanks-Blake was on hand to smash home a late, late winner.
To add insult to injury, Adam Bolder was shown his second yellow card for dissent after the final whistle. EDIT: THIS WAS CHANGED TO LEIGERTWOOD SENT OFF, NOT Bolder"To add insult to injury, Mikele Leigertwood was sent off for dissent after the final whistle.
Plymouth Argyle: Larrieu, Connolly, Nalis, Timar, Norris, Ebanks-Blake, Hayles (Easter, 73), Halmosi, Hodges, Seip, Abdou (Martin, 73).
Subs: Fallon, Sawyer, Gosling.
Goals: Ebanks-Blake (49), (90)
Bookings: Ebanks-Blake (52), Nalis (86)
Red Cards: Bolder (90)
QPR: Camp, Barker, Bolder, Buzsaky (Blackstock, 78), Ainsworth, Rowlands (Nygaard, 67), Walton, Malcolm, Vine, Rehman, Leigertwood.Subs: Cole, Moore, Kanyuka.
Goals: Ainsworth (19) Bookings: Buzsaky (30), Rowlands (45), Ainsworth (51), Walton (52), Bolder (70), Nygaard (76), Leigertwood (90)
Attendance: 16,502 (QPR fans: 698) QPR Official Site
PLYMOUTH OFFICIAL SITE - REPORT
PÉTER Halmosi outshone compatriot Ákos Buzsáky on the latter's return to Home Park, helping Argyle come from behind to earn a Boxing Day victory that keeps the Pilgrims just where their manager wants them to be, on the coat-tails of the play-offs.
A late injury-time goal by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, who had earlier netted the Pilgrims' leveller shortly after the interval , sent Argyle back into the top seven and a huge Christmas crowd home happy - but it was close.
The opening goals were the result of some perspicacious approach play by the two Hungarians.
Rangers took the lead when Buzsáky began the move that saw Gareth Ainsworth give the visitors the lead midway through the first half.
However, Argyle levelled soon after the interval when Halmosi's incisive running brought about the penalty from which Ebanks-Blake netted his tenth goal of the season.
Argyle manager Paul Sturrock had jettisoned the 4-4-3 starting line-up that had served him to mixed effect on the road at Watford and Crystal Palace.
Luggy recalled right-back Paul Connolly and central midfielder Lilian Nalis after losing them both to suspension a fortnight ago. Victory at Watford meant they were not brought back at the Palace, where a 2-1 defeat last week necessitated the changes.
Connolly was a straight swap with young Dan Gosling, while Nalis's recall allowed Lee Hodges to drop to left-back in place of Gary Sawyer.
A further change was made in the attack, where Jermaine Easter, the Pilgrims' goalscorer at Selhurst Park, was omitted in favour of Ebanks-Blake.
Fit-again Lee Martin and Rory Fallon were among those recalled to sit alongside Easter on the substitutes' bench.
Rangers Italian manager Luigi De Canio had made two changes to the 11 that started Saturday's 2-1 victory over Colchester at Loftus Road, one enforced, one from choice.
Defender Damion Stewart missed the trip to the Westcountry, having been dismissed at the weekend, while striker Dexter Blackstock, who had a successful loan spell at Home Park three seasons ago, was relegated to the substitutes' bench.
Simon Walton was called from the bench to fulfil defensive duties, while Martin Rowlands returned after illness to replace the sacrificed Blackstock as De Canio opted for a five-man midfield, with former Pilgrim Ákos Buzsáky playing in the hole behind lone loan striker Rowan Vine.
If home supporters had half an eye on Buzsáky, his ex-team mate David Norris quickly diverted their attention with a storming run from halfway that went on, and on, and on, until it ended with a low shot across goalkeeper Lee Camp that drifted just wide.
Buzsáky had enjoyed a generous welcome from Home Park's largest crowd of the season which was not as hot as the zeal with which Krisztián Timár nailed his compatriot on a couple of occasions.
Argyle looked lively, with quick, precise and ambitious passing, and some neat little moves that promised more than they ultimately delivered.
Without having looked remotely troubled for a second, Argyle then found themselves a goal down. Buzsáky's ball to Martin Rowlands on the left was hooked out more in hope than expectation but Connolly's slip allowed the Rangers' winger all the time in the world to make the byeline and measure his cross.
The ball went all the way across the face of the goal, barely a yard out, missing players right, left and centre, and Argyle appeared to be the recipients of a monumental let-off until Ainsworth applied a devastating finishing touch.
It took a while - and a yellow-card indiscretion from Buzáky - for the Pilgrims to regain the momentum. After the Rangers' man left his foot in on tackle on Paul Connolly, Nalis helped on Halmosi's free-kick, only for Camp to keep the ball out with his feet.
As the first half ticked away, Argyle raised the tempo and came close to equalising with successive corners.
First, Nalis got his head to Halmosi's right-wing inswinger, with Rangers' defender Chris Barker helping the ball out. Then, Timár rose to nod Norris's delivery from the opposite flank wide.
As they had done at Selhurst Park, Argyle emerged strong and purposeful, and Halmosi had already caused ripples down the QPR right when he won the penalty from which Argyle equalised.
Skipping in between Bolder and Ainsworth, Halmosi tried his luck from just inside the penalty area only for the ball to strike Rowlands. It seemed a clear case of handball, but referee Steve Bratt took an age to give the decision, going right against the old cliché of pointing to the spot without hesitation.
Ebanks-Blake dispatched the opportunity with his customary finish from 12 yards, low and to the goalkeeper's right.
A feisty few minutes followed in which the Argyle goalscorer was booked after a running battle with Walton that went on as play continued around them.
The Green machine was not exactly firing on all cylinders, but still looked capable of getting there when it went through the gears, and Marcel Seip was close to applying a decisive final headed touch to a Halmosi corner played to the far post.
Luggy sent on Lee Martin and Jermaine Easter with 20 minutes remaining, an offensive move and one which offered more width, before Buzsáky gave way to Blackstock for the visitors.
It was QPR who finished the game stronger and looking the team more likely to sneak away with the three points, not least of all when Blackstock headed a corner straight at the previously underemployed Romain Larrieu.
When Argyle did ping the ball out wide, they threatened. Halmosi found Easter in the centre of goal without a marker but the Welshman's header did not match the cross.
Argyle should have been awarded a second penalty when Barker miskicked a clearance. Bratt decided the ball struck chest, which suggests they teach anatomy rather differently in the West Midlands.
Another Halmosi corner, just before the 90 minutes elapsed, went all the way across the goal without receiving more than a feather touch from Hodges' head.
Then chance for victory appeared to have gone, until Ebanks-Blake popped up to slam the ball home from close range following another dangerous Halmosi corner.
The understandable frustration was too much for QPR midfielder Mikele Leigertwood, who earned himself a belated red card for berating a haggard looking referee after the final whistle.
Argyle (4-4-2): 1 Romain Larrieu; 2 Paul Connolly, 5 Krisztián Timár, 19 Marcel Seip, 17 Lee Hodges; 7 David Norris, 26 Jimmy Abdou (29 Lee Martin 73), 4 Lillian Nalis, 16 Péter Halmosi; 9 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, 10 Barry Hayles (capt, 36 Jermaine Easter 73). Substitutes (not used): 14 Rory Fallon, 18 Gary Sawyer, 22 Dan Gosling.
Booked: Ebanks-Blake 53, Nalis 86, Easter 88.
Queens Park Rangers (4-5-1): 1 Lee Camp; 25 Bob Malcolm, 19 Simon Walton, 28 Zesh Rehman, 3 Chris Barker; 11 Gareth Ainsworth, 2 Mikele Leigertwood, 7 Adam Bolder (capt), 10 Ákos Buzsáky (9 Dexter Blackstock 76), 14 Martin Rowlands (30 Marc Nygaard 68); 26 Rowan Vine. Substitutes (not used): 12 Jake Cole (gk), 18 Stefan Moore, 24 Pat Kanyuka. Plymouth
MINUTE BY MINUTE - SPORTING LIFE
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Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
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Plymouth freekick taken by Lilian Nalis
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Mikele Leigertwood (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on Jermaine Easter (Plymouth) by Mikele Leigertwood (QPR), free kick awarded
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Goal scored by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth)
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Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : on target
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Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Foul on Krisztian Timar (Plymouth) by Dexter Blackstock (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Chris Barker
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Foul on Rowan Vine (QPR) by Lee Martin (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth freekick taken by Paul Connolly
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Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Marcel Seip
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Jermaine Easter (Plymouth) booked for dissent
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Chris Barker (QPR) by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Foul on Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) by Rowan Vine (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
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Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on Marc Nygaard (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth freekick taken by Lee Hodges
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Foul on Lee Hodges (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
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Shot by Mikele Leigertwood (QPR) : it goes over
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QPR throw-in taken by Rowan Vine
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Plymouth freekick taken by Paul Connolly
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Foul on David Norris (Plymouth) by Dexter Blackstock (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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QPR corner from the Left taken by Adam Bolder: the defence clears
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QPR are in control of the match. Key player: Marcel Seip
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Caught by Romain Larrieu (Plymouth)
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Header by Dexter Blackstock (QPR) : the 'keeper has it covered
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QPR corner from the Right taken by Gareth Ainsworth
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Foul on Lee Hodges (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Robert Malcolm
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Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Peter Halmosi (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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QPR tactical substitution: Akos Buzsaky replaced by Dexter Blackstock
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Marc Nygaard (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on Jermaine Easter (Plymouth) by Marc Nygaard (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR corner from the Left taken by Akos Buzsaky: the defence clears
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Chris Barker (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Plymouth tactical substitution: Nadjim Abdou replaced by Lee Martin
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Plymouth tactical substitution: Barry Hayles replaced by Jermaine Easter
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
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Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth are in control of the match. Key player: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
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Plymouth freekick taken by Lilian Nalis
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Adam Bolder (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) by Adam Bolder (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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QPR tactical substitution: Martin Rowlands replaced by Marc Nygaard
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Header by Barry Hayles (Plymouth) : it goes wide
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Plymouth freekick taken by Peter Halmosi
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Foul on Barry Hayles (Plymouth) by Chris Barker (QPR), free kick awarded
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Plymouth throw-in taken by David Norris
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Peter Halmosi
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QPR freekick taken by Akos Buzsaky
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Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Peter Halmosi (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Peter Halmosi
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Robert Malcolm (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth corner from the Left taken by David Norris: the ref spots an infringement
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
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Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : it goes over
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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Simon Walton (QPR) booked for dissent
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Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) booked for dissent
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on Marcel Seip (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Zeshan Rehman (QPR) by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth are in control of the match. Key player: Peter Halmosi
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Penalty scored by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth)
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Penalty taken by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth); power left low: scored
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Handball by Martin Rowlands (QPR )
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Foul on Lee Hodges (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
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Foul on Akos Buzsaky (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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The second half kicks off.
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The referee blows for half time.
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QPR freekick taken by Robert Malcolm
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Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Lee Hodges (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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Plymouth freekick taken by Paul Connolly
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Martin Rowlands (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on David Norris (Plymouth) by Martin Rowlands (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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Caught by Lee Camp (QPR)
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Header by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : the 'keeper has it covered
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Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi: the defence clears
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Header by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth) : it goes wide
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Plymouth corner from the Left taken by David Norris
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Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi
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QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
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Foul on Rowan Vine (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth are in control of the match. Key player: Simon Walton
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Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : it goes wide
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Simon Walton (QPR) by David Norris (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
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Foul on Chris Barker (QPR) by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Shot by Zeshan Rehman (QPR) : it goes over
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QPR corner from the Right taken by Akos Buzsaky
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QPR freekick taken by Robert Malcolm
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Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Barry Hayles (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Handball by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth )
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Saved by Lee Camp (QPR)
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Shot by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) : the 'keeper has it covered
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Plymouth freekick taken by Peter Halmosi
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Akos Buzsaky (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
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Foul on Paul Connolly (Plymouth) by Akos Buzsaky (QPR), free kick awarded
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Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Barry Hayles
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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Plymouth freekick taken by Lilian Nalis
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Foul on Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) by Rowan Vine (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Martin Rowlands
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Foul on Rowan Vine (QPR) by Nadjim Abdou (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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Plymouth freekick taken by Peter Halmosi
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Foul on Barry Hayles (Plymouth) by Adam Bolder (QPR), free kick awarded
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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Caught by Lee Camp (QPR)
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Header by David Norris (Plymouth) : the 'keeper has it covered
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Plymouth freekick taken by Marcel Seip
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Foul on Marcel Seip (Plymouth) by Akos Buzsaky (QPR), free kick awarded
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Robert Malcolm (QPR) by Barry Hayles (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Martin Rowlands
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Foul on Akos Buzsaky (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Gareth Ainsworth
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Goal scored by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR)
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Shot by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) : on target
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : it goes wide
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Robert Malcolm (QPR) by Barry Hayles (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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QPR freekick taken by Akos Buzsaky
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Foul on Akos Buzsaky (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
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Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Lilian Nalis
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QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
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Plymouth freekick taken by Marcel Seip
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Foul on Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) by Mikele Leigertwood (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Plymouth freekick taken by Marcel Seip
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Foul on David Norris (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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Shot by David Norris (Plymouth) : it goes wide
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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Shot by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) : it goes wide
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Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi
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QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
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Foul on Simon Walton (QPR) by Nadjim Abdou (Plymouth), free kick awarded
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QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
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Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
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The match has kicked off
QPR travelled to Plymouth...QPR took the lead through Ainsworth and that was the half-time score. Plymouth equalized near the start of the second half with a penalty...and then, at the end; the very end...Plymouth got that second goal. Plymouth 2 QPR 1. This is not exactly the first time this season that QPR have conceded that vital goal in the last few minutes of a game. QPR had seven bookings (Walton, Rowlands, Bolder, leighterwood, Buzsaky, Ainsworth, Nygaard, ...Then post-whistle, Leighterwood was sent off for a second yellow.
QPR OFFICIAL - POST-MATCH MANAGERIAL COMMENTS REF RAGE
Luigi De Canio was unable to hide his frustration after the final whistle at Plymouth.
A late goal gave the hosts all three points as the R's went down 2-1, and De Canio told www.qpr.co.uk: "We didn't take into consideration the standard of the referee when we prepared for this match.
"His performance offended me and every sportsman. He was bad throughout the whole match."
Trying to focus on the positives, De Canio was pleased with the effort and commitment of his players. He said: "From day one the lads have given me 100 per cent.
"They have been fantastic in that respect, but that only makes us even more disappointed about the whole thing.
"This is the most disappointed I have been as QPR's First Team Coach. When we lost at Stoke we lost because of our own mistakes, but today the referee was mainly responsible for our defeat.
"But we will lift ourselves for this weekend's match against Watford. We will go there to do the best we can and hopefully come away with a positive result." QPR
TWO MANAGERS COMMENTS - SPORTING LIFE
ARGYLE BOSS KEEN TO START BETTER
Plymouth manager Paul Sturrock is urging his high-flying Championship side to start matches at a better pace.
After seeing recalled top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake score two second-half goals to turn around a 1-0 half-time deficit and beat QPR, Sturrock admitted there are improvements to be made.
"One disappointing feature is obviously first-half starts," said the Scot.
"We did not start well again today and we did not start well against West Brom, Norwich, even Scunthorpe and, obviously, at Crystal Palace last Saturday.
"We just don't seem to start the game properly, at the right tempo, and we were the home side today and we would expect to put them on the back foot but we allowed them to slow the game down and we played at whatever pace they wanted to play at.
"In the second half we came out and played at a pace we wanted to play at, and not which they wanted and we got our rewards because of it."
Argyle fell behind to a 20th-minute goal steered home by Gareth Ainsworth, with Rowan Vine claiming the last touch after the home side failed to clear Martin Rowlands' cross from the left.
Rowlands' cross beat Argyle keeper Romain Larrieu at the near post and rolled across the face of goal before Ainsworth returned the ball with power from the right.
Argyle responded by taking the game to their visitors in the second half and Hungary winger Peter Halmosi won a 49th-minute penalty after his shot was handled by Rowlands in full view of referee Steve Bratt.
Ebanks-Blake powered home his 10th goal of the season from the spot and then took his tally to 11 with the Greens' last-gasp winner after they swept forward in stoppage time.
Halmosi's corner was headed on to the crossbar by compatriot Krisztian Timar and in the goalmouth scramble Ebanks-Blake was quickest to react as the ball dropped, smsshing the ball into the top of the net.
QPR boss Luigi De Canio was obviously disappointed at the close and pointed to a decision going against substitute Dexter Blackstock, and in favour of Timar as the game's significant turning point.
De Canio said: "When you lose a game right at the death it is always going to be disappointing.
"I thought we deserved at least a point. We controlled the game well in the first half and got a goal, it did not seem too difficult. We needed another goal and if we carried on doing what we were doing we might have got it.
"We will think about the January sales when January comes.
"We will look at it from the point of view of what the team needs. Right now we have got difficult games coming up for this squad of players to face and that's what we are focusing on." Sporting Life
UPDATED LEAGUE TABLE
Blackpool 24 27
Leicester 24 26
Scunthorpe 24 26
Norwich 24 26
Sheff Wed 23 25
Preston 24 24
QPR 24 24
Colchester 24 22
Updated League Table
SPORTING LIFE - Match Report
Sylvain Ebanks-Blake swept in the winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time as Plymouth held off the challenge of QPR.
The 21-year-old striker's left-footed strike from close range converted Peter Halmosi's corner and sent Rangers back into the Coca-Cola Championship relegation zone.
Plymouth dominated throughout but Gareth Ainsworth converted Martin Rowlands' clinical pass in from the left to give the visitors a half-time advantage at Home Park.
But the home side finally got the reward their first-half dominance deserved with a leveller three minutes into the second half when Ebanks-Blake converted from the penalty spot after referee Steve Bratt had penalised Rowlands for handball.
And the 21-year-old finally made Argyle's dominance tell with his 10th of the season to send Plymouth to seventh place in the table, while Rangers fell to 22nd.
Akos Buzsaky began the match against his parent club after his double lifted the west Londoners off the foot of the Coca-Cola Championship in last Saturday's 2-1 win over Colchester.
The 25-year-old Hungarian midfielder will join Rangers in a £500,000 deal next month; the transfer is anticipated to be the first of many after the investment of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
Mittal's input combined with the wealth of Formula One moguls Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore means manager Luigi De Canio is expected to be given substantial funds.
Plymouth boss Paul Sturrock made three changes with midfielder Nalis returning to the starting line-up, but on-loan Manchester United youngster Lee Martin was only fit enough for a place on the bench following a hamstring injury. Ebanks-Blake and defender Paul Connolly also started.
French midfielder Nalis had the first opportunity with the game less than two minutes old but could not find the target from six yards after latching onto Halmosi's corner.
Midfielder Norris, who has been linked with a big-money move away from Devon, shot wide and Ebanks-Blake's acrobatic effort was later off target before Rangers took the lead.
Norris shot straight at Lee Camp before Nalis forced the visiting goalkeeper to parry the ball away as Argyle tried to find an equaliser.
Zesh Rehman shot over for Rangers before Ebanks-Blake again shot wide.
Krisztian Timar headed wide before Camp saved comfortably from Ebanks-Blake to keep Rangers on course for a third away win of the season.
The hosts levelled with the first attack of the second half when Rowlands was adjudged to have handled in the box and Ebanks-Blake converted coolly from the penalty spot.
Barry Hayles headed wide from Halmosi's cross before substitute Dexter Blackstock headed straight at Argyle goalkeeper Romain Larrieu from Ainsworth's corner.
Mikele Leigertwood shot over from 20 yards before Ebanks-Blake's late winner left De Canio to ponder making wholesale reinforcements at Loftus Road when the transfer window opens in seven days.
QPR midfielder Leigertwood was sent off after the final whistle for showing dissent.
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QPR OFFICIAL SITE - MATCH REPORT
The Rangers revival faltered at Plymouth on Boxing Day as Luigi De Canio's men fought hard but conceded a late, late goal to lose 2-1 at Plymouth.
The R's took the lead at Home Park on 19 minutes when Gareth Ainsworth slotted home at the far post following good work by Akos Buzsaky and Martin Rowlands.
But right at the start of the second half Argyle drew level with a Sylvan Ebanks-Blake spot-kick after Simon Walton was adjudged to have handled in the box.
And the R's had to swallow a bitter pill of defeat when Ebanks-Blake netted in the fourth minute of injury time following a Peter Halmosi corner.
The visitors were left devastated at the final whistle after fighting so hard but, in the end, having nothing to show for their efforts.
De Canio made two changes to the side that started against Colchester on Saturday, with Rowlands and Walton coming in at the expense of Dexter Blackstock and Damion Stewart.
Stewart was forced to sit this one out owing to the red card he picked up against the U's, allowing Walton the opportunity to make his first competitive start since his summer switch from Charlton.
Meanwhile Rowlands overcame illness to feature, with Blackstock dropping to the bench.
Plymouth made three changes in the wake of their defeat at Crystal Palace, with Paul Connolly, Lilian Nalis and Ebanks-Blake replacing Dan Gosling, Gary Sawyer and Jermaine Easter respectively.
The R's came into this match on the back of a good run of form but it was the hosts who had the first chance after four minutes.
Connolly won the ball from Rowlands and found David Norris just inside the Rangers half. The Argyle winger was allowed to race 30 yards before firing a low shot inches wide of Lee Camp's right-hand post.
On ten minutes, Argyle again went close to unlocking the R's defence. Peter Halmosi's ball from the left was excellently dummied by Ebanks-Blake for the on-rushing Barry Hayles, but Camp was able to snuff out the chance.
But it was the visitors who took the lead in the 19th minute with their first real chance of the game.
Buzsaky - playing against his parent Club - found Rowlands down the left with a fantastic half-volley pass, and the R's wide man got to the by-line before pulling it back across the face of goal.
The chance looked to have gone when no-one was able to get a touch, but Ainsworth popped up at the far post to slide the ball home, to the delight of the travelling R's supporters.
Plymouth had the chance to restore parity on 26 minutes when Halmosi's deep cross from the left found David Norris but his looping header was easily gathered by Camp.
The hosts were having the majority of possession but Rangers - governed by the inspirational Walton - looked comfortable with whatever Paul Sturrock's men could throw at them.
Argyle had a great chance to draw level on the half-hour mark, however, when Halmosi's delightful free-kick from just outside the Rangers box was met by the sliding Nalis, but Camp was equal to it, saving from six yards with his feet.
For all their possession, the hosts couldn't find a way through in the opening half and the sides went in at the break with Rangers leading 1-0.
Three minutes after the interval, Argyle were given the perfect opportunity to draw level when Walton was adjudged to have handled in the area. Halmosi cut in from the left before firing goalwards. His effort hit the R's defender on the arm from close range and, after a long think, referee Steve Bratt pointed to the spot.
Ebanks-Blake made no mistake from 12 yards, firing low to Camp's right to score his tenth goal of the season.
The game went through a scrappy spell following the equaliser with three yellow cards being brandished by the referee in a matter of minutes as the match threatened to boil over.
With a little over 20 minutes remaining, De Canio replaced Rowlands with Marc Nygaard, putting Vine wide left. And shortly after, Buzsaky's return to his 'current' Club came to an end when he made way for Blackstock as the R's looked to hit Argyle on the break as the hosts searched for a winner.
And Blackstock, who previously enjoyed a loan spell at Home Park, was soon into the thick of the action as he won a corner for the visitors.
From Ainsworth's delivery, it was Blackstock who rose highest to power a header goalwards from eight yards, only for Romain Larrieu to deny him with a decent save.
At the other end Lee Hodges went close with a deft header from a Halmosi corner, and as the game seemed to be drawing to a close, the hosts had one final chance.
Halmosi's delivery caused panic in the R's six-yard box and, after initially hitting the bar, Ebanks-Blake was on hand to smash home a late, late winner.
To add insult to injury, Adam Bolder was shown his second yellow card for dissent after the final whistle. EDIT: THIS WAS CHANGED TO LEIGERTWOOD SENT OFF, NOT Bolder"To add insult to injury, Mikele Leigertwood was sent off for dissent after the final whistle.
Plymouth Argyle: Larrieu, Connolly, Nalis, Timar, Norris, Ebanks-Blake, Hayles (Easter, 73), Halmosi, Hodges, Seip, Abdou (Martin, 73).
Subs: Fallon, Sawyer, Gosling.
Goals: Ebanks-Blake (49), (90)
Bookings: Ebanks-Blake (52), Nalis (86)
Red Cards: Bolder (90)
QPR: Camp, Barker, Bolder, Buzsaky (Blackstock, 78), Ainsworth, Rowlands (Nygaard, 67), Walton, Malcolm, Vine, Rehman, Leigertwood.Subs: Cole, Moore, Kanyuka.
Goals: Ainsworth (19) Bookings: Buzsaky (30), Rowlands (45), Ainsworth (51), Walton (52), Bolder (70), Nygaard (76), Leigertwood (90)
Attendance: 16,502 (QPR fans: 698) QPR Official Site
PLYMOUTH OFFICIAL SITE - REPORT
PÉTER Halmosi outshone compatriot Ákos Buzsáky on the latter's return to Home Park, helping Argyle come from behind to earn a Boxing Day victory that keeps the Pilgrims just where their manager wants them to be, on the coat-tails of the play-offs.
A late injury-time goal by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, who had earlier netted the Pilgrims' leveller shortly after the interval , sent Argyle back into the top seven and a huge Christmas crowd home happy - but it was close.
The opening goals were the result of some perspicacious approach play by the two Hungarians.
Rangers took the lead when Buzsáky began the move that saw Gareth Ainsworth give the visitors the lead midway through the first half.
However, Argyle levelled soon after the interval when Halmosi's incisive running brought about the penalty from which Ebanks-Blake netted his tenth goal of the season.
Argyle manager Paul Sturrock had jettisoned the 4-4-3 starting line-up that had served him to mixed effect on the road at Watford and Crystal Palace.
Luggy recalled right-back Paul Connolly and central midfielder Lilian Nalis after losing them both to suspension a fortnight ago. Victory at Watford meant they were not brought back at the Palace, where a 2-1 defeat last week necessitated the changes.
Connolly was a straight swap with young Dan Gosling, while Nalis's recall allowed Lee Hodges to drop to left-back in place of Gary Sawyer.
A further change was made in the attack, where Jermaine Easter, the Pilgrims' goalscorer at Selhurst Park, was omitted in favour of Ebanks-Blake.
Fit-again Lee Martin and Rory Fallon were among those recalled to sit alongside Easter on the substitutes' bench.
Rangers Italian manager Luigi De Canio had made two changes to the 11 that started Saturday's 2-1 victory over Colchester at Loftus Road, one enforced, one from choice.
Defender Damion Stewart missed the trip to the Westcountry, having been dismissed at the weekend, while striker Dexter Blackstock, who had a successful loan spell at Home Park three seasons ago, was relegated to the substitutes' bench.
Simon Walton was called from the bench to fulfil defensive duties, while Martin Rowlands returned after illness to replace the sacrificed Blackstock as De Canio opted for a five-man midfield, with former Pilgrim Ákos Buzsáky playing in the hole behind lone loan striker Rowan Vine.
If home supporters had half an eye on Buzsáky, his ex-team mate David Norris quickly diverted their attention with a storming run from halfway that went on, and on, and on, until it ended with a low shot across goalkeeper Lee Camp that drifted just wide.
Buzsáky had enjoyed a generous welcome from Home Park's largest crowd of the season which was not as hot as the zeal with which Krisztián Timár nailed his compatriot on a couple of occasions.
Argyle looked lively, with quick, precise and ambitious passing, and some neat little moves that promised more than they ultimately delivered.
Without having looked remotely troubled for a second, Argyle then found themselves a goal down. Buzsáky's ball to Martin Rowlands on the left was hooked out more in hope than expectation but Connolly's slip allowed the Rangers' winger all the time in the world to make the byeline and measure his cross.
The ball went all the way across the face of the goal, barely a yard out, missing players right, left and centre, and Argyle appeared to be the recipients of a monumental let-off until Ainsworth applied a devastating finishing touch.
It took a while - and a yellow-card indiscretion from Buzáky - for the Pilgrims to regain the momentum. After the Rangers' man left his foot in on tackle on Paul Connolly, Nalis helped on Halmosi's free-kick, only for Camp to keep the ball out with his feet.
As the first half ticked away, Argyle raised the tempo and came close to equalising with successive corners.
First, Nalis got his head to Halmosi's right-wing inswinger, with Rangers' defender Chris Barker helping the ball out. Then, Timár rose to nod Norris's delivery from the opposite flank wide.
As they had done at Selhurst Park, Argyle emerged strong and purposeful, and Halmosi had already caused ripples down the QPR right when he won the penalty from which Argyle equalised.
Skipping in between Bolder and Ainsworth, Halmosi tried his luck from just inside the penalty area only for the ball to strike Rowlands. It seemed a clear case of handball, but referee Steve Bratt took an age to give the decision, going right against the old cliché of pointing to the spot without hesitation.
Ebanks-Blake dispatched the opportunity with his customary finish from 12 yards, low and to the goalkeeper's right.
A feisty few minutes followed in which the Argyle goalscorer was booked after a running battle with Walton that went on as play continued around them.
The Green machine was not exactly firing on all cylinders, but still looked capable of getting there when it went through the gears, and Marcel Seip was close to applying a decisive final headed touch to a Halmosi corner played to the far post.
Luggy sent on Lee Martin and Jermaine Easter with 20 minutes remaining, an offensive move and one which offered more width, before Buzsáky gave way to Blackstock for the visitors.
It was QPR who finished the game stronger and looking the team more likely to sneak away with the three points, not least of all when Blackstock headed a corner straight at the previously underemployed Romain Larrieu.
When Argyle did ping the ball out wide, they threatened. Halmosi found Easter in the centre of goal without a marker but the Welshman's header did not match the cross.
Argyle should have been awarded a second penalty when Barker miskicked a clearance. Bratt decided the ball struck chest, which suggests they teach anatomy rather differently in the West Midlands.
Another Halmosi corner, just before the 90 minutes elapsed, went all the way across the goal without receiving more than a feather touch from Hodges' head.
Then chance for victory appeared to have gone, until Ebanks-Blake popped up to slam the ball home from close range following another dangerous Halmosi corner.
The understandable frustration was too much for QPR midfielder Mikele Leigertwood, who earned himself a belated red card for berating a haggard looking referee after the final whistle.
Argyle (4-4-2): 1 Romain Larrieu; 2 Paul Connolly, 5 Krisztián Timár, 19 Marcel Seip, 17 Lee Hodges; 7 David Norris, 26 Jimmy Abdou (29 Lee Martin 73), 4 Lillian Nalis, 16 Péter Halmosi; 9 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, 10 Barry Hayles (capt, 36 Jermaine Easter 73). Substitutes (not used): 14 Rory Fallon, 18 Gary Sawyer, 22 Dan Gosling.
Booked: Ebanks-Blake 53, Nalis 86, Easter 88.
Queens Park Rangers (4-5-1): 1 Lee Camp; 25 Bob Malcolm, 19 Simon Walton, 28 Zesh Rehman, 3 Chris Barker; 11 Gareth Ainsworth, 2 Mikele Leigertwood, 7 Adam Bolder (capt), 10 Ákos Buzsáky (9 Dexter Blackstock 76), 14 Martin Rowlands (30 Marc Nygaard 68); 26 Rowan Vine. Substitutes (not used): 12 Jake Cole (gk), 18 Stefan Moore, 24 Pat Kanyuka. Plymouth
MINUTE BY MINUTE - SPORTING LIFE
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The referee blows for full time.
90
Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
90
Plymouth freekick taken by Lilian Nalis
90
Mikele Leigertwood (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
90
Foul on Jermaine Easter (Plymouth) by Mikele Leigertwood (QPR), free kick awarded
90
Goal scored by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth)
90
Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : on target
90
Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi
90
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
90
Foul on Krisztian Timar (Plymouth) by Dexter Blackstock (QPR), free kick awarded
90
QPR freekick taken by Chris Barker
90
Foul on Rowan Vine (QPR) by Lee Martin (Plymouth), free kick awarded
90
Plymouth freekick taken by Paul Connolly
90
Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Marcel Seip
90
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
89
Jermaine Easter (Plymouth) booked for dissent
89
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
89
Foul on Chris Barker (QPR) by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth), free kick awarded
89
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
88
Foul on Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) by Rowan Vine (QPR), free kick awarded
88
QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
87
Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) booked for unsporting behaviour
87
Foul on Marc Nygaard (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
87
Plymouth freekick taken by Lee Hodges
87
Foul on Lee Hodges (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
86
Shot by Mikele Leigertwood (QPR) : it goes over
86
QPR throw-in taken by Rowan Vine
85
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
84
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
83
Plymouth freekick taken by Paul Connolly
83
Foul on David Norris (Plymouth) by Dexter Blackstock (QPR), free kick awarded
82
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
80
QPR corner from the Left taken by Adam Bolder: the defence clears
80
QPR are in control of the match. Key player: Marcel Seip
80
Caught by Romain Larrieu (Plymouth)
80
Header by Dexter Blackstock (QPR) : the 'keeper has it covered
79
QPR corner from the Right taken by Gareth Ainsworth
78
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
78
Foul on Lee Hodges (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
78
QPR freekick taken by Robert Malcolm
78
Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Peter Halmosi (Plymouth), free kick awarded
78
QPR tactical substitution: Akos Buzsaky replaced by Dexter Blackstock
77
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
77
Marc Nygaard (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
77
Foul on Jermaine Easter (Plymouth) by Marc Nygaard (QPR), free kick awarded
76
QPR corner from the Left taken by Akos Buzsaky: the defence clears
76
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
76
Foul on Chris Barker (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
75
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
74
Plymouth tactical substitution: Nadjim Abdou replaced by Lee Martin
73
Plymouth tactical substitution: Barry Hayles replaced by Jermaine Easter
72
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
71
QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
71
Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
70
Plymouth are in control of the match. Key player: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
70
Plymouth freekick taken by Lilian Nalis
70
Adam Bolder (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
70
Foul on Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) by Adam Bolder (QPR), free kick awarded
69
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
68
QPR tactical substitution: Martin Rowlands replaced by Marc Nygaard
66
Header by Barry Hayles (Plymouth) : it goes wide
65
Plymouth freekick taken by Peter Halmosi
65
Foul on Barry Hayles (Plymouth) by Chris Barker (QPR), free kick awarded
65
Plymouth throw-in taken by David Norris
62
Plymouth throw-in taken by Peter Halmosi
61
QPR freekick taken by Akos Buzsaky
61
Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Peter Halmosi (Plymouth), free kick awarded
60
Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Peter Halmosi
60
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
59
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
58
Foul on Robert Malcolm (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
58
Plymouth corner from the Left taken by David Norris: the ref spots an infringement
57
Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
55
Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : it goes over
54
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
53
Simon Walton (QPR) booked for dissent
53
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) booked for dissent
51
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
51
Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
51
Foul on Marcel Seip (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
51
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
51
Foul on Zeshan Rehman (QPR) by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth), free kick awarded
50
Plymouth are in control of the match. Key player: Peter Halmosi
50
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
50
Penalty scored by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth)
50
Penalty taken by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth); power left low: scored
49
Handball by Martin Rowlands (QPR )
48
Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
48
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
47
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
47
Foul on Lee Hodges (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
47
QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
46
Foul on Akos Buzsaky (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
45
The second half kicks off.
45
The referee blows for half time.
45
QPR freekick taken by Robert Malcolm
45
Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Lee Hodges (Plymouth), free kick awarded
45
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
45
Plymouth freekick taken by Paul Connolly
45
Martin Rowlands (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
45
Foul on David Norris (Plymouth) by Martin Rowlands (QPR), free kick awarded
45
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
44
Caught by Lee Camp (QPR)
44
Header by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : the 'keeper has it covered
43
Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi: the defence clears
42
Header by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth) : it goes wide
42
Plymouth corner from the Left taken by David Norris
41
Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi
41
QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
41
Foul on Rowan Vine (QPR) by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth), free kick awarded
40
Plymouth are in control of the match. Key player: Simon Walton
40
Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : it goes wide
38
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
37
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
37
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
37
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
36
Foul on Simon Walton (QPR) by David Norris (Plymouth), free kick awarded
36
Plymouth freekick taken by Romain Larrieu
36
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
35
QPR freekick taken by Simon Walton
35
Foul on Chris Barker (QPR) by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth), free kick awarded
35
Shot by Zeshan Rehman (QPR) : it goes over
34
QPR corner from the Right taken by Akos Buzsaky
34
QPR freekick taken by Robert Malcolm
34
Foul on Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) by Barry Hayles (Plymouth), free kick awarded
33
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
33
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
32
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
32
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
32
Handball by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth )
31
Saved by Lee Camp (QPR)
31
Shot by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) : the 'keeper has it covered
31
Plymouth freekick taken by Peter Halmosi
31
Akos Buzsaky (QPR) booked for unsporting behaviour
31
Foul on Paul Connolly (Plymouth) by Akos Buzsaky (QPR), free kick awarded
30
Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Barry Hayles
30
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
30
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
30
Plymouth freekick taken by Lilian Nalis
30
Foul on Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) by Rowan Vine (QPR), free kick awarded
29
QPR freekick taken by Martin Rowlands
28
Foul on Rowan Vine (QPR) by Nadjim Abdou (Plymouth), free kick awarded
28
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
27
Plymouth freekick taken by Peter Halmosi
27
Foul on Barry Hayles (Plymouth) by Adam Bolder (QPR), free kick awarded
27
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
26
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
26
Caught by Lee Camp (QPR)
26
Header by David Norris (Plymouth) : the 'keeper has it covered
25
Plymouth freekick taken by Marcel Seip
25
Foul on Marcel Seip (Plymouth) by Akos Buzsaky (QPR), free kick awarded
24
Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
24
Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
22
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
22
Foul on Robert Malcolm (QPR) by Barry Hayles (Plymouth), free kick awarded
21
QPR freekick taken by Martin Rowlands
21
Foul on Akos Buzsaky (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
20
Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Gareth Ainsworth
20
Goal scored by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR)
20
Shot by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) : on target
19
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
16
Shot by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) : it goes wide
14
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
14
Foul on Robert Malcolm (QPR) by Barry Hayles (Plymouth), free kick awarded
12
QPR freekick taken by Akos Buzsaky
12
Foul on Akos Buzsaky (QPR) by Krisztian Timar (Plymouth), free kick awarded
11
Plymouth throw-in taken by Paul Connolly
10
Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Lilian Nalis
9
QPR throw-in taken by Chris Barker
9
Plymouth freekick taken by Marcel Seip
8
Foul on Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Plymouth) by Mikele Leigertwood (QPR), free kick awarded
8
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
7
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
7
Plymouth freekick taken by Marcel Seip
6
Foul on David Norris (Plymouth) by Gareth Ainsworth (QPR), free kick awarded
5
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
5
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
4
Shot by David Norris (Plymouth) : it goes wide
3
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
3
Shot by Lilian Nalis (Plymouth) : it goes wide
2
Plymouth corner from the Right taken by Peter Halmosi
2
QPR freekick taken by Lee Camp
2
Foul on Simon Walton (QPR) by Nadjim Abdou (Plymouth), free kick awarded
1
QPR throw-in taken by Robert Malcolm
1
Plymouth throw-in taken by Lee Hodges
0
The match has kicked off
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