| Position | Team | Played | GoalDifference | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chelsea | 8 | 13 | 22 |
| 2 | Man Utd | 8 | 10 | 18 |
| 3 | Man City | 8 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Everton | 8 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | Tottenham | 8 | 3 | 14 |
| 6 | West Brom | 8 | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | West Ham | 8 | 3 | 14 |
| 8 | Fulham | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 9 | Arsenal | 8 | 7 | 12 |
| 10 | Swansea | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| 11 | Newcastle | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 12 | Liverpool | 8 | -2 | 9 |
| 13 | Stoke | 8 | -1 | 8 |
| 14 | Sunderland | 7 | -2 | 8 |
| 15 | Norwich | 8 | -11 | 6 |
| 16 | Wigan | 8 | -7 | 5 |
| 17 | Aston Villa | 8 | -7 | 5 |
| 18 | Southampton | 8 | -11 | 4 |
| 19 | Reading | 7 | -6 | 3 |
| 20 | QPR | 8 | -10 | 3 |
POS
|
LP
|
CLUB
|
P
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
GF
|
GA
|
GD
|
PTS
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1
|  |
(1)
|
Manchester City
|
8
|
7
|
1
|
0
|
27
|
6
|
21
|
22
|
2
| |
(2)
|
Manchester United
|
8
|
6
|
2
|
0
|
25
|
6
|
19
|
20
|
3
| |
(3)
|
Chelsea
|
8
|
6
|
1
|
1
|
20
|
9
|
11
|
19
|
4
| |
(4)
|
Newcastle United
|
8
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
11
|
6
|
5
|
16
|
5
| |
(5)
|
Liverpool
|
8
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
11
|
9
|
2
|
14
|
6
| |
(6)
|
Tottenham Hotspur
|
7
|
4
|
1
|
2
|
13
|
12
|
1
|
13
|
7
| |
(7)
|
Stoke City
|
8
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
6
|
8
|
-2
|
12
|
8
| |
(8)
|
Aston Villa
|
8
|
2
|
5
|
1
|
10
|
9
|
1
|
11
|
9
| |
(9)
|
Norwich City
|
8
|
3
|
2
|
3
|
10
|
11
|
-1
|
11
|
10
| |
(15)
|
Arsenal
|
8
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
12
|
17
|
-5
|
10
|
11
| |
(10)
|
Queens Park Rangers
|
8
|
2
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
14
|
-8
|
9
|
12
| |
(18)
|
West Bromwich Albion
|
8
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
7
|
10
|
-3
|
8
|
13
| |
(11)
|
Swansea City
|
8
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
7
|
12
|
-5
|
8
|
14
| |
(12)
|
Fulham
|
8
|
1
|
4
|
3
|
10
|
9
|
1
|
7
|
15
| |
(13)
|
Everton
|
7
|
2
|
1
|
4
|
7
|
11
|
-4
|
7
|
16
| |
(14)
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers
|
8
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
6
|
12
|
-6
|
7
|
17
| |
(16)
|
Sunderland
|
8
|
1
|
3
|
4
|
10
|
10
|
0
|
6
|
18
| |
(17)
|
Bolton Wanderers
|
8
|
2
|
0
|
6
|
12
|
22
|
-10
|
6
|
19
| |
(19)
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Wigan Athletic
|
8
|
1
|
2
|
5
|
6
|
14
|
-8
|
5
|
20
| |
(20)
|
Blackburn Rovers
|
8
|
1
|
2
|
5
|
9
|
18
|
-9
|
5
|
POS
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LP
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CLUB
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P
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W
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D
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L
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GF
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GA
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PTS
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Photos from QPR vs Everton
Chairman Tony FErnandes -
Good point. Lots of work to do. Everton are a top side. We were unlucky with some ref calls. Bring on Arsenal. Ill be there at the emirates. Lots and lots of positives.
Stop wasting your time and energy on negative tweets. QPR needs time and stability. We have great sqaud great manager great ceo. Takes time and a bit of luck. See you at Emirates.
Ruben Gnanalingam @Ruben_E_G
Extremely disappointed. Would not have settled for a draw before the game started! Should have beatenthat dodgy keepermore than once
Fine, I concede. Not dodgy but very good at time wasting. Still hugely disappointed in any case. Should have been 3 point
Philip Beard @philipb1
On my way home from Loftus Road. I believe we have the right set up to get the wins and points we need to start climbing the table. #QPR
GUARDIAN/John Ashdown
Mark Hughes defiant as Everton extend QPR's winless run at foot of table
Mark Hughes insisted that it remains only a matter of time before QPR begin to pull away from the foot of the Premier League table but the pressure on the Rangers manager shows no sign of abating. The Hoops remain anchored to the bottom after Everton extended the west Londoners' winless start to the season to eight games. A Júlio César own-goal cancelled out Junior Hoilett's early strike and, although the visitors were reduced to 10 men for the final half-hour, Rangers could not find a winner.
For Hughes's side this was only a third point of the season but, with almost a quarter of the campaign gone he remains convinced it is just a blip. "We know we can compete in this league and we've shown it against the top sides," he said. "We're having a frustrating period but every club has one. We're having ours now and once we're through it that'll be the end of it."
His opposite number concurred that time would prove a healer. "They've got good players," said the Everton manager, David Moyes. "After staying up they've brought in an awful lot of new players and they needed the turnaround to make sure they were all right. It just takes a bit of time."
More importantly Hughes again received backing from his chairman, Tony Fernandes, who took to Twitter to tell those making negative comments after the game that they were "wasting time and energy" and that the club needs "time and stability".
With Everton fourth, Hughes could point to the fact that his side have been handed an unenviable opening fixture list, with injuries, another mitigating factor, again forcing a defensive rejig. The frustration is compounded by the fact that they are not always playing badly. In the second half in particular they forced Everton back and the visitors were grateful for some fine goalkeeping from Tim Howard and equally adept defending from Phil Jagielka.
In the main, though, it was a scrappy affair. Adel Taarabt, predictably, was in gloves but he might have been better off with a cagoule. The watery conditions had plenty of players struggling to stay vertical and at times it seemed as if this was a game being played on an ice rink for which only Esteban Granero, the most technically accomplished in midfield by a distance, had remembered to bring his skates.
Nevertheless the afternoon could hardly have got off to a better start for Hughes and his team. Little over a minute was on the clock when José Bosingwa hooked a Leighton Baines corner narrowly wide of his own goal. From the resultant set-piece César punched clear and Hoilett outmuscled Phil Neville to win the loose ball inside his own half. From there the Canada international raced forward with defenders backpedalling and, having seemingly held on to the ball for a second too long, watched as his shot clipped the heels of Baines and flew past the stranded Tim Howard. Only 118 seconds had elapsed.
César's only other important action in the opening half-hour was to push away Nikica Jelavic's curling low free-kick, while at the other end Ryan Nelsen might have doubled the advantage from close range. The QPR keeper, though, could do little about Everton's equaliser even if he will be credited with it. Steven Pienaar's free-kick was headed thunderously against the inside of a post by Sylvain Distin and the ball bobbled back over the line courtesy of a rebound off the Brazilian's back.
That sparked 60 seconds of madness to match those in the opening exchanges. Jelavic tumbled in the box under Stéphane Mbia's challenge to bring Moyes to the edge of his technical area screaming for a penalty. The referee, Jon Moss, turned those appeals down but, from the corner that followed the attack, Jagielka planted a header against the bar.
The odds were tipped in the home side's favour on the hour when Pienaar was sent off after two yellow cards in the space of 10 minutes, the first after the South African hammered into Hoilett, the second issued, rather more dubiously, for a trip on Bosingwa. Certainly the contact was far less substantial than that of Seamus Coleman's boot on Hoilett in the Everton penalty area with 10 minutes to go.
They were decisions to enrage both managers. "It was very, very harsh to give someone a red card for that," said Moyes. "Incredible." Hughes was equally unimpressed with the failure of Moss to award a potentially game-winning spot-kick. "It was a stonewall penalty," he said. The referee is only four metres away – why he didn't given I don't know."
Either side of the red card both Howard and César had made fine stops, with the QPR keeper first denying Jagielka from point-blank range. His counterpart at the other end produced two excellent saves to keep out Hoilett efforts from the edge of the box and, at the death, Jagielka was on hand once more to deny Park Ji-sung.
Man of the match Phil Jagielka (Everton) Guardian
Stop wasting your time and energy on negative tweets. QPR needs time and stability. We have great sqaud great manager great ceo. Takes time and a bit of luck. See you at Emirates.
Ruben Gnanalingam @Ruben_E_G
Extremely disappointed. Would not have settled for a draw before the game started! Should have beatenthat dodgy keepermore than once
Fine, I concede. Not dodgy but very good at time wasting. Still hugely disappointed in any case. Should have been 3 point
Philip Beard @philipb1
On my way home from Loftus Road. I believe we have the right set up to get the wins and points we need to start climbing the table. #QPR
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HUGHES: AN IMPORTANT POINT
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19:13 21st October 2012
by @OfficialQPR
Gaffer frustrated as honours end even in W12
We had a stonewall penalty, which when the referee sees again he will hold his hands up to making a big mistake."
Mark Hughes
MARK HUGHES cut a frustrated figure after watching his QPR side held to a share of the spoils against ten-man Everton at Loftus Road.
Junior Hoilett’s early strike was cancelled out by a Julio Cesar own goal, before Steven Pienaar saw red for two bookable offences midway through the second period.
Rangers threw everything at the Toffees in a late onslaught, but despite vocal appeals for a spot-kick for a foul on Hoilett, that all-important third goal of the contest proved elusive.
Speaking exclusively to www.qpr.co.uk, Hughes said: “It’s an important point, but ideally we would have taken all three against a very good Everton side.
“Arguably the sending off – which I thought was probably a bit harsh on them – probably didn’t do us too many favours, because they put two banks of four across the pitch and made it very difficult for us to break them down.
“On another day I would have been able to put on fresh legs in attacking positions once they went down to ten, but Armand [Traore] can only manage 70 minutes at the moment and Ryan’s [Nelsen] calves were sore after travelling to the other side of the world this week.
“That was a huge hindrance to us, because we had good attacking options but we couldn’t use them today.”
Hughes added: “Overall I thought some of our play was excellent today, especially in the first half.
“We had a stonewall penalty, which when the referee sees again he will hold his hands up to making a big mistake.
“He was only four yards away from the incident, so quite why he didn’t award it is beyond me.”
Hughes concluded: “All in all, of course we’d have liked to get all three points and in terms of how we approached the game and went about our business, I thought we deserved a victory.
“Those little breaks just aren’t going for us at the moment though. The goal we conceded was due to us not picking up from a set-play, but we were unfortunate with the ball coming back off the post and hitting Julio and going in.
“I think people today saw we’re a good footballing side. We like to get the ball down and play, as we’ve shown all season against some very good sides.
“Our performances have been okay, but results haven’t gone for us.
“Competing as we did against a very good Everton side gives us confidence, because we know we can go up against one of the best sides in the division and give them a really good game.”
QPR
HUGHES: AN IMPORTANT POINT
PUBLISHED
19:13 21st October 2012
by @OfficialQPR
Gaffer frustrated as honours end even in W12
We had a stonewall penalty, which when the referee sees again he will hold his hands up to making a big mistake."
Mark Hughes
MARK HUGHES cut a frustrated figure after watching his QPR side held to a share of the spoils against ten-man Everton at Loftus Road.
Junior Hoilett’s early strike was cancelled out by a Julio Cesar own goal, before Steven Pienaar saw red for two bookable offences midway through the second period.
Rangers threw everything at the Toffees in a late onslaught, but despite vocal appeals for a spot-kick for a foul on Hoilett, that all-important third goal of the contest proved elusive.
Speaking exclusively to www.qpr.co.uk, Hughes said: “It’s an important point, but ideally we would have taken all three against a very good Everton side.
“Arguably the sending off – which I thought was probably a bit harsh on them – probably didn’t do us too many favours, because they put two banks of four across the pitch and made it very difficult for us to break them down.
“On another day I would have been able to put on fresh legs in attacking positions once they went down to ten, but Armand [Traore] can only manage 70 minutes at the moment and Ryan’s [Nelsen] calves were sore after travelling to the other side of the world this week.
“That was a huge hindrance to us, because we had good attacking options but we couldn’t use them today.”
Hughes added: “Overall I thought some of our play was excellent today, especially in the first half.
“We had a stonewall penalty, which when the referee sees again he will hold his hands up to making a big mistake.
“He was only four yards away from the incident, so quite why he didn’t award it is beyond me.”
Hughes concluded: “All in all, of course we’d have liked to get all three points and in terms of how we approached the game and went about our business, I thought we deserved a victory.
“Those little breaks just aren’t going for us at the moment though. The goal we conceded was due to us not picking up from a set-play, but we were unfortunate with the ball coming back off the post and hitting Julio and going in.
“I think people today saw we’re a good footballing side. We like to get the ball down and play, as we’ve shown all season against some very good sides.
“Our performances have been okay, but results haven’t gone for us.
“Competing as we did against a very good Everton side gives us confidence, because we know we can go up against one of the best sides in the division and give them a really good game.”
QPR
EVERTON OFFICIAL SITE
Red Card Cost Us Sunday 21st October 2012 19:17 by Scott McLeod@efc_scottmcleod Manager rues dismissal of Steven Pienaar at QPR. David Moyes believes Steven Pienaar's red card at QPR ruined his side's chances of securing all three points. Instead, Everton had to play a third of the match with 10 men and were left battling hard to ensure the contest ended 1-1. Pienaar was red-carded early in the second half by referee Jon Moss for a second yellow card. Moyes told the media after the game: "I'm really disappointed with it (the sending off) because it probably ruined our chances of going on and trying to get three points. And in the end we had to fight very hard to make sure we got one. "I can't see how a referee with the way football is played now can give a second yellow card. He knows he has already booked Steven and Steven doesn't even clip the boy." Pienaar is now set to miss next week's Merseyside derby through suspension. Moyes added: "We will have to see how we cope with players out through injury or suspension. I thought we coped quite well today without Marouane Fellaini, Darron Gibson, Tony Hibbert. So we have to try and get some of these players back and fit now because obviously we're going to lose Steven Pienaar for our next game. "I don't talk too much about players who aren't available so we move on." The manager also believes a point at Loftus Road will prove to a good result with hindsight as he believes Mark Hughes' side are currently occupying a false position in the table based on the quality in their ranks. He explained: "I think with the experience, the players they've got and the backing they've given the manager they have a really good team. They have some really good players and I'm sure they will move up the league table shortly. When that happens I think we will be looking back at this as a very good point." Moyes also singled out Phil Jagielka for his fearless display in the heart of the Everton defence as they produced a commendable rearguard action in the closing stages to win the point. He concluded: "Phil Jagielka played like a top class English centre-half today in a typical English style game. He threw himself in front of the ball and headed it when he had to head it - he was outstanding today." http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2012/10/21/red-card-cost-us |
Mark Hughes defiant as Everton extend QPR's winless run at foot of table
Mark Hughes insisted that it remains only a matter of time before QPR begin to pull away from the foot of the Premier League table but the pressure on the Rangers manager shows no sign of abating. The Hoops remain anchored to the bottom after Everton extended the west Londoners' winless start to the season to eight games. A Júlio César own-goal cancelled out Junior Hoilett's early strike and, although the visitors were reduced to 10 men for the final half-hour, Rangers could not find a winner.
For Hughes's side this was only a third point of the season but, with almost a quarter of the campaign gone he remains convinced it is just a blip. "We know we can compete in this league and we've shown it against the top sides," he said. "We're having a frustrating period but every club has one. We're having ours now and once we're through it that'll be the end of it."
His opposite number concurred that time would prove a healer. "They've got good players," said the Everton manager, David Moyes. "After staying up they've brought in an awful lot of new players and they needed the turnaround to make sure they were all right. It just takes a bit of time."
More importantly Hughes again received backing from his chairman, Tony Fernandes, who took to Twitter to tell those making negative comments after the game that they were "wasting time and energy" and that the club needs "time and stability".
With Everton fourth, Hughes could point to the fact that his side have been handed an unenviable opening fixture list, with injuries, another mitigating factor, again forcing a defensive rejig. The frustration is compounded by the fact that they are not always playing badly. In the second half in particular they forced Everton back and the visitors were grateful for some fine goalkeeping from Tim Howard and equally adept defending from Phil Jagielka.
In the main, though, it was a scrappy affair. Adel Taarabt, predictably, was in gloves but he might have been better off with a cagoule. The watery conditions had plenty of players struggling to stay vertical and at times it seemed as if this was a game being played on an ice rink for which only Esteban Granero, the most technically accomplished in midfield by a distance, had remembered to bring his skates.
Nevertheless the afternoon could hardly have got off to a better start for Hughes and his team. Little over a minute was on the clock when José Bosingwa hooked a Leighton Baines corner narrowly wide of his own goal. From the resultant set-piece César punched clear and Hoilett outmuscled Phil Neville to win the loose ball inside his own half. From there the Canada international raced forward with defenders backpedalling and, having seemingly held on to the ball for a second too long, watched as his shot clipped the heels of Baines and flew past the stranded Tim Howard. Only 118 seconds had elapsed.
César's only other important action in the opening half-hour was to push away Nikica Jelavic's curling low free-kick, while at the other end Ryan Nelsen might have doubled the advantage from close range. The QPR keeper, though, could do little about Everton's equaliser even if he will be credited with it. Steven Pienaar's free-kick was headed thunderously against the inside of a post by Sylvain Distin and the ball bobbled back over the line courtesy of a rebound off the Brazilian's back.
That sparked 60 seconds of madness to match those in the opening exchanges. Jelavic tumbled in the box under Stéphane Mbia's challenge to bring Moyes to the edge of his technical area screaming for a penalty. The referee, Jon Moss, turned those appeals down but, from the corner that followed the attack, Jagielka planted a header against the bar.
The odds were tipped in the home side's favour on the hour when Pienaar was sent off after two yellow cards in the space of 10 minutes, the first after the South African hammered into Hoilett, the second issued, rather more dubiously, for a trip on Bosingwa. Certainly the contact was far less substantial than that of Seamus Coleman's boot on Hoilett in the Everton penalty area with 10 minutes to go.
They were decisions to enrage both managers. "It was very, very harsh to give someone a red card for that," said Moyes. "Incredible." Hughes was equally unimpressed with the failure of Moss to award a potentially game-winning spot-kick. "It was a stonewall penalty," he said. The referee is only four metres away – why he didn't given I don't know."
Either side of the red card both Howard and César had made fine stops, with the QPR keeper first denying Jagielka from point-blank range. His counterpart at the other end produced two excellent saves to keep out Hoilett efforts from the edge of the box and, at the death, Jagielka was on hand once more to deny Park Ji-sung.
Man of the match Phil Jagielka (Everton) Guardian
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The News Conservative Party Chief Whip, Sir George Young: A QPR Supporter!
Sir George Young - Come On you R's
25 Oct 2008
Last Saturday afternoon was spent at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, watching Reading play Queens Park Rangers. I drove there with mixed loyalties.
As a young lad growing up in Berkshire, I would make the pilgrimage on a Saturday to Elm Park Road – their old ground - to watch Reading play at home. Known then as the Biscuitmen, because of the Huntley and Palmer’s factory in the town, they never achieved the ambitions I harboured for them. They were subjected to cruel jokes by my friends who supported glamorous clubs like Arsenal and Spurs. They would ask me if it was true that, so small was the home crowd, the announcer read out the names of the spectators as well as the players. And was it the case that the Reading goalkeeper was so short-sighted that he couldn’t even find the ball at the back of the net?
Later, as the MP for Acton in West London, I shared my commitment to Reading with a commitment to Queens Park Rangers. This was not as difficult as it sounds. They were in different leagues, and both sides had white and blue colours. Both were known as the Hoops and the cry from both terraces was “Come On You R’s”. I bought four season tickets for myself and my two sons, who could then invite whichever schoolfriend they wanted to curry favour with. I started taking them at an early age – one son surprised his mother on return by singing a chant he had picked up from the terraces at Loftus Road - “The ref’s a w*nker”. Queens Park Rangers got to Wembley one year and lost, and then sank down the league. At one home game where they were playing appallingly, a dog strayed onto the pitch. The game was momentarily halted. “Leave the dog on” shouted my neighbour, “Take Masson off.”
The game last Saturday was a draw, with QPR thankful to get an away point, having sacked their manager the day before.
I played my last game of football a few years ago for the parliamentary team. We went to Bisham Abbey, where the England team trained, to play a team of Swiss Parliamentarians. We were hoping to get revenge for the Annual Ski Race at Davos which the Swiss Parliamentarians understandably won every year.
We played this match after a bitter row in the Commons, when the Labour Government were accused of breaking a pair – the equivalent of pocketing your opponent’s ball at golf. Relations had broken down and, if MP’s had ambassadors, they would have been recalled. We took to the pitch barely on speaking terms with each other and perhaps took our row to extremes. The Conservatives would only pass to other Conservatives, and the Labour MP’s would only pass to other comrades. By half-time we were severely behind. After sucking an orange, we agreed to call a truce and went on to win. Sir George Young
From Yesterday's QPR Report!