Queens Park Rangers FC

Four defeats on the bounce is not the return QPR expected when they appointed Holloway.

The new QPR boss will get no preferential treatment when the transfer window opens in January.

You would have thought the experienced defender would have learnt his lesson after getting away with picking up a second yellow card in the disappointing loss to Ipswich last weekend when he sent Tom Lawrence crashing into the advertising hoardings on half-time.

Tjaronn Chery wanted the ground to devour him up in one swift mouthful when he missed his penalty last weekend but the Ducthman knows someone up there likes him.

Ian Holloway is Mr QPR. He is a one off; a man who has more one-liners than Tommy Cooper and did not disappoint on his first day back in charge of the Hoops.

Fourteen wins in 47 games did not cut the mustard with the QPR board and Hasselbaink was given his marching orders to leave the R’s looking for another manager once again.

There are budget cuts all over the country from the government to the big fat cat banks and even QPR have had to tighten the purse strings to get with the financial times.

QPR fans were beginning to resemble a dusty old Miss Havisham with nothing to be pleased about and rightfully so.

Johan Cruyff is lauded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. But it was thanks to Johan Neeskens’ dirty work in midfield that the stage was set for the Dutch maestro.

Massimo Luongo has a licence to kill - the opponents - now that QPR boss Hasselbaink is playing the midfielder in a more advanced role.