2007–08 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season

During the 2007–08 season, Queens Park Rangers were playing in the Football League Championship.

Review

Pre-season

Manager John Gregory began rebuilding the squad before the new season, bringing in Daniel Nardiello, Chris Barker and John Curtis on free transfers. Andrew Howell, Kieron St Aimie and Aaron Goode all signed one-year professional contracts after impressing in the youth team under Joe Gallen, who was later sacked, despite his under 18s winning the league. Gregory also signed more backroom staff, including Paul Hunter as the new physio, Mick Harford as assistant manager, Ed de Goey and Warren Neill as coaches and Steve Brown and Keith Ryan as youth team coaches. Creative left winger Lee Cook was sold to rivals Fulham for a deal reported as potentially worth between £2.5 million and £4.5 million. Michael Mancienne also extended his loan for a further season. On 26 July, QPR completed the loan signing of Ben Sahar for three months (subsequently extended until January 2008). The signings of Lee Camp and Simon Walton followed the day after on 27 July, totalling £500,000.

During pre-season, new signing Simon Walton fractured his leg in a non-competitive 2-1 victory against Fulham and was side-lined for several months.

Tragic start

The season began turbulently, with a draw against recently promoted Bristol City, a loss in the League Cup 2-1 at home to League One Leyton Orient followed by a further 2-0 defeat at home by Cardiff City. The match against Burnley on 25 August was postponed after promising teenage player Ray Jones was killed in a car crash in the early hours of the morning.^[1] A week later QPR crashed to a 3–0 defeat at home to Southampton, followed by a draw with Leicester and a further home defeat by Plymouth (0–2) before picking up only their second point of the month (and the third of the season) at home to Watford on 22 September.

New manager

On 1 October it was announced that John Gregory had been sacked after 13 months in charge. This came after a comprehensive 5-1 defeat in front of the Sky Sports cameras against West Bromwich Albion on 30 September. First-team coach Mick Harford was placed in temporary charge.^[2] Three consecutive fixtures against East Anglian opposition saw Rangers defeated at the hands of Colchester before earning their first win of the season at home to Norwich and salvaging a draw with Ipswich at Loftus Road. After a goalless draw at Preston and a rare victory away to Charlton, Harford left the club later in the month and was replaced by Luigi De Canio. His first game in charge was a 2-0 victory against Hull City.^[3]

Signs of recovery

Following the arrival of De Canio, Rangers endured defeats at the hands of Coventry, Stoke, Blackpool and Crystal Palace before a brief run of four games without defeat in mid-December indicated signs of a recovery. On 11 December 2007 QPR were drawn away from home at Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup, a tie due to be played on 5 January 2008. The fixture would be the first competitive West London derby between the two sides since 1996.

The Christmas and New Year period was largely successful for the club with Rangers bouncing back from a defeat at Plymouth on Boxing Day and picking up wins away from home at second-placed Watford (4-2) and at Loftus Road against fellow strugglers Leicester (3-1).

Investment

Shortly prior to the traditional Christmas fixture period on 20 December 2007 it was announced that the family of Lakshmi Mittal had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in the club. As part of the investment Lakshmi Mittal's son-in-law took a place on the board of directors.^[4] Continuing the theme of previous seasons a number of loan signings featured for the club including Gavin Mahon, Ákos Buzsáky and Rowan Vine. The investment potential of the club's new backers resulted in a number of speculative storylines in the football press throughout the season, including rumoured signings of former World Player of the Year winners Luís Figo and Zinedine Zidane, the latter as a possible manager.^[5]

New recruits

Rangers signed several players during the January transfer window: Ákos Buzsáky who had previously been on loan from Plymouth Argyle, Hogan Ephraim from West Ham, Kieran Lee on loan from Manchester United, Gavin Mahon on loan from Watford, Matthew Connolly from Arsenal, Patrick Agyemang from Preston and Fitz Hall from Wigan. Early in January QPR also managed to secure striker Rowan Vine in a permanent move following his brief loan spell which had ended in December.

January onwards

Around 6,000 Rangers fans made the short trip to Stamford Bridge on the first weekend in January to see QPR put up a determined effort against their Premier League neighbours Chelsea in the FA Cup third round. Ultimately the R's lost 1–0 to an unfortunate deflected own goal from Lee Camp. The Cup defeat was followed by defeat away to Sheffield United. The month ended for Rangers with a 2-0 home win over Barnsley followed by a defeat at Cardiff. As the January transfer window closed, QPR secured American goalkeeper Matt Pickens and Northern Irish defender Damien Delaney and parted ways with a number of players including Marcus Bignot, Danny Cullip, Nick Ward, Dominic Shimmin, Sampsa Timoska, Shabazz Baidoo, Kieron St Aimie, Stefan Moore and Pat Kanyuka. Adam Bolder, Daniel Nardiello and Simon Walton were also put out on loan.

February

The club started February well defeating third-placed Bristol City 3-0 at Loftus Road followed by a 3-2 away win at Southampton. Showing some signs of a recovery from the start to the season, the Southampton victory left QPR 6 points off the playoffs and 8 points above the relegation zone. At the same time, Flavio Briatore took over from Alejandro Agag as the chairman of QPR's holding company.^[6] Briatore's arrival also signalled the demise of the club mascot, 'Jude the stadium cat'. According to newspaper reports, the black cat was incompatible with Briatore's superstitions and the matchday programme on 2 February subsequently announced Jude the Cat had "gone on holiday".^[7] On 12 February the club's erratic form then saw them fall to a 6th home defeat of the season, losing to Burnley 2-4 after at one stage leading 2-0.

Taking advantage of their next league fixture opponents Barnsley playing Liverpool in the FA Cup on 16 February, QPR organised a mid-season training camp to the Vale de Lobo resort in the Algarve region of Portugal.^[8] Gareth Ainsworth was appointed club captain in place of Adam Bolder following his loan move to Sheffield Wednesday. Rangers closed out February with draws against Sheffield United (1–1) at home and away in the rearranged fixture with Barnsley (0–0).

March

A televised fixture at home to Stoke on 2 March saw QPR convincingly defeat the second-placed side 3–0, continuing the club's successful form against the top sides in the division.^[9] In contrast, Rangers' following game against relegation-zone Coventry City ended in a hard-fought 0–0 draw with Coventry dominating much of the play, acknowledged by the praise directed at Lee Camp for his goalkeeping performance.^[10][11] Similarly their next game against a struggling Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough saw them lose 2–1,^[12] before returning to winning ways at home to Blackpool (3–2); a result which left them 12th in the league, 8 points outside the play-offs and 7 points above the relegation zone.^[13] Reflecting the increasingly high profile of the club, the mid-week Blackpool match was watched from the Directors' Box by Asantehene King Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II as well as Real Madrid's president, Ramón Calderón accompanying the club's three owners Mittal, Ecclestone and Briatore.^[14] Continuing their solid home form in which Rangers had lost just once in their previous ten games at Loftus Road and scored 22 goals, the club ran out 3–1 winners against a Scunthorpe side battling relegation. With only seven fixtures remaining, the victory meant QPR remained 12th in the Championship, 7 points from the play-off positions and 8 points clear of relegation.^[15] Continuing speculation around the level of new investment in the club fuelled rumours of the possible signing of Luis Figo, although they were promptly dismissed by the player's representatives.^[5]

Rangers travelled to play-off hopefuls Wolves on the Easter weekend (22 March) and squandered the lead three times, twice in injury time periods at the end of each half and ultimately conspiring in a 3–3 final score.^[16] On 25 March the board announced a five–year kit sponsorship deal with Lotto Sport Italia, which could be worth up to £20 million should QPR win promotion to the Premier League. The contract comes into effect for the 2008-09 season and is the most financially rewarding in the club's history.^[17] On 29 March Rangers frustrated Ipswich's play-off ambitions by holding them to a goal—less draw at Portman Road – principally as a result of Lee Camp's goalkeeping heroics.^[18] Following the match approximately 15 QPR supporters caused an affray at Manningtree station prompting three arrests.^[19]

April

On 1 April QPR fan website Vital QPR declared an exclusive that Microsoft founder Bill Gates was to invest in the club,^[20] which, despite being an apparent April Fools' Day joke, was repeated on general news and QPR fan sites.^[21] Striker Rowan Vine fractured his leg in a training incident on 3 April 2008 and was ruled out for the rest of the season.^[22] Two days later on 5 April, Rangers narrowly avoided a 2–0 home defeat to an in-form Preston side by dramatically scoring twice in injury time at the end of the second half.^[23]

After a Friday which saw Briatore promote his vision of QPR as a global super brand,^[24] and with both relegation and promotion now an irrelevance^[25] QPR travelled to Hull City on 12 April to face a team who had netted five and kept two clean-sheets in their previous two games. A contentious first-half goal by Rangers was cancelled-out late in the game by Hull's Michael Turner.^[26] The 1–1 result left QPR 14th in the Championship and ten points adrift of the play-offs with just 3 games (9 points) remaining.

Rangers nevertheless continued to contribute to the fate of the Championship's promotion hopefuls, despite being unable to affect their own playoff chances, consigning fellow-Londoners Charlton Athletic to a further season in the second tier after beating them 1–0 at Loftus Road courtesy of Dexter Blackstock.^[27] A heavy defeat to Norwich at Carrow Road (0–3), where Damion Stewart was sent off after just 4 minutes, drew April to a disappointing close.^[28]

End of the season

QPR's final game of the season on 4 May was at home against Championship title hopefuls West Brom, the team who's comprehensive defeat of Rangers in September signalled the end of John Gregory's reign. Prior to the game QPR unveiled a new badge which was introduced to signify a new era for the club,^[29] although newspapers had earlier erroneously speculated that the announcement would reveal Zinedine Zidane as the new manager.^[30] Following a red card for Martin Rowlands, Rangers fell to a 2–0 defeat and suffered the indignity of seeing the Championship title trophy presented to West Brom at Loftus Road. The result meant QPR finished 14th in the Championship table with 58 points, 12 points below the play-off zone and 6 points from relegation.

Following the game Martin Rowlands was named both the club's Ray Jones Players' Player of the Year and the Supporters' Player of the Year. Chelsea loan player and England U21 international defender Michael Mancienne was awarded the Supporters' Young Player of the Year award. Akos Buzsaky won the Kiyan Prince Goal of the Season award for his goal against Blackpool at Loftus Road on 11 March. Zesh Rehman was also awarded for his Community Commitment.^[31]

On 8 May, QPR announced that Luigi De Canio had left the club "by mutual consent" and that a further announcement regarding a new manager for the following season would be made in due course.^[32]

Team

Squad at end of season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Lee Camp 2 DF Damien Delaney 3 DF Chris Barker 4 MF Gavin Mahon 5 DF Damion Stewart 6 DF Michael Mancienne (on loan from Chelsea) 9 FW Dexter Blackstock 10 MF Ákos Buzsáky 11 MF Gareth Ainsworth 12 GK Jake Cole 14 MF Martin Rowlands 16 DF Matthew Connolly 17 FW Patrick Agyemang 18 GK Matt Pickens

No. Position Player 21 DF Kieran Lee (on loan from Manchester United) 23 MF Stefan Bailey 25 MF Hogan Ephraim 26 FW Rowan Vine 28 DF Zeshan Rehman 29 DF Fitz Hall 32 MF Mikele Leigertwood 33 GK Reece Crowther 35 GK Chris Goodchild 36 MF Angelo Balanta 37 FW Romone Rose –– DF Aaron Goode –– DF Andrew Howell –– GK Sean Thomas

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 7 MF Adam Bolder (on loan to Sheffield Wednesday) 8 FW Daniel Nardiello (on loan to Barnsley) 19 MF Simon Walton (on loan to Hull City) 28 DF Zesh Rehman (on loan to Blackpool F.C.) - FW Danny Maguire (on loan to AFC Wimbledon)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee	Source
5 June 2007	DF	Chris Barker	Cardiff City	Free	[33]
27 June 2007	FW	Daniel Nardiello	Barnsley	Free	[34]
30 June 2007	DF	John Curtis	Nottingham Forest	Free	[35]
27 July 2007	GK	Lee Camp	Derby County	£300k	[36]
27 July 2007	MF	Simon Walton	Charlton Athletic	£200k	[37]
31 August 2007	MF	Mikele Leigertwood	Sheffield United	£900k	[38]
2 January 2008	DF	Matthew Connolly	Arsenal	Undisclosed	[39]
2 January 2008	MF	Hogan Ephraim	West Ham United	Undisclosed	[39]
2 January 2008	MF	Ákos Buzsáky	Plymouth Argyle	Undisclosed	[39]
3 January 2008	FW	Patrick Agyemang	Preston North End	Undisclosed	[40]
4 January 2008	DF	Fitz Hall	Wigan Athletic	Undisclosed	[41]
8 January 2008	FW	Rowan Vine	Birmingham City	£1m	[42]
17 January 2008	DF	Damien Delaney	Hull City	Undisclosed	[43]
7 February 2008	GK	Matt Pickens	Unattached	Free	[44]

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee	Source
1 July 2007	GK	Simon Royce	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	GK	Paul Jones	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	DF	Mauro Milanese	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	MF	Armel Tchakounte	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	MF	Marc Bircham	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	MF	Steve Lomas	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	FW	Kevin Gallen	Unattached	Released	[45]
1 July 2007	FW	Paul Furlong	Unattached	Released	[45]
19 July 2007	MF	Lee Cook	Fulham	£2.5m	[46]
November 2007	DF	Danny Cullip	Unattached	Contract terminated
4 December 2007	MF	Nick Ward	Unattached	Contract terminated	[47]
3 January 2008	MF	Tommy Doherty	Wycombe Wanderers	Free	[48]
15 January 2008	DF	Marcus Bignot	Unattached	Contract terminated	[49]
17 January 2008	DF	Patrick Kanyuka	Unattached	Contract terminated	[43]
17 January 2008	MF	Kieron St Aimie	Unattached	Contract terminated	[43]
17 January 2008	FW	Shabazz Baidoo	Unattached	Contract terminated	[43]
23 January 2008	FW	Stefan Moore	Unattached	Contract terminated	[50]
28 January 2008	DF	Dominic Shimmin	Unattached	Contract terminated
January 2008	FW	Marc Nygaard	Randers	Undisclosed
7 February 2008	DF	Sampsa Timoska	Unattached	Contract terminated	[51]

Competitions

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	West Bromwich Albion (C) (P)	46	23	12	11	88	55	+33	81	Premier League
2	Stoke City (P)	46	21	16	9	69	55	+14	79
3	Hull City (P)	46	21	12	13	65	47	+18	75	Qualification to the League Championship playoffs
4	Bristol City	46	20	14	12	54	53	+1	74
5	Crystal Palace	46	18	17	11	58	42	+16	71
6	Watford	46	18	16	12	62	56	+6	70
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	18	16	12	53	48	+5	70
8	Ipswich Town	46	18	15	13	65	56	+9	69
9	Sheffield United	46	17	15	14	56	51	+5	66
10	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	13	16	61	49	+12	64
11	Charlton Athletic	46	17	13	16	63	58	+5	64
12	Cardiff City	46	16	16	14	59	55	+4	64
13	Burnley	46	16	14	16	60	67	−7	62
14	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	16	16	60	66	−6	58
15	Preston North End	46	15	11	20	50	55	−5	56
16	Sheffield Wednesday	46	14	13	19	54	55	−1	55
17	Norwich City	46	15	10	21	49	59	−10	55
18	Barnsley	46	14	13	19	52	65	−13	55
19	Blackpool	46	12	18	16	59	64	−5	54
20	Southampton	46	13	15	18	56	72	−16	54
21	Coventry City	46	14	11	21	52	64	−12	53
22	Leicester City (R)	46	12	16	18	42	45	−3	52	Relegation to the League One
23	Scunthorpe United (R)	46	11	13	22	45	69	−24	46
24	Colchester United (R)	46	7	17	22	62	86	−24	38

Updated to games played on 4 May 2008.
Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Football League Championship

Date	KO	vs	Opponent	Result	Scorers	Attendance
11 August	15:00	A	Bristol City	2-2	Blackstock; Stewart	18,228
18 August	15:00	H	Cardiff City	0-2		12,596
1 September	15:00	H	Southampton	0-3		15,560
15 September	15:00	A	Leicester City	1-1	Leigertwood	21,893
18 September	20:00	H	Plymouth	0-2		10,850
22 September	15:00	H	Watford	1-1	Moore	14,240
30 September	13:15	A	WBA	1-5	Ainsworth	24,757
2 October	19:45	A	Colchester	2-4	Ephraim; Vine	5,361
8 October	19:45	H	Norwich City	1-0	Rowlands(pen)	10,514
20 October	15:00	H	Ipswich Town	1-1	Nygaard	13,946
23 October	19:45	A	Preston	0-0		11,407
27 October	12:45	A	Charlton	1-0	Bolder	23,671
3 November	15:00	H	Hull City	2-0	Ephraim; Leigertwood	12,375
6 November	20:00	H	Coventry City	1-2	Buzsaky	11,922
10 November	15:00	A	Crystal Palace	1-1	Sinclair	17,010
24 November	15:00	H	Sheffield Wed	0-0		15,241
27 November	19:45	A	Stoke City	1-3	Vine	11,147
1 December	15:00	A	Blackpool	0-1		8,527
4 December	20:00	H	Crystal Palace	1-2	Stewart	13,300
8 December	15:00	A	Scunthorpe	2-2	Buzsaky; Buzsaky	5,612
11 December	19:45	A	Burnley	2-0	Stewart; Vine	13,410
15 December	15:00	H	Wolves	0-0		13,482
22 December	15:00	H	Colchester	2-1	Buzsaky; Buzsaky	12,464
26 December	15:00	A	Plymouth	1-2	Ainsworth	16,502
29 December	15:00	A	Watford	4-2	Rowlands (Pen); Stewart; Rowlands; Buzsaky	18,698
1 January	15:00	H	Leicester	3-1	Stewart; Bolder; Blackstock	13,326
12 January	15:00	A	Sheff Utd	1-2	Agyemang	28,894
19 January	15:00	H	Barnsley	2-0	Agyemang; Vine	16,197
29 January	19:45	A	Cardiff	1-3	Agyemang	13,602
2 February	15:00	H	Bristol City	3-0	Agyemang; Agyemang; Buzsaky	16,502
9 February	15:00	A	Southampton	3-2	Rowlands; Agyemang; Agyemang	22,505
12 February	20:00	H	Burnley	2-4	Mahon; Agyemang	13,410
12 February	15:00	H	Sheff Utd	1-1	Balanta	15,383
26 February	19:45	A	Barnsley	0-0		9,019
2 March	13:15	H	Stoke	3-0	Leigertwood; Leigertwood; Buzsaky	13,428
5 March	19:45	A	Coventry	0-0		15,225
8 March	15:00	A	Sheff Wed	1-2	Delaney	18,555
11 March	20:00	H	Blackpool	3-2	Buzsaky; Vine; Rowlands	11,538
15 March	15:00	H	Scunthorpe	3-1	Rowlands (pen); Agyemang; Vine	14,499
22 March	15:00	A	Wloves	3-3	Buzsaky; Blackstock (Pen); Leigertwood	24,290
29 March	15:00	A	Ipswich	0-0		24,517
5 April	15:00	H	Preston	2-2	Ainsworth; Blackstock	14,966
12 April	15:00	A	Hull	1-1	Blackstock	22,468
19 April	15:00	H	Charlton	1-0	Blackstock	17,035
26 April	15:00	A	Norwich	0-3		25,497
4 May	14:00	H	WBA	0-2		18,309

FA Cup

Third Round Proper
Tie no	Home team	Score^1	Away team	Attendance
29	Chelsea	1 – 0	Queens Park Rangers	41,289

¹ Score after 90 minutes

League Cup

First Round (South)
Tie no	Home team	Score^1	Away team	Attendance
14	Queens Park Rangers	1 – 2	Leyton Orient	5,260

¹ Score after 90 minutes

Statistics

Goalscorers

Rank	Player	Position	Championship	League Cup	FA Cup	Total
1	Ákos Buzsáky	MF	10	0	0	10
2	Patrick Agyemang	FW	9	0	0	9
3	Martin Rowlands	MF	6	1	0	7
4	Rowan Vine	FW	6	0	0	6
=	Dexter Blackstock	FW	6	0	0	6
6	Damion Stewart	FW	5	0	0	5
=	Mikele Leigertwood	MF	5	0	0	5
8	Gareth Ainsworth	MF	3	0	0	3
9	Hogan Ephraim	MF	2	0	0	2
=	Adam Bolder	MF	2	0	0	2
11	Stefan Moore	FW	1	0	0	1
=	Marc Nygaard	FW	1	0	0	1
=	Scott Sinclair	MF	1	0	0	1
=	Gavin Mahon	MF	1	0	0	1
=	Angelo Balanta	MF	1	0	0	1
=	Damien Delaney	DF	1	0	0	1
TOTAL			60	1	0	61

Clean Sheets

Rank	Player	Position	Championship	League Cup	FA Cup	Total
1	Lee Camp	GK	14	0	0	14

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