The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel
Squad20 Mar 2028
Murphy Cooper keeps Queens Park Rangers in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
A brace, and Mamadou Sarr takes the afternoon — 8.94
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mamadou Sarr provided it, and the 8.94 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Jake Clarke-Salter says Queens Park Rangers went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Queens Park Rangers
Ilias Chair was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Queens Park Rangers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Sarr is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match18 Mar 2028
Mamadou Sarr sends Queens Park Rangers past Blackburn Rovers
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mamadou Sarr’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Queens Park Rangers.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Ninety minutes of Koki Saito at his very best
Marked 8.75. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Queens Park Rangers.
Match18 Mar 2028
Queens Park Rangers settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Blackburn Rovers spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Nobody could get near Rumarn Burrell
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Justin Obikwu
- Market The Jimmy Dunne story refuses to die
- Market Queens Park Rangers put Yanis Sofikitis up for sale