The Queens Park Rangers Sentinel
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ilias Chair
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Queens Park Rangers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Dec 2026
Ben Hamer hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Queens Park Rangers can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Jimmy Dunne goes up and wins it — 7.74
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.74 for the rest of it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Koki Saito runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Dec 2026
Ilias Chair raises the bar for Queens Park Rangers
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Queens Park Rangers heard it as anything else.
Match5 Dec 2026
Nicolas Madsen the difference as Queens Park Rangers beat Swansea City
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nicolas Madsen. 2‑1 against Swansea City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Dennis Cirkin at his very best
Marked 8.21. 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Nicolas Madsen was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Queens Park Rangers count the cost of losing Kyreece Moore
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Richard Koné gets it from the manager
- The dugout A satisfied Matthew Butler
- Match Queens Park Rangers share the spoils with West Bromwich Albion