Newcastle held by Rangers

SUBSTITUTE Marlon Harewood’s first Newcastle goal rescued a point for the Coca-Cola Championship leaders after QPR threatened to dent their promotion charge.

The on-loan Aston Villa strike poked home Andy Carroll’s 70th-minute header to cancel out Ben Watson’s early opener and increase the Magpies’ lead at the top of the table to three points.

However, the visitors will consider themselves unfortunate not to have left Tyneside with all three points on a night when the pace of winger Wayne Routledge and the movement of midfielder Ben Watson were simply too much for their hosts.