QPR have no margin for error

Tony Fernandes’ pre-match pub crawl gave some Queens Park Rangers’ supporters the opportunity to raise their concerns about the direction the club’s campaign is taking directly with the Malaysian owner.

Unfortunately for Fernandes and those anxious fans, the subsequent 90 minutes offered little in the way of positive answers.

The consensus view, one articulated by manager Mark Hughes and defender Nedum Onuoha, was that, nine games into Hughes’s reign, there were at last signs of a greater cohesion within the team and, after a flurry of recent red cards, tighter discipline.