QPR hearing starts

A four-day Football Association hearing that could yet scupper QPR’s promotion to the Barclays Premier League gets under way later today.

Rangers were confirmed as the winners of the npower Championship following Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Watford but their place among the elite remains in the balance with the club facing a possible points deduction over seven counts of wrongdoing relating to the signing of Argentinian midfielder Alejandro Faurlin in 2009.