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<td valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000033"><a name="match"></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">21/04/01
- <b>Huddersfield Town 2 - QPR 1</b></font><font color="#000000" size="1"><b>
<font color="#FFFFFF">- QPR RELEGATION CONFIRMED</font> </b></font></td>
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<p><b><font size="1">Attendance 12,486</font></b></p>
<p><font size="1">Eight years ago QPR finished fifth in the Premiership
ahead of Arsenal, Liverpool and Leeds. Next season they will be
scrapping with the likes of Brentford, Brighton and Bury after their
worst league campaign in 34 years. But it is not just the humiliation
of dropping down to English football's third tier that will hurt
QPR. Financially, especially for a club in administration and losing
�570,000 a month, the cost of relegation will be huge. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">From next season the Football League's �350m three-year
television deal with ONdigital and ITV to screen Nationwide football
begins. That will bring each First Division club �3m a season, but
by contrast QPR will pick up �750,000 in the Second Division. With
other revenues estimated to fall by �1.8m as a result of dropping
into the Second Division, the total cost of relegation is estimated
at �4m. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">To compound these problems QPR are still looking
for a new owner, 22 players are out of contract at the end of the
season and their sponsors, the troubled mobile phone company Ericsson,
look likely to abandon them after this campaign. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">For QPR's distraught manager Ian Holloway the situation
is clearly a big worry. "I've got a one-year contract but that is
not security in this game," he said. "I came here with a long-term
plan and wanted to put certain things in place, so I'll have to
do that in the Second Division now. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">"What you want is stability and there has got to
be some sort of plan, but I'm disappointed that the people I had
an interview with aren't going to be here next season." </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Although QPR's demise has been on the cards for
some time, the manner of their defeat on Saturday was unkind. A
rip-roaring first half saw Huddersfield take the lead through a
deflected Dean Gorre shot. But the visitors stuck manfully to their
task and were rewarded two minutes before the interval when the
deadline-day signing Andy Thomson lobbed Nico Vaesen to score his
fourth goal in four games. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">However, a second period of numbing tedium was brought
to a dramatic conclusion in the third minute of injury-time when
Delroy Facey slotted home Lee Harper's save from an Andy Booth shot
to condemn QPR. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">That goal could prove to be priceless for Huddersfield,
who now sit three points clear of third-from-bottom Crystal Palace.
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<p><font size="1">Their manager Lou Macari believes that three points
from the last three games should secure safety. But with testing
fixtures against West Bromwich Albion, Wimbledon and Birmingham
ahead, Huddersfield could yet join QPR in the Second Division. </font></p>
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<p><b><font size="1">QPR Match Results 2000-2001</font></b></p>
<p><b><font size="1"><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match28-04/#match">28/04/01
- QPR 0 - Stockport 3</a></font></b></p>
<p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1"><b><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match21-04/#match">21/04/01</a></b><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match21-04/">
- <b>Huddersfield Town 2 - QPR 1</b></a></font></p>
<p><b><font size="1"><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match16-04/#match">16/04/01
QPR 2 - Tranmere Rovers 0</a></font></b></p>
<p><font color="#000000" size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match14-04/#match">14/04/01
Portsmouth 1 - QPR 1</a></font></b></font></p>
<p><font size="1"><b><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match31-03/#match">31/03/01
Notts Forest 1 - QPR 1</a></b></font></p>
<p><font size="1"><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match24-10/#match">24/03/01
<b>Burnley 2 - QPR 1</b></a><b><br>
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<p><font color="#000000" size="1"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match17-10/#match">17/03/01
<b>QPR 0 - Grimsby Town 1</b></a></font></font><br>
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<p><font size="1"><a href="../../kensington/sports-qpr-match3-10/#match">10/03/01
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