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QPR free kick five yards out of the area, given when Dunne fouls Taarabt, Faurlín ballons his shot over. "Seeing Cameron there causes me to wonder if it's harder to manage a cabinet and a parliament, or a squad of footballers," says Paul Szabo. "But the latter can't be too hard a task now, can it? It's just like parenting a bunch of adolescents, after all." Come, come, Paul. Everyone knows "you need a degree in people" to be a good manager. At least that's what we're told every few days.

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Barton's corner finds Bothroyd who works himself a foot of space between a centre-half sandwich. He glances his header wide. Good chance, that.

Some nice work up the left with Warnock combining well with N'Zogbia but when the ball's played across the box up pops Wright-Phillips moonlighting as a left-back who knocks it up to Bothroyd who tries to throw Hutton by shimmying left and right before shooting. It's deflected and the corner is cleared.

: Danny Gabbidon is missing for QPR and Darren Bent for Villa. Even a buffoon would suggest the latter is the biggest loss - with Bannan and N'Zogbia lacking a target for their crosses. An interesting sideshow may be the battle between the ex Manchester City trainees Stephen Ireland for Villa and SWP and Joey Barton for QPR. I haven't seen enough of Ireland this season to tell me whether he's overcome his awful first season at Villa Park under Gérard Houllier. I've seen enough of Stephen Warnock to suggest he's recovered from his similar fate in internal exile under the Frenchman and Gary McAllister.

QPR: Kenny; Young, Ferdinand, Hall, Traoré; Wright-Phillips, Barton, Derry, Faurlín; Taarabt, Bothroyd.