Source: PA
Rangers` unbeaten run brought to abrupt end
QPR's hot streak ground to a halt in the cold snap as the npower Championship leaders fell one game short of equalling their club-record unbeaten run.
A brace from Danny Graham, either side of Jordon Mutch's fortuitous strike, secured a surprise 3-1 win for Watford as Rangers blew the chance to go seven points clear at the top.
There was a silver lining for manager Neil Warnock, though, after he promised early in the season to continue to wear shorts on the touchline until they lost their first league game.
The 62-year-old probably did not envisage he would still be bare-legged in mid-December, some 19 matches later. But he can finally pack some warm trousers after watching Watford tear his side apart in front of the TV cameras at Loftus Road.
The Hornets took a 26th-minute lead when Andrew Taylor`s deflected cross fell at the feet of Graham to fire home. Four minutes later the visitors were two up when Mutch's speculative curler deceived everyone, including Paddy Kenny, and ended up in the back of the net.
Watford then grabbed a third three minutes into the second half when, with Rangers appealing for an offside, Graham burst clear again and tucked his shot past Kenny, making ex-Hornets striker Tommy Smith`s late side-foot home mere consolation.
