QPR lose at home to Leyton Orient in yet another early Cup exit

From: The Sun
QPR 1 Leyton Orient 2

By BEN KINSELLA
August 15, 2007

ORIENT were last night left dreaming of a Carling Cup windfall — while
QPR were on the brink of administration.

Goals from Jason Demetriou and Adam Boyd took the League One O's into
the second round, where boss Martin Ling is hoping to face a Premier
League club.

Ling, whose side beat Southend on the opening day of the league
season, declared: "The Cup is all about money, which could help us
bring in new players.

"There's no doubt that the money we got from playing Fulham and
Charlton in the FA Cup helped us get promoted a couple of seasons ago.

"So it's very pleasing to get through to the next round and, overall,
we've made a good start to the season."

But the outlook for Rangers is bleak to say the least.

Their Monaco-based owners dropped a bombshell before kick-off by
refusing to relinquish control — wrecking chairman Gianni Paladini's
hopes of a takeover by mega-rich Renault chief Flavio Briatore.

It leaves Paladini at war with his fellow major shareholders and the
cash-strapped Championship club struggling to make ends meet.

Striker Demetriou rubbed salt into their wounds by grabbing a
55th-minute opener.

Boyd beat the Rangers offside trap and, in miscontrolling the ball,
ended up laying it into the path of Demetriou, who found the corner of
the net.

QPR keeper Lee Camp then did brilliantly to push Wayne Gray's
close-range effort on to the bar six minutes later.

But Camp was unable to keep out Boyd's coolly-taken penalty after
Danny Cullip pulled down Gray in the area in the 64th-minute.

Rangers were given hope midway through the second half when Martin
Rowlands slammed home the loose ball, following Tamika Mkandawire's
last-ditch challenge on Nick Ward.

But Orient held out for a deserved victory, while the hosts left the
field to their fans chanting: "What a load of rubbish."

Furious R's boss John Gregory moaned: "This was a game we should have won.

"I really wanted to be in that hat for the next round and am bitterly
disappointed that we're not.

"There are no excuses. Fair play to Orient — they were better than us
and deserved to win. We didn't use the ball well and we gave it away
too easily."