From the QPR Mailing List by John Mccooke

There'll never be a better pre season friendly.

I didn't want to go in the first place and was going to leave after about 20 minutes. It was too hot, the Neanderthals were 1-0 up, there were a number of them around me, the scene was set for major depression.

Then Leroy scored the best goal I've seen at Loftus Road since Trevor Sinclair and the whole mood changed. There had been a bit of it already but stick the blue flag up yer arse was sung by what seemed like every Rangers fan in the ground.

As the second half progressed and the game could have gone either way the Chelsea hordes (and I reckon they had 45% of the crowd) were very quiet indeed, silent after Connolly scored our second.

The hooray scene was when we strang (exist?) about 15 passes together and every hooray was louder than the previous one.

This came a few minutes before Peacock got the 3rd and gave us the cockiness we'd been dying to unleash all game so it was "can we play you very week", "youre going down with the Fulham", "same old Rangers, taking the piss" "what's it like to be outclassed". What fun we had, can't wait for the season to start now.

Match Report from the official qpr site :http://www.qpr.co.uk

Amidst scenes of unbridled joy at Loftus Road this afternoon QPR pulled off a simply stunning victory against local rivals Chelsea. Rangers were simply the better team and three outstanding goals scored by Leroy Griffiths, Karl Connolly and Gavin Peacock were no more than they deserved.

QPR, lining up in a 4-4-2 formation with Terrell Forbes switching to right back to accomodate trialist Aziz Ben Aska, went one down after nine minutes when Zola robbed Karl Connolly in midfield and released the unmarked Gronkjaer.

The Danish midfielder swept the ball past Chris Day with some aplomb.

But former Hampton and Richmond striker Leroy Griffiths had the Loftus Road crowd on their feet with a 20 yard wonder strike to bring Rangers level.

The pacy striker muscled Chelsea captain Marcel Desailly off the ball on the corner of the area before unleashing an unstoppable shot across Ed De Goey and in to the far corner on 25 minutes.

Nevertheless, Chelsea were unable to create any further chances of note as Rangers settled to their task.

Ben Aska and Palmer looked comfortable at the back and the probing of Gavin Peacock, against his former club, and Mark Perry promised to unsettle the star studded visitors.

Rangers came out in the second half keen to build on their good work and earn a deserved victory against their Premiership rivals.

With Griffiths visibly growing in confidence as the game progressed and others hungry for the ball, Chelsea were clearly unsettled by their opponents' energy, conceding a number of unnecessary free kicks.

Griffiths, Perry and Thomson linked up well throughout and only some impressive last ditch defending prevented Rangers from putting De Goey and Bosnich under concerted pressure.

Rangers' impressive display received its reward on 70 minutes with another stunning strike that once again brought Loftus Road to its feet.

Karl Connolly let fly from 25 yards and the ball screamed past the statuesque Mark Bosnich in to the top right hand corner.

When Chelsea did create clear chances of their own Chris Day was on hand to pull off some outstanding saves. Stanic's shot from eight yards out was well parried and a deflected blast from Mikael Forsell was athletically tipped away.

Otherwise it was a hugely frustrating afternoon for the thousands of Chelsea fans who had made the short journey to Loftus Road.

By the end, a Rangers team buzzing with confidence, were stroking the ball around to the uncontained delight of the Ranger fans and when Gavin Peacock stroked home a sublime third three minutes from time, Loftus Road threatened to explode.

An amazing display of passion, pace, power and no little skill that brought a stunning and thoroughly deserved victory against one of the country's so called giants.

QPR: Day, Forbes, Bruce, Palmer, Ben Aska, Bonnot (Cochrane), Perry, Peacock, Thomson, Connolly (Walshe), Griffiths (Koejoe)

Chelsea: De Goey (Bosnich), Gallas, Babayaro (Harley), Morris (Stanic), Melchiot, Desailly (Bogarde), Gronkjaer (Jokanovic), Lampard, Hasselbaink (Forsell), Zola (Gudjohnsen), Le Saux