Neil Warnock: 'QPR shouldn't have sacked me'

Former Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock has admitted that he has found it hard to keep quiet regarding his former side's struggles this season.

Warnock had led QPR to promotion to the Premier League before he was sacked by chairman Tony Fernandes in January to make way for Mark Hughes.

Hughes was dismissed on Friday after he failed to win a Premier League match this season and Warnock has admitted that he has had to "bite his tongue".

In his column in The Independent, Warnock said: "I have to admit there have been times this year when I have had to bite my tongue. I kept hearing the team were playing well without getting the results they deserved - so were mine but we did win away from home three times.

"There was also the comment at the end of last season when my successor said after coming 17th, the same position I left them in, 'we won't be in this position again'. Unfortunately he was proved right; QPR have not been that high since.

"Having kept QPR up I planned to retire and hand the reins over to someone else for a smooth transition. It is easy to look back in hindsight but I think Tony might now reflect and feel that would have been a better way to proceed."

Harry Redknapp has revealed that he is close to becoming the next Queens Park Rangers manager.