Chris Ramsey was sacked as QPR manager last night after just nine months in the job. Having failed to keep Rs in the Premier League, they stuck by their man, but Ramsey got the chop after an instant Premier League return started to look less and less likely. We now look at five key games which cost Ramsey his job.

Charlton 2 QPR 0 (August 8, 2015)

Any thoughts of bouncing straight back into the top flight were given a sharp dose of reality with an opening day defeat at Charlton. Second half strikes from Morgan Fox and Tony Watt got the Rs' campaign off to a losing start, the Addicks having the better of the second half after a fairly even first half.

QPR 1 Carlisle 2 (August 25, 2015)

Rangers recovered from that setback at Charlton by going on an impressive run of three Championships wins out of four, but in the middle of that upsurge in form came an embarrassing Capital One Cup exit to League Two side Carlisle. It may have been a much-changed QPR side which crashed out, but there was still enough talent on the pitch to avoid an upset.

Fulham 4 QPR 0 (September 25, 2015)

There's losing to your rivals, and then there's being hammered by them, and this derby defeat would have been hard to take for Rs fans. A dominant performance saw Fulham three goals to the good by half time, while perhaps even worse for Rangers supporters was the sight of both Charlie Austin and Jamie Mackie limping off with injuries.

Brentford 1 QPR 0 (October 30, 2015)

One derby defeat was followed by another a month later, and this one would perhaps have been harder to take for Rs fans, who have been able to look down on Brentford from a loftier perch for decades now. Rangers may have struck the woodwork twice through Massimo Luongo, but once Marco Djuricin had put the Bees in front, QPR never looked like getting back into it.

Derby 1 QPR 0 (November 3, 2015)

Ramsey needed his troops to bounce back quickly from the defeat at Brentford to stand any chance of saving his skin, but Andreas Weimann's second half winner for Derby proved to be the last straw for the QPR powers-that-be, and with his side slipping to 13th in the Championship table, Ramsey was handed his P45 the following day.