‘REF A BANKES ROBBER’
Derby player, was always going to get plenty of stick. Goaded over the yellow card Camp was cheered as he conceded twice in three minutes.
The danger signs were there when Camp was forced to push away a Duane Holmes shot. Craig Forsyth produced the assist for Bennett to slide in and equalise.
Cheers were still echoing round Pride Park when on-loan Liverpool winger Wilson’s free-kick flew past Camp. By this time Birmingham’s defensive loanee Ben Brereton went down in the box after a challenge from Josh Scowen. Bankes pointed to the spot and Dack did the damage as Blackburn extended their record of having not lost to QPR since October 1999.
“The referee had a poor game,” blasted Hoops boss Mclaren. “We’re judged on performance and his wasn’t very good. plan had disintegrated. And when Marriott (left) fired in from a wide angle – another Forsyth assist – the ball flew straight between the legs of Camp.
Wilson also hit the post with another freekick as well as forcing a save from Camp.
So it was goodbye to Garry Monk’s winning habit as the Blues boss failed to make it five League successes on the trot and his team’s 11match unbeaten run came crashing to a halt.
Monk said: “We will Some of the decisions he made, for both teams, were mind-boggling.
“It wasn’t a penalty. It had 0-0 written all over it, but we didn’t deserve to lose.
“The linesman never gave it and he had a great position, but the referee did.
“I thought we defended magnificently and were never going to concede, take the defeat on the chin because we have had a fantastic run. The next step is to show that we can respond.
“Credit to Derby they took their chances and we didn’t respond well to the first goal.”
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the home dressing room at halftime, though. but we didn’t produce that little bit of quality to win the game.” Rovers boss Tony Mowbray (below) said: “It was an ugly, horrible game but you have to win ugly sometimes, it’s part and parcel of football. “It doesn’t matter whether we deserved to win, we did.” Danny Graham came close to putting Rovers ahead after only 50 seconds, but he was thwarted by a smart low save from Joe Lumley.
Nahki Wells had a shot charged down as QPR nearly broke the deadlock then moments later lashed well over from an acute angle.
But substitute Brereton won Blackburn the spotkick having only been on the pitch five minutes – and Dack duly converted for his seventh goal of the season.