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QPR APPOINT PAUL HART AFTER JIM MAGILTON LEAVES

QPR have named Paul Hart as their new manager

Thursday December 17,2009

By Mauro Galluzzo for express.co.uk

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QPR have signed Paul Hart as manager untill the end of the season - a day after Jim Magilton left the club by mutual consent.

Paul Hart is back in management less than a month after being axed by Portsmouth and replaces Jim Magilton at QPR.

Former Luton boss Mick Harford, who had a spell in caretaker charge of Rangers in 2007, will be Hart’s assistant.

He said: “I’m here now, what has happened in the past has happened and I don’t know too much about it. We have to look to the future.

“We’ve got a strong squad of players and we feel we might cause a bit of damage in the Championship.”

Their first game in charge will be against Sheffield United at Loftus Road on Saturday.

Magilton was suspended by the club over a dressing-room bust-up with midfielder Akos Buzsaky following the televised 3-1 defeat at Watford last week.

The 40-year-old strongly denied allegations of a head-butt but after Buzsaky issued an ’either he goes or I go’ ultimatum to chairman Flavio Briatore, Magilton’s time was up after six months in charge.