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QPR’s new French hothead virtually handed them three survival points on a plate yesterday by getting himself needlessly sent off and reducing Rangers to ten men for almost an hour.

Cisse’s senseless assault on Wolves Roger Johnson changed the course of a game that he and his teammates had been coasting up until then.

Manager Mark Hughes had no excuses. He said: “Djibril has had a couple of broken legs and that is why he reacted like he did. But you can’t raise your hands to someone’s neck and get away with it. The referee had no choice.”

Wolves under-pressure manager Mick McCarthy was just relieved to agree: “What Cisse did wouldn’t have been a sending off when I was playing, but these days you can’t raise you hands like he did.

“He wasn’t playing badly till then, but then he makes a mistake and it has cost his team. One man’s mistake has cost them the game.”

Djibril has had a couple of broken legs and that is why he reacted like he did. But you can’t raise your hands to someone’s neck and get away with it

QPR manager Mark Hughes

It just goes to show that money doesn’t always buy success – especially when you spend £4million on a maverick like Cisse.

Mind you, when Hughes challenged his other big money buy, Bobby Zamora, to get him some goals, even he probably didn’t expect such a quick response.

It took Rangers’ transfer window signing from Fulham slightly more than a quarter of an hour to open his account with a cracking goal.

It also provided a glimpse of a potentially promising partnership with Cisse, who started the sweet move that Zamora finished. Sadly, the foolish Frenchman didn’t stick around long enough to build on it.

He lasted little more than half an hour before his suicidal response to Roger Johnson’s rough challenge deservedly saw him sent off.