QPR 1-1 Coventry: We're all out to rob billionaires, reckons Chris Coleman

Chris Coleman reckons mega-rich QPR are experiencing the same problems as his old Fulham side - but without having actually splashed the cash so far.

The Coventry boss was ultimately disappointed his side left Loftus Road with only a point, despite the 37th-minute sending-off of centre-half Stephen Wright for a dangerously high tackle on Heidar Helguson.

But Coleman, a record third-tier buy after football's original foreign millionaire owner Mohamed Al Fayed handed Blackburn £2million for the Wales defender in 1997, knows the extra incentive money can give the opposition.

He said: "Everybody wants to beat QP R don't they? I remember that at Fulham when I first signed for them in the Second Division with Mohamed Al Fayed as chairman and everyone knew he owned Harrods.

"Wherever we turned up with them away from home in the Second Division the dressing rooms were too cold or boiling hot. The showers were turned off. That's what you have to put up with.

"It's not easy for QPR just because they have money. Everybody wants them as a scalp."

Wealthy Hoops backer Lakshmi Mittal and co-owners Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore have seen Rangers boss Paulo Sousa invest some of their cash this transfer window.

But the arrival of Wayne Routledge (£600,000), and the permanent signings of loanees Lee Cook (£850,000) and Heidar Helguson (£500,000) are in keeping with the relatively lowkey transfer policy Rangers have pursued since becoming one of the world's richest clubs 15 months ago.

There have been no marquee names for headline-grabbing figures, unlike the Cottagers' £7.5m shopping spree under Al Fayed which saw 20 players arrive in 1997-98. That influx of players did not have an immediate effect, Fulham finishing sixth in the division that is League One that season before cantering to the title the following year and joining the top flight two years later.

Rangers' cause on Saturday was not helped by Icelandic striker Helguson enduring a nightmare match, his afternoon summed up by a second-half shot flying out for a throw-in.

But Sky Blues left back Danny Fox produced a free kick of real quality after a Helguson foul, bending a 30-yard free kick around the Rangers wall to catch out poorly-placed Radek Cerny.

The visitors could not hold out though, a late defensive mix-up allowing poacher Dexter Blackstock to notch his 11th league goal of the season.

Blackstock said: "If we hadn't got something out of the game it would have been a disaster.

"We need to get into the play-offs with the squad we've got."

QPR : Cerny 5, Connolly 6, Stewart 6, Gorkss 6, Delaney 5 (Ledesma 73), Ephraim 5 (Hall 89), Leigertwood 7 (Di Carmine 81), Rowlands 7, Routledge 7d, Blackstock 6, Helguson 3d. Goal: Blackstock, 87.

Coventry : Westwood 6d, Gunnarsson 7d, Wright 4d, Turner 6, Fox 8d, Tabb 8, Beuzelin 7, Doyle 7, Mifsud 6 (Eastwood 84), Best 6 (McKenzie 66, 6), Morrison 7. Goal: Fox, 73.

Referee : Keith Stroud
Attendance : 13,330

MAN OF THE MATCH Danny Fox (COVENTRY) 8 Great free-kick, strong defensively and ensured City got point they deserved.

VILLAIN OF THE MATCH Heidar Helguson (QPR) 3 Missed a hatful of chances and was booked giving away free-kick which led to goal