Warnock blasts ´nasty´ Diouf

Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock has launched a scathing attack on Blackburn’s El-Hadji Diouf following his side’s 1-0 FA Cup loss.

The Senegalese international appeared to verbally abuse QPR’s Jamie Mackie as he lay on the pitch with a broken leg after a clash with Blackburn defender Gael Givet in the first half of the third-round tie at Ewood Park.

Mackie sustained a double fracture as both players were stretchered off, but it was Diouf’s outburst following the challenge that incensed Warnock.

“For many years I have thought he (Diouf) was the gutter type – I was going to call him a sewer rat but that might be insulting to sewer rats,” Warnock said.

“I think he is the lowest of the low and I can’t see him being at Blackburn much longer because I can’t see Steve Kean putting up with someone like that in the dressing room when he is trying to form a new image for Blackburn.”

“I think he will be the first to go and good riddance – I hope he goes abroad because I won’t miss watching him. He is a nasty little person.”

Warnock alleged Diouf had taunted Mackie despite the obvious seriousness of the injury.

“He’s broken both bones, his tibia and his fibula, and he’s gone to hospital but will travel home with us,” Warnock said.

“The lads were furious with El-Hadji Diouf, he (Mackie) had broken his leg and he is calling him all sorts on the pitch.”

“There was no need to put the finger up and call him a disgrace and even the Blackburn people were embarrassed.”

“I can’t abide people like that, I don’t know why he wants to take on the world every week.”

Warnock admitted there was no malice in the tackle from Givet, who was also stretchered off as a result of the challenge, but admitted Mackie was unlikely to see any action for the rest of the season.

To add to QPR’s woes Warnock said he’d only included Mackie in the side because he feared playmaker Adel Taarabt, whom he left out of the squad, ‘might break a leg’.

“I didn’t want to play Taarabt because I thought he would break his leg, those were the words I used, ironically,” Warnock said.

“I’m pulling my hair out because I didn’t want to play him (Mackie) but he pleaded with me to play yesterday – that’s how he is, he wants to play in everything.”