Blue Army column by Chris Finn: Leicester City firmly in driving seat at QPR

Welcome to this week's second installment of Sky At Night, featuring Leicester City, those rising stars of the Championship.

After Monday's televised victory at Reading, which rocketed them to lofty heights of the play-offs, it was off to Loftus Road last night in search of even loftier heights.

Proceedings began with a bang as flames of fireworks greeted the team on their arrival.

There has always been something showbiz and glitzy about QPR and it continues to this day with its links to Formula One.

If you wanted a football party in London, there would be no better place.

Getting to London is another matter, so well done to all the travelling City fans who braved the world's biggest car park, the M1, to get here.

Watching at home is one thing, being there quite another. While the kettle and biscuit tin may not be in easy reach six rows back at the away end, there are many other things to compensate.

The atmosphere for one which, at such a tight and compact ground, was pretty much electric from the start – enough to boil a few kettles at home.

City fans played their part, around 1,300 packing the lower tier at the away end. Most were on their feet, although there was enough action to get everyone on their feet.

Play switched from end to end in the opening half, which must have been difficult for Flavio Briatore to follow considering everyone in his sport goes in one direction all the time.

Mind you, in Adel Taarabt, QPR have a driving force par excellence.

You could almost forgive him for wearing gloves on what was quite a pleasant night. What he might turn to when it is really cold sets the mind boggling – one of Briatore's radiators!

Taarabt gave QPR the lead, but any thoughts that City might crumble were dispelled minutes later when Matty Fryatt scored his first goal of the month. Cue the biggest roar of the night from the away end – enough electricity to power a whole city of kettles and dishwashers to clean them afterwards.

The second half continued as the first ended with QPR pinging the ball around nicely. If you were playing football Scrabble, you would certainly get plenty of points for the likes of Leigertwood, Buzsaky, Gorkss and, of course, Taarabt.

Keeper Cerny also had a few points to prove in front of the away fans, dealing with the usual playful taunts.

The away fans were giving it their all and so were their team with a shot from Robbie Neilson that almost found the top corner and Fryatt back-tracking to defend.

Who would want to be watching on Sky, particularly as Ian Holloway was doing the summing-up? At least you could throw a biscuit at him – or a Waghorn-wheel!

It was Cerny's howler that allowed Fryatt to double his goal tally for the month.

Now all the City fans were on their feet.

Fabio Capello may have been in the crowd but, for them, there was only one Nigel Pearson.

QPR, in Formula One parlance, looked as though they needed a spell in the pits.

It was City who were in the driving seat during the final stages and the wheels rarely looked as though they would come off.

And the fans showed their appreciation in rip-roaring fashion at the end.

So another great starring role on Sky for City and one they will be over the moon with.

More performances like this and there will be no limit to the number of times they will be wanted by Sky.

But don't stay at home, come along and see for yourself and have the tea and biscuits when you get home.