Blackstock is a hero but Hel for Heider
Given his Icelandic upbringing Heider Helguson should have felt totally at home in the freezing conditions at Loftus Road.
Unfortunately for Rangers, the striker's goalscoring boots were even colder than the weather.
After he wasted a handful of chances Helguson then went to help out his defence and had a hand in conceding the goal that gave 10-man Coventry a welcome point.
It was only when Dexter Blackstock seized on a blunder in the Sky Blues defence three minutes from time that Rangers earned a point from a match they should have won with ease.
In midweek manager Paulo Sousa turned Helguson's loan from Bolton into a permanent transfer and the game was only three minutes old when the striker met Hogan Ephraim's cross but shot tamely straight at visiting keeper Tirien Westwood.
Then, unmarked 12 yards out, the striker hit the ball into the upper tier of the stand.
Coventry were reduced to 10 men with the 38th-minute sending-off of Steve Wright, who deserved his red card after escaping earlier for two blatant fouls on Wayne Routledge.
And as the Rangers fans turned on co-owner Flavio Briatore in the directors' box it was Coventry who stole the lead against the run of play in the 73rd minute. The hapless Helguson conceded a foul and Radek Cerny was completely wrong-footed by the curling 30-yard freekick from Danny Fox.
On 83 minutes, Helguson produced his worst miss when, unchallenged from 15 yards out, he managed to miscue his shot so badly that it skewed away for a throw-in.
With the final whistle just three minutes away City's concentration broke down. Blackstock was allowed to run on to sub Emmanuel Ledesma's long through-ball and head the equaliser past Westwood.
Rangers boss Sousa refused to agree that Helguson's signing was a waste of money after so many chances went begging.
"I had no doubts about making his move here permanent," said Sousa. But he did not mince his words about the free-kick that Helguson gave away to set up Coventry's goal.
"Sometimes you have to be clever," he said. "You cannot make stupid fouls."
Last night City striker Leon Best was taken to hospital with a suspected depressed fracture of his cheekbone after a collision with Matthew Connolly.
dexter scores goals but his allround play is not up to standard where as heider works his socks off for the team.if the rumours are true about foolham offering 4mill for dex then i would snap their hand off and beat them to death with it :laugh:
