QPR 1 Hull City 1: Amoo goal sees Tigers gatecrash promotion day at QPR

“It’s probably too much,” admitted manager Nigel Pearson.

“We have to win our games and need others to slip up.

“But we’ve made great strides this season and it’s important we finish on a positive note.”

Former Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock, meanwhile, will have to wait at least another week before his side’s promotion to the Premier League is confirmed.

QPR thought they were up after a 15-year wait and their fans ran on to the pitch in their thousands to celebrate following this draw.

But less than a minute later Norwich scored a last-gasp winner against Derby to leave Rangers needing another point to rubber-stamp the seventh promotion of Warnock’s managerial career.

The stadium announcer tried, and failed, to relay the maths to the jubilant crowd but barring two defeats and a 13-goal swing from third-placed Cardiff – or the intervention of the Football Association – then Rangers will soon be celebrating for real.

“I’m disappointed not to have tied it up but it doesn’t surprise me with this team, we keep things going until the end,” said Warnock. “It’s disappointing but they have done brilliantly. We are five points clear (of Norwich in second) with two games to go, you can’t ask for much more.”

With Flavio Briatore, the man who promised the Premier League within four years when he bought the club in September 2007, in attendance, Rangers took the lead after just nine minutes.

Adel Taarabt’s superb through-ball found Wayne Routledge charging towards goal and the winger kept his nerve to tuck away his fifth of the season.

But after Heidar Helguson and Taarabt missed chances to settle it, Hull substitute David Amoo ensured the champagne went back in the fridge for another week when he crashed in an equaliser nine minutes from time.

Patrick Agyemang put a lob over as Rangers chased a late winner and Alejandro Faurlin saw his free-kick tipped around the post by Matt Duke in injury time.

Faurlin is, of course, the player at the centre of an FA hearing which will be held just before the season ends in a fortnight.

But Rangers remain confident they will not be deducted points despite the charges facing them over the alleged third-party ownership of the Argentinian.

QPR: Kenny, Orr, Hall, Gorkss, Hill, Faurlin, Derry, Routledge, Taarabt, Smith (Ephraim 67), Helguson (Agyemang 76). Unused substitutes: Cerny, Buzsaky, Connolly, Hulse, Shittu.

Hull City: Duke, Cairney (Mclean 46), Gerrard, Hobbs, Dawson, Garcia, Harper, Chester, Evans (Akpan 12), Simpson (Amoo 71), Fryatt. Unused substitutes: Oxley, Devitt, Solano, Belaid.

Referee: C Webster (Tyne & Wear).