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The former QPR midfielder has posted a photo of himself alongside three team-mates which will have excited Rangers fans who remember them.

Ex-Queens Park Rangers star and fan favourite Alejandro Faurlin has posted a photograph of himself alongside some former teammates, which will bring back fond memories for Hoops supporters.

Former Queens Park Rangers midfielder Faurlin has posted a photograph to the social media platform X which stirred something in Rangers supporters old enough to remember him and the other people in it.

Rangers have had a reasonably positive start to their 2025-26 Championship season, and went into the international break in 6th place in the table, but they've been higher before and the photograph that he posted will serve as a reminder to fans of one of the club's best seasons this century.

Alejandro Faurlin post prompts reminiscence among Queens Park Rangers fans

Faurlin prompted a flurry of comment by posting a photograph that served as a trip down memory lane for Rangers supporters. Posting to the social media platform X, he posted a picture of himself in the company of three other former Rangers players, with the caption, "can you name them? great catch up with this old fellas ! some quality midfield here."

It didn't take long for Rangers fans — and, indeed, the fans of some other clubs — to identify the other three players as Gavin Mahon, Shaun Derry and Martin Rowlands, who, alongside Faurlin, made up the Queens Park Rangers squad's midfield who won the Championship and promotion to the Premier League in 2011.

Fans clearly remember this group of players very fondly, with some of the replies describing them as the "Dream team", "Legends of the Loft" and "Legends."

The Queens Park Rangers team of 2010-11 were something special

That Queens Park Rangers fans who remember these four players fondly is no great surprise. They helped to make up the combative midfield of a team which raced to the Championship title, winning it by four points from Norwich City, who were promoted alongside them, with Swansea CIty finishing third and winning the play-offs.

Under the managership of Neil Warnock, the way in which the team flew out of the traps was sensational. Rangers had dropped as low as League One, and even after returning to the second tier in 2004, they failed to finish above 11th place in the Championship table in the six years prior to 2010.

But when they started the 2010-11 season, it soon became evident that this Rangers team was not like those of previous seasons. They beat Barnsley 4-0 on the opening day to go top of the first table and stayed there almost the entire season, spending just two weeks in second place, and never dropping below that.

They remained unbeaten until the 10th December before having a bit of a wobble, losing three out of five games over the rest of that month and the new year before clicking again and staying unbeaten for a further eleven matches, taking them into the second week in March.

And Warnock's midfield was feisty but talented. Only two of the photographed four were regulars in the team, with Derry making 45 League appearances that season and Faurlin 40. Mahon had been released by the club in the summer of 2010 but returned that October on a succession of monthly contracts as he sought to return from a serious knee injury, while Rowlands was a squad player who only made three appearances from the bench that season.

But the bonds that players form aren't necessarily driven by who's played the most games, and a decade and a half on, these players will have had some stories to swap, especially with the legendary Neil Warnock as their manager. Rangers fans will be fervently hoping that the Queens Park Rangers class of 2025-26 can come somewhere close to matching their achievements by the end of this season.