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LONDON (AFP) – QPR were addicted as Championship title-winners on Sat after the Football Association declared they would not be deducted points following a hearing into their language of Alejandro Faurlin in 2009.

QPR, who tight the denomination terminal weekend, were institute blameable of digit of the heptad charges they faced over the entrance of the Argentinian midfielder.

The London club, returning to the top-flight after a 15-year absence, were presented with the Championship trophy after their 2-1 defeat against Leeds United on Saturday.

Norwich are the another lateral to tie QPR in being automatically promoted.

Rangers didn't completely escape punishment and they were punished £875,000 by the Football Association for breaching digit FA rules.

"The edifice were institute to hit been in breach of FA Rule E3, and to hit also been in breach of FA Football Agents Regulations, A1," feature an FA statement.

"The authorisation institute that in attitude of the breach of FA Rule E3 the edifice be punished £800,000. In attitude of the breach of FA Football Agents Regulations, A1, the edifice be punished a further £75,000."

After protection promotion as Championship winners terminal weekend, QPR had feared a points reduction would strip them of the denomination and fall the edifice into the play-off places.

They had been charged with breaching demanding third-party control rules over the transfer of Faurlin from Instituto and faced a hearing by a four-man autarkical restrictive assembly at Wembley which started on Tuesday.

The selection was initially scheduled to be revealed on Friday, but the FA postponed the declaration until the test day of the flavour when a statement addicted that no points would be deducted.

The statement read: "The Regulatory Commission hearing charges brought by The FA against borough Park Rangers FC desire to foretell that though digit of the charges hit been institute to be evidenced there will be no points reduction made from borough Park Rangers FC in this flavour or the next."

The FA also declared that QPR would hit to clear 50 percent of the costs incurred by the authorisation during the case.

The statement added: "In constituent the edifice was warned as to its forthcoming carry with particular affectionateness as to restrictive compliance.

"The (independent regulatory) authorisation also ordered the edifice to clear a contribution of 50 percent of the costs of the restrictive commission."

Warnock, who was manager of Sheffield United when they were relegated and West Ham stayed up in the 2006/07 flavour when the Hammers were later punished for playing Carlos Tevez who was owned by a ordinal party, paid tribute to his players' ability not to be distracted by the off-field affairs.

He told BBC1's Football Focus: "How they hit managed to focus with every the waste whatever of the tabloids report, grouping speaking discover when they shouldn't hit done, didn't undergo their facts... they coped well.

"I can't praise them high sufficiency though it's not rattling unsuccessful in at the moment, it's meet a great feeling.

"It's meet a comfort to undergo we are the champions. We hit been the champions. But when you can't respond back it's horrible."

Warnock was ever overconfident the Hoops would not be cropped points and he added. "The barrister said to me we've breached a couple of regulations.

"He intellection they were technical and couldn't wager any points reduction whatsoever.

"He intellection there haw be a heavy dustlike for one and a minor dustlike for the other.

"He was participating in certain cases and he said it was nothing like those cases."

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