Neil Warnock has backed his former Crystal Palace team to stay in the Championship, despite seeing his new side QPR beat them 2-0 on Saturday.
Warnock returned to Selhurst Park and masterminded the victory over the lacklustre Eagles thanks to strikes from Akos Buzsaky and Kaspars Gorkss.
But the former Palace boss could not take any pleasure from his winning return and backed his former men to stay up.
"We got the points but I haven't really enjoyed anything about today," he said.
"I was amazed with the reception I got - I expected a lot more boos so I was quite emotional.
"I worked my socks off while I was here so that meant a lot.
"I still feel disgusted and don't understand why a hedge fund put us into administration.
"And looking at the teams in the play-offs now I think we were a better side than any of them except Nottingham Forest.
"But they've got enough under the shirt to keep them up.
"I hope they regroup and get enough points - then we can have a real go at them next year."
Current Palace manger Paul Hart admitted his side had played poorly and pointed to a clash of heads seconds after kick-off that eventually saw striker Calvin Andrew substituted from the field of play.
"Maybe the start, with that horrendous clash of heads, did us more harm than it did Rangers," he said.
"But having said that, QPR were better than us.
"It was a big game for both teams and we weren't at our best.
"We're down here through no fault of our own, the players have done nothing wrong but a relegation fight is a relegation fight.
"There'll be twists and turns and strange results at both ends of the table."
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