Neil Warnock is adamant that Queens Park Rangers chairman Tony Fernandes made the wrong decision to sack him in 2012.
The 66-year-old was removed from his position in January 2012, despite the R's being outside of the relegation zone in 17th place in the Premier League.
However, Fernandes made the choice to dismiss Warnock, which he has admitted is still one of his biggest disappointments in his career, while Mark Hughes replaced him at Loftus Road and guided the club to safety.
Warnock told The Mirror: "It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League. It's the thing people are always going to level at me but that will change this season when Palace stay up.
"I would have done it at QPR, even though it was difficult to bring players in during the summer because Flavio Briatore wanted to sell the club. Tony Fernandes came in and he was a nice man with good intentions but he listened to some of the wrong people.
"We had already won three times away from home, we were outside the bottom three and we had a good run of fixtures coming up when they sacked me. That was my biggest disappointment. I got 5,000 emails from QPR fans supporting me when that happened. The memory of that is one of the things that drives me on. I have always been motivated by proving people wrong."
Warnock's Crystal Palace side are in action later today against Manchester City.
Simon Sinclair
