Your memory is playing up Ski, we beat Forest away first time ever last Xmas, plus Ipswich 3-0 on Boxing day, held Villa to 2-2 away NYD, then knocked Leeds out of the FA Cup the following weekend. It wasn't until into January with injuries, absentees and bad luck, that our good form went.
I am really impressed with your knowledge and fact ! The memory is probably going, or else it is a psychological self- defensive mechanism developed to protect oneself after so many years of following the R's. However, I will put this one down as "poetic license".
Yes, this aaa new Googlethingemijing, does help with bent and battered hard disks. But not so much with poetic license.
The Mark Warburton half-time message. Well it was very effective! https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/ball-this-is-what-we-said-at-half-time/