What a shame that this marvellous ground will now not be used for the 3rd Round Cup game on January 9th. On Friday the FA agreed to switching Yeading's plum tie to QPR's Loftus Road for safety reasons (more) The Ding's ground, The Warren also only holds 3,500, so Loftus Road which holds almost 20,000 will allow a lot more people to see the game.
Meantime our boys have Newcastle manager Graeme Souness worried about the 3rd Round clash. After the draw Souness said: "I don't even know where Yeading is and, while I have contacts in football throughout the world, I must admit I have nothing on them."
Newcastle suffered a famous FA Cup exit at the hands of non-league Hereford in 1972 and were taken to a replay by Conference side Stevenage Borough in 1998 and Souness clearly worried went onto say: "It's a famous draw for them getting Newcastle United at home, but, while it's obviously a potential banana skin, we don't want to make them even more famous."
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