The news of us drawing Yeading at home has sent a shockwave amongst Forest fans, well okay, a tedium tremor? Okay, an increasing sense of boring inevitability? A few folks might remember Yeading played Newcastle in the FA Cup the season before last, and managed to not concede a goal for 51 minutes - in the end, obviously, they did - and lost 2-0 thanks to goals from Shola Ameobi and Lee Bowyer, but you get the general drift - this is, as a pundit would say, the potential banana skin.
Now if I was the chap who had to pick the game to put on telly, and I saw Yeading - almost nemesis of Newcastle, up against Nottingham Forest, League One leaders, I might also have phrases like “Sleeping giant”, “Once great” or “Huge club down on it’s luck” running through my mind - one thing that I would certainly be thinking about is the phrase “Twice former European champions humbled by part timers from some place near the smoke”. It’s inevitable.
And we know what happens when we play on TV - don’t we? Accrington Stanley? Who’re they? And the least said about the Scunthorpe game the better! As with the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy, I don’t really see the FA Cup as top priority this year - but it is a magical competition and one that deserves to be taken seriously, and certainly I would infinitely prefer it if Forest were not the subject to one of those embarrassing defeats by a team that nobody had heard of before the result is plastered everywhere by the media!
For those of you ignorant of all things Yeading, as I was until I had a little scout around the internet - you can find more out here, including the rather spectacular piece of trivia that their nickname is, apparently, “The Ding” - well that’ll ding dang do for me! They’re currently 9th in the Conference South, winning six of the first thirteen games of the season - so they’re hardly ripping up any daisies at their own level, making it almost certain they’ll beat us, surely? 
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