Substitutes not used: Billing, Garvey, Tierney.Wimbledon (4 4 2): Sullivan; Cunningham, Perry, McAllister, Kimble; Ardley, Jones, Earle, Leonhardsen; Clarke (Goodman, 68), Ekoku. Substitutes not used: Reeves, Harford.Referee: P Danson (Leicester).. Alan McDonald played the captain’s part to perfection last night when he scored in the 89th minute to give Queen’s Park Rangers a 2-1 victory at Huddersfield in an all-First Division FA Cup third-round replay at the McAlpine Stadium last night. McDonald gave Rangers the lead for the first time in the tie with a towering header from a Matthew Brazier corner to earn them a home match against Barnsley in the fourth round.
Huddersfield had taken the lead after seven minutes in a move started in midfield by Lee Makel. He played a terrific long pass to Andy Payton on the left and he fed Rob Edwards, who advanced and beat Karl Ready before firing home. QPR equalised after 26 minutes when Gavin Peacock broke through a melee in the Town defence to beat Steve Francis.Two goals in three minutes saw Barnsley through against Oldham at Oakwell. Martin Bullock scored Barnsley’s first with a superb 25-yard strike in the 27th minute and three minutes later Bullock turned fed the Trinidadian international Clint Marcelle.Carlisle, of the Third Division, pulled off a shock in one of the night’s rearranged third round ties when they beat Tranmere Rovers 1-0 with a goal after 30 minutes by Owen Archdeacon from Lee Peacock’s cross.

Tranmere, chasing promotion to the Premiership, had their player-manager, John Aldridge, sent off 12 minutes from the end.The freezing conditions wreaked havoc on fixtures in England last night. Thousands of furious Manchester City fans made a fruitless trip London when their FA Cup third-round tie at Brentford was called off just two hours before kick-off. To add to the chaos, Manchester City directors in London for the game only found out from the radio.The club secretary, Bernard Halford, said: “No one informed us that the match was off. We heard it on the radio and apparently it was a late decision.”Mick Fletcher, the match referee, was driving from his Midlands home to Brentford unaware the pitch was freezing as temperatures plummeted. He admitted: “Brentford officials were apparently trying to contact me in the afternoon I was on my way but I don’t have a mobile telephone. I left my home at 3pm and apparently I was told the pitch was playable then.”I didn’t know anything about the pitch inspection until I got to the ground It’s up to the club to get in touch with me. At 5.30pm I had a look at the pitch and one side of it was badly affected by the frost.

I appreciate the fans had travelled a long way but we have to take note of the weather conditions and players’ safety is first on the agenda.”City fans were still outside the ground an hour after the match was called off, demanding an explanation of the situation.In Kent, Gillingham’s third-round tie against the Premiership club Derby County was abandoned after 66 goalless minutes because the pitch was freezing.Watford’s game against Oxford was called off just before kick-off, the pitch having deteriorated after a final inspection.. Tony Parkes, the Blackburn Rovers caretaker-manager, flies to Italy today to meet Sven Goran Eriksson for the first time and get his blessing for the pounds 4m signing of Marek Citko from Widzew Lodz. Parkes, who watched the Polish World Cup midfielder in training at Blackburn yesterday, needs the final approval of Eriksson. The Sampdoria coach is due to take over at Ewood Park at the end of the season.
The West Ham managing director, Peter Storrie, travelled north yesterday to open transfer talks with Celtic for Pierre van Hooijdonk. Meanwhile, Leeds’ pounds 4m bid for another Celtic forward, Jorge Cadete, has been rebuffed.Van Hooijdonk, who played in last night’s 2-1 win at Raith in the Premier Division, has been in dispute with Celtic for much of the season after demanding a pay rise.Now West Ham want to find out if they can meet an asking price for the 27-year-old Dutch international, which is likely to be between pounds 3m and pounds 4m.Cadete is reported by a Portuguese newspaper as saying: “There are some English clubs interested in me, but I am enjoying staying with Celtic and will probably honour my contract until 1999.”The West Bromwich Albion left-back Shane Nicholson is set to miss the rest of the season, recovering from a leg infection.Brighton supporters are urging fans throughout the country to jam the Football Association’s telephone and fax lines in the three days leading up to England’s game against Italy at Wembley on 12 February.John Baine, of the Brighton Independent Supporters’ Association, said: “The idea behind this protest is to clog the FA ahead of the England game.

We have to make people aware that the FA have been spineless in matters concerning the Albion’s future.”More talks between the Brighton chairman, Bill Archer, and Dick Knight, the head of the consortium trying to take over the Third Division club, are being held later this week.Brighton plan to ground-share at Gillingham next season but no one at a supporters’ meeting on Monday night said they would be making the 170- mile round trip.n Fifa’s president, Joao Havelange, has acknowledged there is too much professional football being played in the world but said there was little the sport’s world governing body could do about it “I agree that there is an excess of games,” Havelange said. “Everyone players, directors, doctors, coaching staff wants to make money and for that to happen, they have to play.”. With home advantage in Wednesday’s replay, injury-hit Villa should secure their place in the FA Cup fourth round although there were some uneasy moments for the Premiership side in last night’s rearranged tie. Their Second Division opponents belied their current status as relegation candidates with some good, well organised football The eventual winners will meet Gillingham or Derby.