Premier League membership’s midweek sport set to be known as off for FLOODING
- A top-flight club are set to see their midweek game postponed amid flooding
- The teams are left with a headache over when and where to play the fixture
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Newcastle United’s Carabao Cup tie at AFC Wimbledon is set to be postponed after flooding around Plough Lane.
The Magpies were due to travel to the League Two side on Tuesday for their third-round fixture.
However, the pitch is currently unplayable and part of it has been damaged, after heavy rainfall caused flooding in Wimbledon.
It leaves both clubs with a headache as to when and where to play the game, and further communication is awaited.
Eddie Howe’s pre-match press conference was cancelled just 25 minutes before he was due to speak to the media on Monday morning.
Newcastle’s fixture at AFC Wimbledon’s Plough Lane stadium is expected to be called off due to flooding
Newcastle have reportedly been in talks to play the game at home but that would be a lot to organise
A neutral venue can be used while there is the possibility of playing on fourth-round dates
Newcastle face Manchester City on Saturday and travel to Everton the week after, before the international break.
Wimbledon are due to face Crewe in the league next Tuesday, leaving no scope for a rearrangement this side of the October break.
Carabao Cup rules state that a neutral venue can be used if needed and there is also the possibility of the game being played on the dates reserved for fourth-round ties.
Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Aston Villla, and Leicester City are also supposed to be in action in midweek.
A prominent podcast covering the League Two club, The Wombles had a Dream, claims that even the changing rooms at Wimbledon are flooded after pumps at the stadium failed.
The flooding comes amid Great Britain’s ‘megastorm’. Commuters faced a chaotic start to the week today with journeys delayed by heavy downpours that caused ‘significant’ flooding and travel chaoson Monday morning.
Roads were deluged and train lines blocked after nearly a month’s worth of rain fell in some areas around London and the Home Counties between midnight and 8am.
Four London Underground lines were part-suspended due to flooding this morning – the Bakerloo, District, Metropolitan and Piccadilly – in addition to the Overground.
Heavy rain overnight has caused some roads to flood in Essex this morning, as pictured above
A vehicle is driven through floodwater in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, this morning after heavy rain
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for all of today, and an amber warning until 9pm
The Met Office activated an amber warning for parts of central and South West England until 9pm amid concerns flooded roads could cut off some communities.
A wider yellow warning is running for all of today, covering parts of Wales, much of the south of England, the Midlands and into North West England and Yorkshire.
Some affected areas could see up to 120mm (4.7in) of rain throughout today and forecasters warned there may be more weather warnings imposed later this week.
