QPR miss out on Wayne Routledge for FA Cup

Jan 12 2009 By Paul Warburton

QPR will be without Wayne Routledge for the FA Cup third round replay at Burnley tommorow night because the winger signed three hours too late.

The new £300,000 capture made an exciting start to his Rangers career in the 1-1 draw with Coventry on Saturday - but won't be at Turf Moor because his contract was being given the once over a week ago, Friday, when the noon deadline required by the FA for players to be registered ran out.

Defender Fitz Hall will wear a Lone Ranger-type mask for the next six weeks something similar to  that which saw Paul Gascoigne and Dutch ace Edgar Davids also look like bandits on a pitch in the recent past.

Hall has a badly damaged nose from an incident against Watford two weeks ago.