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This Pre-Match Poser might be a nasty one.
Your first thought may well be St. James’ Park – but what have Selhurst Park, Vicarage Road, and the Den all hosted that Newcastle has not?
We'll reveal the answer this time next week in the next edition of The Pre-Match Poser – stay tuned for that – but for now, here's the answer to last week's conundrum…
Q. Airdrie, Edinburgh and Sheffield are home to three of the four; Gerard Pique can represent the fourth. What are we talking about?
A. Playing card suits. Airdrieonians are the Diamonds, Edinburgh is home of Hearts, and Sheffield FC – considered by FIFA as the oldest existing independent club still playing football in the world – is nicknamed ‘The Club’. Pique translates in French to ‘Spade’.
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