Our visit to Queens Park Rangers is on Sunday, with a 12 noon kick-off, and it’s being televised live by our good friends at Sky Sports.

To get to Loftus Road by car you need to leave the M25 at junction 16 and take the M40 towards London, which becomes the A40 after a mile or so. At the point where the A40 becomes the A40(M) (and becomes seriously congested), turn off onto the A40 towards White City/Shepherds Bush and turn right into Wood Lane, turn right into South Africa Road for the ground.

There is only street parking available, and it's very limited close to the ground. Some streets are cordoned off and others for residents only, with regulations strictly enforced. There is some parking in the area costing £6.60 for three hours, but you’ll need to make sure you’ve not left the car in a restricted zone.

It might be a better idea to leave the A40 several miles before you get to Loftus Road and park at one of the nearby Central Line stations, such as Northolt or Greenford, taking the tube direct to White City. This is the nearest tube station, only 5 minutes walk from the stadium.

There are no longer any pubs for away fans next to the ground, so you will need to head to ‘Belushi's Bar’, in a retail complex called Vue , which you will find on the other side of the road from Shepherd’s Bush Central Line tube station. Quite a few of the other establishments nearby have bouncers on the door to make sure that only home fans get in.

The only takeaway close to the ground is the 'First Choice' next to the Springbok pub, but there is a wide variety of scoff around Shepherds' Bush Market station, along Uxbridge Road and around Shepherd's Bush Green. The ethnic diversity of the area means that as well as the usual range of cafes, burger bars, fried chicken outlets and chippies, there are Indian, Chinese & Thai outlets.

The Capacity of Loftus Road is 18,360 and away fans usually get the upper tier of the School End, which holds around 1,800, but for some games they also give the lower tier to the visitors, which provides another 700 seats.

The entrance is in Ellersie Road, as there are no turnstiles behind this stand because it backs right onto the school grounds. There is normally quite a large police and steward presence, and you should expect to be thoroughly searched before you enter the away end, while they are also very slow operating the turnstiles, so you should arrive at least half an hour before kick off.

The adult price for away tickets in the centre is £32, with concessions paying £22 and under 16s £15, though there are some discounts for restricted view seats and seats towards the corners. There are also some restricted view tickets in the upper tier which are sold “at a slight discount”. But despite the relatively expensive prices and live TV coverage, our allocation has now sold out.

The stadium is hemmed in by it's surroundings on all sides, which is the main reason why it hasn't been possible to develop Loftus Road. For this reason it's very compact inside and the legroom is limited where seats have been bolted onto the former terracing, which would bother us if we ever sat down at away games.

The Club have announced that they are planning to build a new 40,000 seater stadium at Old Oak in North West London. They hope that this will be built in time for the start of the 2018/19 season, so hopefully we can look forward to bigger ticket allocation if we’re still in the same division as ‘the Rs’ by then.

Some of this stuff came from www.footballgroundguide.com .

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