DON’T ask Stuart McCall to find Yeovil on a map.

The City boss has never faced the Glovers as a player or manager and admitted, when the FA Cup draw came out, he wasn’t even too sure where the place was.

You can guarantee he will be completely genned up should Yeovil come through their second-round replay with Port Vale to win the right to host the Bantams next month.

But one member of his dressing room is already well aware of the club’s geography.

As a teenager at Sheffield United, Nicky Law spent six weeks on loan there in 2007.

He played six teams in a Yeovil side that would reach Wembley in the play-off final where they were beaten by Blackpool.

A decade on, the current team are now at the wrong end of League Two but some things will never change.

“It’s just so far away,” laughed Law. “It felt like living in the middle of nowhere when I was there.

“It was a ghost town, which isn’t great for a young lad.

“It’s dead at night and I was staying in a little motel, moving week to week as they put me in all the different places.

“But it was a good club, real family club. The stadium and the pitch were nice, it was a good set-up.”

Law was only 18 at Sheffield United and coming back from a broken collarbone when Yeovil offered him the chance to play some games.

“They were third or fourth in the league at that point and I fancied joining them.

“But I never realised the distance you have to travel. I was living in Chesterfield at the time and it was such a long distance.

“I was talking to Ryan Taylor, who plays for Plymouth, when they played us the other week. He was saying every game is like eight hours on the bus for them.

“It was similar with Yeovil. Our closest game was Cheltenham and that was still a couple of hours away.

“But it was good for me and I got some games playing in a decent side. Russell Slade was manager and we played some good stuff.

“I was centre midfield with Chris Cohen, who got a move to Nottingham Forest after that. They had John Terry’s brother, Paul, who got injured and I went in and replaced him.

“Leon Best was up top and he was flying that season. They had some good young loans, Adam Rooney, who’s at Aberdeen now, and Martin Cranie, who’s playing in the ‘Prem’.

“You could tell in my short period there that it was a strong team. It was mid-season and the momentum was starting to build.

“They went on to beat Forest home and away in the play-offs but then lost out at Wembley.

“It’s often the case that a team comes from nowhere and that year it was Yeovil.

“You see some of our games at Valley Parade and how teams try to make it difficult for us.

“At that point, maybe people thought it was a bit of luck that Yeovil were up there, so they wouldn’t come and shut up shop.

“We had good players and the games were open. That really suited us.”

There was a huge sense of anti-climax among fans last week when City were drawn out to play a side from the division below rather than one of the Premier League big hitters.

But McCall was fairly satisfied with the outcome and Law is not knocking it either.

He added: “A lot of us would have loved to play against a big side.

“But this tie gives us a greater chance of maybe progressing further in the competition. Then you probably will pull out a bigger side, if you’ve done your job right.

“It’s away as well – so it gives us an even better chance! That takes the pressure off a bit.

“Obviously I know how far away Yeovil is but it’s not a bad place to go and play.

“The same with Port Vale, which is a huge pitch – one of the biggest you can play on. There are no excuses with either one.

“So, I wasn’t too disappointed with the draw. It could have been a lot worse for us.

“It’s not as if we’re going to a non-league club somewhere and playing in conditions that can make it tough.

“They are two decent grounds, whoever goes through, so that shouldn’t be a problem.”