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The Bulls entertain Leicester in the Carling Cup on Tuesday. It will be only the fourth meeting between the two clubs, all in cup competition.
The Bulls are yet to beat the Foxes but came mighty close when two FA Cup Third Round matches in December 1999 tested the then Premiership side to breaking point. A 0-0 draw at a packed Edgar Street was followed 11 days later by a Filbert Street replay that saw the Bulls take the lead through Paul Fewings but a hugely debatable Matt Elliott equaliser with only 12 minutes left took the game into extra time, where a tiring Bulls side was eventually undone by a Muzzy Izzet winner. The only other meeting was also a narrow Foxes victory, 1-0 at Edgar Street in a Fourth Round FA Cup match in 1982.
The Bulls, bouyed by their weekend win over Bury, are always up for the challenge of a higher graded side. Coventry, who have won three of their four league games since, were despatched in the previous round thanks to a Stuart Fleetwood hat-trick and Graham Turners men will hope for similar against another Championship struggler.
Leicester are yet to win away from home, and have managed just a single goal on their travels - a Matty Fryatt strike that spoiled Roy Keane's home managerial debut as the Foxes drew 1-1 with Sunderland on Saturday. They despatched the League's bottom club, Macclesfield, 2-0 in the last round at the Walkers Stadium.
All of the big-name players of the Premiership era have now departed the club after financial problems and the club have resorted to raiding the youth team and lower leagues for players. Both strikers on Saturday were only 20 and not one of their strikers has a proven record at Championship level.
Some of the names familiar to Bulls fans will be Nils Eric Johansson, who cost Blackburn £2.7million in 2001 but was released on a free last summer, former Man City "enforcer" Danny Tiatto, who has been booked in a third of the matches he has played for the Foxes - when he's fit, and Andy Johnson, the former West Brom and Notts Forest man and Welsh international.
In will be a reunion of sorts for Graham Turner and the Foxes management team. Assistant Manager Mike Stowell was bought by Turner for Wolves for £250,000 in 1990 and Turner had the stopper at Molyneax as his No.1 for four years before his departure, while Manager Rob Kelly was signed by Turner in 1987 and was a regular until a back injury curtailed his career. He later went on to coach at the Wolves academy.
Hereford United vs Leicester City, Carling Cup Second Round, Edgar Street, Tuesday 19th September, 7.45pm.
