Huddersfield v Birmingham City
Galpharm Stadium
Kick off 3pm
Cameron Jerome returns to his hometown club with a score to settle.
Blues striker Jerome was with Huddersfield as a teenager but fell out with the club when they refused to release him when bigger sides came calling.
That led to Jerome quitting the game before returning with Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough, Grimsby and Cardiff.
Jerome signed for Birmingham for £3million deal in 2006, and returns to Huddersfield insisting he has nothing to prove.
He said: “I lost a little bit of love for the game when I was a teenager.
“It’s true I was with Huddersfield, my hometown team, as a junior but they wouldn’t release me when other clubs were interested in signing me.
“After a while I went to Sheffield Wednesday and played some pre-season games but it wasn’t right for me. Middlesbrough came in but I didn’t hit it off there either.
“I went to Grimsby Town as well and it was Paul Wilkinson who remembered me from there when he was Cardiff City’s reserve team coach.
“I went there, things took off and I eventually moved to Birmingham.”
Jerome added “With the way things happened, I have been looking forward to this match ever since the third-round draw was made.
“I don’t have anything to prove. What happened was years ago when I was a kid and I think I have showed what I can do since then but it would be nice to go back and put one over on them.
“I am definitely out to do that. I would even want to play if I was injured in this game. I have been looking forward to it for a long time.”
Birmingham have called 16-year-old midfielder Jordan Mutch into their squad.
Mutch had been scheduled to be on the bench as a 15-year-old for the Carling Cup tie at Blackburn earlier this season but the rules - since changed - said he was too young to play.
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