Former Player News

Jay Bothroyd is hoping that he will not miss too many Charlton matches after blacking out and crashing his car. "I'm going to see a specialist on Thursday and hopefully they will give me the all clear for the weekend," Bothroyd said. "When it happened to me before, it was due to low sugar levels, so it may be the same thing again, but I don't know. "

The former City striker hit back at the reporting of the incident where he was accused by newspapers of being under the influence of narcotics saying: "The papers are looking for a story all the time and they want to catch Premiership footballers doing something wrong. "People who know me know that I don't drink and they know that I don't take drugs."

Meanwhile, Mustapha Hadji is currently playing at 1FC Saarbrucken. The team which beat City 2-0 in a friendly at the Stadion Ludwigspark in July 2004 is bottom of the German Second Division and seven points adrift.