It's the first round of the FA Cup tomorrow (sponsored by neon for eons, it appears) and Yeovil Town are the visitors to Oxford United. Yeovil is more famous for glovemaking and helicopter manufacture than for sporting achievement, although the football club is famous for FA Cup giant-killing acts way back in the 1950s, when they were Southern League colleagues of United. They will have to be at their giant-killing best tomorrow if they are to cause an upset and get a result at the Kas.

Oxford's main concern is to earn promotion, and a long cup run could prove a distraction. However, aside from the financial prizes that success in the Cup would bring, United will not want to lose their winning habit and will have a nervous memory of three years ago, when their season went pear-shaped following a first-round Cup defeat at Wycombe Wanderers. Not that the side then bears any relation to the current crop, with Billy Turley the only member of that 2006-07 squad still at the club. These days, both management and players are made of sterner stuff.

Chris Wilder has no new fitness worries ahead of tomorrow's game, although he has revealed that Jamie Cook hasn't trained for two weeks because of a dodgy ankle. In the 4-0 friendly win over Leicester in midweek all the fringe players came through, included recent injury victim Marcus Kelly and glandular fever sufferer Alfie Potter.

Yeovil come into the game on the back of a 4-0 thraping at Leeds United on Saturday, but by all accounts they were unfortunate to go in at half-time 1-0 down, before their second-half collapse. In their previous away game they beat Bristol Rovers 2-1, coming on the back of successive 0-0 draws at Millwall and Oldham Athletic. The Glovers will be without midfielder Jean-Paul Kalala, who picked up his fifth yellow card of the season at Elland Road, but their on-loan players, around whom Yeovil have built their team (Shaun MacDonald from Swansea, and Jonathan Obika, Ryan Mason, and Steven Caulker, all from Tottenham), have all been given permission to play tomorrow, with only a slight doubt over Reading goalkeeper Alex McCarthy, for whom permission is still to be forthcoming. [@opponent]yeovil town[/@opponent] [@connection]yeovil town[/@connection]