LEICESTER 0 SAINTS 1 (FA Cup fourth round, January 28 2006)

SAINTS will be aiming for only their second cup win away to Leicester tonight.

Thirteen seasons ago, former Trinidad & Tobago international Kenwyne Jones came off the bench to score an injury-time winner as Saints won an FA Cup fourth-round tie at the Walkers Stadium - their only success in four previous cup ties away to the Foxes.

George Burley had only been in the job a month after replacing Harry Redknapp at the helm.

Saints had been relegated from the Premier League the previous season and were languishing in 15th place in the Championship.

It was Burley’s ninth match in charge and his second win as Saints boss after a 4-3 thriller in the third-round against MK Dons.

Although Saints won, Championship rivals Leicester had lost their previous six games and had sacked manager Craig Levein three days earlier.

His assistant Rob Kelly’s first match as caretaker manager was not one that lingered long in the memory.

The Daily Echo’s Adam Leitch described the game as “awful; truly, truly dreadful.”

He wrote: “It was a tale of two chances. Bartosz Bialkowski produced a superb save to palm away an Elvis Hammond shot.

“In injury time Leicester failed to deal with a high ball and sub Kenwyne Jones rifled goalwards. Rab Douglas got a hand to it but couldn’t keep it out.

“That was about the size of it really. But, despite the poor quality of the game, both teams looking short of confidence on the ball, the early signs are there that George Burley is doing the right kind of things with his team.”

Afterwards Burley sang the praises of Bialkowksi, who he had made his first signing earlier that month - for £50,000 from Wisla Krakow.

It was the 18 year-old’s second clean sheet in as many months.

“I was aware of him through an agent and got him in and he trained with us and I think the world of the boy,” said Burley.

“He’s got a good reputation and all you can say is if you’re good enough you’re old enough – even if you’re a keeper.

“I gave Richard Wright his debut at 17 at Ipswich and Bartosz will be another in that mould.

“I don’t know many other 18-year-olds playing regularly in goal in a first team.”

Saints were knocked out by Newcastle the following month, losing 1-0 at St James’ Park to a goal from Keiron Dyer.

It was a tumultuous period in Saints’ history, the season ending with Rupert Lowe’s resignation after a decade as chairman.

This cup tie came amidst a flurry of transfer activity, a few days before the mid-season deadline, as Saints adapted to life outside the top flight for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Burley handed debuts to Darren Potter, a former Liverpool trainee whose career ended at Rotherham last year, and Canadian defender Jim Brennan, who had only signed the day before.

Brett Ormerod had joined Preston North End 24 hours earlier, while Theo Walcott had signed for Arsenal for an initial £5m a week before.

Goalkeepers Alan Blayney (Doncaster) and Antti Niemi (Fulham), as well as Neil McCann (Hearts) and Dennis Wise, had already departed that month, while Nigel Quashie (£1.2m to West Brom) and Rory Delap, a free transfer to Sunderland, exited on deadline day, with Alexander Ostlund arriving from Feyennord.

Leicester: R Douglas, P McCarthy, N Johannsson, Stearman, S Hughes, J Gudjonsson, R Smith, Maybury, I Hume, E Hammond (M De Vries 67).

Saints: B Bialkowski, C Baird, C Lundekvam, D Potter, J Brennan, N Dyer, M Oakley, D Higginbotham, D Prutton (S Gillett 36), M Pahars, D Blackstock (K Jones 83).