Charlton manager Alan Curbishley is keeping his fingers crossed that Andy Todd will have recovered from his hamstring injury. Clive Mendonca (groin) and Keith Jones (Achilles) remain sidelined, but the Division One leaders have an otherwise full-strength squad to choose from. The Addicks will be looking to exorcise the ghost of their last visit to the Reebok Stadium when they went down 1-0 in the FA Cup quarter-finals just two weeks ago.

Charlton are currently seven points clear of second-placed Ipswich, and also have a game in hand over George Burley's side. But Curbishley will be taking nothing despite a run of 10 straight league victories which has put them on course for an immediate return to the Premiership.

Meanwhile full-back Chris Powell has snubbed the chance of international football to continue playing his part in the Addicks' promotion push. The Cayman Islands were hoping to add Powell to the list of English-based players, who have joined their World Cup bid, but he has turned them down.

Martin O'Connor (Birmingham), Ged Brannan (Motherwell), Barry Hayles (Fulham), Dave Barnett (Lincoln), Dwayne Plummer (Bristol City), Neville Roach (Southend) and Neil Sharpe (Boreham Wood) have all been recruited. None of the players has appeared at international level before, so they are all eligible because the Cayman Islands are a British territory.

But Powell said: ''I've got no ties with the country, and if I played for the Cayman Islands I wouldn't be allowed back into Jamaica, that's for certain. They're talking about a few games in the next few weeks, and I would have missed four or five games here if I'd gone to play for them. I just felt at the moment that it's not on my agenda. I may look at it again at the end of the season, but I don't really want to be getting involved in missing games this season.''

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