The 19-year-old midfielder begins a two-match suspension that will also see him miss Wednesday's game against Sheffield Wednesday.In the West Midlands derby at St Andrew's, Birmingham City's recent recruit Peter Atherton, on a three-month loan from Bradford City, will line up for his sixth-placed side at home to fourth-placed West Bromwich Albion.Russell Hoult, yet to make his full debut for the Baggies following his £470,000 move from Portsmouth, is challenging Brian Jensen for the visitors' goalkeeper's shirt.In the Second Division, second-placed Wigan Athletic will field their new signing Peter Beagrie at home to Bristol Rovers today. The former Everton winger, who has arrived on loan from Bradford City, said: "I just want to be playing games again It's nice to come to a side that is winning. Usually when I'm transferred it's to help a club out in a spot of bother."In the Third, Hull City, who face a High Court winding-up order on Wednesday, go to Shrewsbury without David Brightwell and Steve Harper, who have joined Darlington after not being being paid by the Tigers so far this year.. "Tell me about it," Dean Holdsworth smiles when asked to comment on the theory that he is one of the country's unluckiest footballers. "Tell me about it," Dean Holdsworth smiles when asked to comment on the theory that he is one of the country's unluckiest footballers. In four years, he has tasted defeat in four cup semi-finals, been part of a side relegated on goal difference with 40 points and been beaten twice in the play-offs. If Sam Allardyce was the kind of man to believe in feng shui, he would have been frantically rearranging the benches and pegs in the home dressing-room at the Reebok stadium.Last season was proof that football is not governed by fate. It seemed pre-ordained that Bolton, who played in the first Wembley FA Cup final, should, 77 years on, appear in the last beneath the Twin Towers.They did reach Wembley but only for the semi-final with Aston Villa, where Holdsworth, who otherwise enjoyed an excellent match, missed the game's golden chance and had to endure defeat by penalty shoot-out."They are still great days," said the striker.

"Sometimes, though it hurts like hell, you have to tell yourselves that some things are not meant to be."This afternoon's FA Cup tie with Blackburn will be a great Lancashire day, a meeting of two clubs whose names resonate through the competition. On Friday night, they meet again in a match that will go a long way towards deciding which will be joining Fulham in the Premiership. Bolton are nine points ahead of Graeme Souness's side, who have two games in hand.And yet when Eidur Gudjohnsen, Claus Jensen and Mark Fish left during the summer it seemed Allardyce's brief extended little further than a holding operation and another play-off place.Asked what has made the difference, Holdsworth says team spirit At first this seems altogether too trite. People talk of team spirit when their team has no other qualities and ultimately it does not make the difference; a pub side can have it.But, as part of the Wimbledon experience which for so long defied all the Premiership's gravitational forces, Holdsworth knows what togetherness can achieve and also that at times it is not enough."Team spirit keeps teams up; quality makes you win things," he said. "There was never a doubt in my mind when I was at Wimbledon that we would ever go down.

We used to be told that we'd have to take 30 points after Christmas but it wouldn't enter our minds that we would be relegated. But without the ability you can't make those assumptions - that's what people forget about Wimbledon; we had the ability."Asked if Allardyce is from the same mould as Joe Kinnear, he says not. "In his verbal approach, yes - we all want to be told straight to our face what a manager thinks - but not in his methods."Sam has a lot of different ingredients in him. A lot of him is old school, in as much as he believes in keeping clean sheets, discipline and he is not frightened to rip your head off in the dressing-room. But in some areas he can be very forward thinking."There are things that we do at Bolton we wouldn't have considered at Selhurst Park, such as having people who talk to you about a positive attitude. There are reams of statistics assessing other teams and ourselves and we have a full-time dietician."At Wimbledon, we'd have gone straight to the bar after a game; here we are not allowed to drink after a match. Once we leave the dressing-room we're given special foods to take for a couple of hours."There are one or two Wimbledon touches about Allardyce's Bolton.

Their defeat by Tranmere in the semi-final of last season's Worthington Cup created such enmity between the two sides that, when Allardyce took his team back to Prenton Park, they arrived ready changed and under instructions not to socialise after the game. They were also ordered not to shave in order to show Tranmere "no respect". Anyone who made use of a razor was fined.It is, says Holdsworth, a very different side from the one he joined in October 1997. The team Colin Todd fashioned was evidence that clubs are not necessarily created in their manager's image. The man who became a byword for defensive excellence managed a team that while often playing beautifully was at times appallingly fragile."Under Colin Todd our chief aim seemed to be to play fantastic football and win 3-2. It was a gallant way to go but I'm a believer that you cannot play in your own penalty area. Defeat didn't hurt us enough and at times we didn't know we were losing a match until it was too late."I always felt, before Sam came, that if we were 1-0 up we would lose a goal; now if we're 1-0 up we know we're going to get something - we have not lost a game this season when we've scored first."Much of that is down to the tightness of a defence that has coped rather well without Fish, in part because of the arrival of Colin Hendry to join another veteran, Paul Warhurst.