There's more than local pride at stake on Tuesday night as Horsham meet Horsham YMCA for a first ever Isthmian League Cup meeting between the town's two senior sides.
Despite living side-by-side with each other since 1929, competitive meetings between the Gorings Mead co-dwellers have been few and far between and, with neither side having competed in the same division during those 80 years, local football fans have had to rely on cup competitions for meaningful head-to-head contests.

YM recorded arguably their finest success over their close neighbours when, in February 2000, they stunned the Hornets with a 4-0 win to send them crashing out of the Senior Cup and it took another 6 years before that defeat could be avenged when Jacob Mingle's solitary strike earned a rather more modest victory for John Maggs' side. But the highest recorded victory falls to Horsham for whom their 10-1 FA Amateur Cup replay win in 1971 was their biggest ever in the competition.

As always, the match will bring together a number of players appearing against their former employers, with YM sure to feature a host of ex-Hornets in their line-up. Matt Geard claimed Saturday's late equaliser at table-topping Folkestone Invicta for a side that also included Gavin Geddes, Nigel Brake, John Westcott, Luke Gedling and Mark Pulling while Steve Sargent faces his former team-mates for a second time in 6 weeks, having made his Hornets debut in a 5-0 'friendly' romp at the end of October.

Maggs will select from the same squad that returned from Canvey Island with maximum points at the weekend, with Mark Knee set to feature for the first time in a month. "Mark will almost certainly get a run out and I'll probably go with Jack Lyons and Delando Smith to give them a bit of match practice but most of Saturday's bench will play," the manager revealed. Ben Andrews is nursing a pulled calf muscle so will not be risked even though Maggs is wary of YM's threat. "They'll be up for it alright," he mused. "They're on a decent run at the moment and will want to put one over on us, that's for sure."