Liam Fontaine vividly recalls Bristol City's last meeting with Preston – his feet have just recovered.

Not from being ran around Deepdale by the Lillywhites' strikers, but from sitting on the substitutes' bench in the freezing conditions as the Robins were beaten 2-0.

Had the game not been shown live on Sky Sports, the referee may well have abandoned the fixture such was the density of the fog that had struck last November.

Tomorrow evening Fontaine and his colleagues get a chance for pay-back on Preston when the seventh-placed Championship side visit Ashton Gate.

"It is a chance for revenge," concurred Fontaine. "That night was horrible.

"It was very cold and foggy and the fact that we lost made it worse but Saturday is hopefully going to be a lot brighter and we will go out there and show what we can do this time."

City's post-Christmas recovery has given them a slim chance of making the play-offs as they enter the final six games of the season.

However, after four games without a win, perhaps the two-week international break came at the right time.

"In a sense of regrouping and mulling over certain things it was good but in the case of getting on with things and moving on then no," said a philosophical Fontaine.

"We would have liked to have gone into the break on a victory but now it is over it, it in the past and we have all got the hunger to finish theses final six games strongly.

"All the games are tough and most are against teams in and around the play-off race so everyone is going to be fighting for fifth and sixth spot."