Bristol City captain Louis Carey refuses to be intimidated by outspoken Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock.

Weather permitting, the bitter Coca-Cola Championship rivals will renew hostilities at Selhurst Park tomorrow in what is being billed as a grudge match.

There is no love lost between the Robins and Eagles following a series of controversial incidents in contests between the two sides in the recent seasons.

Warnock and his players were upset by the manner in which City celebrated David Noble's last-gasp play-off semi-final first leg winner at Selhurst Park in May 2008 and then accused Gary Johnson's team of cheating over the infamous goal that never-was incident at Ashton Gate last August.

Referee Rob Shoebridge disallowed what Palace considered a valid goal, scored by on-loan striker Freddie Sears, and the London club were left fuming when Nicky Maynard netted a late winner for Bristol City FC.

Carey expects the abrasive Warnock to utilise any left-over resentment to motivate his side ahead of tomorrow's clash. But he insists he and his team-mates will not be affected.

He said: "I think Neil Warnock is brilliant for football and someone like that is always going to get to a lot of people. We know he's going to use everything he can to try and get a result and we expect him to try and rough us up verbally.

"But when it comes to myself, the other lads and the gaffer, anything he says just goes in one ear and out the other.

"We're not worried about what happened the last time we played and we're not worried about anything Crystal Palace might be saying about us. We're going there to play a game of football and that's all we will be thinking about.

"Their manager will try to get at us mentally, but we know we're strong enough as a group not to let that get to us."

Carey admits recent encounters between the two sides will serve to create heightened tension at Selhurst Park this weekend.

He recalled: "They got a little bit upset at the way we celebrated our late goal in the play-off game a couple of seasons ago, but who wouldn't celebrate a last-minute winner in such a big game like that?

"But we didn't worry about that back then and we beat them in the second leg to reach the final.

"As far as the league game here in August goes, I don't really see what their problem is. The whistle went for an infringement before their lad put the ball in the net, so what happened afterwards was irrelevant.

"We had a good goal disallowed in the second half when Paul Hartley tapped in from close range and was given offside, but we didn't kick up a fuss because the flag had gone up.

"They did and it was all blown out of proportion. The past is the past, we took the three points and we've all moved on."