ARE you going on Sunday?

Worcester City FC getting through to the first round of the FA Cup for the first time in nine years is exciting enough, but drawing Coventry means many more fans will be able to make the short trip to the other end of the Midlands.

Win or lose, it promises to be the most memorable day in City’s history since the second-round clash with Huddersfield in 2005.

It’s particularly rewarding for those of us who have stuck with the team through thick and thin – often very, very thin.

I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve stood on the stands in the freezing cold as the Blue and Whites crash to yet another defeat.

In one particularly memorable case I spent a very cold and very hungover New Year’s Day trudging what felt 20 miles across Newport and back to watch City lose to Newport County.

But somehow all that seems to fade away in the anticipation of Sunday’s game.

But you can’t help but wonder if we see a repeat of a rather strange thing that happened at the Huddersfield match in 2005.

Worcester often struggle to get more than a few hundred in each game – not helped, no doubt, by currently playing 30 miles away in Kidderminster – but the Huddersfield match game saw 4,163 people pack into the much-lamented St George’s Lane.

Even if half of these were Huddersfield fans – an optimistic estimate, to say the least – that means more than 2,000 were cheering on the city.

You can’t help but wonder where these people where when the team was languishing at the bottom of the league.

Of course it was delightful to see so many people united in one voice, but the very next week – once City were out of the Cup, of course – none of them were anywhere to be seen.

Early indications are suggesting City will bring a massive crowd to Sunday’s game and it’s wonderful to see all the local support.

But, let’s be honest, the chance of a victory against Coventry is fairly slim – although strange things have happened.

It would be nice if some of these people stuck around afterwards.

They would be more than welcome.