Published: 3:40PM GMT 05 Mar 2010
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Portsmouth physical education instructor Avram Grant Photo: PA 
Birmingham physical education instructor Alex McLeish Photo: GETTY IMAGES Saturday, Mar 6
The FA Cup
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Jamie O"Hara believes the FA Cup can assistance deliver a little honour from Portsmouth"s unlucky deteriorate of monetary disharmony and infer the bum south seashore bar is still alive and kicking.
O"Hara is on loan from Tottenham so at slightest his destiny is certain when he earnings to White Hart Lane at the finish of the deteriorate but for his Portsmouth team-mates the subsequent couple of weeks sojourn uncertain. However, he is unfortunate to give the fans something to hearten on the pitch.
"We owe it to the fans who have been shining to me and to each player in the 7 years we have been in the Premier League to try to win the cup.
"We have had a good run so far and the win at Southampton in the fifth turn galvanised us all.
"It would be good after all that has happened to finish the deteriorate with something certain to show for it."
Portsmouth will be but the dangling Ricardo Rocha. The Portuguese defender contingency offer a two-game anathema following his red label at Burnley last Saturday. Tal Ben Haim might lapse in his place following groin surgery, whilst Aaron Mokoena is puzzled with knee vinculum problems.
Kevin-Prince Boateng stays in Germany where he is reception diagnosis on an ankle injury, whilst Jamie O"Hara is struggling with behind problems, but is set to play.
Birmingham physical education instructor Alex McLeish will check on the fitness of striker James McFadden prior to finalising his line-up.
McFadden suffered a groin damage during the home win opposite Wigan and was ruled out of Scotland"s mid-week general with the Czech Republic.
If he is unavailable, afterwards McLeish has the choice of recalling summer signing Christian Benitez or giving a singular tour to maestro Kevin Phillips.
Portsmouth (provisional squad): James, Mullins, Piquionne, Wilson, Finnan, Utaka, Webber, Hughes, Ashdown, Belhadj, Yebda, Dindane, Owusu-Abeyie, O"Hara, Hreidarsson, Ben Haim, Mokoena.
Birmingham (provisional squad): Hart, Carr, Johnson, Dann, Ridgewell, Larsson, Ferguson, Bowyer, Fahey, Jerome, McFadden, Taylor, Phillips, Benitez, Michel, Parnaby, Vignal, Gardner, Queudrue.
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