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IT will be clear case of divided loyalties for Gary McSheffrey today as two of his former clubs Doncaster Rovers and Coventry City go head to head at the Keepmoat Stadium.

The former Sky Blues star remains a firm fan of his home-town club, for whom he scored 61 goals in 247 league games in two spells, while he turned out for Rovers towards the back end of his playing career.

And he’s back on the Donny payroll as part of Darren Moore’s backroom, currently cutting his coaching teeth with the Under-23s after starting out with the Academy’s U18s.

McSheffrey watched Mark Robins’ men brush aside Bristol Rovers in the FA

Cup replay on Tuesday night and will be an interested spectator on Saturday when ninth-placed Doncaster have the chance to pull to within a point of the Sky Blues, who themselves are looking to keep pace with the top two in League One. So what is McSheffrey expecting?

“I think it will be a good game,” said the 37-year-old Coventry-born coach. “We played Oxford at home recently and that was similar, two good sides. They break with good pace, similar to the way Coventry did on Tuesday night.

“They have got players who get you up the pitch by running with the ball and dribbling, and you don’t see much of that these days because a lot of teams build and play nice football but don’t really get at the opposition, and that was what was really refreshing to see from Callum O’Hare the other night.” He added: “Earlier in the season I thought box-to-box that Coventry and Doncaster are probably the two best teams in the division, and it was just a question of finding that cutting edge and ruthlessness.

“And Coventry have obviously found that now with Matty Godden, and Jordan Shipley chipping in, and as we saw

Earlier in the season I thought box-to-box that Coventry and Doncaster are probably the two best teams in the division. Gary McSheffrey