Athletic will be without midfielder Chris Taylor and goalkeeper Greg Fleming (pictured) for next week's visit of Northampton Town. Taylor was booked for what the referee considered to be a dive in the box at Leicester City but the decision was contentious as the replays on Sky Sports clearly showed that he should have been awarded a penalty instead of a yellow card. It was Taylor's fifth yellow card of the season which means that he serves an automatic one match suspension. Fleming was sent off in the same match for bringing down the Foxes' leading scorer Matty Fryatt. The incident happened 49 minutes into the game and he will now have to serve an automatic one match ban for a professional foul.
Striker Lee Hughes also picked up a second-half booking which brings his total to nine yellow cards cards and makes him just one card short of a two game ban.