 Lindegaard signed for Cheltenham after eight seasons at Yeovil |
Cheltenham midfielder Andy Lindegaard has told BBC Radio Gloucestershire that it will feel strange being in the away dressing room at Yeovil on Saturday. Lindegaard had spent his entire career at Huish Park before joining the Robins in 2007, and his family live in Yeovil.
"My mum's even said to me she's not sure what she'll do if Cheltenham score and she's in the Yeovil end," he said.
"She'll have tickets with a lot of the Yeovil family. My dad'll have to keep her under control, I think."
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The versatile 27-year-old was primarily a full-back in his last season for the Glovers, but has played mainly in midfield since his move to Whaddon Road.
And he is expecting his Somerset family connections to add to the crowd for his return to Huish Park this weekend.
"My mum and dad are going, my girlfriend's mum and dad are going. Hopefully my brothers can make it, but they do play football locally," he said.
A win for Cheltenham would suck Yeovil into the battle to avoid relegation to League Two, so Lindegaard is not expecting a footballing classic.
 Yeovil won promotion twice during Lindegaard's time at the club (Getty) |
"They lost 3-0 in their last home game. There's opportunities there to look like we can go and win, but it's going to be a tough game," he said.
"We're both down the bottom end of the table. It's going to be a graft."
Lindegaard might be a former pupil of Buckler's Mead school in Yeovil, and might have attracted a personal crowd of over 30 family members and friends to the Glovers' Wembley play-off final against Blackpool last summer, but all that will be forgotten at kick-off time.
"Don't expect pretty football," he added. "But as long as we get the result, who cares?"
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