Rain is forecast for Sunday but hopefully there won’t be rivers of Red and Blue tears flowing come 3pm after what is undoubtedly the most important game in living memory.

A simple relegation battle would be stressful enough but, when added to the complexities of administration, Sunday has become far more than a game to decide who stays up.

It could prove to be the game that decides whether players and management have jobs, whether bright young academy footballers have their dreams destroyed and more importantly whether after 105 years of passion and undying support, fans are left with just memories of this football club.

Of course, it is not just Sunday that holds the key to securing our future, but maintaining our Championship status with the financial rewards that brings can only help our cause and the that of the CPFC 2010 consortium as they attempt to strike a last-minute deal.

It would be easy for players and fans alike to get carried away by the occasion.

37,000 fans will be crammed inside Hillsborough come kick-off 5,700 of which will be bedecked in Red and Blue and this with all the connotation behind the scenes will make it difficult for the players to keep calm.

What we need are cool heads, this isn’t the time for rousing team talks and hyping the players up into a frenzy, if it was then Wednesday’s chairman would not have been saying what he was on Tuesday.

We should see his comments as a sign of weakness; a sign that in terms of pure footballing ability, they are the ones worried about us and are looking to steal a psychological advantage.

We have seen it enough in the last two years with Neil Warnock to know that mind games only work when you are able to change the way the opposition play.

Neil Danns showed on Monday night what can happen when players let the occasion get to them and we can’t afford for this to happen on Sunday.

To this end, there is no better man for the job than Paul Hart.

He seems to be under-rated in terms of man management but speaking to Johannes Ertl dispelled this myth for me.

Ertl’s been nothing but impressed with Hart since his arrival: “Paul is great. I think what’s really important especially with us being in a relegation battle; he really takes care of the players, talking to us, asking how we are and whether we need anything.

"Just little things that make you feel important to the team.

“Paul Hart is a great manager.”

He is quiet, experienced and won’t be drawn into the theatrics surrounding the day and he will ensure our preparation for the game and tactics deployed will be as normal as possible.

After all we are not in this situation because we are a bad team and haven’t accrued enough points.

Meanwhile Wednesday would be down by now if it was not for our deduction so if we can play our normal game then we stand every chance of the BBC’s cameras being focussed on blubbing Wednesday fans at the end of the game.