There is a real prospect, thanks to a knee injury for Daniel Cousin, of Hull City's strike pairing for the visit to Portsmouth this weekend comprising of Dean Windass and Marlon King.
That's Windass and King, the disgruntled local hero and the bling-laden pretender to his throne.
More to the point, it's Windass and King, the two Hull City players who supposedly indulged in a bout of fisticuffs last week while gambling away their Premier League wages on a boys' night out in Scarborough's main casino.
This isn't Sheringham and Cole all over again. Those two didn't get on, but they never had a fight in public. Nor did they have one in private, one assumes. King has an attitude that exudes proper vanity and supreme self-confidence, while Windass has been put out substantially by King's arrival and his own consequent downfall.
It couldn't do any harm to play them together, surely? They are both experienced professionals, good footballers and proven strikers. Both also have the sort of high-maintenance characters which might prove advantageous to Hull City. King's got the Premier League role, Windass is suddenly the envious understudy. You'd get good odds - in a Scarborough casino or any other - that they'd spend their time on the pitch together trying to prove their worth to the other.
Of course, given that so many hints at team alterations have been made lately and yet barely one has been carried out, let's not be surprised if Cousin plays and Windass, again, is in his suit mumbling disconsolately while mentally sticking pins into a handknitted King effigy, complete with woollen-effect £19,000 timepiece.
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