On Monday evening Neil Warnock was interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester's Football Forum programme to look ahead to tonight's fixture at the Walkers Stadium.

The show previews every Leicester City game and features a regular spot where a member from the opposing camp offers their opinion on the season so far and the prospect of the forthcoming game.

So, on Monday night Neil Warnock was interviewed by Ian Stringer and Alan Birchenall and they began by asking him whether he was looking forward to the game:

"Yeah, it is a super stadium and I am a big fan of the manager. I think he has done superb, just what [Leicester] needed really to calm the place down. I just like everything he does, how he goes about his job the way he does.

"I think it will be a good game. I read his [Nigel Pearson's] comments about Derby on Saturday about coming for a draw, but we won't be doing that, we don't know how to do that, so it should be a cracking match."

Neil's reputation for speaking his mind precedes him wherever he goes in football, but the fact that he works for an equally outspoken Chairman is somewhat of an interesting talking point. But for Neil it is a relationship of mutual understanding and mutual respect:

"I think everybody was waiting for [a clash] when I took over, some of the stories at the press conference were quite hilarious really.

"The thing about Simon is, and I give him stick about the way he looks and all that, but because of the way he is, I mean Birchy (former Palace and Leicester player)  is a bit like him, he is tanned all week, but people forget how clever he is. He is a very astute and clever man in football and he does a lot for the game.

"He came up with this idea when we lost the academy lad John Bostock to Tottenham that we should be able to sign them at 15 not 16 and let the big clubs come in, and he campaigned for that and that has come to fruition.

"He does a lot of other things and he talks a lot of sense. We don't have argument's, but once or twice he has put me in my place about certain things but most of the time when he does that he is right anyhow. We get on well off the field and if it wasn't for him I probably would be there in that respect.

"Although I wish we had a lot of money and I wish we could buy players to give me even more of a chance before I pack in to get up there but it is still a challenge, like on Saturday we went to Cardiff who have scored four and six in their last two games and it was a challenge to play against them and not roll over and the young lads did ever so well."

Neil also revealed that prior to joining Palace, he had the chance to become Leicester City manager on a couple of occasions:

"I have been close a couple of times, once with Milan [Mandaric] and one before that. But what concerned me the last time I spoke when I left Sheffield, it wasn't Milan but one of the Chief Execs, who when I spoke to him he was concerned about the Leicester fans. I made comments apparantly when they went bust and carried on in the Premier League and he said 'do you think they will forgive you?', and I said 'if I win five or six games on the trot they will forgive anybody'.

One Palace player that will be eyeing up tonight's game even more than most is Paddy McCarthy. The centre-half signed for the Foxes in 2005 and played for three seasons before moving on in 2007 to Charlton Athletic. Asked how he has been doing since joining Palace, Neil was delighted with the defender's contribution:

"He has done ever so well. It is ironic that the games we really struggled are the games he hasn't played in."

"He always has a slow start to the season, fitness wise and pre-season he is not the best at the start of the season so it takes him three or four games to get going. But I think he is probably playing as well as he has done for many years at the moment."

"He is pushing back into the Irish squad. They had him over for the two friendly games and put him back into the squad for that and he enjoyed that so it is a big incentive. He is obviously hoping they can beat France and he has a chance to go to the World Cup. But he has done a super job for us and a good lad off the field. He is definitely looking forward to the game tomorrow."

The full interview is live now on the BBC iPlayer and you can listen to it right now by clicking on this link. The interview begins at 36 minutes.