Scotland boss Berti Vogts will watch City tonight to spy on 12-goal hitman Andy Gray.

Vogts, linked with the Bantams before Nicky Law took over, will run the rule over Gray in the home clash with high-flying Leicester.

Gray scored for Scotland Future in Turkey last week - the first time Vogts had seen him in action. A strong showing against Micky Adams' promotion-chasers could earn him a Scotland spot for the next Euro 2004 qualifier against Iceland at the end of the month.

City are desperate to get the Walsall defeat out the system and Gray will want to bounce back after wasting a couple of chances.

Boss Nicky Law said: "Andy admitted after the game that he was poor but he was there to miss them. On another day he'd have had two or three. He still worked very hard but it just didn't come off

"Andy has set himself the very highest standard this season so anything average is going to be disappointing. But it's too easy to jump on the bandwagon and blame him.

"It's too easy to build people up and then start grumbling when they have a bad game. That's grossly unfair.

"He's had a very good season so far and that has rightly been recognised. It's a boost for the whole team that an international manager is coming to watch one of our players."

There will be two more interested spectators in the crowd - representatives of mortgage company Lombards.

They were holding tea-time talks with the club over the Sunwin Stand repayments and planned to stay to watch the game from the directors' box.

Law is hoping City's Jekyll and Hyde season will take another upturn against the second-placed visitors.

He said: "Looking at these two games last week, I wasn't as worried about tomorrow as I was Saturday.

"Sometimes it's difficult to know which Bradford City is going to turn up.

"Will it be the one that beat Ipswich, Wolves, Coventry, Rotherham or Nottingham Forest? Or the one that lost twice to Brighton and at home to Walsall?

"The lads know they will have to be at their ultimate. If they are, they've got a chance of beating anybody as we've proved, not just on the odd freak occasion but six or seven times."