RADHI Jaidi could make his FA Cup debut on Sunday after an unscheduled mid-winter break.
His Reebok team-mates were given two days off after their derby win at Blackburn, but Jaidi, plagued by hamstring problems in recent weeks, went one better, soaking up the sun in his native Tunisia.
"He has been struggling without having any sun on his back," Sam Allardyce said of the defender.
"Hopefully the break means he is now free from injury and refreshed.
"We felt he was feeling the fatigue of the Premiership. That's where the injury came from.
"He had a couple of niggles then a bad one in training."
Jaidi, who joined Wanderers on a free from Esperance de Tunis in the summer, was rested when Wanderers won at Ipswich in the third round.
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