Stuart Gray: 'Charlton Athletic FA Cup clash a big challenge'

Stuart Gray has admitted that Sheffield Wednesday's FA Cup fifth-round tie against Charlton Athletic will be a "big challenge".

The two Championship sides meet at Hillsborough tomorrow with a place in the quarter-final up for grabs, something which Gray is relishing.

"It's a big challenge," the 53-year-old is quoted as saying by BT Sport. "Chris Powell will have Charlton well organised and they'll have 11 players who are thinking about the quarter-final of the FA Cup, a bit like our lads.

"I said to the players straight away after the game on Tuesday, that's gone now, we've got to look forward and I asked the question: 'Has anybody been this far before in the FA Cup?'

"There was only Glenn Loovens and Stephen McPhail, so it's a great challenge for the players with a great prize at the end of it - a quarter-final place."

Gray was appointed Wednesday manager in January.