Dundee will have to end a Highland hoodoo if they hope to beat Inverness on Saturday.
Incredibly, the Dark Blues have never won a competitive game at the Caledonian Stadium.
The last time Dundee won in Inverness was in 1994 on penalties in the B&Q Cup but that was at the old Telford Street ground.
Last season, Paul Hartley’s side drew their first game 1-1 in Inverness at the end of August thanks to a Rory Loy penalty but were thumped 4-0 when the sides met again at the same venue in May.
In the previous campaign, both games were drawn at the Caledonian Stadium while in the 2012/13 season, the only meeting in the Highlands between the two sides saw Dundee lose 4-1.
The lamentable record continues in similar vein down the years and even when there was a change of venue, the result stayed the same.
Inverness shared Aberdeen’s Pittodrie Stadium in 2004 while work was carried out at their own ground. Dundee arrived on a freezing October night and duly lost 2-1 in front of a pitifully small crowd.
Now, the Dark Blues will travel north once again to Inverness on Saturday, hoping to halt a run of five league games without a win – and end their long Highland hoodoo.
Meanwhile, Danny Williams, who left Inverness at the end of last season to join Dundee, admits it will be strange in more ways than one to return to the Caledonian Stadium where the side are now managed by his former team-mate Richie Foran.
Williams said: “It will be strange going back up to Inverness as I spent a lot of time there. I am really looking forward to it.
“Richie was always a leader both on and off the park. From the moment I went there, you could see he had the potential to be a manager.
“But it will still be strange seeing him on the touchline.”
