STAND by for another Stoke versus Arsenal confrontation – only this one is taking place on a mountainside thousands of miles away.

Just when City manager Tony Pulis thought he would never take on an Arsenal opponent again until next season, along comes Gunners goalkeeping legend David Seaman.

The 46-year-old former England star, together with girlfriend and ice dancer Frankie Poultney, have agreed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in May to raise thousands of pounds for the Donna Louise Children's Hospice Trust.

But Seaman will be in direct competition with Pulis, pictured below, and his team after signing up for comedian Nick Hancock's rival crew.

The former keeper said: "Nick's a big mate I've known for years after first meeting him on They Think It's All Over and we both enjoy our fishing, so I'm definitely on his team.

"So Tony Pulis had better watch out, because I might just throw him off the top of the mountain," he joked.

"I've still got a long throw you know. Nearly as long as Rory Delap's."

Seaman is also warning his captain to get in shape for the climb on May 17.

He added: "If he starts lagging he'll get so much stick because he used to dish it out to me on They Think It's All Over, but now he's on my kind of territory.

"Are there any lakes at the top for me to throw him in?"

Frankie, fresh from being voted out of ITV's Dancing On Ice, has experience for her partner to draw from.

She said: "I've been up the Andes, the Rockies and the Alps, but never anything like Mount Kilimanjaro.

"It will be a great challenge and I think it's important to get personally involved if you can and not just write out a cheque.

"We love walking anyway. We want to do the Oxford to London walk along the Thames and we often walk for miles along the river anyway."

"Yeah, but we do get a taxi back home love," Seaman said. However, there will be no such luxuries out in Africa.

The pair say altitude sickness is their one big fear ahead of the trip.

And 36-year-old Frankie added: "I've been doing my research and there are people who go up there and don't come back down, so we certainly won't be taking it light-heartedly.

"It's nice we're doing it together and we'll be quite encouraging for each other.

"But if there's any carrying to be done it will be David carrying me. Have you seen the size of him next to me?"

Seaman added: "Neither of us will dare to lag behind, because we'd be giving each other so much stick. But yes, if she needs a lift up."

The couple hope to visit the Donna Louise Hospice, which needs to raise £2 million a year, to see what the expedition is all about.

Frankie said: "It's incredibly important, because I was reading that the hospice can only afford to stay open five days a week.

"But children don't get sick for five days a week, so we've got to raise as much as possible to give them care all the year round.

"It's also imperative to give parents somewhere to stop with their children, because being ill is bad enough for a child, without waking up in the night and not having your parents there."