Owen Coyle has admitted there is no way of knowing how his Bolton players will react to tonight’s return to White Hart Lane for the rescheduled FA Cup quarter-final tie against Tottenham.

Tottenham have confirmed that their home game against Stoke on Wednesday will go ahead as planned.

The sheer scale of the numbers had threatened to crush Fernando Torres; 24 hours and 33 minutes of playing time without a goal coming into this game, 150 days since he last found the net.