Walters completes rout as Stoke make first final

STOKE’S long wait for an FA Cup final appearance is over and if their performance in humiliating Bolton was anything to go by, their return visit to Wembley on May 14 could yet deliver more success.

This was the ‘other’ semi-final, the one that was supposed to provide the punchbag to face the winners of the Manchester derby 24 hours earlier.

City’s celebrations after that game were laced with a sense of destiny that the cup was theirs.