Coyle calls on Bolton to raise game for Fab

Just as Owen Coyle and his Bolton side overcame the initial hurdle of returning to action on the pitch seven days after Fabrice Muamba’s collapse at White Hart Lane, another daunting challenge presents itself — a return to the scene of the incident that has shocked football.

With Muamba still in intensive care after suffering a cardiac arrest at Tottenham, albeit steadily improving, the rest of his Bolton team-mates overcame local rivals Blackburn on Saturday to lift themselves out of the relegation zone.

Two headers from David Wheater, an unlikely source given he had only one goal to his name for Bolton beforehand, was enough to grab three points for the hosts and to ensure Steven N’Zonzi’s second-half header did nothing but help Blackburn’s goal difference.