Striker fights emotion

There may be little room for sentiment in professional football but three points tomorrow would nonetheless give Jonathan Walters less pleasure than usual.

Stoke City host one of his old clubs, Bolton, in the knowledge that anything less than a win for the visitors will consign them to relegation.

“It’s not nice, is it? There are people I know there. Obviously for any professional to go to a game and know you could be changing the careers and lives of people on the other side is a big thing but you have got to put that to one side.