Scott Hogan - A timely reminder from the forgotten man

Goals change games we know but, listening to Scott Hogan, it’s clear he feels his winner for Championship basement side Stoke City against high-flying Swansea City last Saturday, could be a personal game-changer of an altogether different magnitude.

And it was what you might call a ‘sliding coach doors’ moment he had with manager Nathan Jones the previous day — after the deeply frustrated striker had made a passionate appeal to be given a fresh chance — which made his reprieve and redemption possible.