Filed under: Premier League, Football, Team Of The Week
Peter Kay, Amir Khan, Mark Radcliffe. Stu Francis, Sara Cox, Johnny Ball, Vernon Kay, Badly Drawn Boy. Are you reading? Your boys, they took one hell of a beating.No prizes for guessing that the number of Bolton players in the FanHouse Premier League team of the week matches their Wembley goal output after they were swept aside with contemptuous ease by Stoke City.
Conversely, as the above-mentioned famous sons and daughters of the north-west town come to terms with its footballing humiliation, Tony Pulis' rampant side is well represented after clinching the club's first-ever FA Cup final appearance in the wake of their 5-0 hatchet-job on the weary Wanderers.
Call it a demolition, call it a steam-rollering, both terms Fred Dibnah, another son of Bolton, knew all about. You will go a long way to see a more-one sided show at the national stadium for many a year. Dear old departed Fred would often ask 'do you like that?' It's a fair guess the response from the Reebok Stadium faithful, the majority having left for the long return trip north by half-time.
The ever-improving Jonathan Walters leads the way for City with his two second-half goals to merely rub salt into Bolton wounds.
By then, the damage had been done with three goals inside the first half hour sparked by the outstanding Matthew Etherington, who broke the deadlock early on, before Robert Huth, who narrowly edges out central defensive partner Ryan Shawcross, doubled the lead to help earn the German's inclusion.
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