Peter Crouch,age 36, has not started a Premier League game this season but he showed here that he is far from finished. Four minutes after being sprung from the bench on a mission to rescue his team from defeat, or the former England striker obliged in familiar fashion,banging a header into the net to draw Stoke level. That was his third goal in his seventh league appearance as a substitute this term and he nearly embellished that tally by heading a winning goal in the dying seconds, only for Kasper Schmeichel to produce a splendid save.“It’s not a bad option, and is it?” notice Hughes said,jokingly, of his 69th-minute introduction of Crouch. “Once again Pete has near on to good effect and it just illustrates what a great professional he is. Because of the way he trains he’s always available and that enables him when he’s called upon to still have an impact at this level. Once you bring on Peter, and it’s a totally different problem for the opposition. Everybody’s saying he’s a procedure B but whether he continues he might be procedure A.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk