Stoke on the verge of appointing Burley

Kevan said: "The players were made aware beforehand that someone was there.

"Hopefully they would have given the new manager a good impression and he has seen something that he can build on.

"I think that it was probably a help that the new manager was there. I am not sure if the details are finalised yet, but the players did know someone was in the stands."

And the club has said "We expect to be in a position to make an announcement on the new manager tomorrow."

It all looks very promising indeed. I did have an e-mail conversation with Jonathan Fuller and we told him the results of our poll which were as follows...