Jermaine Pennant today become a full time Potter as he put pen to paper on a two and a half year contract for an initial fee of £1.725 million.

The day started out as a celebration of Sir Stanley, as his two beloved sides clashed in the top flight for the first time in almost 40 years, but it was the Tangerine half of his life that were to be smiling come dinner time on Saturday as Stoke, almost to a man, failed to turn up.

Stoke managed to extend their unbeaten run by taking a point following a frantic first half littered with deflections at a sparsely populated DW Stadium.