Lilian Nalis made a surprise return to midfield and played a bit of a blinder. He looked a bit more into the pace of the Premiership, put some tackles in and sprayed some great balls around, to Leiecster players for a change.

Steffen Freund, despite never having scored at Spurs wellied a couple of shots at goal. And we saw why he'd never scored...no, seriously the first one nearly dipped in.

Gupps got plenty of crosses in. Sir Les held the ball up. Dickov buzzed around causing problems.

City were looking the better team and it only took Sir Les 16 minutes to put us 1-0 up. Scimeca's cross found Sir Les's head. No-one had time to see if it had crossed the line as Jaaskelainen parried it out but Sir Les made sure by volleying home the rebound.

Meanwhile there was all sorts of nonsense going on about the new amended offside rule. We have no bloomin idea what FIFA think they're doing, but it was a fiasco as Bolton deliberately proved tonight. For their first free kick they left Nolan up in the box completely offside (by the old rules). As the ball floated in he ran out and rejoined play, officially not interfering with play. They did this the second time. Then they decided to put two people up there so Leicester didn't know what was going on, who to mark etc.

It paid off for them after half an hour as what should have been a pretty easy gather for Ian Walker turned into a nightmare due to being distracted. As he gathered the ball under him and twizzled a bit, it squidged out and hit his bum to roll over the line. The Bolton players had already turned away and Dabizas tried desperately to hoof it out and hope no-one had noticed, but it was too late. Walker stood with his head in his hands.

City's heads didn't go down and they battled hard for the rest of the game which although was quite entertaining didn't really have any great talking points after that. Unless you count stopping the game cos the ball getting wrapped up in a yellow carrier bag. Or Paul Ramsey making an appearance at half time. Or Dickov getting a boot in the head. Or Dickov scoring but it being offside.

Negatives from the game...Thatcher picked up a yellow card thanks to Rennie's poor refereeing performance tonight, and that's Snatch's 5th of the season so he'll miss a game. Bugger.

Positives...restored some confidence, got some fight back, and got another point higher than Wolves.