Football can be a funny old game at times.
We get sunshine in Stoke, an away win and a clean sheet, an exciting ruckus and a late winner from a cross that was aiming for the back post. Not a bad day's work.
It wasn't exactly a great advert for the Championship or the neutrals but those 728 away fans who crammed themselves into the corner at Stoke or others watching at home, they wouldn't have had it any other way.