Though Manchester City were in Champions League action on earlier this week, there was another match taking place the same evening that fans may well have had a glance at.
As City won 1-0 on the night against Atletico Madrid at the Etihad Stadium to put themselves in the driving seat to qualify for the semi-finals of Europe's premier club competition, some 19 miles away in Bolton, a glimpse of the future was on full view.
It wasn't City's youth teams in action, but two big names in English football now slugging it out in the third tier of English football and seeking to return up the divisions.
