At his Tuesday unveiling, Paul Lambert said he did not care if he was ‘fifteenth or fiftieth’ choice for the Stoke City job. After a rousing second-half performance secured an instant impact for the Glaswegian, the Potters supporters who slated his appointment may well share those emotions. The bet365 stadium on a freezing January afternoon did not seem like an obvious place for a party, especially after a turgid opening stanza best forgotten. But goals from Joe Allen and Mame Diouf – and a clean sheet rarer than rocking horse droppings in these parts – had them dancing in its aisles. Not that Lambert, whose side clambered out of the relegation zone, until Sunday afternoon at least, was in the mood for hitting the town.