Looks after himself during the week but on a match day nobody is more committed. Lots of pace.Dejan StefanovicAge 21, pounds 2m from Red Star Belgrade last season Yugoslav internationalLeft centre-back. He is such a different player this season we almost checked his passport. The change is unbelievable, he's come on a ton.Wayne CollinsAge 27, pounds 600,000 from Crewe this summerOur centre pin, he sits and holds and makes the midfield tick.

Peter Atherton Age 26, pounds 800,000 from Coventry two years ago Our captain, prefers centre-back but currently filling in at right-back. Honest, hard-working, reliable and consistent.Ian NolanAge 26, pounds 1.5m from Tranmere two years agoProbably the fittest player in the club, gets up and down from left-back Two-footed, which not many players are. Another honest and hard-working player.Des WalkerAge 30, pounds 2.7m from Sampdoria three years ago, England internationalRight centre-back Extremely gifted and very reliable. You are battling against your own mind."I've learned a lesson - don't carry injuries, get them sorted out. If you are not 100 per cent in the Premiership, you get punished.". When you are down at the bottom and you make a mistake, it could be three points lost and relegation.

At the top, if you make a mistake, you think you can rectify it."Wednesday's success can only help Pressman's England ambitions. As a youngster, he was promising enough for his school to allow him to take his exams while on tour with England in Switzerland. He went on to earn Under-21 and B caps and was called into one of Terry Venables' early get- togethers.Then came a hernia and a loss of form, a pattern which was repeated last season. "I don't like to use excuses, and at the time I didn't think I was affected by them, but both needed operations and I can see by the way I train and play now that I was."A hernia affects the sharp stuff, the reaction saves, it makes you that split-second late because you get to know what type of movement hurts you and you shy away from it.