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    1. A road with orange traffic cones across it width, with a police car parked in the centre and a police officer wearing a high visibility jacket standing by the cordon. There is a brick bus shelter on the left hand side of the image and a hedgerow with trees on the right hand side.

    • A long brown building, set back from the road, with a grey roof. There are large trees behind the building and a large concreted area for cars.

    • Lightweight Stoke outmuscled by Derby

      Mark Elliott
      BBC Radio Stoke’s Stoke City commentator

      Lamine Cisse, in a purple Stoke City away kit, competes for the ball with David Ozoh, wearing a white Derby County home kit, during their matchGetty Images

      Stoke were outmuscled at Derby in a way that highlighted the gap in physicality between the Potters and most of the teams chasing promotion.

      Not every team in the Championship needs to be as direct as Derby but no team can afford to be as lightweight and lacking in power and athleticism as Stoke were.

      It's not the first time over the past two seasons that Stoke have been bullied to defeat.

      They put out a young team, particularly defensively and couldn't impose themselves physically at either end of the pitch.

      After the game, the manager Mark Robins questioned his team's "fight", which suggests that he's ready to move on from some players this summer.

      When they turn to the transfer market in a few weeks, adding power and physicality - particularly to the spine of the team - has to be a priority.

    • A man wearing a black cap who has grey facial hair. He is wearing a khaki zip jacket and black bag with grey shorts. He has two prosthetic legs

    • A female Barbary macaque monkey, looking sideways, is outdoors positioned against a green background. She has grey and brown fur.

    • Robins reacts to defeat at Derby

      Robins: 'We've looked passive'

      Stoke City manager Mark Robins spoke BBC Radio Stoke after Monday's 2-0 defeat at Derby County.

      "How did I see the game? It was a nothing first half, but they had better chances than us," he said.

      "On Good Friday it was a really good win. Then coming into this one as we come to the end of the season, I'm looking for more.

      "And really, I'm left disappointed because we've certainly not done enough with the ball, but we have looked passive, which isn't us – it shouldn't be us and can't be us. And we left ourselves open to that defeat, and that is a concern.

      "After a game where we've had to work hard, even against a Sheffield Wednesday side that has been struggling, we win the game and we have to bounce onto the next one, and we don't or can't do that.

      "It is really difficult to win any game of football in any division, and the Championship is brutal, but you certainly have to match the opposition in terms of fight, and we haven't got that.

      "We just haven't got that at this stage and the players who have got that just looked like they weren't at the level of Derby's players."

    • A football in a goal net

    • The back of 3 firefighters in uniform walking towards a fire brigade

    • A group of people enjoying cocktails at a bar

    • A white-painted five-storey building situated on a hill with a road running alongside it. There are cars queuing at a set of traffic lights and a person wearing a grey hoodie on the pavement. There is a road sign partially obscuring a blue totem which carries the hotel's branding and other information.

    • A composite of three images in the first an actress from Call the Midwife in a nurse's uniform is smiling and pushing a child in a pram. In the mdidle a grey owl looks straight ahead. In the third a young girl, Layla, is amiling and wearing a dark dress.

    • Two houses have a large hole in the roof - a man is standing in the gap

    • An aerial shot of the colliery site. It is a large area with concrete routes and grass, with steel buildings that are long. There are some large brown buildings and a tall chimney in the middle of the site.

    • A group of tulips, seen from the side, with most of a red colour, a couple yellow - with green foliage behind

    • A three-lane motorway stretching away from the camera with cars driving on it. Across the central reservation is the other carriageways with cars and a lorry on it. Further down the road is a bridge running over it. In the foreground is a motorway junction lane splitting off and heading in a slight incline around a a left hand bend. There is a blue sign with white writing that reads "services"

    • A group fo 11 women who are stood together in a white corridor, some of the women are in nurses uniforms and are holding certificates and teddy bears

    • A wide road featuring road markings and lamposts in the background.

    • A grey Nissan Note car, which is parked in a car parking bay. Next to it is green grass and planters. On the car's window are two yellow stickers that read "seized" in black writing.

    • A chocolate-and-tan miniature dachshund on a lead outside a polling station sign.

    • Three images side by side: Left, a giant pink Mini Egg sits on a purple blanket, with a purple back drop. the arm and hand of a person in a purple jacket and glove can be seen, holding up a normal sized mini egg; middle, a young boy with short light brown hair swept down over his forehead holds two Rubik's Cubes and looks enthusiastically at the camera. He is wearing a blue T-shirt with a picture of a Rubik's Cube on it; right - a woman with long blonde hair, wearing grey trousers and a vest top, sits on an armchair holding a plate palette and a brush.

    • 'We lacked fluidity' - Robins

      Mark RobinsGetty Images

      Stoke are 13th in the Championship

      Stoke manager Mark Robins said his side lacked fluidity in attack and admitted it was a laborious performance in the 2-0 over Sheffield Wednesday.

      Goals from Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Lamine Cisse secured victory at the Bet365 Stadium.

      But Robins wasn't entirely satisfied with the manner of the result.

      "We were nowhere near fluid throughout the game," Robins told BBC Radio Stoke.

      "We were at times, but we looked laboured in movement and passing. We created good openings and should have had more chances on goal if we'd had been more awake.

      "We got the game done, a clean sheet and 54 points, more than the entirety of last season. You talk about incremental improvement, that is there for everyone to see."

      Robins added that expectation was high because Wednesday have already been relegated, and pointed out his squad has been stretched recently.

      "It was hard. You're on a hiding to nothing because people expect you to win and score a avalanche of goals. That hasn't happened.

      "They've got lots of good players. They've lost some and gained some. Sheffield Wednesday are young and they've been through the mill in the past few seasons.

      "We've had eight players to work with whilst others are injured, coming back or on international duty. Logistically it is tough; to get the game won like that was pleasing."

    • EFL match ball

    • Stoke celebrate goal

    • The wall of a historic mill building is being pulled down by a yellow mechanical device. There are bricks and debris falling as the wall begins to collapse.
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