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21st April 2018
06:53pm BST

“I said to him after that his mum and dad would’ve been proud of him for what he did there. “It’s an emotional thing - you’re never quite sure what to say to people when they lose a parent", he added.Despite the bereavement, Shawcross put in a solid display in a hard-fought 1-1 draw at the London stadium. “I think his performance was colossal,” Lambert said. “He wanted to play in the game. We had one or two little chats the night before." Shawcross cemented his legendary status at Stoke on Monday night, not that many fans would have berated him had he chosen not to play.
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