Danny Batth has revealed he was unaware of the devastation his Stoke City team-mates were causing to Nottingham Forest's Premier League dream on the final day of the Championship season.
The Reds were beaten 4-1 by Michael O'Neill's side at the City Ground which meant that Swansea, who won by the same scoreline at Reading, overtook them to clinch a top-six finish.
An incredible six-goal swing took place which left Forest boss Sabri Lamouchi lost for words as he tried to explain Forest's extraordinary capitulation.
And Stoke's Batth, who scored the third goal in the Swans' victory, admitted that he had received a message from a friend of Swansea before the game but was unaware of the consequences for the Reds.
“To be honest, I didn't know what was at stake" Batth said in an interview for the EFL.
"We weren’t aware of how close it was goal difference wise. I spoke to a friend of mine at Swansea City and he messaged me saying, ‘Hopefully you can win by a big margin today’ ahead of the Forest game, so I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do my best!’
“The game just took a massive swing. I remember seeing the reaction towards the end of the game from the Forest players and I didn’t really understand the magnitude of the result because I didn’t know the Swansea score.
"It was an incredible game to end on, but from our point of view it was also nice not to be going into that game needing a result or a big win. It was probably the first game in nine or ten months that we went into with no pressure, which was certainly enjoyable from our side.”
