Indeed, there a little too much endeavour from Reading's Steve Brown and Preston's David Healy who were both booked.
The close scare served to wake up Preston, and David Healy headed just over from close in before Craig Brown's took the lead through Cresswell's header.
Bothroyd was a surprise inclusion, but should he feature in a team where the emphasis appears to be firmly on youth he would become the first Championship player to receive a cap since David Nugent, then of Preston, scored in a 3-0 win over Andorra in Barcelona in March 2007.
David Healy couldn't stop scoring for Preston when he signed from Manchester United in January 2000.
But nothing concrete has developed and now a reunion with Everton boss David Moyes, who was Healy's manager at Preston, looks increasingly unlikely.
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Mawhinney's thanks were echoed by Preston chairman Derek Shaw, who was forced to sell prize asset David Nugent to Portsmouth.
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Anthony Wilkinson, 38, had denied murdering David Short, 46, at his Clayton home last August, but changed his plea at Preston Crown Court.
In Lancashire, Professor David Chadwick, of Ormskirk, received an OBE for his services to road safety along with Preston's Alan Woods, the chief executive of EnCams, formerly the Tidy Britain Group, who received the honour for his work on sustainable development.
As a result of delays caused by the crash, armed police were required to surround the convoy carrying Dale Cregan to Preston Crown Court, where he is standing trial for the murder of father and son David and Mark Short.
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