Bolton Wanderers - 2 Leicester - 2 Les Ferdinand has said he is going to retire at the end of this season, but after he provided a barnstorming finish to this hectic match yesterday his manager, Micky Adams, should double his efforts to persuade him to change his mind.

The 37-year-old had been dropped in favour of Marcus Bent, whom Adams said would provide fresh legs. But in the 70th minute he swapped places with Paul Dickov and, after a few languorous stretching exercises in the centre circle, he set about Bolton Wanderers with a vengeance.

He almost scored in the 87th minute when he violently dispossessed young Nicky Hunt and beat goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen with a twisting shot that evaded the post.

The miss did, however, spur Leicester into action, and one minute into added time Muzzy Izzet fired in a corner from the right, Jaaskelainen opted to stay on his line and Ferdinand arrived like a steam train to power his header into the top corner of the net.

The point suited Leicester more than Bolton, lifting them out of the bottom three where they had been dumped by the draw at home to Newcastle on St Stephen's Day. Bolton had been odds-on favourites with the bookies for a home victory, but they have won only two at home in the league this season, drawing six, and manager Sam Allardyce bemoaned their inability to kill off the opposition.

"We just heaped too much pressure on ourselves at the end by giving one of the hardest-working teams in the Premiership too many corners and free-kicks," he said.

Danny Coyne, in the Leicester goal for the suspended Ian Walker, was tested in the eighth minute when he dropped Youri Djorkaeff's cross at the feet of Stelios Giannakopoulos. But it was a mistake by his opposite number Jaaskelainen that led to the opening goal, his poor kick finding Bent who curled a glorious shot around the goalkeeper.

With curtains of sleet sweeping the pitch Bolton upped the tempo and in the 34th minute they equalised. Bruno N'Gotty eventually accepted the congratulations of his team-mates, but Djorkaeff's free-kick appeared to have gone in off Riccardo Scimeca.

Leicester were being forced back and the home side got the goal their enterprising play deserved when Campo's searing shot from the edge of the D beat Coyne.

The final say went to Ferdinand with his seventh goal of the campaign.

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