The End Of Another Era… This Time, For Stoke City
Whether it was the right time for Tony Pulis to leave Stoke City or not, there can be little question that his departure from the Britannia Stadium marks the end...
Posts Tagged: "Stoke City"
The 200% Pre-Season Previews: Stoke City
The coming nine season will be the fifth since Stoke City ascended back to the Premier League, and in surviving comfortably in this division they continue to frustrate the game’s...
Match Of The Past: Stoke City
The next in our series of Match Of The Past – which will have covered all twenty Premier League clubs soon and will be moving onto the Football League thereafter...
The Welcome Return Of The Crouchasaurus
Fifty-eight minutes of largely uninspiring football had been played when, quite out of the blue, we witnessed one of the greatest moments of this Premier League season, and all from...
Match Of The Week: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Stoke City
According to the current Premier League orthodoxy, the Vandals are playing the Visigoths at Molineux this afternoon. Wolverhampton Wanderers and Stoke City don’t fit with the marketing profile of the...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-Season Previews: Stoke City
Twelfth, eleventh, thirteenth. Stoke City start their fourth season in the Premier League having been a model of consistency during their time back in the top flight, but this season...
Charlie, Neil & George’s Adventures In Search Of El Dorado
In the modern era, the notion of the professional footballer travelling abroad has become part and parcel of the game, and even Britons get involved. It doesn’t always work out,...
Match Of The Week: The 2011 FA Cup Final: Manchester City 1-0 Stoke City
For those of us that consider the Premier League to be little more of a diversion than any of football’s other myriad of competitions, it had been easy to switch...
Great Expectations And The FA Cup
Either Stoke City or Manchester City will win their first trophy since the 1970s tomorrow afternoon, but Mark Brophy wonders whether the glowing feeling that comes with it may turn...
Manchester City, Stoke City, Cup Finals And Relegation
When Stoke City play Manchester City on Saturday, it won’t be the first time that the two sides have met at the end of the season. David Mayor reports on...
Triumph of the Middle Class?
As another Premiership campaign winds down, most of the attention turns to those pitched battles near the bottom of the table, where clubs play a game of Musical Chairs to see who...
Match Of The Week 2: Bolton Wanderers 0-5 Stoke City
There is something understated about this afternoon’s second FA Cup semi-final between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City. This morning’s papers are full of last night’s Manchester derby and the match...
Remembering The Burnden Park Disaster
As Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City take the pitch for their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley Stadium this afternoon, we could perhaps be forgiven for believing that there is a...
Match Of The Week 2: Stoke City 2-1 West Ham United
Seriousness versus frivolity. Aesthetics versus the dour practicality of not having the money to be able to spend on the very best players in the world. It has felt this...
FA Cup Replay: Cardiff City 0-2 Stoke City (AET)
One of the sure-fire signs of the arrival of the New Year, along with even guiltier than usual looking smokers, piles of reduced Thorntons chocolate reindeer and streets littered with...
Match Of The Midweek: Stoke City 2-1 Aston Villa
With three losses from their opening three matches, Stoke City have a problem. Their third season back in the Premier League has begun with three losses and it is only...
The Premier League Previews 2010/11, Part 14: Stoke City – Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
It is a reflection of the financial rewards on offer in modern football that teams have to do what they have to do on the pitch in order to survive...
How Ben Foster Highlights The Farce Of The Loan System
Ben Foster has made news today by becoming the first player to openly criticise the Manchester United fans’ Green and Gold campaign to oust the Glazer family. However, something more...
The Accidental Death Of A Blackburn Rovers Supporter
A Blackburn Rovers supporter died at the weekend after an incident that looks increasingly as if it was horseplay gone wrong. This, however, doesn't mean that there hasn't been an...
Match Of The Week 2: Stoke City 3-1 Arsenal
Chelsea and Manchester City are the only two clubs left in this year's FA Cup with anything like a realistic chance of winning it after Arsenal lost at Stoke this...