"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days, before you've actually left them" 3 wins in 3 and top of the league is one thing, but Stoke's win on the south coast was by far the most significant statement of the Mark Robins era so far. Under Pressure The … Continue reading The eye test: Southampton (A)
Sambegou Bangoura and Mamady Sidibe were on the scoresheet last time Stoke won at Hillsborough, with Johan Boskamp's men lifting themselves to seventh in the table in November 2005. A lot has happened since then for both clubs, but it's taken The Owls to be in a particularly poor state for Stoke to break their … Continue reading The eye test: Sheffield Wednesday (A)
As Mark Robins emphasised post-game: "It's one game. It's one game. It's one game." Football is a game of emotion and it's only natural that the serotonin hit of Divin Mubama's 96th-minute header has fuelled a sense of optimism not seen since last year's opening day victory over Coventry, or the tonking of Rotherham the … Continue reading The eye test: Derby (H)
This season is my first without a season ticket since 2000/01. That season, I was eight years old, Stoke were in their third campaign on the spin in the third tier of English football and regularly played in front of crowds of 12,000. Port Vale beat us on our own turf. Icelandic manager Gudjon Thordarsson … Continue reading Dissociation Football
There we go, five months of Nathan Jones and it was...well, it probably wasn’t everything we had all hoped it to be. Stoke stumbled to a 16th placed finish and results wise Jones failed to improve on Rowett’s abject failure. But for some reason I, and I believe a relatively significant proportion of the rest … Continue reading Jonesball Revisited
This is the first relegation I've properly experienced. I was too young in 1998, when we went down to the third tier. So after being a season ticket holder for 17 years, this weekend marked the first time seeing Stoke City on a league table in bright red. Bottom of the pile, with the 'R' … Continue reading Premier League Years
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