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Is that possible?
They've not been in the top league for some time,we've had a few periods of relative success in the intervening time since Stoke were last competing at the highest league level.
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Is that possible?
They've not been in the top league for some time,we've had a few periods of relative success in the intervening time since Stoke were last competing at the highest league level.
Aye, true enough. I pity any poor sods who've suffered more than we have.![]()
Quote "I am hoping after a season in the grim surroundings of Wearside, Bendtner might come down to earth, become a better team player and we can get him during next summer's transfer window."
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Went to Stoke for a s'land game when I was student at Nottingham. I hitched up and arrived at midday - spent 2 hours walking through what I then thought was the most awful, bombed out, derelict pre-historic industrial wasteland I'd ever seen in my life (I've never been to Middlesborough) - to this day I cannot think of a more horrible place.
I remember going in incognito to the grandstand with the ordinary stokies and they were full of praise for our supporters - "real fans " someone said- this was circa1979.
After the match saw a huge mob of ragged stokies ramapaging through their post- holocaust wasteland looking for any stray lads.
I rather hope this is the last Stoke thread. We're beginning to sound obsessed and rather sad. I've steered clear. But, if this the last one then:
A) They've done brilliantly to establish themselves in the Premiership and to now be in the position to buy some big name international players. Their ground has become a fortress, most intimidating atmosphere in the league (sadly something Sunderland club officials care not so much about, which is why our noisiest section remains tucked in a corner and away fans get the benefit of an end).
B) Going against that, they play a brand of football most fans of the game dislike - cynical, unlikeable, aggressive, unattractive. Which perhaps suits the city itself. On the odd occasions I've been there, it's not been a great experience. Went to the Premier League of Darts there once. Like a meathead recruitment rally. Had half the crowd singing No Surrender once. I'm no IRA sympathiser, but at a darts match?! Sunderland, culturally, is Berlin at the height of the Weimar Republic in comparison.
When a teams best player is Jon Walters and their best mode of attack is Rory Delaps throw-ins, you deserve to be kicked out the league. End of.
That's a good point. I actually don't mind Walters, lets see if he gets a game next season & Delap also.