Although this blog was not supposed to JUST be all about Stoke, I just felt after todays result against one of the most historic and biggest teams in the world that I needed to highlight just how well stoke have progressed within the last 10 years or so.
It was November 29th 2000 on a cold winter night where little old Stoke would play hosts to the giants that were then Liverpool FC; it was only a league cup match which was not high in our priority list at the time but nevertheless it was a good opportunity for us fans to get a glimpse at the stars of the premiership. I remember seeing my stars line up and stand side by side to their stars coming through the tunnel and thinking to myself that tonight could well be one of the greatest matches I could see, hoping that my team could cause an upset and make the papers for all the right reasons.
It started off well, within the first few minutes Peter Thorne, our striker of the season (for some the decade) was through on goal 1v1 with the keeper. He managed to worm his way past the keeper and was now on the edge of the box with nothing but the away end and an open goal glaring at him, he struck the ball and in what seemed to take a lifetime, the ball bounced harmlessly off the post and back into liverpool possession as Thorney was on his arse in his typical fashion (watch his best goals for stoke video, he always ends up on the floor!). Now this is where it all started to go wrong.. from this point onwards I would sit through 90 minutes of watching my team get absolutely dominated in the hands of the scousers, the final score was 8-0 to liverpool, although the scoreboard managed to mess up and lost count displaying a 9-1 scoreline, if only we were as lucky to score a goal though hah.
Will finish, foods ready!
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Stoke City F.C
Ever since I can remember, I have always been to Stoke games with my dad and more recently with my friends, however I'm going to assume that most people don't even know what or who Stoke City are. Well they are a football (soccer) team from the city of Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire - England and up until recently (and roughly 30 years ago or so I'm told), we haven't had much luck in the football leagues and have always ended up as a mid table lower league team. I had got used to this and with that I got used to watching my team lose at shitty football grounds around the country and even at home games we would lose to teams such as "who the fuck are reading?" (quote from one of my favourite books of all time 'She stood there laughing' - Stephen Foster). However we are now in the dizzy heights of the English Premier League playing against teams such as Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea; it's a lot harder for me to attend as many matches as I used to when I was younger as of course my dad used to fork out for my tickets, also I didn't have to worry about keeping a part time job at the weekend (Not to mention the increased attendances to stoke home games due to promotion).
Recently Stoke have secured the signings of England centre backs Jonathon Woodgate and Matthew Upson and England centre forward Peter Crouch (for £10m!!!) which to me is completely flabbergasting, as it still seems to me asthough we should be making mediocre signings such as Kyle Lightbourne, Chris Greenacre and the rest of those useless bunch that we all used to love*. But nevertheless I'm still amazed at how well our club has done over the past 5 years or so although I do admit to missing the good old days of doom and gloom, because to me that was all part of what being a Stoke fan was about, it wasn't about us making brilliant signings and beating one of the giants of the premiership once a season. It was which fuckup would we sign next or how long until our current manager does a runner, it was about being sat in the boothen end on a cold night at the brit blowing a gale whilst watching our team attempt to play football - 'Yeah but could you do it on a cold wednesday night at stoke?'
Now I will have to leave this post as it is for the time being, but I will be sure to update it in the near future. Thanks for reading (:
Oh and we have the best and loudest fans in the country ;) proud to be a potter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke_City_F.C.
* - Apart from Lightbourne, that was just me.
Recently Stoke have secured the signings of England centre backs Jonathon Woodgate and Matthew Upson and England centre forward Peter Crouch (for £10m!!!) which to me is completely flabbergasting, as it still seems to me asthough we should be making mediocre signings such as Kyle Lightbourne, Chris Greenacre and the rest of those useless bunch that we all used to love*. But nevertheless I'm still amazed at how well our club has done over the past 5 years or so although I do admit to missing the good old days of doom and gloom, because to me that was all part of what being a Stoke fan was about, it wasn't about us making brilliant signings and beating one of the giants of the premiership once a season. It was which fuckup would we sign next or how long until our current manager does a runner, it was about being sat in the boothen end on a cold night at the brit blowing a gale whilst watching our team attempt to play football - 'Yeah but could you do it on a cold wednesday night at stoke?'
Now I will have to leave this post as it is for the time being, but I will be sure to update it in the near future. Thanks for reading (:
Oh and we have the best and loudest fans in the country ;) proud to be a potter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke_City_F.C.
* - Apart from Lightbourne, that was just me.
First Blog
Just a test on how this thing works, hopefully will be blogging with many things such as music I like and have recently found, Info and thoughts on my local football team (Stoke City F.C) and many other things I find interesting (:
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