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Post by Trouserdog on Dec 3, 2012 22:18:25 GMT
I used to support West Ham up until 2011 but they got relegated, so I could't be arsed with them anymore. As Stoke were in the Cup Final that season I switched to them...it was either Stoke or Man City, but I ain't no fucking gloryhunter.
Now I'm Stoke through and through...well, at least until we get relegated.
Gooooaaaarn you Claymen!
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Post by johnnypotter on Dec 3, 2012 22:20:50 GMT
Living in Penkhull as a kid, Stoke City were the only option for me. I could see the Victoria Ground from just below the bottom of our street. Stoke were part of the local culture, once i went in 1970, that was it, it was Stoke City for life. Supporting Stoke meant that i met some people [ some of whom are no longer with us] whose memory will remain in my heart, just as Stoke City will.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2012 22:37:05 GMT
Could of very easily been a vale fan. Mum is a Stokie, Dad was a vale fan. I went a few vale games as a kid then my mother took me to stand on the boothen. Wow from that moment on I have been hooked. Worst game probably Bristol city away lost 3-0. Best game Man utd at the vic won 2-1. Fav player Steino. Worst player Gordon Marshall. Best ground visited, hate to say it but Old trafford. Worst ground visited, got to be vale park.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2012 22:40:47 GMT
Without reading anybody elses reply...I support Stoke City because I support Stoke City. My dad did first start taking me yes, but i've enough free will that if I wanted to support somebody else, I would.
Forget the statistics and facts, I support the best team in the world...and also the shittest team in the world. My team can do nothing wrong, yet at the same time can do nothing right.
My team has many flaws, but it is fucking perfect.
Having now read everybodys reply, some very interesting stories. You could ask every team up and down the country and you'll probably get the same answers. From Arsenal to Aldershot, from Man Utd to Macc Town...people just love their football club.
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Post by sloughstokie on Dec 3, 2012 23:08:35 GMT
Born in Malvern Dad from Stoke married me mam in war moved to her home used to take me when we could to visit family in potteries but also to see as many matches as poss late 60s early 70s surrounded by wulves n wba fans at home but stood me ground blood thicker than that west middland shite ups n downs hard times good times thats what supporting Stoke is about i still feel the buzz at away matches we r different we are Stoke and feed on the hatred other fans show towards us looking forward to Tottenham my next match .
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Post by bayernoatcake on Dec 3, 2012 23:12:17 GMT
My Mum. She was a Stoke fan, I loved football when I was a kid and there was no real choice, I was a Stoke fan from the age of 3/4.
My Dad doesn't really support anyone, he likes Chelsea and he'll happily go watch us. He also likes to see the Vale do well because he played for them. He just likes watching football, whoever it is though.
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Post by thevoid on Dec 4, 2012 11:49:02 GMT
Which 'Utd' out of interest? Dundee? Colchester? Manchester? Newcastle? Yes Dundee For some reason if you put the team from the NW who you obviously knew I meant it comes up as some alternative. Sorry if it worried you that much Actually, with you being Irish, Dundee Utd aren't that unlikely, what with 'Utd' being the Catholic club in Dundee. But I wasn't worried about anything, kidder. I was being facetious more than anything With regard to the question, Stoke because I'm from Stoke. I've actually spent more time living closer to our dirty neighbours in the north of the city, but my Uncle took me to Stoke plus I'd never consider supporting a club that don't represent the area by name. If I was from Doncaster, I'd support Donny, if I was a Mackem I'd support Sunderland. It's as simple as that really.
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Post by kentpotter on Dec 4, 2012 12:38:54 GMT
Born Waltham Cross, Herts, Gordon Banks my hero, started supporting a football team aged 6 just after he moved from Leicester, the rest, as they say, is history.
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Post by theincontinents on Dec 4, 2012 12:45:40 GMT
Born in Birmingham to a Burnley supporting dad and moved to Newcastle-u-Lyme aged about 8 and got taken to Stans testimonial, though I have no memoray of the game, but it's the only way I reckon my old man would have taken me to anywhere other than Turf Moor. So Stoke it was, still is and always will be even though I've lived all over the place (currently in SW France) and both my kids (born in London a stones throw from Crystal Palace) are Stoke season ticket holders and have been Stoke through Thick and Thin over the last 20 years.
I will admit to soft spot for Burnley and because of their strips Villa and West Ham too but there's no way there would ever be any conflict of interest when we play them, so here's hoping for a thrashing of the Villans come Staurday.
Favourite moment was being at Old Trafford the night Alan Bloor smashed the winner into the net and not caring about getting the shit kicked out of me by the surrounding cockney reds (cock being the key part of that title).
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Post by blissville on Dec 4, 2012 13:49:11 GMT
Born London, grew up in Madeley, left the area 30 years ago - but love the bones of the city, its people and of course the Football Club. Earliest memory of SCFC was a Christmas present Boxing Day (1975) fixture against Liverpool - sitting at the top of the old wooden Butler Street stand with my Dad and Grandad. Other than feeling that the Victoria Ground was a very special place - all I can remember was 'Crazy Horse' Emlyn Hughes constantly passing back to Ray Clemence to waste time and play out for a 1-1 bore draw. Ironically, I'd probably take the same result + a point in a few weeks time! Enjoyed reading the thread - well done OP.
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Dec 4, 2012 14:54:56 GMT
An older brother....a cold day in January.....2-0 half time.....abandoned & lose replay. Oldham FA Cup, 78/79. It could only happen to a Stoke fan. Was that when Sammy Irvine had scored both goals and the game was abandoned for fog? And he was injured in a car accident before the replay and never played again? Snake, the match was abandoned at half time due to the Ref deciding the pitch was getting steadily worse as the game went on. It was one of only around 4 games that took place that day, and it was shown recently on "The Big Match" revisited. Ref in wellies at half time checking pitch & Alan Durban far from happy... ;D Oh and being another one of Edensors finest in the 80s, I too remember & was taught by Mr Simons. You always remember a good teacher.
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Post by staffsvilla on Dec 4, 2012 15:36:09 GMT
i dont ;D but i take a keen interest in Stoke City FC as it is now "my local team + my lads a stokie i need to know whats what with Stoke so i'm prepared for all the banter from the [too] many stokies that "surround" me ,if you win sat you know the old saying "an english mans home is his castle", well if the unthinkable happens this english man is pulling up the drawbridge
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Post by Miracle Aligner on Dec 4, 2012 16:14:50 GMT
Im Stoke because Im from Stoke, my dad is a Stokie and his dad was, he still goes the occasional game at 75. I was deemed too young to go to the Victoria Ground by my mum so my first game was around about 2002 at the Brit. I'll always be a Stokie, I love the unity Stoke fans have and the mental at West Brom on Saturday when we scored typifies the passion every Stokie has. I could never ever see how someone could support a team on the basis that they win trophies regularly, thats not proper support. Proper support is going to watch your team play on a cold Tuesday night (In our case only to see them lose) no matter who you follow. I'll never be anything else.
Be loyal, be proud, be Stoke.
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Post by frasier99 on Dec 4, 2012 16:53:10 GMT
Not been a supporter for that many years but, I am a stoke supporter now thanks to Wayne Biggins and Mark Stein. Oh, and a little help from Lou Macari and Nigel Johnson.
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Post by deliasmith on Dec 4, 2012 18:25:36 GMT
I support Stoke because - I am a Stoke supporter: it's one of a handful of things that defines me, it's a major component of my identity. I started going with my Dad to reserve games in the (late) 1950s, and never stopped.
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Post by madeleyite on Dec 4, 2012 19:36:18 GMT
Fourth generation supporter - maybe even fifth - I know my great granddad was born around 1870. You don't get that at MK Dons
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Post by madasasnake on Dec 4, 2012 20:26:36 GMT
Oh and being another one of Edensors finest in the 80s, I too remember & was taught by Mr Simons. You always remember a good teacher. Cheers Caerwrangonpotter, he would have been very happy to read that! As I say, he loved it. He was offered jobs in music all over the country, but he always wanted to stay teaching in Stoke on Trent! I'm delighted he did; it meant I could keep going to the games!
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Dec 4, 2012 20:42:31 GMT
I too almost became a Vale fan , my older brother is 12 years older than me and back in the late 50s when I got interested in football he said he would take me, when he was next on leave (he was in the R.A.F). However my Dad who was a Stokie, but was to ill to take me himself, made sure my uncles took me, as he did not want 2 black sheep in the family.So I was hooked on Stoke , my brother was and still is a Vale fanatic and now 50 odd years later we still argue the toss. . Strangely when my son was old enough to go, I thought long and hard about whether I wanted him to be involved with the team as I was , the team was crap at the time (early 80s) and I wondered whether I should inflict this nailbiting, nauseous Saturday afternoon feeling on him , ruined weekends, knowing that next week you will be there again probably to suffer the same feelings. He was adamant he wanted to go though and now he is in his 3rd decade of being a Stokie, and for the past 4 years we have been joined by the 3rd generation, my grandson. We tell him hes just a gloryhunter.
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Post by stokie25 on Dec 4, 2012 20:51:16 GMT
I used to support West Ham up until 2011 but they got relegated, so I could't be arsed with them anymore. As Stoke were in the Cup Final that season I switched to them...it was either Stoke or Man City, but I ain't no fucking gloryhunter. Now I'm Stoke through and through...well, at least until we get relegated. Gooooaaaarn you Claymen! I clocked it too trousers My excuse? I didn't know we had an online fanzine....Grandad never seemed to be too astute with online developments. Promotion....promoted us
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Post by The battheader chronicles on Dec 4, 2012 20:55:43 GMT
i dont ;D but i take a keen interest in Stoke City FC as it is now "my local team + my lads a stokie i need to know whats what with Stoke so i'm prepared for all the banter from the [too] many stokies that "surround" me ,if you win sat you know the old saying "an english mans home is his castle", well if the unthinkable happens this english man is pulling up the drawbridge ;D not to worry you've got a good striker. He's called darren sombody tell Lambert
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2012 21:04:02 GMT
Great grandad was a Vail suppoter who took my dad once as a kid, but my dads mates were stoke fans, so he started to support stoke instead in the 40's. Dad took me from an early age in the 70's. i remember standing outside of pubs with a vimto & bag of crisps before matches by myself. I do remember quite a few scraps my dad and his mates got in, but i was just told to stay in the car & don't tell mum. He does say though that in his day in the 60's & 70's, it was more of a punch up and a pint afterwards, nowadays its more knives etc. Dad born in Chesterton & moved to Stafford when he met Mum at Trentham Grds. I was born on the bathroom floor in Stafford and my sister too.(not on the floor though) Stoke City all the way for me.. Dad still goes with me when he can in his 70s I'm fortunate that i can get most home tickets comp though , as my uncle knows a few people within the dressing room
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Post by braddamick on Dec 4, 2012 21:06:29 GMT
The late 60`s early 70`s clinched it for me. My dad was a proud Stokie and once he began to take me along i found it addictive. I still enjoy it now but those early days were something very special.
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Post by E-man on Dec 4, 2012 22:21:28 GMT
As mentioned before Gordon Banks - he was on the front cover of Tiger comic asked my Dad who he played for and the rest is history!
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Post by Mr Wheeze on Dec 4, 2012 23:06:34 GMT
Most of my mums side of the family are Stoke fans i followed suit. I've actually lived virtually all my life in what is traditionally 'Vale country' as well, and was even taken to my first Stoke match back in 1987 by a Vale fan neighbour whose son followed Stoke as well.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Dec 4, 2012 23:24:22 GMT
Mum and Dad both from Stoke. Dad being a Neck-Ender, I was only ever going to support Stoke, family split between Stoke/Vale, but it was never in doubt, I was always destined to support Stoke, I went my first game at 3, loved it and always will.
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Post by DannyStokie on Dec 5, 2012 0:16:21 GMT
Too add to the reason being my dad.
None of my family support Vale, not 1 of them, anywhere, I've got a pretty big family too. They are all Stoke,(some are Man U). I never really liked football until I was about 12, I found it boring. I found going to stoke boring too. I started going regularly as in every week in about 05/06 once my dad had stopped working Saturdays.
I went and something clicked and I've never been able to stop since. I love it, it's an addiction that doesn't subside.
I still find it strange though, I hated football as a kid, couldn't watch 5 minutes of it without switching over on TV. I. Remember my dad being excited when we were on TV one week night when he got in from work, I wanted to watch friends I think, haha.
I always said I was Stoke if asked what football team I was, but I had no idea what I was going to get into. My dad had been a season ticket holder for years before I was born but it gave it up to work Saturdays for years as we were skint.
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Post by justinp on Dec 5, 2012 0:35:38 GMT
Because of all the Leagues and Cups that they win season after season.
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Post by marwood on Dec 5, 2012 9:25:27 GMT
First day of Holden Lane primary school, 1974. I was choosing which table to sit on, and you had to sit on the same table all year. An older kid, Eddie, was giving me some advice. I went to sit on table with black and white building blocks but he stopped me. “Vale Bugs. You’ll get fucking bugs off them bricks mate, if you sit there. No fucker will want to share crisps in the play ground with you or anything. Fucking germs and Vale bugs”. Eddie was an early adopter of swear words. To be fair, the kids on that table did look pale, pinch-faced and under fed.We moved on. I was tempted to sit on table with purple blocks, but he said that was for ‘fucking wierdos. Keep walking’. He actively steered me around other side of classroom away from the table featuring green and yellow blocks (‘gays’) until there was only one table left, the top table, with red and white blocks. I asked him what that meant. He said if i sat here, it would mean I was a Stoke City fan. So I did and I was, and I am. To this day I often wonder how my life would have turned out if I sat on the purple table, but I shudder when I think how close I came to sitting on that table with the black and white bricks.
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Dec 5, 2012 9:32:37 GMT
I didn't really have a football upbringing so as a kid I picked a team to support. As with most glory hunters my age it was Liverpool. I never went to Anfield and just took a passing interest in football. When I was 18 I started working at Lotus shoe factory in Stafford. The lad I worked with and his brother took me one week to the Vic and I thought it was great. I went another couple of times and then went to my first away game. That was it I was hooked and supported Stoke ever since. Incidentally my first away game was Brighton the season Alan Ball took us down. I think that discounts me from the glory hunting tag. ;D So if you post on here, Tim and Chris I owe you a few beers. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by capto on Dec 5, 2012 9:48:21 GMT
Me grandad was stoke & football mad; ran the village footy team for decades, so when we went round to visit, there was always footy shirts, shorts & socks hanging from everywhere drying out. He also repaired the old casey's & had all the kit for this, innards of casey's everywhere & the thingamajig that tightened the laces. My mum & aunties would wash the kit with only dollypegs. If footie was on the telly, no one allowed to speak, - he tried to follow the ball off the screen! His hero was Sir Stan, he went to the meeting in, was it '38?, when they succeeded in keeping him. He revered Sir Stan & I guess that rubbed off on all the family. We all support Stoke - most by just following on radio/TV/papers, but I've got cousins who followed Stoke for a while & then dropped off. I started in 74, Huddy et al, & just kept going & going & going!
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