Completely stupid made up Stoke City football facts

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I know I'm bored again and Bassmaster will have a hissy fit however

In  the 1919  season, Stoke City FC played in the nude. The supporters, the players and, indeed, the authorities never stopped this practice because the manufacturers let it be known that their 'kits' were made of a special material designed during the war ''that only Port Vale fans couldn't see''

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[stokiejoe]

You are wasting your time, only 30% of football facts are true, the other 80% are made up.

[werrington]

Is the ground still sinking ?

Les Scott was pretty confident

[ihaveadream]

In 1863 the goalposts were situated on the halfway line

[maninasuitcase]

1949

Giant gas lamps installed in 4 corners at the Victoria ground allowed football to be played in the evenings for the first time.

[blockelevenview]

Paul Stewart scored for Stoke

[interestedobserver]

Stoke's first kit was based on the American flag but the blue shorts with white stars were dropped after the American government made the Alabama Claims against Great Britain.

[onionman]

The Butler Street roof fell off because Dudley Kernick failed to open the window after Jon Parkin's father did a trump in the concourse.

[cartman123]

Stenhousemuir.

[RWChris]

Stoke's longest serving manager was the Scotsman Brian McStay who managed the Potters for 51 years from 1917 until his death in 1968.

[Clayton Wood]

At the outbreak of WWII air raid shelters were dug under the pitch for use of workers at the nearby Michelin tyre factory. When the club moved to the new stadium the shelters were uncovered and the 1939 Arsenal team were discovered still hiding in there.

[LGH87]

Gerry McMahon was the first and only transsexual player to make a first team appearance in the football league.

Kofi Nyamah doesn't like coffee

Sammy Bangoura is still on the clubs books, he was never found in order to cancel his contract

Whilst on loan at Stoke, Neville Southall was so overweight that the club had to source his kit from Jacamo

[greystokie]

Before it was decided to build the Britannia Stadium the plan was to jack up the Victoria Ground on rollers and move it, in one piece, to the current site of the new stadium. The plan was scuppered when it was discovered that there were pot-holes on the D road.

[Ayupshag]

A few years ago Lionel Messi's agents contacted Stoke City to offer his services, the deal was almost done until the club found out that John Parkin was available and signed him instead

[stokiejoe]

Corners filled in at Brittania Stadium. Naah too far fetched.

[rhodes2stoke]

Before the move to the 'Brit' a deal had been close to build a stadium on the festival park for both Potteries clubs to share, seat colours and a striped design for the stadium were even agreed this taking the red of Stoke and the white of Vale as said colours. The deal only fell through once Vale realised that not only were there fans expected to wash before entering they also faced financial competition from near bye Valentinoes marke, both deemed impossible to maintain.

[kingstokie]

Stoke play dirty thuggish football

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Malcome Clarke and Monica Hartland are indeed the same  cloned person. No one has ever seen them in the same room

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[miltonstokie]

7 years ago exactly to this day .. Many journalist's and media alike criticised and vilified Stoke City Football with reference to narrowing the pitch to gain an advantage.

In fact whilst being shown last, Peter Coates simply moved all MOTD cameras 5 yards forward

[sheikhmomo]

Frankie Soo was the second ever Chinese man to live in Stoke. The first was Mao Tse-tung who ran a Chip Shop on Ash Bank and played Crib for New Finney Gardens.

[hoopty]

Peter Coates is actually an anagram of Snorri Sturluson, one of the authors of the Icelandic sagas. The Icelandic ownership of the club was principally to resolve copyright issues.

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Stoke City FC get their name from being a football club formed in the City of Stoke-on-Trent.

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The fitting of Chris Hemming's pacemaker was Radio Stoke's first outside broadcast, and was covered by Ivan Gaskell and Bruno Brookes.

[miltonstokie]

" We're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen "

[danceswithclams]

Former Stoke loan full-back Tosh McKinlay was briefly a member of Ultravox but left to pursue a football career after overhearing John Foxx describing him as 'cretinous' to a studio engineer.

[MrMagic]

Brian Small was actually a member of a notorious New York break dancing gangster crew. After a Bronx gangland shooting he turned informer and was placed in the UK as part of the witness protection programme where he chose to make use of his fleet footednesss as a pacy dancing winger.

[sheikhmomo]

Sammy Chung was the third ever Chinese man to live in Stoke. The second was Frankie Soo. The first was Mao Tse-tung who ran a furniture shop in Cliffe Vale called Chair Man Mao's.

[scfcwebby]

Jun 5, 2014 18:27:21 GMT blockelevenview said:

Paul Stewart scored for Stoke

Bullshit...... don't talk so fucking stupid

[Billy the kid]

Football existed before 1992. (I know, i didnt believe it either)

[pyrus]

The Victoria Ground was built on a lay line that ran from north to south, directly through the centre spot and both penalty spots and in Stone Age times the Iceni tribe would gather on that spot and exchange interior decorating tips with each other