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Post by scarlet on Jun 7, 2014 10:31:11 GMT
Arsene Wenger has never returned to the Britannia Stadium since his sides humiliating defeat in 2008. In subsequent matches Arsenal at Stoke have employed a body double whilst Wenger has spent the time engaging in his hobby of stalking Jose Mourinho and staring through his windows.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 10:36:01 GMT
Stoke City represent Stoke upon Trent which actually, is a city with TWO football clubs ?
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Post by iwwwsatv on Jun 7, 2014 10:41:33 GMT
Lee Trundle.... didn't sign for Stoke. But he will one day be the stoke manager so he can live in one of his houses in Trentham
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Post by Anto1962 on Jun 7, 2014 10:47:53 GMT
At the start of war in 1939, The entire Stoke City squad went undercover behind enemy lines led by the legendary hard man manager Herbert Pulis and became the first SAS ( Stoke aaard supermen). They quickly became feared by the German opposition as they ran into battle crying 'Wankers, Wankers' at the cowering enemy.
Several of the unit received Victoria crosses most famous of which went to Henry Delap who actually threw the bouncing bomb which destroyed the german supergun, and Harold Shawcross ( AKA The Legsnapper ) who despite being shot 641 times fought through the massed german ranks with his best mate and double agent Adolf Huth to storm Hitlers bunker and take out the German madman.
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Post by tijuanabrass on Jun 7, 2014 12:38:45 GMT
In 1974 future Stoke midfield legend Alan Hudson had a drunken bet with Peter Osgood over who had the widest lapels on the King Road. Upon winning the wager the Chelsea and England striker insisted that Hudson fulfill a Gentleman's agreement by producing an Autobiography every year until Flared trousers once more appeared on Top of the Pops. In fact, the Stone Roses wore bell-bottomed trousers on their 1989 Top of the Pops presentation of Fools Gold but unfortunately ' Huddy ' was having a couple of pints of Bass at the French Horn in Hanley's Fountain Square and was unaware of the preposterously hemmed musical event. To this day Alan continues to produce an annual account of his footballing years, heedless of the fact that his debt to Osgood was fulfilled 25 years ago.
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Post by mt on Jun 7, 2014 17:25:54 GMT
The clubs nickkname "The Potters" was first time to be used in 1995 after Graham Potters sucsessful spell in red and white from 1992 to 1995.
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Post by mt on Jun 7, 2014 17:41:01 GMT
Souleymane Oulare is one out of two professional footballers in history with a gluteal implant. The other one is Gareth Barry.
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Post by pad1 on Jun 7, 2014 18:01:06 GMT
Ex stories Graham potter & Luke Chadwick went on to form a trio with the very talented and handsome Ian Dowie . The band called were gonna scare you momma (WGSYM ) went on to have no 1 hits I with we're so beautiful , if you got it flaunt it and beauty ,s in the eye of the beholder . Later went on to change there name to Plug , sloth and barnacle face , can still be seen playing the pubs and clubs around Boslem . A recent quote from Dowie says it's been an absolute privelage to still be performing with this pair of beauty's and are currently working on a new album aptly called Mommas gotta love me to be released around September time . A spokesman for the band said the band are also looking to move in to tv with a few horror movies already in the pipe line .
Well done lads ,we"ll be with you
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 15:11:56 GMT
The River Trent is in fact a tributary from the fountain of eternal youth ( as seen in the Indiana Jones Movies) This is why Nigel Johnson is still alive.
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Post by thevoid on Jun 8, 2014 22:15:52 GMT
Everyone knows Ronnie Sinclair does voice-over work on Cops With Cameras and Road Wars, but not everyone is aware he's a mathematical genius. He earns extra cash as a caretaker at a posh boarding school, and regularly solves complex equations that have been left on the blackboards.
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Post by jonah77 on Jun 8, 2014 22:30:02 GMT
Ian Cranson played bass on the musical youth hit"pass the duchy".
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Post by njkk on Jun 8, 2014 22:41:00 GMT
During the 72 league cup run Tony Waddington locked John Mahoney & Terry Conroy in a store cupboard with a spinning wheel until they had spun enough threads from Terry's sideburns to cope with the demand for silk scarves
The reason Stoke always kicked off at 3.15pm during the 60s & 70s on a Saturday was because Peter Dobings pipe was the main source of power for the Michelin factory
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jun 9, 2014 1:29:32 GMT
Before ID cards, we used to take ...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 6:14:37 GMT
During the reign of Alan Ball, Stoke City constructed a safe room under the centre circle at the Victoria Ground.
When the ground was demolished the skeletal remains of Simon Stainrod were discovered in the room, beside him an empty box of Wagon Wheels.
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Post by Clayton Wood on Jun 9, 2014 8:37:48 GMT
There has been much talk recently about filling in the corners of the stadium. However, one little known issue is that the bank under the current scoreboard is in fact hollow. When the plans were drawn up for the stadium the north west corner was designated as the emergency access/crowd evacuation route. It was not until close to complete that it was realised that the stadium had been build the opposite way around to that planned. The scoreboard corner now had the access route in error, that had no viable marshalling area. The opposite corner was quickly changed to have the correct access and the scoreboard corner was covered over with 1 inch ply and turves.
The resultant late change added about 3 weeks onto the construction time which is why the first 3 games of the 97/98 season had to be played away from home.
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Post by philb on Jun 9, 2014 9:57:39 GMT
Under Johan Boskamp the Stoke players used to eat bacon and cheese oatcakes at half time.......
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 10:05:03 GMT
When NASA first landed on the moon they buried a time capsule, the contents include an old Stoke City Programme, A sod of earth taken from the centre circle of the 65/66 season, a copy of we'll be with you, ( even though it had not yet been released until 72) and a pair of Stanley Matthews Boots... Oh and some Oatcakes, but Buzz Aldrin actually ate them on the way to the moon.
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Post by mt on Jun 9, 2014 11:18:28 GMT
When George Berry signed for Stoke in 1982 the hairdryers was immediately removed from the dressingroom at Victoria Ground and replaced with the most powerful leaf-blower available at that time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 11:19:19 GMT
stoke players visit this site
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 11:26:47 GMT
Peter Coates is the oldest man in history to live. At 953, he is now older than Noah. He manages to maintain a youthful 125 year old appearance by drinking a 1 yard pitcher of whale sperm every Thursday between 7.30am and 8.25am. Because of his age, he is able to use his scrotum as a space hopper and use to drag TP along in a cart.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2014 11:40:15 GMT
Glenn Whelan is fluent in 12 languages - none of them are English
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Post by ihaveadream on Jun 9, 2014 16:39:18 GMT
All of Denis Smith's bones are made of titanium
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Post by openg on Jun 9, 2014 17:46:02 GMT
In the 19th century the dynamics of football in the Potteries was turned on it's head. At Port Vale FC, "fancy pants" players were told to Eff off down to Stoke.
Two players did, Alfred Josiah Edward "Alf" Wood and James Clutton. "Alf" was a roaring success at Stoke, whilst James was sent out on loan to Walsall, he returned to Port Vale as "Walsall" speak was unintelligble to him, and played for them until a broken leg ended his career.
Not only was this leg break one of only two such injuries to ever be recorded as happening to a football player, the other being Aaron Ramsey, the surnames of the players, Clutton and Wood, went into the local vernacular and was ultimately adopted by SCFC as a name for their new training ground.
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