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Post by cIiffydurb on Jun 7, 2014 13:24:02 GMT
Was born in glasgow but moved to kidsgrove when i was 3, 47 years ago, will always be scottish but 100% stokie, loyal & proud.
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Jun 7, 2014 13:56:02 GMT
When I was first born we lived with me mum's parents in Tunstall, as me Grandad was a Vale fan soon moved too Castle. When I was 14 I was knocked over by a car, this took place on the 6th May 1978 FA Cup Final Day, I was in a bit of a state & in a coma. Still managed to get too what I think was the first friendly of the season I think Stoke v Wolves we lost 3-0. When I was 21yrs old went to live in Cyprus to spread the word of the POTTERS, spent nearly 28yrs in Cyprus but, now back livin Birches Head.
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 7, 2014 14:01:05 GMT
Never lived within 35 miles of Stoke but have supported Stoke since older brother took me to my first match to see Sir Stan`s return ever since i have considered myself 100% Stokie, wear the colours whenever i can to fly the flag.Living now in Skelmersdale now and know of a few more fellow Stokies up here, you don`t have to be born somewhere to love the place.
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Post by mistergumby on Jun 7, 2014 14:18:04 GMT
I tend to find that if you live/work outside the area, you become much more defensive of the place. Viva la Potteries Oh dear - looks like I'm the exception then! Left at 34 and spent almost 7 years away before I came back and found it incredibly difficult to re-connect. Probably me. The city is half a million people and is what it is. I'm just one person. Carry on.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jun 7, 2014 14:35:43 GMT
Born in Birches Head, lived in Wolstanton and went the Grammar. Spent most of the 60s supporting Stoke with my old man who had been a Stokie since the 1930s and his dad and grandad before him. Left Potteries to join the navy in 69 and, apart from a couple of years in 2002-04 living in Leek, I have been in Devon ever since. Still have family up there and it's great to do the annual pilgrimage to visit. The old man, now in his 90s still follows Stoke and had a season ticket till about 5 years ago. Always have to bring a shipping load of oatcakes back to Devon as my daughters and grand kids love em. Usually get them off Nev at Mellors in Porthill. Very proud to be a Stokie and there are 3 of us working at the same college in Plymouth...me, and two women from Stockton Brook and Bentilee. We often break into the dialect in the staff room...ow at duck.......am ow rate.... much to the confusion of others who anner got a clue.
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Post by raven on Jun 7, 2014 16:47:32 GMT
Born in the Potteries lived there all my life, say no more !
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jun 7, 2014 17:41:44 GMT
Born in the Potteries lived there all my life, say no more ! Ay up youth eets seen a mower not say no more. Where's thee ice t'bay spaykin' lark a posh'un?
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Post by s7oke on Jun 7, 2014 17:45:05 GMT
Born in stoke It's in the blood
And where else in the world could you have a thread ast thee got brown wings
Stoke best people on the planet
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Post by ashtonstokie on Jun 7, 2014 18:00:10 GMT
My dad was born in Blurton and lived there until he joined the RAF he is a stokie through and through. I've never lived in or near Stoke though I've been going since I was 5 to the matches and I am a die hard Stoke City fan and have never even considered supporting anyone else. It's just a shame I'm surrounded by citeh fans.
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Post by Stoke-on-Toronto on Jun 7, 2014 18:24:14 GMT
I was brainwashed by a good friend from Stoke-on-Trent. Always loved English soccer (sorry football) but never had a club to cheer for in England as I had no connection to any club.
He slowly turned me into a Stoke supporter. My local club comes first without a shadow of a doubt, but I have grown very attached to Stoke City.
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Post by robrigo on Jun 7, 2014 18:46:22 GMT
I love this thread, makes me realise that we all have one common passion, Stoke City FC, and we all have rich and varied stories to tell as to why we follow this wonderful club.
I was born in Newcastle under Lyme and lived in Yarnfield. All my family are from Stoke and even though we now live in different parts of the country we all love the Potters. Nan and grandads live in Stone and Meir respectively. At the age of 5 i moved to Wolverhampton due to dads work. I went to my first game at six i think. I think we were playing Liverpool and the old man moved from his usual place at the back of the Boothen down to the front so I could see the game. I still remember the roar, the crowd, the smell of cigarettes, the clock, the bogs (who could forget them) and my first Pannini sticker book with players such as Panner, inchy, foxy and Berry. I was hooked. As the years passed my passion intensified, i believe it was down to not living in the area and being in the minority, surrounded by Wolves fans. Then the Wolves got taken over by Jack Haywood and Wolves suddenly became a 'big' club. This only served for me to defend Stoke more, to follow them more so when my mates took the piss at school for being a Stoke fan I could take pride in having knowledge of my team. On non school uniform days I would wear Stoke attire and to this day some 20 odd years on people who contact me via facebook still associate Rob and Stoke City. I'm proud of that, i could have easily turned to the dark side and gone with my mates to the Molineux. So many memories, so many good times, so many bad times and on a match day i still feel like i'm coming home, i really do. I love Delilah, I love our history, I love our red and white, i just love this club. Its been the one constant in my life and when life is shit, Stoke City is always there. I feel a sense of belonging, a unity and part of a wider family.
My only regret, is that having not gone to school in the area and being surrounded by other fans of different clubs is that when i read threads that Stokies who have built up a network of friends that are attending away games together and obviously I havent had that luxury and therefore would go to away games on my lonesome as the old man doesnt like going away. Up the Potters!
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Post by 1raytuper on Jun 7, 2014 18:53:33 GMT
born in stoke,therefore i am stoke,im proud to be a potter and feel pity for the pricks who were born in stoke but feel the need to "support" a more successful club.they are missing out because they will never feel the elation a local fan feels when his local team gets a great result.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 18:55:54 GMT
The only city in the world where you are proud to be classed as womb to tomb.
Pits, pots, and Stanley Matthews.
Nuff said.
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Post by penkvillepotter on Jun 7, 2014 19:20:02 GMT
Blessed.
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Post by Malex on Jun 7, 2014 19:54:45 GMT
Born in Portsmouth but dad was from stoke. We moved to stoke when I was 9 for 2 years and he took me down to the Vic every home game and a fair few of the away ones. Then moved back down to Hampshire when I was 11 and haven't lived north of Watford since but Stoke city were firmly ingrained into me by then
Still have family up there, they complain that I very rarely visit during close season or when it doesn't coincide with a home game!
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Post by pieman72 on Jun 7, 2014 20:00:36 GMT
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, proud of it therefore I am a Stokie and proud of it
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Post by Sven on Jun 7, 2014 20:02:41 GMT
Born in Portsmouth but dad was from stoke. We moved to stoke when I was 9 for 2 years and he took me down to the Vic every home game and a fair few of the away ones. Then moved back down to Hampshire when I was 11 and haven't lived north of Watford since but Stoke city were firmly ingrained into me by then Still have family up there, they complain that I very rarely visit during close season or when it doesn't coincide with a home game! i was also born down in pompey but my folks are from stoke, moved here when i was 2/3 in 1972/73ish, never looked back since although do have a soft spot for pompey
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 20:17:11 GMT
Born in Portsmouth but dad was from stoke. We moved to stoke when I was 9 for 2 years and he took me down to the Vic every home game and a fair few of the away ones. Then moved back down to Hampshire when I was 11 and haven't lived north of Watford since but Stoke city were firmly ingrained into me by then Still have family up there, they complain that I very rarely visit during close season or when it doesn't coincide with a home game! i was also born down in pompey but my folks are from stoke, moved here when i was 2/3 in 1972/73ish, never looked back since although do have a soft spot for pompey Which of you two make regular visits to Crewe?
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Post by mark1863 on Jun 7, 2014 20:29:59 GMT
Stoke born n bred proud of the area proud of the team whatever division we been in . Will always support Stoke till the day I die it's just in your blood like my dad was
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Post by yeokel on Jun 7, 2014 20:31:09 GMT
Lived in Somerset for 20 years and support Yeovil Town, but.....
Born in Burslem in 1960, lived mainly in Madeley & Newcastle until I moved down here and the longer and longer I've been away, the more and more I've loved SoT. And, I love it when people tell me they "went there once, and it's a dump" because I agree with them, it is a dump, but it's my dump, our dump and there is no other dump on Earth that I would rather be from. The people, the history, the working classness, Stanley Matthews, Josiah Wedgwood, Reginald Mitchell, Captain Smith, Arnold Bennett, Pot Banks, the pits, Phil Taylor, even Robbie Williams, & Oatcakes I just love Stoke and am proud, so proud, that I'm a Stokie.
And, surprisingly, my kids love it too. Despite having been born down here and talking like a pair of Wurzels, they love it when we come up there to visit and it was a great day for all of us a few years ago when they were our (Yeovil) mascots when we played Vale at Vale Park.
I've been doing some family tree stuff recently and it's been humbling to realise that I can trace bits of my mother's family back to parts of Whitmore and, later, Knutton from the late seventeen hundreds, and parts of my Fathers family from around Shelton to the same time and probably much earlier.
That's what ultimately makes me a Stokie – It’s been in my genes and my blood for centuries.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Jun 7, 2014 20:45:55 GMT
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, proud of it therefore I am a Stokie and proud of it Amen brother. Born in stoke Raised in stoke my grandad pointed me in the right direction regarding the football team as a boy, and i never deviated away from it. Red and white for life.
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Post by Linx on Jun 7, 2014 20:50:17 GMT
The great thing about Stoke is that nobody else even remotely gets it.
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Post by generationex on Jun 7, 2014 21:04:36 GMT
In the town where I was born In the land of pottery There's a team whose name you sing Once you know your history...
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Post by maninasuitcase on Jun 7, 2014 21:17:15 GMT
In the town where I was born In the land of pottery There's a team whose name you sing Once you know your history... Peter Thorne scores a lot of fucking goals A lot of fucking goals A lot of fucking goals
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Post by kiwistokie on Jun 8, 2014 6:18:06 GMT
Born in NZ in '61, me father came from Trentvale and he took our family back in May '73. We visited the Vic ground mid week and he and I walked on the field absolute magic for a 12 year old. I came back in the '80's and worked at Kayes of Stoke in Cobridge.Drank all over the place but Swallows nest, Springfields and the Bennetts during the week Went to home games as I could see me Uncle at the top of Bath st. walk to the game then get back to his for a bite to eat. They thought that I was puddled, maybe I am, but I even flew back for Wembley final then train to Stoke after then on the following Monday got back on a plane to here. I have spent a lot of money returning to my roots 19 times now, bought 1st wife and son twice now new lady for last Christmas, so that they can try to understand my 2nd home. Has and always will be Stoke, even bought a house in Trentvale now and hope in a few years to return for longer than Christmas. Do other non born Stokies relate to this? or am I puddled :-)
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Post by stokie1130 on Jun 8, 2014 6:37:30 GMT
Ive was born and bred a stokie and im very proud of it, its a shit hole yes, (saying that with the nee bus station and potteries center upgrade its been much improved) but its our shit hole, and it really winds me up when u get these jumped up people slagging off our area, I tell people yes its a shit hole but its where ur from and its what has made you, you. Its usually people who have never lived out of the area.
Myself I was in the army at the age of 16 so was stationed in surry, rippon and Belize,also a 7 month tour of Iraq but allways missed the place like hell and couldn't wait come back.
I aalways tell people who say I csnt wait to get out of stoke, the same, ull miss the place like mad also the people as well as ull never find people like stokies anywhere.
Also why does everyone allways assume we are scouses when they first here our accents, bugs me like crazy, I always say its because its a mixture of manc, scouse and brummy all rolled into one.
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Post by heisenberg88 on Jun 8, 2014 7:12:38 GMT
Born in May Bank....moved to Clayton soon after.....Dad worked for many years at Rist's Wires & Cables (he worked with Jackie Trent at some stage )
I was schooled at Hassell Street and Wolstanton Grammar School (a year or so behind John Farmer)
I left home in 1972 (so I didn't even see the Cup win over Chelski) and I've lived in Oz ever since.....BUT- I've never forgotten my roots....and I'm SO pleased to see us back where we belong and it's SO good to be able to watch the Potters on TV.
Can't explain it really......I'm just happy (as always) to be a Stokie So you've never actually lived in stoke then?
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jun 8, 2014 7:54:24 GMT
Born in May Bank....moved to Clayton soon after.....Dad worked for many years at Rist's Wires & Cables (he worked with Jackie Trent at some stage )
I was schooled at Hassell Street and Wolstanton Grammar School (a year or so behind John Farmer)
I left home in 1972 (so I didn't even see the Cup win over Chelski) and I've lived in Oz ever since.....BUT- I've never forgotten my roots....and I'm SO pleased to see us back where we belong and it's SO good to be able to watch the Potters on TV.
Can't explain it really......I'm just happy (as always) to be a Stokie So you've never actually lived in stoke then? That's a good point hb88. There's many, including me, who hail from Newcastle and other surrounding areas but never actually lived in Stoke on Trent. Are we still true Stokies? I think I am and when asked where I'm from always say Stoke and not Newcastle Under Lyme. Anybody else have this predicament?
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Post by heisenberg88 on Jun 8, 2014 8:12:59 GMT
So you've never actually lived in stoke then? That's a good point hb88. There's many, including me, who hail from Newcastle and other surrounding areas but never actually lived in Stoke on Trent. Are we still true Stokies? I think I am and when asked where I'm from always say Stoke and not Newcastle Under Lyme. Anybody else have this predicament? Me. I was born in Newcastle under Lyme and lived there for my first 23 and half years. I've lived in Hanley for the past 2 years. I'm not actually from stoke but if asked I say stoke because it's easier than explaining which Newcastle it is. I will say this though, Newcastle is a much better place to live in than parts of stoke. Stoke on the whole is a shit hole of a place and I for one wouldn't be arsed if I left the area. I'm. I'm not on of those who is 'proud of where I come from' as all that bollocks is just chance of where u have been born.
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Post by conzdad on Jun 8, 2014 10:11:28 GMT
Born and raised for the first 20 years of my life in Stoke on Trent. Followed the potters since the age of 4. I am proud of where I come and am always happy to come back home on matchdays.Even my lad who was born here and Stoke fan tells everyone he's from Stoke. To me its always in my heart and whenever anything about Stoke on Trent or Stoke City appear on tv or in the media I'm immensely proud. It saddens me to see how much the place has deteriorated, but I guess I always want it to remain the way I remembered it. I hope one day to return and live in the city and be surrounded by fellow Stokies with their humour and warmth whereas where I am feeling and sometimes being made to feel like an outcast because I have a different accent and support a different football team.
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