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Post by crimesy on May 8, 2008 22:35:42 GMT
I love the fact that after nearly 17 years as a Stokie, im now being called a glory hunter by the locals ;D After 15 years of going through the highs and lows (mostly lows until lately) , i got called a gloryhunter BY a gloryhunter who thinks hes been to more stoke games than me yet 2 weeks ago he suported nobody at all , that IS FUCKING ANNOYING
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Post by premrandallsbday on May 8, 2008 22:48:29 GMT
League Cup Final 1972 - when I was nine years old and was taken by uncle who was Chelsea fan, but I preferred the colour of the Stoke shirts (very unscientific, but then I was young). I live near Bristol and have no connection to the Potteries other than my love of Stoke
Stuck with them ever since - the first few years were good with Cup semi's and strong in old Division One, then it's been pretty much downhill ever since - I well remember the Vic and the Mills/Ball/Paddon/Bates/Kamara years...Blyth Spartnas and Tilbury
....bloody glory hunter indeed!
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Post by powchirper on May 8, 2008 22:53:03 GMT
Been a glory hunter since the 70/71 season, First game v Huddersfield 4th round FA cup, 3-1 down came back to draw 3-3 and got to the semi final, The rest as they say in outer Mongolia is history.
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Post by armitagestokie on May 8, 2008 23:50:37 GMT
1962-- memory lapses to which game---1st away game, allowed to go on Greatrex coach from Stafford--thrilled.Remember eating sandwiches mam had made on coach Coventry away--Stoke 'lads' came hammering on coach asking us to join them as a mob of 150+ cov fans came down street.20 stoke ran at them screaming etc and you should have seen cov run!!
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Post by doitforever on May 9, 2008 0:07:24 GMT
HAS to be 1959 when I made my first appearance in this world. Was taken to the Vic in the late 60's before the family moved away from the area. Great time in rural Bedfordshire as a 10 year old with a Potteries accent. ;D That drove the Stoke support home I can tell you.
We had a bit of a nightmare after a game against Leicester IIRC with running battles after the match, the old man didn't take us again.
Now in Wiltshire, but finally managed to get the both of us to the Brit for the first time since then, for of all games, to watch Blackpool. Bugger was it cold.
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Post by 4kingal on May 9, 2008 1:11:26 GMT
Early 70s , but serving in RN then moving to SA means I haven't seen a live match for many years God Jimmy Greenhoff was good!!
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Post by MrBigJobby on May 9, 2008 3:26:14 GMT
Raf Stacker- 1973 used to sit in Butler Stand with my Dad too! I was 6
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Post by Godo on May 9, 2008 7:44:09 GMT
I've always been a Stokie but actually started attending 68/9 season. I had to stand on a box at the front of the Boothen Paddock to see the game. Can't remember much about it. The 70/71 season is the one that first really registered in my memory.
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Post by stiggerstackle on May 9, 2008 7:54:03 GMT
When I was 5 in 1978. My dad is a big fan - he took me and we sat in the Boothen Stand, I think we beat Ipswich 2-1?!? ???
Been going ever since really, don't make it away anymore - but did for 10yrs or so. Been there through all the shite - getting lost in huddersfield pissed til about 3am in early 90's, nearly getting battered in Stockport in that god awful season we played them 6 times, darlington and exeter at home on a wet tuesday etc etc.
As for gloryhunting - I have a good mate who has only started supporting this year (the mans 38 and had never been to a football match in his life) when I took him to a game.
He's spent the last few weeks jumping up and down asking why i'm not more excited when he can barely contain himself, to the point where he's event questioned my committment as a Stokie!
I've tried to explain the 30 years of despair and disappointment and 'oh-so-close' you come to expect as a Stokie, but our newer supporters just dont get it.
Needless to say - I was there on sunday, he wasn't, my main feeling was relief, then bliss, then joy, and then I cried like a little girl with my Dad.
What a time to be a Stokie!
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Post by Thank you from Moorlander1 on May 9, 2008 7:54:49 GMT
Stoke v Blackpool in 1947. I now have grandchildren who are season ticket holders,Come on Stoke.
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Post by stokiemac on May 9, 2008 8:22:10 GMT
i was born with the illness
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Post by broadwayroundabout on May 9, 2008 8:28:28 GMT
My memory is crap but my first game was against the baggies in the early seventies, got taken by Jackie Marsh's brother and met a few players after....what a day :-)
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Post by stokienorthants on May 9, 2008 8:30:04 GMT
April 1965 my Dad took me to watch Stan's last game for Stoke against Fulham, I think we won 3-1.
He always wanted me to be able to say that I had seen the great man play, me and Dad still going strong 40 years later.
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Post by Miniman's Dad on May 9, 2008 17:18:08 GMT
bump...
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Post by StokieSC on May 9, 2008 18:19:50 GMT
Mine would have been in the early to mid 80s.
I remember being at Shrewsbury with my Dad at one point, and apparantley spent the whole game swinging on the bars ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2008 18:21:29 GMT
last Sunday
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Post by andyr on May 9, 2008 18:25:06 GMT
Im 45 now and up until the age of 7 i was a Tottenham fan and then my Dad took me to the old Victoria ground , cant remember who was playing Stoke vs ? but been a Stokie ever since
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Post by tony10 on May 9, 2008 18:40:11 GMT
my brother in law took me to my first game 20 years ago. i was 15 at the time. ahhhh the old vic.
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Post by wrighter on May 9, 2008 18:42:04 GMT
1956 !!! im old
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Post by lurcherman on May 9, 2008 18:54:47 GMT
Always supported 'em, but my first game was THAT long ago I conna remember ;D I think it would be around 1968 ish we drew 2 each with sheff utd. Was rattling to a few old fucker mates in the pub a while ago and we said if Stokes away form could of matched the home form in the seventies, we really would of been a force to be reckoned with.
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Post by landofhopeandglory on May 9, 2008 19:24:09 GMT
stoke v spurs 30 oct 71 we won 2-0
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Post by interestedobserver on May 9, 2008 20:32:33 GMT
This year. Here's the story:
As you might know I have a sports simulation site that calculates the probabilities of certain sporting results. Back in January I started doing EPL and The Championship and after working through some initial bugs I showed stoke with a 60% chance of gaining promotion.
Right away on another site I started getting some push back about Stoke. The claim was that they wouldn't do. That the would fall apart etc. I was told that they always fall apart etc.
Well right there I decided that I should become a Stokie. I have a soft spot for teams that are just written off like that. So here I am.
BTW, the other two teams I had slotted for promotion back in January were WBA and Charlton. What the hell happened to Charlton in the second half. I think they were third or fourth worst from January on.
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Post by stokie_back_in_notts on May 9, 2008 21:26:32 GMT
For me I first became a Stokie in 1959/60 season when the family lived in a Lincolnshire village. Why Stoke - my interest in football was growing and I decided to support the team from the city of my birth.
My first game was in 1966/67 season at the old Filbert Street versus Leicester City. We lost but my support did not die.
My first home game was in August 1970 when we beat Newcastle and the family had moved back to Stoke.
So I have supported Stoke for 49 years.
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Post by Anto1962 on May 9, 2008 21:34:20 GMT
22nd november 1969 Ipswitch Town home 3-3 I was seven,
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Post by himleyjag on May 9, 2008 22:00:47 GMT
Through relatives living in Newcastle(Mums sister married a Stokie)! i always had followed Stoke City,and living on the west coast could watch the weekend highlights on Ulster television as Scottish television didn't have English matches on. Was lucky enough to have tour of the Victoria Ground during 1972 meeting all my heroes,even got to get a kick about on the pitch and meeting Gordon Banks was a dream come true! My first matches were the first two games of the 75/76 season, came down again for start of 77-78 season after leaving school and didn't go home,got a job at Keele Uni. and that was me in heaven, able to watch the potters every week.
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Post by Miniman on May 10, 2008 20:41:49 GMT
glad to see so many that have been a supporter for so long!!!
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Post by Scrotnig on May 10, 2008 21:09:59 GMT
Ok...well.....I went to school with a lad called Paul Stoneley who lived in Sandbach but was from Stoke, and he and his mates went to games. I got interested through my school putting on the play "Zigger Zagger" (I had a part in the crowd singing implausible football songs) and it kind of went from there, they took me to games and I got a bit hooked. But the following season was the holocaust one and they deserted the team and went to Man U games. I stuck with Stoke...and here I am!
In the extremely unlikely event that anyone knows Paul Stoneley or his father Arthur Stoneley, let him know I'm here...and that he's a bloody treacherous glory hunter!!!!!
But I bet he returned to SCFC in adult life...I just have this feeling.
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Post by devonstokie111 on May 10, 2008 22:55:14 GMT
me in 1972 listening to the league cup final on the radio in a pub in blurton the owner shut up and had a few friends to listen and that what a brilliant time then my mum took me to see stoke when they brought the cup home i was in the crowd listening and watching the team at stoke town hall can remeber them coming out on to i think a balcony that was pure heaven
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Post by nantwichstokie on May 10, 2008 22:57:55 GMT
The day I was born 23 years ago and I wouldn't have it any other way !
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Post by Cityfullergoals on May 10, 2008 23:46:51 GMT
68-69 i think
Sheffield Wednesday at home, league cup
Just after the death of Paul Shardlow
RIP P.S.
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