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Post by crouchpotato1 on Dec 21, 2016 11:17:30 GMT
Some Christmas cheer for us all especially me😄👍
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2016 11:24:35 GMT
Didn't it look like we were destined for the title after this win?
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Dec 21, 2016 11:27:11 GMT
Didn't it look like we were destined for the title after this win? It did mate but they were a good side as well |
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Post by Parkhall Wanderer on Dec 21, 2016 11:32:05 GMT
Happy days  |
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Post by Pugsley on Dec 21, 2016 11:32:07 GMT
Oh Jimmy Jimmy
and Huddy back heeling it on that quagmire.
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Post by Bagwash on Dec 21, 2016 11:47:08 GMT
Oh Jimmy Jimmy and Huddy back heeling it on that quagmire. I know its been said loads of times but Hudson and Greenhoff were two of the best players I had the privilege of seeing in a Stoke shirt. As shown in that clip,it didn't matter what state the pitch was in. Never tire of seeing footage of those two,superb. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2016 11:47:16 GMT
Thanks for posting this ! Great video and great memories.
I was there that day and me and my mates really started to believe we coukd actually win the league tbat year. Sadly it was not to be, but great times.
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Post by NassauDave on Dec 21, 2016 12:09:13 GMT
I was there too. Great memories,
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Post by kevkj on Dec 21, 2016 12:22:03 GMT
One of my first aways and loved every minute of it.We really should have been Champions that year.
"Vis Unita Fortior"
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Dec 21, 2016 12:36:24 GMT
Sometimes I think it's red and white tinted childhood memories, but Christ, they were good footballers.
Greenhoff's technique on both those goals is incredible - two entirely different skills. Hudson's back heel volley (!!) to play Salmons in is almost unbelievable as is Salmons crossing. Very attacking line up with Hudson, Salmons, Greenhoff, Moores and Hurst - looked like Huddy was floating and trying to play on the grass where he could.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 21, 2016 12:44:33 GMT
Remember it so clearly.
Only a kid at the time, could barely see the game. Had to take shelter in someone's front yard after the match as the Stoke lads came bursting out of the ground intent on 'rounding off' their afternoon!
Amazing how these things stay with you and yet I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday!!
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Post by elystokie on Dec 21, 2016 13:04:48 GMT
Pretty sure this was the game I saw my uncle being marched past my Dad and me on the perimeter track by two coppers.
Think they were taking him for an early cup of tea, queues for catering must have been long...
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Post by roylandstoke on Dec 21, 2016 14:28:59 GMT
Just one broken leg too many that year.
That team was the best I have ever seen and probably the best I ever will see playing for Stoke.
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Post by chad on Dec 21, 2016 14:38:53 GMT
I was there that day. Bet Ronaldo wouldn't look as classy trying his step overs on that pitch
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Post by kevkj on Dec 21, 2016 15:08:01 GMT
Who remembers the fat policeman that day in front of the popside.
"Vis Unita Fortior"
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Post by chad on Dec 21, 2016 15:10:07 GMT
Geoff Salmons. He was a fantastic footballer and in any other Stoke team would have been THE man. Unfortunately overshadowed most of the time by Huddy and Greenhoff
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Post by bristolpotter123 on Dec 21, 2016 15:35:25 GMT
I was there too , great times.
I know you should never try to compare players from different eras but !!!!!!!
I would only say that if Greenhof , Hudson , Salmons had the benefits of todays training , fitness culture , plastic footballs and pitches with grass they would outplay any of our modern team. Arnautovic ,Shaqiri etc would be off after a minute with a hamstring or some such , they never really seemed to happen then or of they did you played on.
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Post by kronkie on Dec 21, 2016 15:47:16 GMT
We took the pop side, easy easy.
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Post by c00kie on Dec 21, 2016 17:09:23 GMT
I still feel like jumping up and punching the air when the winner goes in. How did he do that? I've not seen a header like that before or since that day.
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Post by muglump on Dec 21, 2016 17:17:32 GMT
I know I've put this on before but it is nearly christmas. enjoy
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Post by Northy on Dec 21, 2016 17:41:02 GMT
Oh Jimmy Jimmy and Huddy back heeling it on that quagmire. according to bayernoatcake, Bojans injury was because of Rochdales poor pitch, how many cruciate ligaments went it this game |
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Post by GoBoks on Dec 21, 2016 18:22:53 GMT
Thanks CP!
It's great to remember the "Stoke Folklore Years". Two impressions as I was watching that :
How the heck did they play on pitches like that?
While their are plenty of individual skills on display, I must say the overall quality of play is much higher these days. That was "the highlights reel" from the game and yet the overall standard was poor. <Tin Hat on>
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Post by therightside on Dec 21, 2016 18:37:53 GMT
I was there for that incredible day.
That Stoke side contained so many truly great players.
What would Jimmy, Huddy, Banksy and Denis be worth today?
The Stoke support that day was also incredible.
I seem to remember singing 'One fat Sargeant', along with thousands
of other Stokies to a particularly overweight copper.
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Post by Titan Uranus on Dec 21, 2016 18:53:32 GMT
Thanks CP! It's great to remember the "Stoke Folklore Years". Two impressions as I was watching that : How the heck did they play on pitches like that? While their are plenty of individual skills on display, I must say the overall quality of play is much higher these days. That was "the highlights reel" from the game and yet the overall standard was poor. <Tin Hat on> Quality of pitches. Fitness levels. Physical and diet regimes. It's all relative. Hudson was class then and would be now. Talent and skill in different times and circumstances. Keeping him off the pop though ..?? That may be something even a different era cannot alter haha. |
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Post by leicspotter on Dec 21, 2016 19:21:36 GMT
came down from uni for that one (Lancaster) with a Derby mate...had to stand in the "wrong" end and keep me gob shut...couldn't stop smiling though  |
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Dec 21, 2016 19:22:51 GMT
My first away game other than the cup final semi finals on neutral grounds , my dad believed we were seeing history as victory would see us as champions for the only ever time , how stoke city win the hard one and then fail to win in the last three and give Derby' the title back .😊
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Post by no1972 on Dec 21, 2016 20:02:11 GMT
The pop side was spilt by the players tunnel.So you would jump out on the red ash run smack some fucker and jump back into the other side.What it was to be young and stupid.Bar for the Kipax I carnt remember paddocks been the home teams stronghold.My mistake it was just some railings.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Dec 21, 2016 20:03:58 GMT
The pop side was spilt by the players tunnel.So you would jump out on the red ash run smack some fucker and jump back into the other side.What it was to be young and stupid.Bar for the Kipax I carnt remember paddocks been the home teams stronghold. The pop side at the Baseball Ground was opposite to were the players came out mate |
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Post by no1972 on Dec 21, 2016 20:09:09 GMT
The pop side was spilt by the players tunnel.So you would jump out on the red ash run smack some fucker and jump back into the other side.What it was to be young and stupid.Bar for the Kipax I carnt remember paddocks been the home teams stronghold. The pop side at the Baseball Ground was opposite to were the players came out mate I know I corrected myself.Memory fades over the years. |
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Post by wizardofdrivel on Dec 21, 2016 20:32:33 GMT
I was there for that incredible day. That Stoke side contained so many truly great players. What would Jimmy, Huddy, Banksy and Denis be worth today? The Stoke support that day was also incredible. I seem to remember singing 'One fat Sargeant', along with thousands of other Stokies to a particularly overweight copper. The"theres only one fat sargeant "and "sargeant is a Stokie " game was in the early 80s . Alan Biley was in the derby team and god dogs abuse for the whole game . |
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