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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 19, 2020 19:40:49 GMT
I think there's been a few referees over the years who have put in tremendous performances on behalf of the opposition, including a couple this season.
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Post by mickstupp on Mar 19, 2020 21:11:14 GMT
Anyone remember our first season in division 3,1990/91 a home game against Shrewsbury Town.We lost 1-3 and a certain Tony "Zico" Kelly ran the show.He was class on the pitch and also with Stoke fans in the Boothen,during a break in play due to a injury he was about to take a corner but during the stoppage he was chatting to the fans in the bottom corner of Boothen.Remember leaving the ground and everyone were saying the same thing,wish he still played for us. He got a load of stick to begin with. But as the game progressed, and he made our players look like the mugs they were, our fans started cheering him. Class player, and I bet if he could have his time again, Mick Mills would never have sold him.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 19, 2020 22:15:56 GMT
A lot of players have stood out over the years against us but for some reason the one that sticks out for me is when Rooney played in midfield in a cup game at our place and totally ran the show
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Post by shipshape on Mar 19, 2020 23:52:44 GMT
More recently but Ebernichi Eze for QPR looks class and seems to have the beating of us each time he’s played. He will be a premier league player in the near future I’m sure. How he's not in the Prem yet is beyond me. Could be that he's shite against all the other teams but always sticks out against us.
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Post by onionman on Mar 20, 2020 0:38:04 GMT
Quite obscure, but I remember Hull City had a winger by the name of Leigh Jenkinson who ran us ragged twice in the 91/92 season. Luckily, his team mates were crap and we beat them 1-0 away. Unfortunately, a few months later they won 3-2 at the Vic and he scored two belters. I think it was the promotion season. Jenkinson was immense, turned Cranson inside out. I thought he was a future England player. He had won his regional heat on the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge which was shown on Saint and Greavsie the morning of the match.
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Post by onionman on Mar 20, 2020 0:42:38 GMT
Quite obscure, but I remember Hull City had a winger by the name of Leigh Jenkinson who ran us ragged twice in the 91/92 season. Luckily, his team mates were crap and we beat them 1-0 away. Unfortunately, a few months later they won 3-2 at the Vic and he scored two belters. He was a bit good that day . Went to Coventry I think. I think Biggins was suspended for the 2-3 game and Paul Barnes played. Ruel Fox for Norwich about the same time. We beat Norwich 2-1 in the League Cup, Bruce scored for them . Mick Mills tried to sign Fox afterwards. Yes! Ruel Fox tore us apart as we hung on to a slender lead. He was so good I thought the tannoy man must have been wrong and it was actually Dale Gordon who was their star winger at the time. Turned out Fox was only playing because Gordon was injured and he didn’t become a first team regular for another four years.
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Post by skip on Mar 20, 2020 1:34:25 GMT
Trevor Francis for Forest at the Victoria Ground in a midweek cup match. I was in the Butler Street stand with my dad, and he absolutely skinned our left mid, left back, got the ball in the box and they scored and won 0:1. It honestly felt like a new era for football, even back then. Slight, athletic players with a great touch and speed. I was gutted they scored but the memory of Francis' runs stayed with me, still do. Francis was the first of a new wave of players whose transfer fee was a million pounds and more, such as Justin Fashanu. But I've always felt that Francis was the only player of that era who was actually worth a million. He wasn't half - he single handedly beat a decent Stoke side that night.
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Post by StatesideStokie on Mar 20, 2020 3:34:01 GMT
Frank Lampard - home game against Chelsea in our first season in the Premier League. They beat us 2-0 and he absolutely ran the show from start to finish. He was on a different planet to any of our lot, and just made everything look so fucking easy. We couldn’t get anywhere near him that day.
Suarez for the dippers gave us a right ragging when the beat us at the Brit.....5-2 I think? He looked like he was going to score every time he got the ball, despite taking a right kicking.
Daniel James away at Swansea last season absolutely terrorized us. I can’t remember which of our lot got sent off (possibly two?) but he gave the whole lot of ‘em fucking nightmares.
Going back a bit, but I recall Muzzy Izzet doing the business against us for Leicester at the Brit. He just ran the whole game rom start to finish and we couldn’t lay a glove on him.
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Post by pretzel on Mar 20, 2020 7:30:08 GMT
I remember us making that Gypo winger from Barnsley look like Maradona a couple of times. curry was it? One of my the best I have seen at the Brit was Stylian Petrov for Villa, think the game was second season it the prem, but he was fantastic. I also agree with the Drogba and Suarez, And would add Kevin De Bruyne David Currie I think. 3-0 nil down at half time and Currie was everywhere. FA Cup 3rd round I think. Finished 3-3. Great game, then lost the replay 1-0. Massive anticlimax! There's a nice story that Stuart Pearce tells about David Currie after he'd signed for Forest “We signed a fella called Dave Currie from Barnsley for £650,000 one summer and we were about three weeks into the pre-season. “Now, Dave had only been at the club for three weeks and we went to play at Derby in a friendly. “We were sat in the Baseball Ground, and when Cloughie was in the dressing room no one said a word, so all of the players were sat around about ten minutes before we were going out to play. “And he looked across the dressing room to Dave Currie, stared him straight in the eyes and said: ‘Have you found yourself a house yet Dave?’ “Dave said: ‘No, not yet boss’. “’Don’t bother, son,’ Cloughie said.
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Post by mickstupp on Mar 20, 2020 8:23:25 GMT
Quite obscure, but I remember Hull City had a winger by the name of Leigh Jenkinson who ran us ragged twice in the 91/92 season. Luckily, his team mates were crap and we beat them 1-0 away. Unfortunately, a few months later they won 3-2 at the Vic and he scored two belters. I think it was the promotion season. Jenkinson was immense, turned Cranson inside out. I thought he was a future England player. He had won his regional heat on the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge which was shown on Saint and Greavsie the morning of the match. It was the season before, 1991/92.
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Mar 20, 2020 10:07:32 GMT
I bet there's a lot of opposition fans that were saying all of this about Ricardo Fuller for us in the Championship.
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Post by NassauDave on Mar 20, 2020 10:29:33 GMT
Asa Hartford for Everton, early 80s I believe.
Walked all over us at the Vic.
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Post by onionman on Mar 20, 2020 11:23:44 GMT
Micky Hazard for Portsmouth and Swindon tortured us. I couldn’t understand how he was always playing for middling second division teams.
David Kerslake, a full back for Swindon in the Ossie Ardiles team, looked like an England player. Got a big money move later but never made it in the top flight.
Paul Simpson at Oxford.
Paul Hall at Walsall, the best opposing player with a rhyming name until we came across an inspired Angel Rangel last season.
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Post by s7oke on Mar 20, 2020 12:00:05 GMT
Ginola Newcastle in the 90s at the vic. Probably the first opposing player I saw get a standing ovation from Stoke fans( I think). He was brilliant . Him and warren Barton that night were immense
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Post by s7oke on Mar 20, 2020 12:02:37 GMT
Giannelli Imbula in a pre season against Porto Didn’t witness it myself But his performance must have been mind blowing 😱
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 12:13:39 GMT
Strange one but we beat Coventry 4-0 and Mark Hateley was outstanding. They actually had enough chances to win the game, Hateley was incredible and came inches from scoring 3 or 4 himself and a young Danny Thomas played well. Bizarre game as was end to end
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 20, 2020 12:24:27 GMT
Giannelli Imbula in a pre season against Porto Didn’t witness it myself But his performance must have been mind blowing 😱 Gianelli Imbula*. There's a name to conjure with. I wonder whatever happened to him? *Edit: Or the Anti Christ as he is better known.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 13:40:01 GMT
I remember us making that Gypo winger from Barnsley look like Maradona a couple of times. curry was it? One of my the best I have seen at the Brit was Stylian Petrov for Villa, think the game was second season it the prem, but he was fantastic. I also agree with the Drogba and Suarez, And would add Kevin De Bruyne David Currie I think. 3-0 nil down at half time and Currie was everywhere. FA Cup 3rd round I think. Finished 3-3. Great game, then lost the replay 1-0. Massive anticlimax! That was a great game, Beagrie scored a late equaliser, I think Gary Hackett had the ball in the net late on but had gone out of play. The replay was 2-1, was chaos getting in Dave Bamber had equalised for us and winner played Everton. Owen Archdeacon a good player in that side. Hit the bar with an incredible shot in a game we won 4-3 against them. The swerve on it and hit the underside of the bar, even our fans applauded it.
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Post by tcdobinghoff on Mar 20, 2020 13:44:30 GMT
Danny Murphy back in 2010 when defender Chris Baird scored 2 in the first 10 minutes. Hate the ba***rd but totally controlled the game that day. It seems odd that I should also recall a Danny Murphy performance , although I don’t know if it’s the same game that you are referring to. Murphy was a very good footballer but not as charismatic as some I could mention but I just recall him quietly and intelligently running the midfield in one match at the Brit for Fulham. Always available, always comfortable in possession and just prompting and bringing others into the game. Just memorable because it showed how important an experienced and intelligent individual can galvanise a team. Just what I think we could do with just now . More spectacularly as has been mentioned Denis Laws 4, Manuel Fernandez for Besiktas, George Best and Rooney several times and Kevin Phillips scoring a hat-trick (I think) for Sunderland in the last March I ever saw with my Dad.
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Post by march4 on Mar 20, 2020 16:05:09 GMT
Duncan McKenzie takin' the piss It was against Alleluia John Tudor!
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Post by onionman on Mar 20, 2020 16:24:21 GMT
Kevin Hulme came on as a sub for Bury in 1991, played like Pele and scored two goals as we surrendered a lead.
Years later I looked him up on google because I wondered why I’d never heard of him since and whether he had fulfilled his obvious talent. Found a thread on a Bury fans messageboard, where they were saying things like “Remember Kevin Hulme, Christ he was shite, worst player to ever wear the shirt, mad bastard, nice bloke but a terrible player, apart from that one game against Stoke in 1991 where he hilariously turned into Pele”
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Post by Simon Drainrod on Mar 20, 2020 21:56:44 GMT
David Currie I think. 3-0 nil down at half time and Currie was everywhere. FA Cup 3rd round I think. Finished 3-3. Great game, then lost the replay 1-0. Massive anticlimax! That was a great game, Beagrie scored a late equaliser, I think Gary Hackett had the ball in the net late on but had gone out of play. The replay was 2-1, was chaos getting in Dave Bamber had equalised for us and winner played Everton. Owen Archdeacon a good player in that side. Hit the bar with an incredible shot in a game we won 4-3 against them. The swerve on it and hit the underside of the bar, even our fans applauded it. Cheers! It is amazing as you get older that all the things you absolutely thought you knew turn out to be only half right. Or wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2020 22:11:08 GMT
That was a great game, Beagrie scored a late equaliser, I think Gary Hackett had the ball in the net late on but had gone out of play. The replay was 2-1, was chaos getting in Dave Bamber had equalised for us and winner played Everton. Owen Archdeacon a good player in that side. Hit the bar with an incredible shot in a game we won 4-3 against them. The swerve on it and hit the underside of the bar, even our fans applauded it. Cheers! It is amazing as you get older that all the things you absolutely thought you knew turn out to be only half right. Or wrong. I think the 4-3 game was out first game without Stein. They went 2-0 up real early on and we went ahead, our first 2 goals were own goals. They were a real tidy side that period and always thought Oakwell looked fantastic full. The 3-3 in the cup, George Berry got a goal back about 81 mins then Beagrie scored a belter, dropped his shoulder and far corner for 3-3. .
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