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Post by teenagefanclub on Oct 1, 2021 21:15:18 GMT
Fair play, good interview.
Didn't make excuses said we deserved to win and were the best team on the night and the best they have played.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Oct 1, 2021 21:22:13 GMT
Obviously didn’t go to the Nathan Jones school of interviews 🤣
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Post by gingerninja on Oct 1, 2021 21:28:30 GMT
Came across as a very articulate and classy bloke.
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Post by collo68 on Oct 1, 2021 21:30:14 GMT
Fair play, good interview. Didn't make excuses said we deserved to win and were the best team on the night and the best they have played. Any links as I’m in Cyprus so can’t listen to Sky sports |
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Post by PotteringThrough on Oct 1, 2021 21:30:42 GMT
He’s a good manager as well - to what he did with Barnsley shows this.
They will be up there, clearly, we were just better tonight.
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Post by scubastevetokie on Oct 2, 2021 8:39:38 GMT
Fair play, good interview. Didn't make excuses said we deserved to win and were the best team on the night and the best they have played. That’s the last 2 managers we’ve played against to say “Stoke are the best team we’ve played so far” WOW 🤩 that really makes u feel good |
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Post by The battheader chronicles on Oct 2, 2021 9:24:18 GMT
Came across as a very articulate and classy bloke. Oh he’s a cracking manager by the looks of things. The things he did at Barnsley were outstanding and unfortunately WBA look like they have a good one there ( although not as good as our MON obviously) 😉 |
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Post by apb1 on Oct 2, 2021 9:25:27 GMT
He was so fair it was almost ridiculous - seems like a decent guy
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Post by zerps on Oct 2, 2021 10:12:33 GMT
Sign him up Stoke
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Post by chaydlestokie on Oct 2, 2021 10:22:20 GMT
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Post by wuzza on Oct 2, 2021 10:23:58 GMT
He will never be involved in the Premier League if he carries on like that !!!
Fair minded, honest and no whinging - what’s the game coming to ?
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Post by fca47 on Oct 2, 2021 10:44:08 GMT
Classy man.
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Post by sheds1862 on Oct 2, 2021 10:54:57 GMT
Couldn't say much else. Battered them.
Admittedly their worst performance of the season but that was down to us.
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Post by FullerMagic on Oct 2, 2021 11:47:52 GMT
Even Lepkowski said we played well!
(as did their current local journalists)
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Post by FullerMagic on Oct 2, 2021 11:56:25 GMT
Some classic Lepkowski - oh how the tables have turned Christopher!
Stoke City 3 West Bromwich Albion 1
Dec 22 2007
By Chris Lepkowski
THERE will be one gift Albion fans will be hoping for this Christmas - a copy of next season's fixture list without the name Stoke City appearing anywhere on the schedule.
The last time Albion won in Stoke the nation, led by a woman, reclaimed the Falklands, Channel Four didn't exist and Villa were the best club in Europe.
To say a lot has changed since September 1982 would be an understatement.
One thing hasn't changed - Albion's inability to win at Stoke.
That run continued on Saturday thanks to a superb hat-trick from Ricardo Fuller, though he was aided by some miserable Baggies' defending, who were more than willing to gift-wrap his goals for him.
Speaking of Christmas presents, one could be mistaken for thinking that Tony Pulis will be finding a Table Football under his tree tomorrow. It'll be the kind of Table Football game which has a row of nine defenders lining up across the width of the pitch in front of the 18-yard box. If you turn the handle quickly enough you can even get one of the 'players' to launch the ball down the pitch. One could also be mistaken for thinking it's where the Stoke manager takes his inspiration from.
Albion's deficiencies were sloppy defending and a lack of cutting edge. Yet they stuck to their principles by using movement and passing to carve open Stoke's defence.
Roman Bednar headed in a consolation goal for the Baggies in the 72nd minute. A few minutes later the Czech striker raced onto a sloppy Leon Cort backpass only to drive his shot straight at the keeper's legs when it was easier to score. He mustn't be criticised though - six goals in six games is an excellent return for Bednar.
Fuller's opener, after just four minutes, came when Chris Brunt sliced a poor ball across the width of the pitch. John Eustace - a tidy midfielder who is wasted in Stoke's industrial-like engine room - played in a lofted ball for Mamady Sidibe, who appeared to control the ball with his hand before flicking it into Fuller's path. The Stoke striker stroked home a well-placed shot to beat Kiely.
The second was, once again, brought upon by Albion's poor defending.
Bostjan Cesar brought down Fuller, earning himself a yellow card which was to restrict him for the remainder of his time on the pitch. Liam Lawrence's free-kick, from the right-wing, sailed over a packed penalty area and fell for Fuller, who drove a low shot past Kiely.
Fuller claimed the match ball in the 67th minute when he breezed past Cesar with relative ease and twisted around Carl Hoefkens before planting a low shot out of Kiely's reach.
Stoke sat back in large numbers and crudely scrambled balls away for large periods of the second half, a period when Kiely was often the only man left in Albion's half of the pitch. An astonishing number of Stoke players also became injured - badly enough to need treatment, but not badly enough to require permanent withdrawal from the game.
Referee Mark Halsey, an experienced official, was sucked into the gamesmanship. At one point a Stoke player managed to throw a ball into play when Albion were already in possession and mounting an attack with another ball. It was farcical stuff.
Not surprisingly Tony Mowbray bore the hallmarks of a disillusioned man after the game. He was pleased with his side's effort - if not their defending - but his grimace suggested that he was in despair at the methods used by Stoke to take a victory.
While there is no right or wrong way to play football, there is no doubt that there are vulgar methods. And Stoke City are the John Prescott of football - big and as ugly as sin.
One can only praise Stoke through gritted teeth. It's difficult being complimentary about a side who rely on percentages as much as an accountant and who simply are soiling the game.
That said, the Baggies brought a lot of it upon themselves, with too many players not performing to their best and lacking that killer instinct of recent weeks. Stoke were hard-working, functional and took their chances. And, on this form, they could easily push for a top two place. If they achieve promotion then it will be deserved. But at what cost to football as a sport? English football is going through an image crisis right now - it needs Stoke's brand of play like it needs a hole in the head.
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Post by theonlooker on Oct 2, 2021 11:56:42 GMT
A very rare sight in the modern game, especially with the pressure that comes at the top end of the Championship. He comes across as a good guy, and is obviously a good manager if you look at his record.
Then again, we were comfortably the better side so you can't really blag your way through an interview when you've just been played off the park in front of a TV audience of millions (?)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2021 11:57:14 GMT
He's good. Is this the same guy who went to Palace? He was their Imbula
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Post by stokefc on Oct 2, 2021 12:12:18 GMT
When the managers shook hands last night Ismael whispered something to MoN , something like "You're the best team we've played by a mile" MoN replied thank you , i know this because i read his lips  |
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