Please, for once, don't let us down.

[hoopty]

I was born in 72.

I have dull memories of us competeing with sides which the media would now telll us are "far above us" before we've even kicked a ball.

I am bitterly fed up of us playing Colchester, Cambridge, Scunthorpe etc. They alll deserve to be where they are but I am longing for the day when we can see, like my Dad and his Dad, Stoke playing the best teams in the land.

I've spent my whole life seeing Stoke playing third rate crap. I am used to us failing at the last hurdle time and again.

Please, not this time.

[trend.......]

we will do it this time....... trust big tone...............

[visunitafortior]

big crowd, sky cameras are here, we've read this script time and time again.