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Post by Olgrligm on Jun 5, 2014 20:55:21 GMT
Asides from a brief spell as 'Stoke Ramblers', the club has always been called 'Stoke City' due to a clerical error. This was eventually such a source of national embarrassment that the King decided to give the six towns city status.
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Post by danceswithclams on Jun 5, 2014 21:00:03 GMT
Geogre Berry was the world's first black man.
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Post by doctorbaker on Jun 5, 2014 21:08:18 GMT
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Post by djduncanjames on Jun 5, 2014 21:12:58 GMT
Tuncay Sanli was a full time smoker
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Post by danceswithclams on Jun 5, 2014 21:24:56 GMT
Nicky Mohan was best man at former Cheers star Ted Danson's and Back To The Future III actress Mary Steenburgen's 1995 wedding.
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Post by bassmaster on Jun 5, 2014 21:25:14 GMT
Gay Dave has never tripped over his ego.
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Post by siggy on Jun 5, 2014 21:26:45 GMT
There are fifteen Stoke supporters on Guernsey - two of them are complete pissheads
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Post by djduncanjames on Jun 5, 2014 21:35:31 GMT
Liam Lawrence never owned a dog
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 21:44:52 GMT
In the 2009/2010 season Aaron Ramsey walked of the britannia pitch at the final whistle to a standing ovation from both sets of fans after a sterling performance.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Jun 5, 2014 21:51:22 GMT
Johan Boskamp turned down celebrity fit club to accept the managers job.
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Post by onionman on Jun 5, 2014 21:51:58 GMT
Former Liverpool striker Ian Rush bought his famous moustache from a car boot sale organised by Stoke left-back Peter Hampton during the summer of 1983. By the time the new season started, Hampton had already grown a new moustache of his own, so there were technically two Hampton moustaches on display throughout the 1983/84 campaign.
The following summer, a third Hampton moustache was purchased by Nottingham Forest's Johnny Metgod. However the Dutch maestro never used it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 21:52:26 GMT
Stoke city have travelled to every away match for the last 150 years by canal boat. Both the Victoria Ground and the Brit have secret canals that go right into the home dressing room.
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Post by pyrus on Jun 5, 2014 21:59:41 GMT
This thread was the main reason that George Eastham agreed to sign for Stoke City from Arsenal in 1966
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Post by essexstokey on Jun 5, 2014 22:06:03 GMT
Stoke once played in a white shirt with red pin stripes !!! oh now I come to think about it they did ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/KYqg3pYeaerc5lD_P7BR.gif)
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Post by ST1 Stokie on Jun 5, 2014 22:09:19 GMT
In the early 80s whilst touring Scotland Stoke city came to the sleepy little town of Stenhousemuir, lying in wait were hoards of "Bravehearts". The unassuming and friendly Stoke "sassanachs" never stood a chance. What happened on that fateful day will torment the souls of all that were there, and many to this day can't bring themselves to speak of the horrors that ensued.
It has gone down in folklore as the most horrific event in the history of Stoke City.
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Post by stokiemarc on Jun 5, 2014 22:13:18 GMT
In 1993 the club shop launched their Vincent Overson Doll, equipped with a removable head bandage. However 'Vince' was not on the shelves for long as they failed to pass the British Standard test for UK toys. The Sentinel ran a story which claimed that the club sourced the dolls from Uzbekistan.
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Jun 5, 2014 22:17:07 GMT
Dave Bamber was born with a Dutch cock.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2014 22:20:04 GMT
Stoke have a player called Jamie Ness
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Post by thevoid on Jun 5, 2014 22:44:51 GMT
Former Stoke striker Mark Stein has ghost-written Katie Price's last four autobiographies.
Toasted cheese has similar effects on John Rudge as catnip does with felines. The very thought of Red Leicester melting into a piece of brown Hovis will see the former Stoke Director of Football ejaculate repeatedly, and roll around on the floor until he hears the theme tune to The Chase, which breaks the spell.
Mark Prudhoe has the largest collection of Al Pacino merchandise in Europe, and even turned his garage into a museum dedicated to the Scarface star. Coincidentally, Al Pacino has no items whatsoever connected to Mark Prudhoe.
Maurice Edu loves nothing better than to sit on the edge of his bed with one slipper on, staring into the middle-distance.
O'Neill Donaldson invented the clutch-bag and regularly appears as a villain in the Cuban soap opera 'Zapatta Dinero'.
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Post by Gob Bluth on Jun 5, 2014 22:49:11 GMT
Stephen Tweed is still invited to the end of season players awards ceremony because there's a light in one of the store rooms that's too awkward to reach on ladders so they invite him incase the bulb needs changing.
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Post by Gob Bluth on Jun 5, 2014 22:53:10 GMT
John Eustace is still on call for advice when handling relationship advice when hooking up with another player's wife or girlfriend although this generally ends up being a conversation on Hereford FC and their bull.
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Post by Vestan Pance on Jun 5, 2014 22:57:34 GMT
Unsuccessful stoke city central defender Stephen tweed retired from the game to become a theoretical physicist, and blamed his numerous poor performances on the fact he was too busy considering the existential problems of the universe.
Ian Cranson won Equatorial Guinea in a game of three card brag. He didn't even go blind.
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Post by Gob Bluth on Jun 5, 2014 23:02:35 GMT
In 2008-09 the clubs determination to stay in Premier League missed no detail including the until now secret resigning of Paul Williams to don the Pottermus costume to ensure that Stoke mascot was the largest and fullest in the any top European league. In 2014 he was one of Crystal Palaces' cheerleaders.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jun 5, 2014 23:05:23 GMT
The Brittania stadium is upside down.
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Post by pyrus on Jun 5, 2014 23:05:43 GMT
Eric Skeels lives in a nest in a tree overlooking Clayton Woods training ground. He wears rabbit skins and and fishes in shallow puddles. Each morning Ryan Shawcross leads the entire squad out on a horseback deer hunt and 10% of all venison caught is left hanging on a meet hook for Eric. The rest is converted into edible fashion items and sold in the club shop.
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Post by prudhoe on Jun 6, 2014 0:07:50 GMT
Vincent Pericard used to play for Juventus. Bull shit!
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Post by danceswithclams on Jun 6, 2014 4:07:38 GMT
Sebastian Svärd is 'the voice of the balls' in his native Demark's lottery draw shows.
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 6, 2014 4:44:15 GMT
Mama Sidibe simply adores kicking an oily rag around the streets of Longton.
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Post by ST1 Stokie on Jun 6, 2014 6:22:29 GMT
Before signing for Stoke Justin Whittle wa short listed to play the part of "Sapphire" in the hit tv show Sapphire and Steel. Ironically and co-incidentally Loek Ursum was Ille Kuruiakin
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jun 6, 2014 6:42:27 GMT
Lenny Henry's comedy inspiration is Garth Crooks, who to this day he calls 'The black Jimmy Clitheroe' after seeing him perform his act at Fenton British Legion in 1974. Garth calls Lenny, Lenny.
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