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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Jun 6, 2014 6:45:34 GMT
Brian Little was a loving dedicated husband.
Tony Waddington was a member of The Sobriety Society.
Alan Ball was a master tactician and outstanding manager.
Chic Bates was a music hall act.
Chris Kamara was a better hairdresser than manager.
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Post by huuuuuth on Jun 6, 2014 6:49:22 GMT
The new Stoke End stand at the Victoria Ground was, in fact, just a hologram. We HAD to move to the Britannia due to the batteries running out in the holographic projector.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2014 6:49:36 GMT
Songwriter Tony Hatch never received payment for Stoke City's 1972 League Cup song, We'll Be With You. A bitter Hatch later composed the theme tune to Australian soap Neighbours, which played backwards reveals the message 'Denis Smith is a twat'.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jun 6, 2014 6:55:12 GMT
After an 18th century blistered china piss pot was stolen from a ceramics display at the Gladstone Pottery Museum, a picture of Dean Whitehead's face was put in its place. No one noticed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2014 6:57:25 GMT
Stoke City created history in 1984-85 when their tally of 17 points was the highest achieved by a team containing 3 bald men with moustaches (Barry Siddall, Paul Dyson, Paul Maguire). Looking to continue this success, the following summer Stoke City appointed Mick Mills as the clubs player-manager.
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Post by raven on Jun 6, 2014 7:13:10 GMT
In the clubs early days any referee who gave a controversial decision against us was crucified in front of the Boothen end
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Post by ST1 Stokie on Jun 6, 2014 7:14:07 GMT
The blockbuster film"12 years a slave" was actually based on a book written by J R Hartley entitled "12 goals a season". It was written based on prolific Stoke striker Jonathon Walters
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Post by openg on Jun 6, 2014 7:17:59 GMT
Association Football was originally a curious mix of landed gentry and working class men.
In the 1880/81 season two of Stoke FC's players volunteered for the Boer War. The then number 10 shirt wearer Bartholomew Charles Fenton II of Fenton Manor and fullback Johnie "Johnie" Birkin, a Pattern Maker from Biddulph.
Both men were killed, "Johnie" on the field of battle and Bartholomew drowned along with seven other men when his boat sank on the return journey home.
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Post by LGH87 on Jun 6, 2014 7:21:05 GMT
Zay Angola, Jose Andrade and Jonathan Walters are the same person.
Steve Banks is actually Gordon Banks' father, and the film Benjamin Button was loosely based on Steve's life.
Carl Asaba was confirmed as being half man, half leaf after extensive testing was carried out on his face.
Stephen Ireland was born using DNA from Ray Houghton's thumb, explaining his somewhat thumb looking appearance.
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Jun 6, 2014 8:05:33 GMT
After lifting the League Cup in 1972, Tony Waddington's side qualified for a European campaign. The following season they beat Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo in the first round, and then Terry Conroy scored a late penalty to defeat Hitler's third panzer division outside Stalingrad before going on to lose on away goals to Otto Van Bismark in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871.
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Post by thevoid on Jun 6, 2014 8:39:34 GMT
After an undistinguished football career, Davide Xausa now composes jingles for French-Canadian radio stations. He also suffers from bi-polar depression, and is convinced he's being followed around by a giant rabbit called 'Big Tony'.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Jun 6, 2014 9:15:34 GMT
Malcome Clarke and Monica Hartland are indeed the same cloned person. No one has ever seen them in the same room GD And fornside is their lover!
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jun 6, 2014 10:02:59 GMT
Malcome Clarke and Monica Hartland are indeed the same cloned person. No one has ever seen them in the same room GD And fornside is their lover! Sounds like a lurid remake of that 1989 film classic. The Administrator, The Rambler, His Wife & Their Squirrel
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Post by JetBlack on Jun 6, 2014 10:07:16 GMT
Veteran player Chris 'I don't know what's going on' Kamara is actually a bit part actor and can regularly be seen playing out his roles in various soap operas.
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Post by salopstick on Jun 6, 2014 10:10:21 GMT
tony pulis had a new 5 year plan
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Post by leicspotter on Jun 6, 2014 10:40:28 GMT
The reason that Stoke City have never won the league is that the Victoria Ground was cursed by travelling Gypsies after they were forced to de-camp from the Butlet Street car park. Since moving to the Britannia Stadium SCFC have installed a black cat (several probably! :Lawrence, Delap...Bardsley)) as it is believed to be lucky. Strangely, this is ALL TRUE ![8-|](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/rY_vRFLA3mqqdMbEG4cF.gif)
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Post by thevoid on Jun 6, 2014 10:40:45 GMT
tony pulis had a new 5 year plan And a secret dossier as well...
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Post by Clayton Wood on Jun 6, 2014 10:53:15 GMT
On being released by the club Tom Soares, Michael Tonge and Diego Arismendi formed a 3 piece band called The Invisible Men. Mostly doing session work for radio jingles they are perhaps best well known for their Doritos adverts.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2014 11:20:19 GMT
Mama Sidibe is scared of custard, and this was the only reason he left the club.
Jermaine Pennant had his contract terminated because he refused to play unless MH allowed him to take his e-cigarette onto the pitch with him.
Danny Collins required a dose of Ketamine to settle his nerves before big games.
Glenn Whelan recently asked for a pay-cut because his Salary took him over the new Government Child Benefit Cap threshold of £50k.
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Post by redstriper on Jun 6, 2014 11:22:25 GMT
In 1986, Stoke sued Smiths Crisps on the basis that the stripes on their bacon fries were illegally copied from the design of the Stoke shirt. The ensuing legal battle lasted years, and ended only because Gary Lineker, who owns the rival Crisp company Walkers, intervened a peacemaker.
As part of the settlement Smiths donated a lorry load of bacon fries to the club, which John Parkin was to distribute amongst the fans at the next home game. Parkin claimed they were stolen before he could do so.
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Post by tijuanabrass on Jun 6, 2014 11:49:36 GMT
During the 1980s the club was bank rolled by Albanian wallpaper manufacturer, Broxap. Due to problems with pronunciation, the company eventually changed its name to Crown Paints.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2014 12:01:12 GMT
Stoke City hold the record for having the most players (73) charged with sexually abusing midgets during half time. The figure would have been higher if claims against 12 players had been successful following a series of incidents during a 1975 friendly in Hoffenheim between Stoke City and German Midgets XI. It transpired that all victims were actually dwarfs and the 2-0 victory to the dwarfs was overturned and recorded as a 3-0 Stoke City victory. Stoke City were however banned from winning enough games to qualify for European tournaments for 35 years.
Second in the list is Midgetshaggers FC of Norway
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Post by withnall on Jun 6, 2014 12:32:40 GMT
The only reason Germany invaded Poland was because Stoke were set to sign Lech Walensa - "The Shipyard Shithouse|" - from Polish outfit Ultra FC.
The rest is just history.
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Post by fazza90 on Jun 6, 2014 13:00:00 GMT
Frode Kippe's real name was actually Frode Baggins but because he was ridiculed at school he changed his surname to Kippe in honour of his grandfather who was actually a fish.
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Post by mt on Jun 6, 2014 13:07:39 GMT
Jon Parkin didnt eat a single pie while he was at Stoke.
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Post by mt on Jun 6, 2014 13:11:42 GMT
Managers in the opposition side always changed their tactics as soon as they knew Peter Kopteff would enter the pitch.
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Post by brumstokie on Jun 6, 2014 13:34:27 GMT
Michael Duberry appeared on the 1st series of The Voice but none of the judges turned around.
When Tom Jones eventually saw him he said " You were good & if I'd known your head was shaped like a 50p piece I would have put you through"
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Post by LGH87 on Jun 6, 2014 14:06:04 GMT
Graham Potter has never got over the fact that his cousins Brian and Harry both went on to have more successful careers than him
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Post by Clayton Wood on Jun 6, 2014 14:16:08 GMT
'70's rock guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore was our very own Alan Hudson. Alan on Saturday but Ritchie by night his double life has been proven by the fact that Alan has never been seen at a Deep Purple/Rainbow gig. ![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_1DbJDXsHAQ/UTP4Kk92nUI/AAAAAAAACzg/Xg13BVhiJe0/s1600/Ritchie_Blackmore_06.jpg) Blackmore Hudson
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Post by brumstokie on Jun 6, 2014 14:31:39 GMT
Despite continually slicing the ball out of play with his left foot Geoff Scott was a superb single figure handicap golfer with a perfect draw shape on every shot.
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