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Post by albundy on May 1, 2017 19:00:17 GMT
We be fucked now ,there would be no one left in the ground. More empty seats back in those days than now
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Post by crouchpotato1 on May 1, 2017 19:01:01 GMT
Went similar the other year when Ryan was sent off against spurs. Half the spurs team crawled up in their own arses and sherwood said after the game it was frightening Isnt that when he took that wanker Danny Rose off because of the abuse he was getting?
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Post by imho on May 1, 2017 19:25:16 GMT
The 'roar' is the only time I've seen players on the pitch actually stop and look to the stands to see what was going on. I'm sure they all thought there was something serious happening and when they realized what it was our players grew taller and theirs disappeared.
Once in a lifetime moment and as someone else posted just like something out of a movie.
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Post by thegift on May 1, 2017 19:28:06 GMT
The 'roar' is the only time I've seen players on the pitch actually stop and look to the stands to see what was going on. I'm sure they all thought there was something serious happening and when they realized what it was our players grew taller and theirs disappeared. Once in a lifetime moment and as someone else posted just like something out of a movie. Incredible. One of my favourite moment as a stoke fan, up their with the FA cup, cardiff extra time and the premier league promotion. Really made the hairs on the back of your neck not just stand up, but fucking run around.
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Post by RichJonesy on May 1, 2017 19:36:31 GMT
Was this game the birth of one of my favourite ever chants?
Or was "Shaun Wright Phillips....John Terry's your Dad...!!!" The season after?
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Post by whereami on May 1, 2017 19:37:15 GMT
Nothing really as I remember, it just kind of happened Craig Bellamy danced through and curled an effort marginally over the bar. This, and the scoreboard had been cycling through the team line ups, birthdays etc. After expecting to concede at some time in the match, the screen flicked back to the clock and showed we were over the 80 min mark. Coming just after Bellamy's shot, it was a spontaneous outbreaking of WE CAN DO THIS! / actually seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in the match
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Post by Dingdangdoo on May 1, 2017 19:49:37 GMT
It was a unique moment and one I'll never forget
In the same game SWP went to control the ball and missed it as he was affected by the crowd
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Post by stantheman on May 1, 2017 19:51:03 GMT
LMH has also stated that he still remembers that roar! If only we played blood and thunder football these days, that got you on your feet screaming your lungs out at the opposition, the ref or just for the hell of it.
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Post by mattador78 on May 1, 2017 19:51:30 GMT
Went similar the other year when Ryan was sent off against spurs. Half the spurs team crawled up in their own arses and sherwood said after the game it was frightening Isnt that when he took that wanker Danny Rose off because of the abuse he was getting? Yep
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Post by duckling on May 1, 2017 19:54:59 GMT
LMH has also stated that he still remembers that roar! If only we played blood and thunder football these days, that got you on your feet screaming your lungs out at the opposition, the ref or just for the hell of it. Was this when Hughes was manager of Manchester City?
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Post by Clem Fandango on May 1, 2017 19:56:00 GMT
Im sure this was the game where we were shouting 'there's only 1 Shay Given' as Joe Hart came to stand between the sticks. Fair play to him he laughed and put his thumb up.
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Post by simple on May 1, 2017 20:18:16 GMT
We be fucked now ,there would be no one left in the ground. More empty seats back in those days than now Not after 80 min,that game was one of the best atmospheres and team performance since we have been in the Prem,I still can picture the goal and the noise,where as all the passion gone on the field and off.
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Post by march4 on May 1, 2017 20:28:15 GMT
Man City were putting us under increasing amounts of pressure which culminated in them having a shot from the edge of the box which flew over the bar.
Initially there were jeers, but these turned into a guttural, primeval roar from nearly every Stokie in the ground. It was something from deep within us all - the sort of roar early cavemen would have made. And once you joined in, it developed an emotion the like of which I have never experienced before or since.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on May 1, 2017 21:04:21 GMT
It was the best thing I've experienced in a football ground in 28 years of life on this planet, it was every single Stoke fan having the same thought in one go, and that was to drag those 10 lads on the pitch across the finishing line. They were absolutely fucked, they'd worked their absolute bollocks off cancelling out a Man City team who, man to man, were about 10x more skillful than each of them. It was absolutely mint and epitomised that amazing relationship we had with the players in the 2007-2010 seasons. This is the passion and fight a Pulis team has. Wonder who the city manager was that day ?
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Post by StokieBoy31 on May 1, 2017 21:13:36 GMT
What an atmosphere that was! The players were amazing that day as were the fans!
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Post by borat on May 1, 2017 21:15:07 GMT
SWP was wank that day and even worse after the abuse. Never seen a player buckle so much from crowd abuse.
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Post by thegift on May 1, 2017 21:23:19 GMT
This is the passion and fight a Pulis team has. Wonder who the city manager was that day ? The legend
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 21:49:05 GMT
But a diminishing memory
we are incapable of doing anything like that now
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Post by JoeinOz on May 1, 2017 21:57:46 GMT
There used to be a you tube clip of it taken from the telly footage. I think Trev was doing co commentary and he mentioned that the incredible din had just got even louder.
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Post by elystokie on May 1, 2017 22:19:07 GMT
It was the best thing I've experienced in a football ground in 28 years of life on this planet, it was every single Stoke fan having the same thought in one go, and that was to drag those 10 lads on the pitch across the finishing line. They were absolutely fucked, they'd worked their absolute bollocks off cancelling out a Man City team who, man to man, were about 10x more skillful than each of them. It was absolutely mint and epitomised that amazing relationship we had with the players in the 2007-2010 seasons. This is the passion and fight a Pulis team has. Evidently the fans of Pompey, Plymouth, Brizzle, West Scrum and Stoke in his last few seasons didn't get the memo....
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Post by foxysgloves on May 1, 2017 22:23:52 GMT
But a diminishing memory we are incapable of doing anything like that now Not true. Our time will come again.
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Post by PotterLog on May 2, 2017 1:03:00 GMT
This is the passion and fight a Pulis team has. Wonder who the city manager was that day ? The City manager was Tony Pulis
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Post by Cast no shadow on May 2, 2017 2:24:26 GMT
I'd give both bollucks away to get the atmosphere back to that again.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 2, 2017 2:49:24 GMT
Truly amazing day. The day I started to believe again, after a very difficult month or so in which we'd suffered heartbreak at Stamford Bridge (1-0 up at 86 mins only to lose 2-1) and had gone 8 weeks without a win. If you look at our home record after this game, we only lost once, a dead rubber against West Ham a week before we secured mathematical safety at Hull.
I don't really remember that much of the game, just the noise. I've never actually hated someone at a football game, but Shuan Wright Phillips in that instance got me as angry as I've ever been, we were cheated to be the only side down to 10 men, against the new money of Man City. They threw everything at us, every player to a man was remarkable. The roar was a wave, not a chant of "go on", it started and just swept round the ground, just pure passion. I seem to remember Micah Richards going through, and Griff put in what was probably his last meaningful contribution in a Stoke shirt and took him out fairly, but left him on the deck.
Halcyon days, the luxuries we have no may be more enjoyable, but NOTHING will match that season for pure spirit and togetherness.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 2, 2017 2:51:44 GMT
Im sure this was the game where we were shouting 'there's only 1 Shay Given' as Joe Hart came to stand between the sticks. Fair play to him he laughed and put his thumb up. We did indeed! Came back to haunt us as the next season on loan at Birmingham he turned in a Lev Yashin like performance as they beat us 1-0!
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 2, 2017 3:09:40 GMT
Nothing really as I remember, it just kind of happened Craig Bellamy danced through and curled an effort marginally over the bar. The players were dead on their feet, the crowd knew it and reacted accordingly. It was an amazing moment of unadulterated passion. Exactly how I remember it. That shot and the fact that it didn't go in was the start of it. 10 men dead on their feet playing $300m of talent. 24,000 fans saw they needed it and were deafening. I still have the game on pvr. The most intimidating i have ever seen a set of fans and that includes Leeds with their balaclavas. Man City wanted out of Stoke from the moment Delap was sent off. It was magnificent and made me feel very proud.
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 2, 2017 3:12:07 GMT
I also take credit for 'Robinho, she said no' song.
Had a few sherbets on Friday night and posted it about 11pm Calgary time. I was buzzing when I heard it on the tv 😁
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 2, 2017 5:19:48 GMT
Duckling - you should also check out 'let's all do the Wenger' and the games against Liverpool.
In one of them, there was a superb rendition of 'Ricardo Fuller, City's number 10" with an old pisshead leading the charge on the TV.
The game against the scouse on Boxing night was another game never to forget. Late kick off, fans full of ale, 0-1 down within 90 seconds, Suarez the antichrist, flares and it finished 3-1 for Stoke. I was home for that one and it was mint. My daughter learned many new words. Something smaller but similar to the roar took place in the first half when the players were chasing Liverpool down all over their box.
It was an appreciation of the crowd for the effort our inferior team were putting in to match Liverpool on a special day.
We destroyed them 6-1 but the Boxing Day game remains my favourite.
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Post by Northy on May 2, 2017 6:25:00 GMT
Glenn Whelan's chip
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Post by stantheman on May 2, 2017 7:07:37 GMT
Am I right in thinking that this was an early kick off - Saturday lunch time?
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