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Post by DansViews on Apr 30, 2024 6:59:08 GMT
As a youngster (primary school) I supported arsenal. George Easthamis/was a family friend and had arsenal memorabilia from him (as well as a 1966 World Cup final program signed by the England squad).
I then went to a stoke game at the vic and fell in love with Stoke, which cemented my love even more was when he told me he also played for Stoke!
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Apr 30, 2024 7:01:51 GMT
I spent eight hours drinking Guiness with my left hand on Saturday. And eight more hours sucking people off I'd imagine. |
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Post by stokieinlondon on Apr 30, 2024 7:03:41 GMT
I don’t think Diamond Lights by Hoddle and Waddle is a bad song. It stacks up with a lot of those types of songs from the 80s.
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Post by andystokey on Apr 30, 2024 7:15:24 GMT
My first club was Liverpool & my favourite player was Jan Molby. God knows why. I was only a kid. My first Stoke game was a 2-0 win over Liverpool, tickets through Stoke Ladsandads, which I went to, because I liked Liverpool. From that day onwards I supported Stoke, but I sometimes wonder where I'd be now if I'd stuck with the Bindippers. It'd have been a completely different, football supporting life. Same here except my favourite player was Steve McManaman, I only really started supporting Stoke in the mid 90’s as a teenager Liverpool fan, Arsenal glory hunter and Neil Warnock rimmer. Perfect 😁 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Apr 30, 2024 7:29:28 GMT
Same here except my favourite player was Steve McManaman, I only really started supporting Stoke in the mid 90’s as a teenager Liverpool fan, Arsenal glory hunter and Neil Warnock rimmer. Perfect 😁 🤣 ya got me |
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 30, 2024 7:35:15 GMT
I once killed a man near Maine Road and someone else did time for it.
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Post by NassauDave on Apr 30, 2024 7:40:49 GMT
I keep moving things around in a laundry room in a residential complex in Sweden.
I also think I need psychiatric help.
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Post by NassauDave on Apr 30, 2024 7:42:27 GMT
I once killed a man near Maine Road and someone else did time for it. That reminds me, I saw Queen live at Maine Road in the late 80's. |
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Post by diego on Apr 30, 2024 7:48:20 GMT
driving back from the steino-inspired win at forest in 1993, we had a stoke scarf in the back window and a car pulled up next to us at the lights. 'good win for you today' said a man with heavy strapping across his face and a brummie accent. we agreed and asked if he had been to the match too, at which point an older man, probably his dad, with an even thicker brummie accent said 'he's a player. he played!'
not recognising him, i said something about he must have played shit, his team deserved to lose and that they might get relegated. it was ian clarkson, who had made his debut for stoke that day and broke his nose for the cause. sorry ian.
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Post by boult on Apr 30, 2024 8:27:33 GMT
I think Pulis is the best Stoke City manager in my lifetime. That team was as tough as nails.
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Post by tommycarlsberg on Apr 30, 2024 8:49:41 GMT
I know who lobbed the pie at Sheffield Wednesday away
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Post by thornestein on Apr 30, 2024 9:01:34 GMT
I know who lobbed the pie at Sheffield Wednesday away this could get interesting 🤔 😂🤣 |
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Apr 30, 2024 9:13:48 GMT
I once saw someone kill a man near Maine road but never said anything to the police as I feared for my own life.
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Post by kerouac on Apr 30, 2024 9:19:53 GMT
Confession: Sometimes I really crave a smooth well rolled joint but I don't do that anymore. Me too,and actually had my “once a fortnight “ pre 7 a-side reefer last night I had a penchant for Everton,West Ham and Crystal Palace( purely because of the name) before my dad took me to watch Stoke in the early’70’s. I like Warnock. |
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Apr 30, 2024 9:25:42 GMT
I accidentally left my lucky pig's head in the home dressing room while on a stadium tour of the Brit in 2013.
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Apr 30, 2024 9:28:40 GMT
When I was much younger, when Eric Cantona shocked the footballing world by moving from Leeds to Manchester United, I spent a week walking around thinking that his actual name was Wayward Cantona as the newspaper headline read 'Wayward Cantona signs for Man Utd' This didn't happen to me, but I read it in the letters page of Shoot (or 442) in the early 90s and it always makes me laugh when I think about it. Not football-related, but I did once read an article about the best misheard song lyrics and the one I always remember is someone thinking that Robert Palmer had a huge hit in 1985 with a song that went: "You might as well face it you're a dick with a glove". |
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Post by lordb on Apr 30, 2024 9:30:45 GMT
I once killed a man near Maine Road and someone else did time for it. That reminds me, I saw Queen live at Maine Road in the late 80's. Not sure who has committed the bigger crime there |
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Apr 30, 2024 9:32:05 GMT
I accidentally left my lucky pig's head in the home dressing room while on a stadium tour of the Brit in 2013. Whilst we are on the subject it was me who threw the brick through Whelan's car window. Kenwyne took the wrap for me as he didn't want to see me banned for life from matches. Sorry Glenn. |
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 30, 2024 9:47:09 GMT
I once saw someone kill a man near Maine road but never said anything to the police as I feared for my own life. I still know where you live. |
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 30, 2024 9:47:33 GMT
That reminds me, I saw Queen live at Maine Road in the late 80's. Not sure who has committed the bigger crime there I think we both know. |
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Post by J-Roar on Apr 30, 2024 9:48:36 GMT
I know who lobbed the pie at Sheffield Wednesday away It wasn't lobbed - any fool can tell you that. |
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Post by danceswithclams on Apr 30, 2024 10:02:41 GMT
I once killed a man near Maine Road and someone else did time for it. That reminds me, I saw Queen live at Maine Road in the late 80's. Who was the support act? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2024 10:24:21 GMT
That reminds me, I saw Queen live at Maine Road in the late 80's. Who was the support act? Queen were the support act for a well known band. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2024 10:24:57 GMT
I once heard a guy in the pub saying he saw someone kill a fan at Maine road, apparently he was too scared to go to the police.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Apr 30, 2024 10:29:41 GMT
I was once killed by a man outside of Maine Road and this passer by just watched it happen without helping.
My last memory is someone singing bohemian rhapsody…
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Post by stokiemac on Apr 30, 2024 10:51:42 GMT
I wasn't that bothered about the idea of being relegated this season
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Apr 30, 2024 10:55:37 GMT
I once saw someone kill a man near Maine road but never said anything to the police as I feared for my own life. I still know where you live. Oh shit. |
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Post by stantheman on Apr 30, 2024 10:55:39 GMT
During the early 1990's I was driving my car full of pissed up Stoke mates past Vale park late on on a Saturday night. One of them need a piss, so I stopped and he pissed up a turnstile door. He was a big lad, so he leant on the door to steady himself. The next thing was an almighty bang as the door flew open and he went flying inside the ground. There were no alarms or security lights, so we found ourselves wandering around an empty Vale park at midnight. One of the other muppets found a shovel and started digging a few small holes in the pitch! We were going to put the turf back , but a loud noise outside made us crap ourselves and ran back to my car for a fast getaway.
The headlines in the Sentinel on Monday morning, and on billboards outside newsagents, was 'Yobs wreck Vale Park pitch' With a photograph of a rather stern looking Bill Bell. The 'story' also made Midlands Today news! Bill
Bell reckoned they had some kind of infrared cameras in the ground, and that the perpetrators would be identified. One of my numpty mates was so worried that he would get a knock on the door, that he was very close to handing himself in! Suffice to say we talked him out of it!
These were the days before mobile phones and pictures everywhere, which is definitely a good thing.
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Apr 30, 2024 10:56:10 GMT
I once heard a guy in the pub saying he saw someone kill a fan at Maine road, apparently he was too scared to go to the police. Grass. |
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Post by Robo10 on Apr 30, 2024 11:37:39 GMT
In the days before mobiles, the internet etc, I coughingly called into work 'sick' (via an old fashioned 'house phone'), before setting off to Swansea with mates. Maybe about 1993 or so. Midweek game (why is Swans away always midweek?)
Imagine my horror to see my boss on the concourse, but he gave me a knowing nod and smile, and I watched I think Gleghorn and Stigger Foley give us a 2-1 away win
(Coach next to us windows were smashed by bricks but thats another story!)
Went into work knackered as wasnt home until 2am, looked rough, but expecting to be dragged into a room for a bollocking
Turns out he was ill and not at work that day too, and we never spoke of it again 😂
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