Close Season

Taking a break from the blog to get ready for the big one....Stoke in the Prem 2008 -2009 !!Back soon....(all regular links will continue to update as usual).

Pottermouth Strikes Again....What A Star!!!

This man's a genius...... Stokies' Poet Laureat!

Link To Pottermouth Sequel

Promotion Salute From Block 31 Stokies On The Big Day !!!!!

WE DID IT !!!!We're Back !!! May 4th 2008....After 23 Years Away From The Top Flight.

Block 31 celebrates....











And Absent Friends..Almunecar Chapter...."Watch out Man U ...here come the rip roaring Potters!!"

Savour The Moment.........It's Sooo Good To Be A Stokie !!

The papers are full of US...Sentinel Specials are US.....Sky Sports News is US.....Midlands Today is US ....Radio Stoke runs a fabulous special.....the City turns out for us....Dicko not only plays football,the lad sings too (unexpurgated Delilah's on live TV!!).Pottermouth masterminds a celebratory version of his famously influential Battlecry.....we're up to the Prem and everybody knows it.

And to paraphrase Peter Coates,this evening...."a BILLION people worldwide will know about US every weekend from August"!!!

SURELY NOT A BETTER TIME TO BE A STOKIE......

Daily Mirror.....

It's worth noting that as far as I can see, the Mirror jounalist is the only one to really focus on the first seriously ill judged fans incursion onto the pitch (see stoke 0-0 Leicester) ....suggesting that there might be repercussions for Stoke.
The whole tone of his report was disparaging.

What Mr. Nixon seems to have overlooked(or not seen the need to mention)was that (a) there were no stoppages - certainly not 4 minutes worth - in the second half (b) in any case at least 3 minutes of that had been played- how do we know?As the few fans were cleared from the pitch those of us in the centre of The Seddon Stand saw Delap ask ref Mike Dean (who had a splendid match throughout,showed excellent understanding of this crowd exhuberance,and considerable commonsense in handling it - commonsense singularly lacking in Mr.Nixon's piece)how long,Dean clearly mouthed 1 minute (which he duly played ).
In none of the reportage elsewhere has Manager Holloway expressed anything more than disappointment with his own team's inconsistency which he felt has cost them their place in the Championship.

Alan Nixon's efforts to rain on our parade are an unfortunate journalistic exercise in negativity(" the whole match a shambolic non event"...etc) and in complete contrast to the superb generosity of the reportage elsewhere.

Go....Arrrrn Stoke!

More Stokie Promotion 'n' Premiership Stuff Than You Can Shake A Stick At !!

(On A Brilliant Bank Holiday Morning)


Try These Links to NATIONAL PAPERS
Daily Telegraph Slideshow (first 7 pics)

No kidding, Stoke join the Premier League (Times Online)

No Kidding, Stoke Join The ELITE!!
Potters Wheel Turns Back To The Top Flight (Independent)

Indie Full Report Stoke City 0 Leicester City 0....more Potters Wheel...
SportIndex(Telegraph)
Stoke reach Premier League as Leicester flop (Telegraph Report)

Many Happy Returns For Stoke

Stoke fans go potty after promotion but Holloway is devastated as Leicester go down

Stoke promoted to Premier League as West Brom go up as Champs (Mirror)

Stoke 0-0 Leicester (Mirror Report)

£60million Pottery Winners (Daily Express)
Happy Pulis Is A Wizard Potter (The Sun)
Pulis Expects Full Houses (Sporting Life)
Potters Promoted,Foxes Down (Sporting Life)

LOCAL PAPERS

Check out the LINKS above left....2 good articles on the Sentinel site already...

The Oatcake Pro Board is really lively just as you'd expect...SMUDGE HAS STARTED A THREAD ENCOURAGING ALL STOKIES TO POST THEIR LEICESTER PHOTOS TO IT
RADIO STOKE have done us proud.....CLICK for Image Galleries

Click for Audio Interviews (3 of them)

THE LONG WAIT IS OVER...... Stoke City FC 0 Leicester City 0

YES we finally made it to the Prem !!

Can't write anymore at the moment....TOO EXCITED!!!!Sooooo HAPPY!