Our last away game, sending hoardes of sunshine loving, t shirt wearing blues down the M6 t'Stoke.
This game would have been very anxiety ridden if Europa was still an option and thus lots of wincing every time they got a throw in our own half for their ridiculously long throws that everyone complains about yet more and more Prem teams are adopting the approach of now.
Despite a 7-0 tw*tting on the weekend by probable Champions this year, Stoke away is no easy place to obtain a result. We managed it last year when Stoke still had their top league sea legs but our back four will have to battle hard to counter their aggressive and direct approach. That direct and aggressive approach won't receive any cheap jibes here, it works and Pullis has done a super job in stabilising them in the top flight, to the point where they have been sat tight for a couple of weeks knowing they will stay up - massively more evolved than Everton for most of the nineties for example. They can play a bit too with the dangerous Etherington scampering down the wing and Tuncay used to be on his day an intelligent little player. Compliment this with the often under rated Shawcross and a whole other host of grocks and you have an away fixture not many will cherish.
Moody away game if you're visiting this, as a number of their supporters very cleverly disguise their hooligan ambitions by covering themselves with Burberry, great work Dazza". Delilah gets incredibly tedious by the 22nd minute and like their Midland neighbours they think it shames us because we don't sing enough or conduct enough in general wacky behaviour. Sit down you teds. Away from the generalisations and cheap jibes, we have a few really sound Stoke fans who post on here so I'll leave it before they comment on our travelling ninjas, and the bloke who had his top off after the winning goal at Blackburn on TV who had a nipple ring on. Got to be a wool. Joking Reids & co x
The line up will likely remain the same as the one which looked pretty but made very hard work of beating Fulham's reserves, not accounting for our weekly striker rotation. Saha and Yakubu are not hardly staking a claim, are they? I'm hoping the luscious Mr Arteta isn't sporting some Rambo like scar either, although prominent footballers facial scars seems to make them acer these days.
I wonder if Beattie will play himself into contention for South Africa? Two to go.
This game would have been very anxiety ridden if Europa was still an option and thus lots of wincing every time they got a throw in our own half for their ridiculously long throws that everyone complains about yet more and more Prem teams are adopting the approach of now.
Despite a 7-0 tw*tting on the weekend by probable Champions this year, Stoke away is no easy place to obtain a result. We managed it last year when Stoke still had their top league sea legs but our back four will have to battle hard to counter their aggressive and direct approach. That direct and aggressive approach won't receive any cheap jibes here, it works and Pullis has done a super job in stabilising them in the top flight, to the point where they have been sat tight for a couple of weeks knowing they will stay up - massively more evolved than Everton for most of the nineties for example. They can play a bit too with the dangerous Etherington scampering down the wing and Tuncay used to be on his day an intelligent little player. Compliment this with the often under rated Shawcross and a whole other host of grocks and you have an away fixture not many will cherish.
Moody away game if you're visiting this, as a number of their supporters very cleverly disguise their hooligan ambitions by covering themselves with Burberry, great work Dazza". Delilah gets incredibly tedious by the 22nd minute and like their Midland neighbours they think it shames us because we don't sing enough or conduct enough in general wacky behaviour. Sit down you teds. Away from the generalisations and cheap jibes, we have a few really sound Stoke fans who post on here so I'll leave it before they comment on our travelling ninjas, and the bloke who had his top off after the winning goal at Blackburn on TV who had a nipple ring on. Got to be a wool. Joking Reids & co x
The line up will likely remain the same as the one which looked pretty but made very hard work of beating Fulham's reserves, not accounting for our weekly striker rotation. Saha and Yakubu are not hardly staking a claim, are they? I'm hoping the luscious Mr Arteta isn't sporting some Rambo like scar either, although prominent footballers facial scars seems to make them acer these days.
I wonder if Beattie will play himself into contention for South Africa? Two to go.
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