The Potters have today been drawn to make the trip to the North East to face League One side Hartlepool United at Victoria Park. Hartlepool, who are celebrating their centenary year currently sit twelfth in the League One table after a mixed start to the season. They have defeated Brighton and Hove Albion and [...]

  On the balance of play on the day, a draw was in my opinion a fair result from a match that while hardly a classic, was a decent battle between two strong sides and an intriguing contest to watch. Stoke created more chances than Hull, but it was Marlon King’s quality finishing that earned [...]

      Stoke’s five match winning home run came to a rather indifferent end following a 1-1 draw with Hull at the Britannia Stadium this afternoon. Hull’s Jamaican forward Marlon King gave the visitors the lead on the stroke of half time in a match that was played under thick fog, before his international strike [...]

  The rags to (moderate) riches story of Hull City Football Club is one that has barely been out of the press in recent weeks, it’s hard not to be familiar with it by now, so in this section where I would normally give a description of a club’s recent history I will give only [...]

  Seventeen year old midfielder Nathaniel Wedderburn who joined the Stoke academy less than three years ago has today signed his first professional contract with the club before immediately completing a loan move to League Two side Notts County.   Six foot one inch Wedderburn, who signed on a one year contract, made his debut for the Stoke [...]

  In the last three months, Stoke’s chances of signing Lokomotiv Moscow and Ghana winger Haminu Dramani have gone from ”we’re signing who?!” to ”looks nailed on” to ”let’s wait and see in November” to ”seems it’s back on” and now to ”looks like it may not happen after all”, as Stoke chief executive played [...]

  Stoke are reported to be back in the hunt for Benfica and Portugal striker Ariza Makukla, with some reports in the Porteugeuse media claiming that Tony Pulis has already tabled a £4.5 million offer for the player, who was linked with the club over the summer.   The 6’3.5” forward, who was born in [...]

        It will be three months tomorrow since Stoke’s first ever Premier league victory. Mamady Sidibe header a lead winner in a 3-2 success for Stoke and he repeated the feat today, heading home in the 84th minute to give the Potters all three points. The game though, was nothing like as entertaining [...]

  Stoke welcome West Brom to the Britannia Stadium this afternoon for what looks on paper to be a great chance for stoke to take a fifth straight home win and the three point’s that would come with it, hopefully moving further away from the relegation places. West Brom sit bottom going into the match, [...]

  Stoke began their third Premier League month with a home fixture against rock-bottom Tottenham, who at the time had just two points on the board and whose manager Juande Ramos was coming under huge pressure from fans. Spurs have now, of course, experienced a mini-revival under new boss Harry Redknapp, who was appointed a [...]