Back in August, Stoke’s young centre-back Ryan Shawcross had a dreadful game in Stoke’s first ever Premier League game, a 3-1 away defeat to Bolton. Despite an impressive first season as a full professional, with Stoke in the Championship last season, it seemed to me that day that he wasn’t ready for top flight [...]

  With the two week international break that I lamented in my previous article in action, there’s not much going on around Stoke City at the moment, so I though I’d use this chance to introduce something I’ve been considering for a while, a player of the month vote. Can anyone who reads this please [...]

  Once again, and for the fifth time this season, their will be no Premier League football played this weekend, international friendlies taking precedence. They call it an international ”break”, but for me, this is a misnomer. The word ”break” has connotations of a calming rest that should in no way be associated with this [...]

  Here’s what I see as the key talking points from yesterday’s vitally important home victory over fellow relegation candidates Middlesbrough.
A season-defining win?
I feel that yesterday’s result could be the one we look back on at the end of the season as the most important in our bid for survival. The three points is crucial [...]

 
   
  Having previously not scored in over a year, Stoke centre-back Ryan Shawcross’s third goal in as many weeks, six minutes from time, was enough to earn the Potters a crucial victory over fellow relegation strugglers Middlesbrough in a largely fragmented and bad-tempered encounter at the Britannia Stadium this afternoon. The result lifts Stoke [...]

  As the Premier League relegation battle edges ever closer to its conclusion, the Potters will play a game of truly huge magnitude this Saturday against a Middlesbrough side one place and two points behind Stoke in the table at the Britannia Stadium. With both clubs currently sitting in the relegation places, Stoke in eighteenth [...]

  Of the 29 points that Stoke have amassed in the Premier League so far this season, just four have come away from the Britannia Stadium. Aside from draws against Liverpool, Wigan, Newcastle and Aston Villa, we have lost all our away games in the league, eleven in total. This is clearly a very worrying [...]

 
  Stoke’s deficiencies away from the Britannia Stadium were clear to see once again this afternoon as high-flying Everton enjoyed a comfortable victory over the Potters, who have now slipped back into the relegation zone, at Goodison Park. The on-loan Jo and teammate Joleon Lescott gave the hosts a two goal advantage in the first half [...]

  After an excellent away draw at Aston Villa and a comfortable home win over Bolton in our last two games, Stoke will have their work cut out to continue their good run of form this Saturday, making the trip to Wembley bound FA Cup semi-finalists Everton. The Toffees, under the guidance of David Moyes, [...]

  The term ”expensive flop” is used a lot to describe footballers, but few fit the requirements to be one as well as Dave Kitson did at Stoke. The 29 year old striker made the move from Reading to the Potters back in July for a fee of £5.5 million, almost three times as much [...]