After a long, hard season of incredible highs, our two late results gained against Aston Villa springing to mind, and crushing lows, like losing at Chelsea having led with three minutes to go, this could finally be the weekend when Stoke’s goal for the season is achieved. The goal of course, being confirming our Premier [...]

  Despite finishing with a disappointing 1-0 loss at Fulham, April has been another very successful month for the Potters, with the seven points gained during it lifting us to all but guaranteed safety. Continuing straight on from the fine victory over relegation threatened Middlesbrough at the end of March, Stoke began April with another [...]

  Congratulations to Stoke manager Tony Pulis who has successfully completed the London marathon, covering the gruelling 26.2 mile distance in a respectable time of four hours, 31 minutes and 57 seconds, importantly beating the BBC’s Jonathan Pearce comfortably. After saying he’d find the race a whole lot harder after seeing his side lose 1-0 [...]

  Those predicting Stoke’s excellent 2-0 victory in the last away match at West Brom three weeks ago would be the start of a run of better away form were proved sadly wrong today, as an injury blunted Potters side was left with a familiar feeling of homesickness, after suffering a 1-0 defeat by Fulham at [...]

  Yesterday afternoon, I was greeted by the unwelcome news that after tearing his thigh muscle, Stoke’s most potent striker James Beattie, who has scored six goals in twelve games for the club, an excellent return for a new player in a struggling side, will definitely be ruled out for today’s game at Fulham, probably [...]

  With Premier League survival looking all but a certainty for Stoke now, this Saturday’s game away at Fulham has something of an anti-climactic feel about it, as after months of being ready to scrap for everything on the pitch, it will be strange for the players and fans alike to go into a game [...]

  At the core of all the best football teams is a great goalkeeper. When England won the World Cup in 1966, the ‘keeper was none other than Gordon Banks, probably the greatest goalkeeper of all time, the same Gordon Banks who kept goals during Stoke City’s finest hour, the 1972 League Cup victory over [...]

  Here are my thoughts on the game that could ultimately be the one we say kept us up.
A massive win
From these two home games in the last week against Newcastle and Blackburn, I, like most, said that four points should be enough to effectively seal our survival. With fifteen minutes to go, it seemed [...]

 
  As it gives me an unquantifiable level of joy to write, Stoke City all but secured Premier League survival today with a narrow win over struggling Blackburn at the Britannia Stadium. Liam Lawrence scored the only goal of the game fifteen minutes from time, one of only two shots on target in a [...]

  Five places and six points clear of the relegation zone, this first Premier League season for Stoke City looks like having a very happy ending, with survival now within touching distance, and many people claiming that it is just one win away. This Saturday should offer the perfect chance to claim that crucial three [...]